.... just in from Cargo where I watched the Hip-Hop rising britstar Yungun ........ love his smile .....

It was me and Richard there in my favourite London Club - all the rest still digesting the curry ........ will tell you more late Wednesday as I am out too early and back too late but I loveitloveit ...... I just wonder if any of the photos turned out .......
.... so much to click but zzzedz are vital now ......... you are beautiful ....


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Hi
do you want to click here?

I believe you are beautiful
not about
looks
feelings
behaviour
words

about your core value
about your uniqueness
about your being
about your becoming

we are all like bunches of flowers
in bud
yet to open to full potential
loveitloveit



pipbhp


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Joan came from
east
- I came from west - working a day out that way..

... .... and we met a few Greenbelters ......

... so here we are walking from Liverpool Street Station, in the heart of the City of London ........ to Brick Lane, the heart of the authentic curry, and what a great time we had ......

.... and then it was back east for us and the others vanished into a special kingdom where beautiful humans live hmmmm ....

Love the vibe of the city ........ just love these beautiful humans who feed me so much ...... what aday .....

More from Wilson Mansions in the morning .......

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Artist Banksy targets Disneyland

A life-size replica of a Guantanamo Bay detainee has been placed in Disneyland by "guerrilla artist" Banksy. The hooded figure was placed inside the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride at the California theme park last weekend. It is understood to have remained in place for 90 minutes before the ride was closed down and the figure removed. A spokeswoman for Banksy said the stunt was intended to highlight the plight of terror suspects at the controversial detention centre in Cuba.

The one below is his to .....


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Pearls of Wilson
with some troubled soul::


1 Joan and me watched a film on TV with a heavy theme of racist behaviour.
It was set in the 50's middle class USA.
Nothing Churns me like behaviour which is obnoxious.
Especially prejudice related to colour of skin.
It was ugly.
With humans refusing to mix and even talk to black humans.

2 Three times in my life - I have had 'NF' painted in my face.
Once sprayed on my car.
Twice sprayed on the front door of my work place.
(NF = National Front - an explicitly racist organisation)

3 At Greenbelt I was on a panel about living and working in the urban scene. A government Minister. Church workers in tough environments. A community worker from the USA..... and other great humans.
One question was about how ethnic communities don't mix but keep themselves to themselves. Several answers from the panel and I said something too.
About how the white English keep themselves cloistered and don't go out of their way to mix - generally speaking.
(You can buy the session CD or MP3 download from the Greenbelt web-site.)
Why is it always 'they' who separate themselves.
Do we ever stretch outside our comfort zones to build relationships.

4 Recently we had a BBQ at Wilson Mansions. We deliberately invited humans from different parts of our lives. Not the usual close group of friends from the same social band. We invited six Asians, Mr Singh, three Kosovans, two Polish and some local, and more geographically distant humans too. It was not the best of chatty social events we have organised. I felt it was dynamically difficult. It would have rocked if everyone who was there had known one another. I felt a failure.

5 In the Wilson Mansions Road - an Asian Family have moved in, a largely white community. Joan said told me she that this week she chatted with one of the women as they waited for a a bus together. They waved as they parted. That 'first contact' will last and develop forever.

6 So often I come across teams of workers who have recruited humans just like themselves. Colour, age, profession, class - sometimes even their friends - sometimes an office or kitchen or other workplace full of Family! Someone I know who worked in Brixton, was astonished because I thought he could consider advertising for a Staff Member in the Black Press! So basic. So simple.

7 Over the years I have been stoned
with words
Over the years I have been battered
by egos
Over the years I have been shocked
by power personalities
Robbed of sleep
by oppressive humans
But have never experienced anything like this from people who belong to minorities .......

8 Today has been Racial Justice Sunday

9 'So often we build prisons for ourselves.
We blame others for our confines,
but it us who constrict ourselves all along.
Most of the walls in our lives we build ourselves.
But sometimes,
just once in a while,
we get a glimpse of the infinity of the universe and know that God is at work.
That's when we must choose to stay in the prison or grasp the risk'

John Donaghue
from 'Anam Cara' a fantastic book.

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I am ALWAYS going on about my beautiful human daughters who call themselves 'The Sheilas' - and so do I !
...... and the beautiful non-human - Zig the Cat at Wilson Mansions.

If you can - can you watch MTV on Sunday night at 10 pm. for
PIMP MY RIDE UK hey hey

Ann Sheila has been chosen to have her Directed Show as the first to launch the new series sooooooo - she is excited and I will be pleased to catch it.

Note the music which comes on stream when you enter my blogpipspotsite from now on.
I will be playing you a new track every week - stuff which is rattling Wilson Mansions and I lurve .......



you are ........

Happy Birthday Willie

A PLACE CALLED VERTIGO

Willie Williams never intended to change the way people watch rock concerts. Growing up in the late '70s, all he really wanted was to get out of Sheffield, England. "So I ran away to London to join the circus," says Williams, "and the circus at that time was punk rock." Punk rock had a visual aesthetic, but it started and ended with the pierceable parts of its players' bodies. At 19, Williams, whose love of music trumped his aptitude for it, cozied up to his favorite band, Stiff Little Fingers, and talked the group into letting him design its stage show. When the Fingers broke up in 1982, he called his new favorite band. "They happened to be named U2."

Ever since, Williams, 46, has moved with U2 from clubs to arenas to stadiums, revolutionizing concert visuals at every step. From the seven Trabants (compact cars built in East Germany) he hung from the rafters of U2's early '90s Zoo TV tour to the giant beaded LED curtains of the recent Vertigo shows, he has turned concrete caverns into spaces that drip with mood. And when the music starts, Williams, who pioneered the integration of video and light into a single element, turns the sets into an extravaganza that enhances but never competes with the sound.

In addition to his rock work, Williams has taken on the Kronos Quartet ("The equipment can't be merely quiet, it has to be silent") and is brainstorming ways to light the revitalized South Bank Centre on the Thames. But he still gets his greatest thrill watching people watch his work. When Williams went to a Vertigo concert with artist Julian Opie, whose minimalist figures were incorporated into the show's visuals, Opie couldn't disguise his envy. "No one," he said, "ever applauds at an art gallery." --By Josh Tyrangiel

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