Greyscale Frustration
Finding a black and white work for Greyscale Wednesday was proving much more difficult than usual today. I began with a selection of the usual mixture leaning towards cityscapes and architecture...
Unfortunately I then went on to read this bitterly miserable entry posted by Laban Tall named More Urban Nightmares. Since a small boy, on visits to the capital, I have dreamt of living in London. It poisons me to follow the catalogues of links containing London's brutal urban suffering and endless racist attacks. News offers me no alternative but to read, habitual like the rubbernecking when a lorry jack-knifes on the motorway.
I present to you the bi-product of this depressing material, from DailySnap named "College Frustration":
In closing, please, inform me of any positive news sites. There is only so much I can take of chav muggings and crime statistics. I do not wish to turn a blind eye to the issues of the nation, but I would love to read more positive blogging in Britain now and again.
There's not much good news from the cities these days, alas. Try everyday stories of (wealthy) country fold at Free Market Fairy Tales (fmft.net) or read about the only left group doing something about the urban disater zones - the IWCA. Cheerful in that somebody's doing something without waiting for the council do do it for them.
- http://www.bliwca.fsnet.co.uk/conspir1.htm
Posted by Laban | 5:43 PM
Thanks for the recommendations.
I actually ended up at the IWCA site only a couple of days previous following a Midlands news item on their work in Oxford.
The fearlessness with which they approach the problems in their area (bearing in mind they too have families to protect) is encouraging.
Posted by Adrian | 5:49 AM