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I am a camera
Articles, journal entries and images reflecting on places, often cities. The title is lifted from Christopher Isherwood: “I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.”
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Nov 21, 2003
Senate House, University of London
This is №2 in an irregular series of reports from London’s Open…
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Mar 27, 2002
Barbican: This Was Tomorrow
Reviewing the Barbican’s exhibition about itself, 2002
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Nov 27, 2006
The Damned Utd, by David Peace (2006)
David Peace’s
‘The Damned Utd’ (2006) is an extraordinary book by an extraordinary writer…
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Oct 6, 2010
‘Nairn’s London’, by Ian Nairn (1966)
The best guide book to London is not really a guide book to…
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Oct 20, 2014
A film about Ian Nairn, and a film by Reyner Banham
The demise of the North, and the sprawl of London
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Jan 7, 2006
“Bleak House”, without A Foggy Day in London Town
Adapting Dickens, conveying London’s fog of…
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Jan 22, 2006
Tales of two cities imagined in music: ‘Metropolis Shanghai’ and ‘Chavez Ravine’
1950s Los Angeles and…
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Jan 7, 2003
‘Gangs Of New York’, world-building
Constructing and inhabiting narrative worlds, in films and games
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Apr 10, 2004
Video game flâneur
Which city would you resurrect with Rockstar’s city-machine?
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Jun 9, 2008
I come from Brisbane, I’m quite plain*
Cities have music scenes, and that’s why tech doesn’t enable…
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