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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 23/09/2026

Draw an iceberg and see how it will float joshdata.me/iceberger.html

A white iceberg of unusual shape floats in a blue cartoon sea

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 21/09/2026

Remember this big guy? Just happened to spot him in the docks in Hamburg today.

Big green container ship called the Ever Given. Yes, the same one that stopped up the Suez Canal

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 20/08/2026

#Academics let's celebrate the edited book chapter! What is an edited book chapter that you're particularly proud of, or one you think deserves more readers? Mine is this one...

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 13/08/2026

Oh please, please, Monday and Wednesday, don't give up. We need you to get here full of delicious raindrops.

Weather forecast graphic showing light rain for London on Monday and Wednesday

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 13/08/2026

I had an absolute blast writing this erotic essay! It asks the poignant question, "When we touch buildings, do they touch us back?" It's called "Touching Buildings" and it's relatively short, open access, and it's sexy. Enjoy! diamond-oa.lib.cam.ac.uk/entities/pub...

Still from the 1991 black comedy 'Delicatessen' by Jeunet and Caro. In this scene a finger caresses a nipple-shaped doorbell before pressing it.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 06/08/2026

This is even more explicit than the passageway which, in my neighbourhood, we call the 'green sphincter'

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 19/07/2026

Andy Burnham unveils his new Minister for AI

Still from the 1995 Jeunet and Caro film 'City of Lost Children' showing an HG Wells Victoriana-influenced wood and brass machine containing a brain suspended, behind glass, in green liquid and with devices affixed for sensing and communicating, including two horns, one either side of the machine.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 14/07/2026

A 1968 Ford Country Sedan features in Will McBride's wonderful photo from Manhattan in 1976.

A huge station wagon is impeded at an intersection in New York by a drunk who has leant into the hood of the car, leaving an improbable triangular shape between his near-levitating body, the car, and the ground.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 14/07/2026

Listening to Frank's Wild Years by Tom Waits and it's 1988 and I'm driving from Moscow, Idaho to Portland, Oregon, hallucinating lightly after a long night with my dear, dead friend Boyd. Never drive a car when you're dead, Boyd. Oh my goodness how music drives memory, now drive my car for me.

Steering wheel and dash of a 1968 Ford LTD. I drove a Country Sedan station wagon, but the dashboard and interiors were the same as an LTD. Note how the horn is a half ring dangling from the column. It's assumed you'll be reclining while driving, and thus only barely able to reach the horn with your thumb as your hands have migrated as far south as the wheel will allow.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 10/07/2026

I have just discovered the Allister Heath right-wing clickbait headline generator and it is amusing me greatly. stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app

Fake headline by Allister Heath saying "We are sleepwalking into a totalitarian nightmare disguised as Tim Waterman"

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 10/07/2026

Edinburgh doesn't need the castle when it has the Poop Hotel as its emoji. I think your Tam O'Shanter Experience would rhyme nicely with it. I will come eat haggis in the restaurant when it's built.

Edinburgh's infamous Poop Hotel. A brown swirl of a building in exactly the shape of the ubiquitous poo emoji. In this image someone has added googly eyes to the building so that the comparison is inevitable.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 09/07/2026

“The only solution to the environmental crisis is the shared insight of people that they would be happier if they could work together and care for each other.” Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality (1973) p. 64

An intelligent-looking middle-aged white man with a prominent nose leaning back in an office chair with books beside him and his reading glasses in his hand.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 07/07/2026

"It's gone, it's all gone ... but at least the REF is still standing"

The indelible denouement of Franklin J. Schaffner's 1968 'Planet of the Apes' in which Charlton Heston, in real life a true angel of the apocalypse, encounters all that is left of human civilisation, the Statue of Liberty half buried in sand on a lonely beach.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 07/07/2026

In the war room at the White House at 3am a cloud of wild strawberry vape smoke hangs heavy over furrowed brows and blank stares as urgent questions are addressed. How do we gain vengeance? Shall we kidnap the President of Belgium? Or do we simply bomb its capital, Luxembourg?

The war room scene from Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr Strangelove. A large round table lit by a suspended halo of light is ringed with White Men in ties discussing impending violence.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 01/07/2026

The Uncertain Landscape conference in Guimarães, Portugal has extended its call for papers to 10 July. I'll be one of the keynotes at this excellent event, so do come hang out with me! uncertainlandscapes2026.weebly.com

A grid of headshots advertising the keynotes for Uncertain Landscapes 2: Bit Lab, Idoia Cuesta, Jamie Vanucchi, João Nunes, Lauro Olmo Enciso, Marcelo Rosenbaum, Space Transcribers, and Tim Waterman

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 29/05/2026

Just arrived! I've written the opening chapter for this impressive collection!

Book cover: Pedagogical for Anti-Disciplinary Design Education

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 26/04/2026

I'm featured in the Anastrophes podcast with Christie Swallow, talking about 'Queer Ecology, the Imagination, & Lost Landscapes'. Here's a mildly saucy clip. You can find the full podcast here: linktr.ee/anastrophes

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 14/04/2026

There are still a couple of places left for the Kairos Spring Residency in Devon. It's subsidised, so very good value for a week away in a beautiful spot with interesting people! www.kairos.london/event/kairos...

Birdseye view of a tall brick building in a wide green landscape

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 31/03/2026

Happy International Transgender Visibility Day! I am grateful for the richness, possibility, and beauty my trans friends have brought to all of my adult life, and I stand with you, visibly. We are not a whole species without you.

Trangender symbol--circle with multiple arrows and crosses

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 26/03/2026

My husband is out with colleagues tonight so I will be very grown up and listen to electronica, drink peated whisky, and read Montaigne

A glass of whisky on a red coaster against a red carpet and chair, with a book open to the title page reading 'The Essays of Montaigne'

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 24/03/2026

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS FLATTEARTH!

1920s sepia-toned map of a square and stationary earth. It is in the form of a half-donut shape on a rectangular blog, with an angel pictured at each corner of the block.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 12/02/2026

No, coconuts still have teats

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 03/02/2026

I've just published an extensive list of web resources for public domain and open access images on my website. Do have a look! www.tim-waterman.co.uk

Double-Decker Bridge Over the Susquehanna River between Perryville and Havre de Grace on US 40, Records of the Bureau of Public Roads, 1939. National Archives.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 21/01/2026

Upcoming talk at LSE! "Research is a Land Relation" with the always superb @maxliboiron.bsky.social. 5pm 3 Feb LSE room OLD 3.24. See website SLCC.online for details!

Poster with the text from the message above and an image of Max Liboiron, wearing glasses and a t-shirt.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 21/01/2026

So here's an optimistic point! There will be a huge amount of meaningful work for landscape architects when all the foreign US military bases are converted to regional parks.

The Presidio in San Francisco, one of the world's great parks, is a former military base. This image, from Wikimedia Commons, shows a gun emplacement in the park with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 09/01/2026

Does anyone know who took this viral image? I would like to know who to credit and how to obtain copyright permissions. Please repost.

Cardboard protest poster with a tea-sipping frog seated on an inverted crown. It reads: "I caught the woke mind virus and all I got was empathy and critical thinking skills."

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 09/01/2026

Does anyone know who created this poster? I would like to use it in an article but I don't know who to credit or any copyright (or left) details.

Poster with Shephard Fairey-style frog, reading, at the top "Ribbit. Resist. Repeat." and, at the bottom, "No Hope Without HOP."

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 31/12/2025

Last book of 2025. Elaine Scarry on how writers bring things to life for readers, itself written with extraordinary verve. On every page I am exhilarated by her choice of words and her artful construction of phrases.

Cover of Dreaming by the Book by Elaine Scarry with a flask painted with a reclining female figure resting on the corner of a table

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 30/12/2025

3) Tie (don’t cap) pay: no staff member, whether cleaning, security, or senior management should make more than double what the lowest paid staff earns. If you can’t attract people w/ high salaries, you have to focus on fantastic working conditions including providing nothing but meaningful work.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 09/12/2025

And here is the fuel and water used by a human marking assignments.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 03/12/2025

Train to Busan (2016), Dead Man (1995) (slowest chase scene in any movie ever), Mon Oncle (1958) (ridicules car culture; Tati rides a bike), Les Bicyclettes de Belsize (1968)

Jacques Tati, as Monsieur Hulot in Mon Oncle, rides a bike with pipe in mouth and nephew on pannier rack.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 24/11/2025

Alas, the playful, versatile, and often camp actor Udo Kier is gone. My Own Private Idaho, Shadow of the Vampire, Swan Song. His career was pure fun.

An elderly Udo Kier pictured in 2018 in a black shirt and jacket, white hair, and piercing blue eyes.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 07/11/2025

I do wish to be ungrateful. This is an average building but I love these crazy scuppers. They'll be lost under this greenwashing project, at least until it's removed when the living wall dies in a couple of years because we have laid off the maintenance staff for daft performances like this.

A heroic concrete rain scupper behind a hoarding promising expensive greenwash.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 26/10/2025

Lucy Raven in the Barbican Curve gallery is superb. The film is 40 minutes long. Plan on watching it in full.

Vertical cinema screen showing a helicopter shot of the Klamath River filled with sediment after the dynamiting of a dam.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 26/10/2025

Take the test: Will the Tories/Reform deport you? They would deport me and I have full UK citizenship! ilr.dowu.uk

red banner with the words 'Status revoked'

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 12/10/2025

Nordic Noir at the British Museum is fabulous and free of charge

Large print of a colourful flame on a black background by Ragnar Kjartansson

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 10/10/2025

Seen in Fitzrovia near the BBC.

Sign purporting to be from the Met Police reading: racial recognition zone: are you from a racial or ethnic minority? Facial recognition cameras have been installed in this area.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 06/09/2025

Post a perfect album from the 90s ... this one's a collection of remixes. If you missed it in the 90s, get it now!

Album cover for The High Llamas 'Lollo Rosso' of 1998 with vertical bars of strong colour and elegant sans-serif typography

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 18/08/2025

RIP Terence Stamp: a most illustrious career, with a crowning role as a trans woman in a low-budget comedy that had an immense positive impact in so many lives (and was seriously funny).

Terence Stamp as a trans woman in a dressing room, a wall of memorabilia behind

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 15/08/2025

Dear Architectural Review: This ain't a f**king forest.

Image of a vegetated high rise building next to a multi-lane roadway. Text reads 'The AR's September issue heads into the forest'.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 16/07/2025

St Vincent at Somerset House. What a performer.

Singer St Vincent on stage with a projection of her face

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 04/07/2025

Meme sent to me by a brilliant scholar with whom I would LOVE to work 🤔😂😭

A dancing couple spins, eyes locked, laughing, in love. She says 'WE SHOULD WRITE SOMETHING TOGETHER'. He says, 'I DON'T HAVE ANY TIME'. She says, 'I DON'T HAVE ANY TIME EITHER'.

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