Nathan Barley

[Balbi]

Totally mexico

 

[revol68]

Yeah, gentrification is irritating.

Have a look at this.

C-13 are an ensemble of sound artists, musicians, programmers, animators, architects, visual artists, photographers and filmmakers. The group was founded in 2009. Their collaborative practice challenges traditional media archetypes and explores the tensions between site, medium, artist and audience.

As someone who was went to their Tea Party installation, I can say with confidence that a dog shit on footpath is more sucessful at challenging "traditional media archetypes and explor[ing] the tensions between site, medium, artist and audience."

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

God that does sound wanky!

My mate visited Belfast a few years ago and said it was like Britain in the 70s with added element of danger.

Now even there's being gentrified!

is nothing sacred?

 

[scalyboy]

Yes! Its well jackson

When I first watched Nathan Barley I thought he was saying "well jacksie"

 

[Jon-of-arc]

Have a look at this.



As someone who was went to their Tea Party installation, I can say with confidence that a dog shit on footpath is more sucessful at challenging "traditional media archetypes and explor[ing] the tensions between site, medium, artist and audience."

I know nothing about art, but this is a pretty cool picture.

 

[revol68]

I know nothing about art, but this is a pretty cool picture.

aye that is.

reminds me of STALKER, although it's actually the burnt out husk of an old dingy arcade that used to have second hand book shops, a dingy coffee shop that was actually properly good and a band t shirt shop. It was a listed building that stood in the way of redevelopment so it shock horror got arson to fuck.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

No

 

[Jon-of-arc]

aye that is.

reminds me of STALKER, although it's actually the burnt out husk of an old dingy arcade that used to have second hand book shops, a dingy coffee shop that was actually properly good and a band t shirt shop. It was a listed building that stood in the way of redevelopment so it shock horror got arson to fuck.

well, we can't let commerce be slowed by the preservation of our history now, can we? Can't you see there's a credit crunch on? For gods sake, GET A GRIP, MAN!!!

 

[revol68]

well, we can't let commerce be slowed by the preservation of our history now, can we? Can't you see there's a credit crunch on? For gods sake, GET A GRIP, MAN!!!

thing is, all that boho shit is marketable as fuck, but sure that whole area that used to be swarning with young punks, goths, mentallers, skaters and art fags has been marketed into "The Cathederal Quarter" and is now overran by middle aged old cunts in jeans, shirts and blazers drinking in jumped up bars.

 

[cliche guevara]

thing is, all that boho shit is marketable as fuck, but sure that whole area that used to be swarning with young punks, goths, mentallers, skaters and art fags has been marketed into "The Cathederal Quarter" and is now overran by middle aged old cunts in jeans, shirts and blazers drinking in jumped up bars.

You have just described exactly what happened to my favorite pub when it got taken over a few years back. Sad times.

 

[fubert]

Nathan Barley... the saddest fact of all is that most of the stuff about "The Rise of the Idiots" is all true..

Is it just me or would they have been as well calling Dan Ashcroft Charlie Brooker ?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Is it worth watching the first series?

No. It's a bit crap really, far too on the nose to be actually funny.

 

[revol68]

No. It's a bit crap really, far too on the nose to be actually funny.

It's great, only a pink floyd fan could think otherwise.

 

[kyser_soze]

I'm a Floyd fan and I loved NB...

 

[Idris2002]

aye that is.

reminds me of STALKER, although it's actually the burnt out husk of an old dingy arcade that used to have second hand book shops, a dingy coffee shop that was actually properly good and a band t shirt shop. It was a listed building that stood in the way of redevelopment so it shock horror got arson to fuck.

North Street Arcade, you mean? I was in Belfast when that happened. Bastards, bastards.

At least they didn't get to build their car park on the site, though. The bastards.

 

[Edie]

I wasn't a massive fan. It's more entertaining if you see it as a chalie brooker show than as a chris morris one. I also have never met people like that, so I just don't get it. Does the shoreditch twat really exist?

Husband works in digital media. Do they exist? YES!!

Edit: Thir-fucking-teen

 

[rikwakefield]

Is it just me or would they have been as well calling Dan Ashcroft Charlie Brooker ?

Yes. It was so obvious.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I recall watching it when it first came out and thinking it was really good. But I would have worried that it would be too dated upon a re-watching. Sounds like it hasn't though.

 

[8den]

His phone the "T12 Wasp Speechtool" full fidelity vox phoning, voice authority enhancement, built in chillum, TV-cast hijack capability, text insult dictionary, foldout MP3 decks and an extra large 5 button. (cause 5 is the button you most frequently press) was "well weapon".

 

[Goatherd]

It's very good, but I find it difficult to watch given how cynical and unlikable most of the characters are. That's part of what makes it so good though.

I like Charlie Brooker because he wrote something nice about me on his website.

 

[8den]

I wasn't a massive fan. It's more entertaining if you see it as a chalie brooker show than as a chris morris one. I also have never met people like that, so I just don't get it. Does the shoreditch twat really exist?

The Newman arms on Rathbone Place is the inspiration for the pub in Nathan Barley, and where I used to work used it as our local. Yes these twats really do exist.

A few years ago I was setting up a small office in a place in Shoreditch, they hadn't got their phone set up, and I needed to download a software update, and couldn't steal wifi from anywhere, I so took it to this immensely twatty pub/cafe to use theirs and get some lunch. About a dozen people there, all but two are on laptop, and only one of the laptops isn't a mac.

 

[editor]

A collection of quality quotes:

• It's been out for three weeks in Japan. Where's yours?
• His trousers fall down and there's like a piss stain on his pants. Check it out yeah, it is well bum.
• Peace and fucking. Believe.
• Bum. Keep it lived. Keep it dense, yeah?
• Check out my website, yeah? It's well fucking futile.
• Keep it chopped out, yeah?
• Check it out yeah, trashbat.co.ck, my web site. Dot cock yeah, registered in the Cook Islands.
• Wasp T12. It's got a massive number five 'cause it's the most common number.
• Futures, yeah?
• Keep it dusty.
• Twice in one day. Well coincimental.
• It's an online urban culture dispatch.
• I'm a self facilitating media node.
• Renegade production node.
• My desk, A.K.A.S. Main Hub.
• That is well jackson.
• OK, here's the credos. Trash, as in what's all around us... and... bat.

Dan Ashcroft:

• They babble into hand-held twit machines about that cool email of the woman being bummed by a wolf.
• Welcome to the age of stupidity. Hail the rise of the idiots.
• Yeah, you're going to fuck an idiot.
• French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, French... err ...Southern French. Danish.

Yeah, well plastic.

• Keep it foolish.
• Trojan measure mate, Trojan measure.

• Well cheeks, man, well cheeks.
• You should come to the party Friday, it'll be well jackson.
• You can come, you can come twice, you can come multiple times.
• You should come, dollsnatch. It's gonna be totally fucking Mexico.

• Futures, monkey muff.
• Alright, spunk flake?
• Awesome fucking Welles
• Bum.
• I kicked the brown door in and painted it white on the way out.
• You can come, you can come twice, you can come multiple times.
• (rapping to Claire Ashcroft while in bed with her) Taking the lips down to the nips. Gonna head down south, south with me mouth. Comin' up for air and me mouth say "yeah". Sure, yeah, lose the frown. I'm goin' all the way down. Soon I'll be showin' you my 'OHH' face. Soon I'll be showin' you my 'OHH' face. Got a strong hunch you prefer a big munch. You drift off. I'll have a scoff.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nathan_Barley#Episode_2_.5Bn.m.5D

 

[xenon]

I might have to watch this again. My guest SSID is called TotallyMexico.

 

[keybored]

His phone the "T12 Wasp Speechtool" full fidelity vox phoning, voice authority enhancement, built in chillum, TV-cast hijack capability, text insult dictionary, foldout MP3 decks and an extra large 5 button. (cause 5 is the button you most frequently press) was "well weapon".

Hoot your trap off!

 

[Fez909]

Nathan Barley was rubbish

 

[scalyboy]

What I find surprising is that there are still loads of twats behaving/dressing like this in places like Dalston and Broadway Market, have they no sense of shame? I'd be wary of being branded as a Barley...or have not many of the younger generation of hipsters seen it?

 

[Crispy]

Fashion is the wrong angle of attack, if you're going to attack. Young people dress weird, that just what they do.

 

[mrsfran]

I work with a guy who looks so like Barley (and often acts like him) that I sometimes struggle not to call him Nathan.

 

[Idris2002]

aye that is.

reminds me of STALKER, although it's actually the burnt out husk of an old dingy arcade that used to have second hand book shops, a dingy coffee shop that was actually properly good and a band t shirt shop. It was a listed building that stood in the way of redevelopment so it shock horror got arson to fuck.

Aye, the North Street Arcade. The book shop was one of those places that had every book you might ever conceivably need. It was listed, IIRC, because it was one of the earliest examples anywhere of a covered shopping mall.

 

[Idris2002]

They've sprouted out of the ground in the past two years in Belfast.
I think I prefered it when Belfast was a grim shithole, full of bitter, cynical fuckers.

Aw, say it ain't so, Joe. . .