tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25183740.post1756813509247449482..comments2023-11-27T01:09:12.429+00:00Comments on nb Warrior: Graphic designers and boatsShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207397235093098621noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25183740.post-84132039418497293082009-09-14T08:22:21.631+00:002009-09-14T08:22:21.631+00:00I got a lot of photos of the King's Cross rede...I got a lot of photos of the King's Cross redevelopment, and their photoshopped ideas of what it would look like, a few years ago when skiving around London looking at interesting things- no, sorry, that should read chaining myself to a desk at the British Library Manuscripts Room to write my dissertation...<br /><br />That Canaltime boat features prominently.<br /><br />Even more amusing is seeing architects' ideas of what a narrowboat looks like, in adverts in the canal mags for "prestigious new marinas" &c. They generally don't even bother trying to photoshop in pictures of real boats, but design them themselves, and either make Whitefield look positively trad, or suggest that everyone lives in BCN Joey boats with portacabins on top. At least the King's Cross people tried for photorealism!Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16646174143519854448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25183740.post-64529431479040009452009-09-13T20:41:11.318+00:002009-09-13T20:41:11.318+00:00Metrocentricity - don'tcha just love it?Metrocentricity - don'tcha just love it?Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14207397235093098621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25183740.post-63247892462854935132009-09-13T19:35:34.657+00:002009-09-13T19:35:34.657+00:00I didn't see the Grauniad article, but I heard...I didn't see the Grauniad article, but I heard the report on Today the morning of the start of their tour. I have transcribed it here: <br />http://jhalfie.blogspot.com/2009/09/canals-on-today-programme-again.html<br />Nowhere in the report, or the presenters' bits around it, was it stated at which canal museum the interview was taking place. It was only when Lisa Knapp talked about it being on the site of an ice pit that I realised where it was.<br /><br />You can "listen again" here:<br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00mfffv/Today_09_09_2009<br />(1:43:10 in) until this Wednesday.Halfiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00167481543065324357noreply@blogger.com