Chamberlin Powell&Bon _ Barbican Archive in RIBA
VERY BEGINNING OF VERY BEGINNING
Before I go to step by step (I mean all those surveillance and basic research to know about what you've been asked to look at) to start project, I was only trying to produce whatever I could to see what I want from my own project and how the site affects me, in a way, that can give me ideas of various context and conditions that you can't just have with reading books and staying at your desk. I certainly believe you will have your own view of the space that nobody can have the same. My best mates will never feel the same way that I do, even though they have known me since I've stopped having my mum's milk in her arms. Everybody has different way of understanding and interpreting things. In that sense, I was willingly and wantingly, exploring Barbican in my way. The reason I was filming by my laptop was - first, I wanted to see myself in my video, in Barbican while I was wondering around. Second, I found it really comfortable to bring my laptop that nobody thinks I'm filming. Why people inventing the hidden cameras and the ways of recording something so secretly? PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO BE NOTICED. Especially they want it to be so natural and smooth to avoid the negative attention they would be having by holding the camera. So yeah, filming with my laptop was probably gives me much more freedom (I might no have, but I do feel it) to explore and record Barbican. 
The Architectural Review
The Barbican Development, City of London
You know what is scary? On these all newspapers and magazines they're so proud of using the word Utopia for Barbican. Is it really the best way to explain what Barbican is? This research of mine in RIBA, looking back all the history and information, backgrounds of Barbican gave me some kind of sarcastic reaction to it. I liked Barbican. I was looking all the photos of me visiting London in 2007, so many pictures of me in Barbican. I liked the atmosphere of it that I felt like I'm in that huge space looking the other huge space, it's like there is no end of it. You think you been everywhere of it but you've never, at least yet. And now that enjoyable experience have become a sort of fear.
I don't know where I'm heading with this negative reaction of mine. I think it was right moment of start from very beginning before I go further.
The Independant
The TimeOut Magazine London
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