Tag Archives: culture

The Gentle Author of Spitalfields Life

By tim | Published: 02/02/2012

‘In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London.’ With these words the Spitalfields Life blog was born, back in August 2009.

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Could be foggy

By tim | Published: 07/06/2011

The English language in America is fog-bound. This is hellish serious, more serious than who will be the next Republican nominee for the Presidency

Posted in History, Jargon, Letters, Magazines, Plain English, Tone of voice, Writing | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Sweetly mixed

By tim | Published: 13/09/2010

The need to ensure that museum visitors ‘get’ everything first time is corrosive and limiting. There’s nothing wrong with captions and catalogues that stretch our understanding, that is what the process of learning involves, after all

Posted in Design, Food, Graffiti, History, Storytelling, Tone of voice, Travel, Writing | Also tagged , , , , , | 7 Responses

Attention

By tim | Published: 05/08/2010

Far from being helpless victims of technology-driven dumbing-down, we are actively paying attention in all sorts of new and productive ways.

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Tone deaf

By tim | Published: 13/07/2010

Tone of voice – Southwark Council murder Shakespeare.

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