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Geoff Nicholson
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March 04, 1953
in Sheffield, The United Kingdom
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Walking and eating are only two of my many obsessions, though they’re probably the most harmless. Thanks to street food and the occasional bit of foraging, they can sometimes be combined.
On the Frieze blog last week Erik Morse was interviewing Danish chef René Redzepi whose Copenhagen restaurant noma regularly tops those “best restaurant in the world” listings.I know Erik a little and he’s a g... read more »
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The Lost Art of Walking
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Bleeding London
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1997
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Footsucker
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Everything and More
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Bedlam Burning
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Still Life With Volkswagens
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Hunters and Gatherers
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Flesh Guitar
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The Food Chain
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Sex Collectors: The Secret World of Consumers, Connoisseurs, Curators, Creators, Dealers, Bibliographers, and Accumulators of "Erotica
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“Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show; nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on human feet instead of wheels.”
― Geoff Nicholson, The Lost Art of Walking
― Geoff Nicholson, The Lost Art of Walking
“Your own exploration therefore has to be personalized; you're doing it for yourself, increasing your own store of particular knowledge, walking your own eccentric version of the city. ”
― Geoff Nicholson, The Lost Art of Walking
― Geoff Nicholson, The Lost Art of Walking
“It occurred to me, not exactly for the first time, that psychogeography didn't have much to do with the actual experience of walking. It was a nice idea, a clever idea, an art project, a conceit, but it had very little to do with any real walking, with any real experience of walking. And it confirmed for me what I'd really known all along, that walking isn't much good as a theoretical experience. You can dress it up any way you like, but walking remains resolutely simple, basic, analog. That's why I love it and love doing it. And in that respect--stay with me on this--it's not entirely unlike a martini. Sure you can add things to martinis, like chocolate or an olive stuffed with blue cheese or, God forbid, cotton candy, and similarly you can add things to your walks--constraints, shapes, notions of the mapping of utopian spaces--but you don't need to. And really, why would you? Why spoil a good drink? Why spoil a good walk?”
― Geoff Nicholson, The Lost Art of Walking
― Geoff Nicholson, The Lost Art of Walking
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