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Another great thing from the 1880's was a newspaper that was produced by an Irish family called The Doyles who ran a really bohemian Pub in Maida Vale. The Doyles were a really amazing family, all of them were artists. They were the originators of a style of art that you see a lot of these days. They would stick a pin in a map, go the wherever the pin landed and (if it was a suitable location) they would make a hug 20foot square plastercast of that location, ship it back home and meticulously paint it up to look exactly like the real place, then exhibit it at the old Saatchi gallery on Abbey Road.
But they also used to publish this newspaper with no name, totally randomly, whenever they felt like it, and if you heard about it and wanted to do a page you could do. They would let you print anything you like on your page, and total nobodies would appear next to amazing artists and photographers in it.
How fucking ace was that.
God, I feel so sad that the past has gone and now we all sit here plugged into this insubstantial mesh of luminescent screens.