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Drained London
ABOVE: Eltham Lido, by Gigi Cifali. Curiously, the house we moved to had a drained swimming pool in its garden. It must have been the first drained pool I had seen, and it struck me as strangely...
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Ballardoscope: some attempts at approaching the writer as a visionary
BALLARDOSCOPE: SOME ATTEMPTS AT APPROACHING THE WRITER AS A VISIONARY by Jordi Costa ABOVE: Promo video for Autopsy of the New Millennium, alternate/parallel version. Directors: Benet Roman &...
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Spanish Ghost Cities
Spain’s economic downturn means that its rampant property development is galloping way, way ahead of potential buyers. And this means ghost cities — in one instance just 750 people living in a...
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Drained Granny Pools
ABOVE: Granny takes a trip… underground. ABOVE: London Fields Lido, by Gigi Cifali. A group of Sydney architects are doing their best to rob us of a Ballardian future. As BLDGBLOG wryly notes, said...
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High-Rise: Wheatley vs Cronenberg
ABOVE: Trailer for High-Rise (2016), directed by Ben Wheatley. ABOVE: Opening sequence to Shivers (1975), directed by David Cronenberg. High-Rise, Ben Wheatley’s much-anticipated adaptation of the...
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‘Le passé composé de J. G. Ballard’: JGB on Empire of the Sun
Empire of the Sun, French edition, Denoël (1985), with cover art ‘Singapour 1945’ by Ronald Searle. Thanks to Herve for all cover scans. Interview by Tony Cartano & Maxim Jakubowski. Translation...
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