About

The Summer of Riots
Personal Project
9-10.08.2011

Few words

'The Midsummer Nights of Riot'* is a reaction piece on UK riots which took place early in August 2011.

All words featured in this project are more or less direct quotations of the public**, various journalists, politicians, and the rioters themselves. Thus all of it being an opinion of some sort, I’ve decided to put in together in a new context.

This new perspective serves as a narrative and shows startling contrast in differences of opinion, motives and calls for removal of civil liberties and more violence.

Resources

All quotations/inspiration for comments are from:

1. Transcript of a street interview with group of drunk chavettes.
   You can listen to the record on BBC's website
2. Is Rioting Revolutionary?
   by Micah White on 10.08.2011 from the Adbusters website
3. Nothing 'mindless' about rioters from Aljazeera's website
4. A riot is the language of the unheard by Martin Luther King, Jr.
5. An Open Letter to David Cameron’s Parents by Nathaniel Tapley
6. Twitter #LondonRiots

All photographs featured on this page are from Flickr, used under Creative Commons license as of 09.08.2011.
Authors whose photographs are featured on this page are as follow: AndyArmstrong, Beacon Radio, Il Fatto Quotidiano and Nicobobinus.
Typefaces used in this project are AR CHRISTY and Bodoni.

* The name of the project is a nod to Shakespearian's The Midsummer Night's Dream. I always liked the title.
** Public opinion acquired via various means, mostly Twitter, newspaper websites, commentary/opinion blogs, TV interviews, radio shows etc.