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A solitude in the street…

Fig 1.

Fig 2.

1. I can swear that the helicopter was in the shoot, but it is no where to be found*. As always occupied doing professional policing such as traffic monitoring: in order to avoid serious accidents, congestion or given the times possibly upholding the Corona restrictions set in place.

2. To the left a craft belonging to Stockholm’s finest farbror blå (uncle blue) aka the police airborne division

* Did find it eventually.

– 93′ innit’?
– Where ever you was raving in 93′!
– And if you was to young for raving, big up anyway!
– And if you weren’t even born, big up anyway!

– You are talkin’ about things I haven’t even done yet!

– Ohh!?, this’s goodness bit/business…*

– What day is it today?
– It’s Thursday.
– I thought it was Monday?
– Usually you can blame his age in that blessing.
– For a moment I wasn’t sure if he was right or if I was right.

Uncle Dugs - 01/05/2020 - rinse.fm

* Caught by surprised by a break in the remix currently being played.

The number of quotes are in all actuality ∞ (infinite). Please search for: Original Quotes.

Yet, more discarded artefacts. The old toaster needed replacing so it was perfect timing and this one it is much prettier looking. Status? New/unused. Please search for: Not On The Wall.

Yet more discarded artefacts. Please search for: On The Wall.

1^st – Heter the Smurf eller Snurf?
Unknown, May 2020
A young girl on bike asking her friend (the obvious authority); a perfectly legitimate, relevant and pertinent question. Is it Smurf or Snurf? I’m thinking that an inverted Smurf is a Snurf.

2^nd – We’re getting there!
Uncle Dugs, Apr 2020
Uncle Dugs from rinse.fm on the progress made spreading the joy of 1993’s jungle, hardcore and other essential musical styles.

3^rd – I remember this tune as if it was Yesterday!
Uncle Dugs, Apr 2020
That would be a tune played in 1993. As the man himself puts it:

I’ve never found music that’s buzzed me like the hardcore, the acid house, the jungle stuff, from the mid/late 80s and the mid/late 90s,” he grins. “There’s nothing that’s ever done that to me again. I’ve never lost the buzz for it that I found the day I went to my first rave. The minute I found it, that was me, forever.

The shout-out frequency on this show is truly something else! It is never ending: crew, by crew, designated drivers, DJs and the rest.

4^th – We were in Högängen.
Known, Anonymous, Apr 2020
The place exists, but even though a have extensive first-hand knowledge of the area I’ve never heard it been called that before. It is situated between the two subway stations: Bandhagen and Högdalen, Bandängen is named, whereas Högängen is not. Yet…

No comment.

The KTH-A building on Östermalmsgatan 26, and its 45 years of proud service as an institution producing and disseminating architectural knowledge. The building was inaugurated in 1970 and designed by a team of architects led by Gunnar Henriksson and John Olsson.

Ref.

This new brutalist masterpiece was voted the ugliest building in Stockholm 2008 and was severally damaged in an (accidental) fire in 2011; then facing demolition for the second time (the first one being after the vote) it was ultimately spared that grim fate.

Something has to be said about the location: Östermalmsgatan 26 – Uggleviksgatan – Karlavägen – Rådmansgatan.

It may or may have something to do with how the vote turned out in the end. – Why? Well, the address is located in an area that most likely did not embrace the idea of anything being built at all to begin with and that which was eventually erected.

I for one would like to have had seen that happen. And it is a fact that one of the last significant architectural contributions to the inner city is actually from 1970.

There is still no sign of an Architect Museum nor is there of a Design counterpart and this country is supposedly know for (among other) precisely those things. “Scandinavian/Nordic” architecture and design. Instead they turned 45 years of Swedish architectural heritage – a building that literally defines what an institution is – into a serviced office/start-up creative digital future proof locality. The café looked really enticing when I passed it the other day.

Stockholm is until this day still lacking a museum of Architecture and Design. And even less so a building to actually house them…

This is where I live.

The black plaque reads: Kreativitet Kvalitet Kommunikation = Creativity Quality Communication whereas the sign on the door reads: Soprum = Garbage room. However it is a really upscale address in central Stockholm.