Wildcornerz Merch is Here!

I have started my very own t-shirt label; Cornerz.

Heres is the first design printed up and available to buy. 

'Fantasy Chicken'

This design is inspired by the capitals various chicken shop signage. The majority of these are created by sign maker Morris Casanova aka 'Mr Chicken'.

http://cornerzclothing.bigcartel.com/product/fantasy-chicken

Road Patterns

This animated map of London elegantly traces the mazes of roads forming patterns like nerve fibres of a human brain or the arteries veins and capillaries of some great beast. Layers of networks build up and adjust through out the capitols history, from the ancient roads left by the Romans through to the urban sprawl of the city today.

River of Words

 The River of Words competition was a local poetry competition in 2006.
Here is the winning entry.

Quaggy

Quaggy: hidden behind back gardens and privet.

Brickwalled, low. A road over which rivulets

Quietly slide inches deep. Culverted,

A sluice. A ditch to pitch the stolen bicycle,

Scoured and vacuum-sucked by tractors in autumn.

But while we looked away, below the station,

The grey-backed bobbing birds have come to stay.

The balance on bricks, pick the debris, chatter safely

Shaded by buddleia; run along its concrete rim;

Occupy their own secluded mountain stream.

And in the upturned shopping trolley

The mitten crabs raise woolly claws,

Wait for rainstorms, are flung towards the Thames,

Shed their skins that float on foam and confluence,

Then scurry uphill home to lurk in drains.

Paint and oil gutters in -

Slicks, sticks, dilutes, decays.

Summer comes. The lime trees drip their glue and greenflies.

Ducks swim by from parks to ponds. Seeds, butterflies,

Are carried from woodland to wasteland. And we pass by.

Emily Hay

Shaded Halloween Sessions -This Friday 26th Oct

Projections by me.

White stags in other cultures

A webpage found on White Stag's place in global mythology and history. This research isn't of Lewisham's own stag of course but it is interesting to read about various other legends and beliefs that include white stags.
 As I have written about previously, the stag that appears throughout the boroughs wildcornerz and corridors is thought to be an incarnation of The Lewisham Natureman [see right hand side column at top of page.] This old south london graffers legend has links to The Green Man; the old Saxon god of vegetation and the woodlands, Cernunnos; The Celtic God of fertility, animals and the underworld, and The Woodwose; who featured in various art and literature from Medieval Europe. 

Something found

Scaffold stag article - Heygate

article

Conscious Outsiders

  I have been thinking recently about artists who have been an inspiration to my own work or i feel their work shares something with mine.
In one way or another i think these artists all create their own worlds within their work.
 Plus my mildly autistic brain loves this list ish!
.. so in no particular order then;

Taskforce

 Legendary UK Hiphop crew from Highbury N9; brothers Farma G and Chester P Hackenbush.
 Their MFTC [music from the corner] mini albums were only released on cd and made, financed and distributed by themselves. The underground, street, localness of their music, mixed with old folk samples and reflective poetic lyrics, make these tunes contemporary folk recordings of there own.
 Taskforce would defiantly been in both of my above categories and high up there to!
Chester's bars [the second Mc on the above tune] are particular favorites of mine.

Harry Partch


Alan Moor


Kit Williams

Ooo a visual artist.

Hayao Miyazaki





JRR Tolkien

i dont care if Peter Jackson made it Pop again. My dad used to read me these books when i was a boy before sleep.
I loved them then and love them now.
Warning; there are a some real dicks in this BBC archive footage.

Looms [SE14 beat maker]

Local musician/producer and my good mate Looms , is on soundcloud. Seriously deep tunes [ i mean this both metaphorically and sonically.]
 Looms's beats marry synthetic sounds with organic ones plus atmosphere and tone with head-nod drums and grooves.
[images on his soundcloud made or selected by urs trooly.]

Patrick Keiller's Great Landscape

I cant  believe I have never seen this classic before.

Black Magic

This is from the video description posted by 'jonrev' on Youtube :

" On a late-November evening in 1987, two Chicago television stations were victims of a broadcast signal takeover.

After an earlier hijack attempt on WGN-9 during the 9:00 News , a broadcast on WTTW-11 of the Doctor Who episode "Horror of Fang Rock" would be interrupted by a man wearing a Max Headroom mask. The crazed person uttered mostly gibberish and bashed the Chicago Tribune and its subsidiaries, before he dropped his pants and was spanked by what appears to be a child. 90-seconds later, the program returned to normal. To this day, he remains at large.

This is a subtitled version of the original footage added as a courtesy due to the low audio quality of the recording. This is a rather old version, eventually I will add new annotations in response to how some of the audio was interpreted.

EDIT:
Thanks to a new video with the audio cleaned up, I've found out that he is indeed saying "I still see the X". And the person with the flyswatter is the one who said "Bend over Bitch". "

171 Bus at 8.30 AM, May 2006 [phone footage]

The Bigga Picture! - the Toulambi tribe

This is incredible footage. The Toulambi tribe have never seen a westerner before and believe the white man [if he exists at all] is a spirit or ghost of a fallen solider.

Derelict art deco Co-op building in Woolwich

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=31697&highlight=woolwich

Bring ur child to work day

A copper and his son guard a Tardis.

R.I.P LEE

These two clips from the documentary film 'Dark Days'[2000] make up one lovely scene with these two great charactors; ? and Lee. This is the only scene in the film with Lee in it.
It is told that Director Marc Singer found Lee one day, over the course of his years of exploring, filming and living in the tunnels of New York's subways system.
He was far down one of the deepest tunnels. He was sitting cross legged and with his eyes closed, in the middle of a live rail track. When asked what he was doing he replied, "Waiting for the train." Marc talked him off the track and filmed this scene with him that evening.
The next day Lee was found dead. He had been hit by a train on the same piece of track where Marc had found him the day before.

Some video bookmarks [from about 6 years worth of back log]

The kings of the mic explore the boundaries of DnB, garage, 2step and Grime.



Uk Hip hop legends bedroom bar, in this great piece of cam-corder footage.



90's UK ragga Don-Gar-Gan Cutty Ranks. A important figure in UK Mc history. His acapellas are often used in old school jungle tunes and his original ragga tunes included in sets by contempory DJS in the current London dance and bass music scenes.