GO Blog 04 Looking for patterns in urban settings

Okay so I would suggest playing this music clip while reading the blog. I think it sets the mood for the pictures. The song is called Modern day city symphony by Looptroop. The have a homepage at; Looptroop Rockaz. The reader will probably see the return of them in the blog about guerilla arts.

Upside down apartment building on Sherbourne and Shuter street.

The Grand hotel on Jarvis street corner of Dundas. 

The Grand hotel on Jarvis street corner of Dundas.

As I mentioned in my first blog entry  I really like postapocalyptic/futuristic environments. Skyscrapers and tall buildings are big part of this. The look so cold, hard and evil and sets of a sort of lobomtomized sense in my. A slow, chilling tranquility that suits me well somedays. The buildings are on one one of my routes to school so I pass them often. They remind me of a number of buildings in Bologna, Italy that also had an evil look to the, unfortunaetly those pictures lost in a hard disc crash so I can not show any for comparison. :-(

Sometimes I wonder what types of activites that could be going on in such evil looking houses, probably a lot of everyday life since it is an apartment building and a hotel. Those thoughts are however not so fun to play around with so I think of other things. I think that the Grand could be a good HQ for Kingpin or other criminal masterminds.

My second highschool, S:t Görans gymnasium, looked much like one of those evil buildings. I got voted as the ugliset building in my area many years in a row. I think there is a certain charm to those ugly beasts, I wouldn´t have a city consisting of only them, mind you. But it makes one appreciate other, more warm and personal buildings after a time of this kind of exposure.

S:t Görans Gymnasium photo by: Björn Roos. http://bild.admin.kth.se

Art word ot the post; Pattern.

The two buildings have the same sort of repetitve pattern with squares as the main component to it. They are very regular and symmetrical and I think that is what gives it, together with the lustreless colour of th building, its evil apperance. But I guess that patterns of regularity is the cheapest and most efficent way to build houses that are still safe and liveable. But a house than no house.