Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Liverpool’ Category
Are Zombies Past their Sell by Date?
Thursday, October 7th, 2010Now a few years ago a famous game designer pointed out that all successful RPGs include zombies. I think it was Robin D Laws but I could be wrong. This was extended by others to suggest that a game could be made a success by including zombies. Back then zombies were the preserve of horror […]
Do Ho Suh's Between, Liverpool
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010Do Ho Suh’s Between is one of the larger pieces in the Liverpool Biennial 2010. Its on a slightly smaller scale to Rotating Yates’s Wine Lodge Building but only just. I’ve seen quite a few similar photographs to the one above on newspaper websites. I decided to take a closer look because the level of […]
Liverpool's Pyramid – William Mackenzie Tomb
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010The 19th Century Church of Saint Andrew on Rodney Street is known locally as the Scotch church. It was a Presbyterian church built to serve the Scottish community of Liverpool. The church was closed in 1975 and is in an extremely poor state. In the small graveyard is a rather unusual grave in the form […]
Municipal Buildings Tower
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010Photograph of the tower of on the Municipal Buildings, Dale Street, Liverpool.
Speed – the Modern Mercury
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Above the main door into the Georges Dock Ventialation Tower and Central Station is this statue: Speed – the Modern Mercury. The relief in Portland Stone (one of my favourite construction materials) is seven meters tall including the base. It was designed by Herbert J. Rowse and the sculptor was Edmund C. Thompson assisted by George T. Capstick.
Ambiguous Sign
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010This sign is on the boards which cover the ground floor of an empty building a short distance from where I work. Whenever I walk past it amuse me in the same way that a sign on the side entrance to Wollaton Park in Nottingham amused me in my youth. It read simply “Escaping Dear […]
Lime Street Station Uncovered
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010The concrete mess on the front of Lime Street Station was one of the worst eyesores in the city. It was a badly executed, dreary, unimaginative waste of concrete that hadn’t aged well. Worse it was right in the heart of the city centre, covering up the face of one of the country’s great Victorian […]
Go Penguins II
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010I had hoped to post a gallery of Go Penguin photographs I took after work tonight in St George’s Hall Liverpool as sixty of them are displayed before being put up for auction later in the week. Photoshop doesn’t seem to want to do the image processing automatically so I’ll have to go through them […]
Snowfall 2 – The Return of the White Stuff
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010I’ve been living in Liverpool since the early ’90s and I can’t remember snow this deep. Certainly beats the light dusting of snow in December. See also: Winter Wonderland – Snow Day and Snow day 🙂.
Sherlock Holmes
Friday, January 1st, 2010Just back from seeing the latest take on Sherlock Holmes at FACT in Liverpool. The city was very quiet tonigh with lots of restaurants shut and hardly anyone around the city centre. This take on Sherlock Holmes is a little more spirited and while not overtly steam punk certainly has something of that genres sensibilities […]