Designers and architects in the UK are suffering in the wake of Brexit, with companies abandoning exports and setting up offices in the EU to avoid losing clients.
The UK s departure from the European Union has created an extra headache and additional costs, designers have told Dezeen. It s terrible, said London-based architect Arthur Mamou-Mani. We have customs agents now dealing with our imports and exports. Everything has become an admin nightmare, uselessly complicated and deterring European clients, he added. I think people that voted yes just didn t realise how much hassle all this would be.
Work lost due to extra headache
Published Feb 03, 2021
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Continuing his late-career resurgence as a creative musical force, famed horror director/composer John Carpenter has released his third album of free-standing original music,
Lost Themes III: Alive After Death. A collection of original scores for films that don t actually exist, the series offers the fun of imagining all the standard horror imagery from the Carpenter-verse its music could accompany: moonlit suburban streets awash in fog, creepy graveyards, even the signature Albertus typeface Carpenter used for all his credits a sort of free-associative fugue of 80s horror tropes (developed and codified to no small degree by Carpenter himself of course). While this third entry could be classified as largely more of the same, there s enough freshness here to warrant a closer look, especially if you re already a fan of the project.
Luke Pearson Joins Surrounded
Surrounded is a five-week show that attempts to make sense of what our media chooses to elevate, why and how (airing Thursdays 7pm to 8pm). In their debut episode, co-hosts Jess Lilley and Mahmood Fazal talk to IndigenousX founder Luke Pearson. (Co-host Jack Latimore joins the show next week.)
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INVASION DAY PROTESTS
Thousands of people have marched in largely masked, peaceful, and socially-distanced Invasion Day protests, with
The Guardian reporting that just a handful of people including some white nationalists were detained in Sydney and Melbourne.
The Melbourne/Naarm march, which came after
Scott Morrison declared Australians “have risen above our brutal beginnings”, saw Greens senator and Gunnai Gunditjmara/Djab Wurrung woman
Lidia Thorpe reiterate calls for a Treaty by announcing “a war was declared on the first people of this land” in 1788 that “has not ended”.
Elsewhere,
Russell Broadbent has called on the Morrison government to adopt the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart which calls for both a First Nations Voice to Parliament and Makarrata Commission for developing treaties in full.
Parkin, a Quandamooka man whose customary home turf is North Stradbroke island, says the debate is “important to people and we can’t wish it away” but that it will remain “until we deal with it in a real and substantive way”.
That, he says, will require the country to “reimagine itself with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, heritage and cultures at the core of a much fuller national identity”.
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Others take the approach of IndigenousX media group chief executive Luke Pearson, who was originally a driving force behind the “Change the Date” movement on social media but has now disavowed the slogan, saying it’s the nation itself that needs to change.