Here are some links, as recommended by the management. I’m very happy to link with anyone, so please feel free to link here (and make sure I do likewise).
OTHER PROJECTS OF MINE
Red Road Underground – a joint project with Chris Leslie, containing many fine dialectograms, and even finer photographs
Boswell in Space – A sister project to Dialectograms. A family resemblance, but a very different animal
The Drouth – you could say it’s my alma mater.
MiLLER’S QUARTERLY COMIX – Our sister blog.
INTERESTING PEOPLE AND PLACES
Chris Leslie – Documentary photographer and partner in crime.
The Folk ye bump intae - blog of the drawings and encounters of Glasgow artist-cum-postie Stuart Murray.
Stuart Murray - the ultimate Glasgow sketch-artist’s personal website
Chris Dooks -a frequent co-conspirator. Check out his plethora of web-presences for flashes of polymathic genius
Borrachoeneldia – What do you mean you don’t know how to say it? Stuart MacMillan takes painstaking photographs of Glasgow bars, and is my inside mole at the Laurieston. Fascinating and essential document of the city’s drinking dens.
Red Road Project- The group that made many of the dialectograms possible.
Victoria Evans – Glasgow-based artist and the genius behind 28 Drawings Later
Helen Scalway: Moving Patterns – Diagrams from the Big City (London)
Nemesis Republic – An acerbic and astute critic of architectural trends
Culture Squawk – ‘Fantasies of a disillusioned culture worker’. Pretty much sums it up, though I should say said fantasies are incredibly funny.
Mythogeography – Phil Smith’s black art of walking sideways
Spaced in the City - Fran MacMillan and Sam Frances’ ongoing music-art-fusion events
New Glasgow Society – Our gracious hosts for Red Road Underground
The Bar Biographer – Say it fast enough and it becomes some weird plastic-doll related scientific discipline. It is, in fact, an engaging ongoing biography of bars in Glasgow and beyond, by writer Scott Graham
Flatmates – An excellent Irish webcomic by Maeve Clancy
A Town Square - A fascinating blog about urbanism and city dwelling.
Urban Sketchers – An excellent site for those who draw the city.
Montage Podcast – Scotland’s best film podcast. And that’s a totally unbiased opinion by the way…
Heterotopia – Photographic art by Vincent J.Stoker
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09/07/2011 at 8:02 am
Helen Scalway
Hi Mitch
I came across your wonderful project , Glasgow Dialectograms, via the Drawing Research Network. It’s fascinating and of course the power of it is, it lets others dream their own responses into the spaces/places, lets people engage in their own way and bring their own stuff into their reading of the work.
I’m based in the south near London and I’ve also been working hard on diagramming place, since 2009. My diagrams or charts are also the result of much research, visiting the place, talking to people, though I’ve tended to go into digital presentation solely for ease of legibility of the lettering though I much prefer my hand drawn versions, and like yours very much. So far the only one of mine anywhere online is a schematic dating from 2009 of a textile shop in Forest Gate, London. The URL is http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1750_scalway/blog/
in the archive month April 2009.I guess your work on the box room is not unlike my textile shop’s ‘Store Room’. And yes, dustbins are a whole world of abjection, sacred and profane, entirely ‘holey’. I’ve also been working on work-place lockers, and what may be contained in them!
I have other works, for example of a schematic of a submarine with its hierarchical narratives, and other workplaces.
There is so much to talk about – I love your rendering of barriers and the gangs confronting eachother across them; I think about drawing barriers a lot. All that they can imply and how visual schematisation, words and lines, can suggest things so richly.
Is there anyway we can talk some more?
Anyway, keep up your fantastic good work!
Helen Scalway