Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes are directing another wonderful and extraordinary site specific production of a classic dramatic text. A couple of years ago it was Aeschylus’s Persians set in a simulation of a German village used for military training in the Brecon Beacons of Wales [Link]. Currently running is Coriolan/us – a hybrid of…
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garbology
From the archives of Bill Rathje – some images of his life and work. More at archaeographer.com – [Link] [portfolio_slideshow]
scrapyard
Alan Steel and Supply – Redwood City. Thoughts of Bill Rathje and the project we did with Ed Burtynsky back in 2005 – [Link] and [Link]
in memoriam
Archaeology in the Making is in production – [Link] I am editor with Bill Rathje and Chris Witmore. With many friends and colleagues we explore the human face of archaeology. Chris and I have added a post script to the Preface about Bill Rathje and Lew Binford. Lew Binford passed away during the final preparation…
Olympics opening – (in)tangible heritage
London – the opening of the 30th Olympiad A bucolic pastoral green and pleasant land succumbing to dark satanic mills, in William Blake’s vision, homage also to Tolkein’s pitting of Hobbiton against Isengard’s tower; Shakespeare’s Tempest declaimed by Brunel on the slopes of a druidic oak-toppped Glastonbury Tor; dreams of Peter Pan and Mary Poppins;…
Warkworth – St Lawrence
Part of the ongoing series Lapidarium Septentrionale – [Link]
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