Retro-future-chappism

[hirez]

http://www.hovertrans.com/projects_george_wimpey.htm

... Being a set of images that feature sheds, hovercraft, chaps in scruffy pullovers smoking pipes at a tricky problem, 4x4 tractors and marine navigation lights.

What's the word for pictures that make your brain resonate? Those. Yes.

It's like... You know the way that Ballard's Vermilion Sands accurately describes a certain mode of permanent resort-life that you sometimes get a glimpse of when you're standing on the edge of the sea and there's no other bugger about? As if reality's shifted a bit and you can see things as they are, not as people think they should be.

... So these pictures accurately describe a mode of getting on with stuff that you can see when reality shifts a bit and things like focus groups and shops that can't spell have vanished.

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[aoakley.livejournal.com]

I found Ladybird book "How It Works: The Hovercraft" whilst in Hay on Wye last month, and have put it aside for you. We need to have a last summer party in our garden sometime over the next few months, so remind me and you can pick it up then.

[(Anonymous)]

Hover sheds! How marvellous.

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[hirez.livejournal.com]

Coo, ta. Yes.

[(Anonymous)]

Is a Salisbury axle anything to do with Mortal Engines?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Only if they dug up an ancient Landie. As you well know.

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[liz-lowlife.livejournal.com]

The images certainly conjure an air of the Ballardesque yes.