Christine Alford
Bio
I love art, music and museums. You can find me easily on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cmjalford/?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==
Stories (3/0)
Ravers of the Lost Art
Imagine that you are in a warehouse filled with writhing, sweating bodies, pulsating beats, laser lights cutting through the smoke. People dancing, jumping, high, buzzing with a sense of unity, coming together to escape the mundanity of everyday life. It’s August 1988, the second summer of love, the year house music was born. You are lost in the moment.
By Christine Alfordabout a year ago in Beat
'Last One In': A Zombie Card Game
Last One In is a zombie-themed card game that allows players to compete against each other to rescue civilians and flood their opponents with zombies. The game was designed by Mark Taylor about two years ago, after he had an extraordinary dream. Mark continued to work on the game with his partner Janine for the next six months. Mark then met the artist Aaron Howdle at Brighton’s one and only Steampunk bar, the Yellow Book. The artist describes his work as an alternative 19th century view of Science Fiction. His visionary drawings of zombies add another dimension to the nail-biting card game. Zombie apocalypse beckons…
By Christine Alford6 years ago in Gamers
Sir Hans Sloane, Magic Mirrors and the British Museum
The British Museum collection began with the intellectual curiosity of an Irish doctor called Sir Hans Sloane. He began collecting when he was working in Jamaica, as a physician to the governor. He returned to London in 1689 and continued collecting. He was a very wealthy and successful doctor. His patients included the diarist Samuel Pepys and Queen Anne. Soon his house in Bloomsbury Place was overflowing with ‘plants, fossils, minerals, zoological, anatomical and pathological specimens, antiquities …prints, drawings and coins, books and manuscripts.’ His collecting got so out of control that he had to buy the house next door. When that house was full he moved to a new house in Chelsea!
By Christine Alford7 years ago in Futurism