Graham Swift, Waterland
“For centuries the Fens were a network of swamps and brackish lagoons. The problem of the Fens has always been the drainage. What silt began, man continued. Land reclamation. Drainage. But you do not reclaim a land overnight. You do not reclaim a land without difficulty and without ceaseless effort and vigilance. The […]
Far From Silicon Fen by Things Not Worth KeepingA ten minute image-text-sound work that playfully explores the origins and ideologies of naming places to perform a critique of techno-romanticism.
Part of Silicon Fen
“Not long after the first wave of new technology companies began congregating in the hinterland of Cambridge, this stretch of East Anglia - too […]
Bob Kaiser of the company Essential Elements in Silicon Valley mines gold from defunct computers and recycles the rest (1999)
This and more bizarre-life-in-Silicon-Valley photos by Peter Menzel
My Dad writes in an email:
“If there’s a place and an era I should remember, it is 1950s ’solidly working class London’. I was 17 in 1955 and these are photos of me at ages 16 and 17.
Memories of seeing Teddy Boys around are quite clear, but Teddy Girls, no - in fact […]
BOMBSITE BOUDICCASKen Russell’s 1955 Photo Essay on London’s Teddy Girls*
Elsie Hendon, 15, Jean Rayner, 14, Rosie Hendon, 15, and Mary Toovey on a bombsite in Southam Street, North Kensington, West London.
“Teddy Girls have been dismissed even in the most scholarly work on Teddy Boys, The Insecure Offenders, T.R Fyvel (Chatto and Windus, 1961). […]