http://hydragenic.com/2008/03/19/the-london-nobody-knows/ Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:41:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://hydragenic.com/2008/03/19/the-london-nobody-knows/comment-page-1/#comment-3476 Hg Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:33:06 +0000 http://wokkil.pair.com/hydragen/hydragenic.new/2008/03/19/the-london-nobody-knows/#comment-3476 I quite like that Faraday building, to be honest. It seems to be quite plain and classically styled. I suppose if you were being critical, you could say it was bland minimalism. As I said in the review, that's the conundrum with Mason's commentary - you never really seem to know where he's coming from. (And how much of it is his own viewpoint, as opposed to a script that he was provided with.) I know of The Frames but don't really know much about them/you. I'll do a bit of research. This clarifies your "I'm a film maker myself" comment above... assuming I'm on the right lines, I've seen one of your films (at least once!) and it was lovely. Never heard of The Blades, but I know the Golden Horde. Not really my kind of thing, but I checked them out when Gavin Friday did some stuff with Simon Carmody in the late 80s. And as for the Undertones... my wife's from Derry, so say no more :-) I think the Dandelion Market might have been before my time, or at least if it was still going when I first visited Dublin I had no clue about it. Gone without a trace and no documentation... yeah, I don't really know how I feel about that. See a few of my blog posts around the start of this year, in which I was pondering this theme. Should we document everything (the instinctive assumption of the writer, film maker, photographer, and so on), or is it actually healthier to let things slip away and not try to hold onto them? After forty years, I still really have no clue. I quite like that Faraday building, to be honest. It seems to be quite plain and classically styled. I suppose if you were being critical, you could say it was bland minimalism. As I said in the review, that’s the conundrum with Mason’s commentary – you never really seem to know where he’s coming from. (And how much of it is his own viewpoint, as opposed to a script that he was provided with.)
I know of The Frames but don’t really know much about them/you. I’ll do a bit of research. This clarifies your “I’m a film maker myself” comment above… assuming I’m on the right lines, I’ve seen one of your films (at least once!) and it was lovely.
Never heard of The Blades, but I know the Golden Horde. Not really my kind of thing, but I checked them out when Gavin Friday did some stuff with Simon Carmody in the late 80s. And as for the Undertones… my wife’s from Derry, so say no more
I think the Dandelion Market might have been before my time, or at least if it was still going when I first visited Dublin I had no clue about it.
Gone without a trace and no documentation… yeah, I don’t really know how I feel about that. See a few of my blog posts around the start of this year, in which I was pondering this theme. Should we document everything (the instinctive assumption of the writer, film maker, photographer, and so on), or is it actually healthier to let things slip away and not try to hold onto them? After forty years, I still really have no clue.

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