anywhere, everywhere · 2009-10-15 22:19
I’ve just been inside The O2 for the first time since it’s been converted into an entertainment venue complex. It struck me that the main public ring (Entertainment Avenue) is probably as close to a 2015 vision of a/any UK high street as you’re going to find; generic branded eateries, bars and coffee shops, a few generic nightclubs, a cinema multiplex, a little public art, a mobile phone concierge and only one or two corner-esque shops where you can buy things, all rendered in private/public carved concrete neo-constructivism. And: screens. Everywhere. I stopped counting at 20. None of them really saying anything. I felt a bit dizzy with future-boring-reality-vertigo.
