The Ruinist defines new terms for living: 'SHIT RINSE'

The Ruinist is happy to create new terms for living.


Last night The Ruinist was found to be complicit in some culterati art opening affair where everyone's nice and deferential to all who may at some point be there future patrons. It's very polite and very feudal. Lords and Lady's of The Manor arrive and swish about the place. Some court scribes come and go and take notes for the columns. The servants serve the alcohol and the doormen keep the portals secure. The hunt beaters keep the people circulating and some peasants blag in and drink as much free beer before closing time. Nobles and entourage put in an appearance from neighbouring fiefdoms to make sure all is well with the alliances and to catch up the news about the enemies.

Anyway, you get the idea.

'SHIT RINSE':
What you feel like you have been through the next day after going to these openings

Use freely!!

Hidden Londoners

It didn't take me long to find this guy once I read about him in book. Until that point he had remained invisible to me despite my passing him on hundreds of occasions.














I went to see him because I also read some idiots in Luton were marching against some people they didn't like.














They showed they didn't like them by waving the English flag (whatever that is?)

You can see it here:
http://ianbone.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/luton-yesterday-a-taste-of-things-to-come/

Ruinist Let Out For The Day Again

On the prowl in Kennington SE11 for the site of Burgundia, the free autonomous zone established in the great film Passport to Pimlico (1949), we came across this impressive street sign at the far end of the former liberated zone (now built over with the China Walk council estate).















Happily we also came across this jaunty street sign nearby in a kind-of stretched or compressed Playbill typeface. Right up our street. We mused on the choice of Playbill as some kind of historical resonance with all the penny gaffs and music halls that had been a great part of that local area. Juxon St crosses Lambeth Walk, home of the famous dance made famous by Lupino Lane the film 'Me and My Girl' (1939). Just up the road in the newly rejigged estate in Lambeth Walk is Lupino House. More of these great street signs can be found around the older parts of that estate as we presume they were the standard for the estate signage. Top ho!















The Ruinist rarely enjoys al fresco but the spring heat brought it out in us. Two Portuguese chocolate milks and natas kept us going (as usual) around our regular tour of Vauxhall with it's fat rabbits and noisy black sheep in the City Farm.

Back to the mappings

Histories

'One Plus One': Out and about in Godard's London

Despite the both ridiculous but still disturbing content of this 1968 Jean-Luc Godard film, The Ruinist seemed restless until all the London locations where Eve Democracy (Anne Wiazemsky) sprays up political slogans could be traced and visited. Over two of our leisure days, we walked and ate our way around the environs of Battersea, Putney, Chelsea and Hyde Park to bring you the almost definitive guide to these historical sites of revolutionary graffiti:

'HILTON/STALIN'





























The first spraying was hard to find as we assumed it was made inside a room of The Hilton Hotel on Park Lane. After walking around with our handy One Plus One Spotter Card, we finally figured out that this bit was filmed in what is now the Metropolitan Hotel next door in Old Park Lane, W1. Lacking the cash to book this room, we had to make do with a less than similar ground level shot of what the view now looks like.


'USA...'


























This was a tricky one but we found it! 271 New King's Rd, Hammersmith, London SW6.



'CINEMARX'



























This building is 45 Cadogan St, Kensington, London SW3 but the film was shot round the corner in Halsey St.


'FBI + CIA = TWA + PAN-AM'



























The scene of where black militants read from various radical black authors (most pointedly Eldridge Cleaver's 'Soul on Ice' section where he describes the tension between black menial supermasculinity and white omnipotent administrators) in a car breaker's yard right by Battersea Train Bridge. This has now gone and the site is a new development called Groveside Court, 4 Lombard Rd, Wandsworth, London SW11 and a Thames riverside walkway too. The initial graffiti (not put up by Eve) is later sprayed over with the 'Panthers'.


'US=Swastika'



























This little street is off King's Rd. The shot was made at the junction of Shalcomb St and Lamont Rd, Kensington, London SW10


'FREUDEMOCRACY'





























Our hero Eve and 41 one years later our Ruinist Team Player at Cheyne Walk, Kensington, London SW3 looking towards Albert Bridge


'SOVIETCONG'



























A wonderful building still to be found at 47 Hurlingham Rd, Hammersmith, London SW6.



SLOGANS THAT GOT AWAY!!




























Yes, it was impossible even with out super Ruinist brain powers to locate these sites. The car one we think is in Hyde Park and the other one we reckon was filmed around Sands End, probably sites that are now covered by the monstrous Chelsea Harbour development. There are also two more slogans in the film - one on an advert hoarding and one outside some prefabs. Any ideas yourselves?















The creepy porn store episode was shot on location at Plus Books, 224 Norwood Rd, Lambeth, London SE27.
The site of the footage of the Rolling Stones was Olympic Studios,117 Church Rd, Richmond, London SW13.



Here are some of the delightful cafes we visited in the making of this production:















Mona Lisa, 417 King's Road London SW10. Excellent beans, egg and chips in this Italian. A bowl of Trifle was also consumed.
















The Tea Hut, Battersea Park. Two teas please! Note: The Spotter Card ready for consultation.
















Parisienne Cafe, 225 Lavender Hill, London, SW11 1JR. Top quality Veggie Breakfast and one Cheese Omelette and Chip w/Salad!



















One of the Team fell off the toilet early in the morning but despite the damage was up and willing for this most correct of adventures.

Two Local Chapters In The Spectacle of Decomposition

Here at Ruinist Tower we often bang our heads against the wall late into the night as we find ourselves picking our way through the perilous state of existence today. Here are two examples of how life slips away before our very eyes.

(1) BABY, I DON'T LOVE YOU ANYMORE. I AM RETURNING YOU IN YOUR ORIGINAL CONDITION FOR A FULL REFUND. SORRY

















It's true that T.K.Maxx is the most seductive of shops. Looking for something entirely other than these, The Ruinist came away with some reasonably priced sneakers. Earlier this morning, in between activities of the utmost importance, we read the small print printed in the shape of a heart on back of the TK MAXX receipt:

"LOVE ME OR RETURN ME
Shopping is like love: you just know when it's right. Hence, our 14 day 'Love Me or Return Me' refund or exchange policy. We reckon within 2 weeks you probably know whether you're in love with your purchase or not. If you're not, just return it in original condition with this receipt for an exchange or refund. It's quick, it's simple and you never have to say, 'It's not you, it's me'.



(2) YOUR PERSONAL UNION CARBIDE STATUS. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE

Right by Ruinist Towers, there's a small pathway through to the High Street and here seems like a good a place as any to dump some rubbish. This is usually cardboard, broken furniture or old suitcases devoid of personal contents.

















The Council has installed a microwave-driven CCTV pod on a nearby lamp post to film those in the act of dumping rubbish at this spot.


















When rubbish is deposited there, special Environmental Wardens place this sticker on the trash:

















Could you be an environmental criminal and not even know it? Keep yourself disciplined, just in case the environment goes to shit.