Saving the Airport Park
Urging the Santa Monica Council to back the plan for the Great Airport Park that voters have been asking for since 2014 https://youtu.be/yOFCBeLDCRs...
Urging the Santa Monica Council to back the plan for the Great Airport Park that voters have been asking for since 2014 https://youtu.be/yOFCBeLDCRs...
The Attractions of Simplicity. Why there's no need for elaborate plans for the Great Park to replace Santa Monica Airport in 2029 https://youtu.be/riu8WaPaIDo...
This week's Five Minutes with Gavin Scott celebrates one of the finest and most inspiring minds ever to contemplate the cosmos: https://youtu.be/JqihYDyggR4 ...
A splendidly melodramatic poem about British adventures in India by the Edwardian music hall artist J Milton Haynes. https://youtu.be/QDb69wyafzk...
This week's Five Minutes with Gavin Scott tells the extraordinary story of Joseph Conrad and the most effective sentence ever written about colonialism....
Discover the man who wrote Drake's Drum and Play up, Play up and Play the game! [caption id="attachment_2358" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Screenshot[/caption]...
This week's Five Minutes with Gavin Scott is about William Wordsworth's speculations on where we come from and his poetic delight in the world around him https://youtu.be/nbXZQPIT_-s...
This week’s Five Minutes with Gavin Scott brings us to one of literature's greatest suspense sequences, in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island https://youtu.be/AQuOnHIFhGc...
Celebrating the adventurous life and enchanting sea poems of John Masefield https://youtu.be/y7TD_HWfJpo...
I have for some years now been creating a series of works composed of toys and other mass-produced cultural artifacts, which could be seen as Joseph Cornell boxes writ large: they are four feet long, three feet tall and between three and six inches deep. What interests me about mass market toys is that because they're designed to grab kids' attention as forcefully and quickly as possible they go right to the heart of the way people see the world at a particular time, revealing things about our culture and...