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  1. On a rainy Sunday, I'm sharing this heart-warming documentary about public art in Scotland's post-war New Towns: Meet You At The Hippos, presented by Scottish actor Mark Bonnar. It's four years old, but I’ve watched it a number of times and it never fails to make me think and to produce a smile or five.

    Here's the official blurb about the hour long documentary:

    "Actor Mark Bonnar is on a mission to understand more about the Scottish new towns in which he grew up, exploring the street sculpture made by artists such as his dad in the 60s, 70s and 80s. He discovers why the new towns are there and how they enticed people out of the bigger cities, and uncovers the surprising ways in which public art changed the new towns and the new towns changed public art. Mark's father, Stan, made sculptures that stand to this day on the streets of Glenrothes, East Kilbride and the Scottish new town that never was, Stonehouse. These new towns employed town artists to make artworks in the very housing precincts the new residents were moving into.”

    inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=epFuvRs

    #PublicArt #PublicSculpture #TownArtists #ScottishNewTowns #NewTowns #Scotland #MarkBonnar #SocialHistory #Documentary

  2. Edinburgh actor Mark Bonnar admits things ‘got weird fast’ on Celebrity Traitors

    Edinburgh actor Mark Bonnar has revealed some behind-the-scenes secrets from the set of Celebrity Traitors. The 56-year-old star,…
    #Edinburgh #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #Scotland #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #AlanCarr #Britain #ClaudiaWinkleman #GreatBritain #JoeWilkinson #MarkBonnar
    europesays.com/uk/499865/

  3. @iainjclark Love me some #MarkBonnar, his Gangham Style "lyrics as ~30 second Shakespeare" thing back on Twtr totally winning that meme going around back however many years ago now already.

    Summer of Rockets was rerun in the summer as well, tho I was screencapping it more for #LinusRoache fans back in July. And burned myself out on Roache nigh entirely with that, since not focusing on him myself just then.

    Still waiting for the latest Shetland to arrive here.

  4. Pencil drawing of a downtrodden-looking Mark Bonnar. Don't think I *quite* caught him but I enjoyed doing it.

    #TraditionalArt #Shetland #MastoArt #MarkBonnar