Landscapism

Hotfoot from viewing new documentary film  Arcadia , some initial thoughts on what seems quite a zeitgeist-y piece of work for those in t...

New substantive post on the way soon, an archaeology of walking; in the meantime here's a musical interlude, some post-Easter pagan and ...

A quick ramble here through an assemblage of mid-winter cultural highlights. If record shops are a species indicator of a civilised polis...

Chuck Berry at his topographical best, using tight wit and pathos to describe an epic journey by bus, train and aeroplane from Virginia to...

New Paths to Helicon Part 1 , sublime dread from Mogwai juxtaposed with footage from US atom bomb testing in Nevada (via  zootelevizor/ Yo...

Bloody hell! A PhD takes over your life. Expansive blog posts unrelated to my PhD research are probably going to be few and far between over...

Directionless wandering reveals another street of once-red brick terraced houses. Its not raining, exactly; but it has been. This could...

The work of something of a topographical supergroup, Holloway , is a collaboration between Adam Scovell (film and direction), Robert Mac...

Well I'm going Back to the country Up on the mountains Up on the rising side (Street Song - Thirteenth Floor Elevato...

I've recently watched A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake , Jeroen Berkvens' 2002 documentary that I came across via the Dange...

Cold and damp January days require an appropriately melancholic soundtrack and I've recently been enjoying Pilgrim Chants & Pas...

It would seem appropriate to usher November in with the autumnal melancholic strangeness of the Incredible String Band, via a suitably i...

A little off the Landscapism beaten path this one. I spent the early hours of Sunday morning with 1,500 like-minded souls crammed in...

One of the first actions when setting up this blog was to put together an evolving gazetteer of the broad, diverse and ever-expanding ...

After watching Adam Nicholson’s excellent recent two-part exploration of the history of the British whaling industry , I felt s...