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The theme of the Lost Cosmonaut has been a continuing inspiration for the artist
Jeremy Geddes.
In a series of paintings, Geddes explores the romance and the desolation of the
cosmonaut, floating in
            
             
                
        
                    
                The Cosmonaut is crowd-sourced and crowd-funded film from the Riot Cinema
[http://riotcinema.com/] collective based in Spain.
They hope to create a feature length film with support from private funding. On
the
            
             
                
        
                    
                Transport for London, in looking for a corporate sponsor for their plans to
encourage, have entered into a Faustian pact with the Barclays banking
corporation.
Launched in August this year, the Barclays Cycle
            
             
                
        
                    
                You can find me waxing lyrical about the secret urbanism of the Green Belt, over
at Urban Tick
[http://urbantick.blogspot.com/2010/10/dross-and-stim-in-hertfordshire.html],
part of their series on Ecological Urbanism
            
             
                
        
                    
                Two news items aroused my disurbanist instincts last week, and in my paranoid 
modus operandi where everything is connected, thought that they represented two
aspects of an identical process: the continued fragmentation and