Really interesting piece in Another Escape about the Bamboo Bicycle Club which offers a workshop on building your own bicycle using bamboo.
People can make their own frame customised to their own body dimensions.
I started reading the first Writer in Residence book about life onboard the USS George H. W. Bush aircraft carrier.
Dyer comes across as a bit of a bore, offering up a self-portrait of a duffer but still behind it prickly, smug and self-involved. He referrers to the photographer that accompanies him as "the snapper", affects to be indifferent to that person's experience; an affected boorishness.
Sometimes his sentences clunk with non-sequiturs but when he writes reportage his imagery is striking and immediately conjures a scene into the imagination. Every now and then he drops a well-observed detail, the sailor with a black eye, the catapult shuttle returning to position.
The photography works as well, supplementing the words, telling its own story without being in competition.
It's expensive but so far an interesting purchase.
There are so many magazines being published in Bristol I was wondering if there was some kind of movement. Well apparently if its not a movement it's some kind of collective.
Includes Cereal, Another Escape and Ernest