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Columbia Road

Brighton; Vivian Girls and the sea

Brighton Zinefest

Zines, bands and Brighton… what more could you ask for?

The Cove x End Of The Line

We watched The Cove last night and it is really awesome as well as horribly sad. I found it particularly interesting after a report came out earlier this week confirming the high level of intelligence in dolphins.

You can read an article about it at The Times.

The research shows that dolphins can solve difficult problems, have complex social structures in the wild, and are extremely emotionally sophisticated.

Says The Times: “In one recent case, a dolphin rescued from the wild was taught to tail-walk while recuperating for three weeks in a dolphinarium in Australia. After she was released, scientists were astonished to see the trick spreading among wild dolphins who had learnt it from the former captive.”

Scientists say we should treat them as ‘non-human’ persons, and mistreating them is morally wrong, which makes this documentary even more poignant.

I was then told about The End Of The Line by some friends in work. It is even more shocking. If shows if we don’t stop over-fishing, the ocean WILL run out of fish in like forty years. If there are no fish the eco-system WILL totally collapse. This is the beginning of the end, I’m not kidding. With no sealife, birds start to die, then goes the spreading of seeds in the wild, then land animals, blah blah blah, then us. It is total game over. Am I the only person who finds this slightly worrying? I literally cannot understand how people can know this and not care.

Then the world will be like this.

I feel totally depressed today.

Ari Marcopoulos

I think I’m in love with Ari Marcopoulos. It’s for real this time. It would be really boring and laborious to list all the reasons why so I won’t bother.

I’ve been looking at his Within Arm’s Reach book loads and it gets better with every peep.

This photo in particular. I love it. I cannot stop looking at it. I like the blue sky, the sense of suburbia, the skateboarder, the garage… but what really gets me is that spindly tree that has to be held up with stakes. And the position of the sun; real low and casting long shadows. Maybe it’s evening, or dawn. It doesn’t really matter.

It looks shitty all small on this blog, much better if you click on it to enlarge it.

I could stare at it for ages. This photo; I don’t know why, but it really gets to me.

Everything Sucks 2

Ah coming back to London ain’t so bad!

No Age x Brian Roettinger zine

I bought this yesterday from Ooga Booga. First edition yeah. I hope it’s good. Brian Rotter did the artwork for the Losing Feeling EP which bodes well for this little paper wonder. I’ll upload some scans when it arrives from LA. Which may be a while…

Zine Swap

A cool guy called Lewis told me about this website called Zine Swap, where you can trade your zine for someone elses. Awesome, you should check it out. There’s never been a better reason to cut and paste.

Vivian Girls x The Church of Clowns

This is going to be sooooooo good.