Ancient To Future: An Online Journal By Paul Bradshaw
We recently had the pleasure of hosting Paul Bradshaw & Ian Swifty during their British Council sponsored visit to New Zealand
Paul Bradshaw wrapped up his trip via his online journal "Ancient To Future"
Pre Dawn scribblings on a trip to Aotearoa… this is Part 1… Nuff more to come!
It’s 3.15 am. I’ve been off the digital radar for the past ten days. Swifty and I were working on a couple of British Council funded projects in Aukland, New Zealand aka Aotearoa. Arrived back in London town yesterday. Got an Addison & Lee cab from Heathrow to Stokie dropping Swift in Ealing on the way. It cost £91.00. A rather deranged and sobering welcome back to pre-Olympic / Golden Jubilee Bighty n’est pas! Read Further Here
Mid-day Musings a trip to Aotearoa… Singapore… Part. 2
Swift and I touched down in Singapore at six in the evening. It’s was a welcome one night stop-over on our way to Aukland and intended to ensure we arrived at our destination ready to roll. Stepping out of the air con of the airport we hit a wall of tropical heat. It was humid as hell but neither of us was complaining. We were only hours away from a wet and miserable London. Read Further Here
HIGH TIMES IN AUCKLAND… Aotearoa Runnings… Part 3
Singapore – Sydney – Auckland…. gotta say, the aerial view of Sydney was pretty impressive… all those inlets and coves lined with yachts… life-style is undoubtedly king. It’s clearly changed a lot since the Tolpuddle martyrs were transported there, given a loaf of bread , a knapsack and a pair of boots, and told off you go. Ironically, despite seeing myself as an heir to the tradition of resistance that the Tolpuddle martyrs represented, design-don Swift and I are being transported to these former British colonies, by the British government, not for sedition, but for the purpose of a “master class in creativity” which “involves aspiring artists and performers from Auckland’s diverse communities, working with the best of contemporary UK talent, to collaborate, create and celebrate.” Read Further Here
SEVENTY TWO HOURS OF LO-FI MADNESS…. Aotearoa Runnings No. 4
The PIYN project was scheduled to kick off at Bizdojo at 10.30am and there were 25 people registered. The initial idea for the project materialized when I first met Gareth Farry in London. He was on a scouting mission and I was interested in doing a project that united various disciplines that would result in a some kind of publication. The prospect of holding a “master class in creativity” was a little daunting, especially as we had no real idea as to who we were dealing with but, as Swifty and myself had worked on Straight No Chaser with an ever shifting, diverse group of contributors I felt we were primed to pull this off. Read Further Here
MORE MADNESS… ALPHABET CITY, CUT CREATIVE, SEMI-PERMANENT & CONCH RECORDS… Aotearoa No 5 – The final runnings!
ALPHABET CITY is run by native New Yorker Erin who specialises in pre-digital printing and runs an early evening letter writing group. Erin is old skool and upon our arrival at the work-shop she and Swifty enthusiastically talked TYPE! They then set a group to work organising letter press alphabets which could be printed out and then cut up and used to construct headlines and layouts. Others were directed to the central table which had numerous portable manual typewriters. Their task was bosh out the pieces that they were writing or had received from friends. Read Further Here
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