Poof! The French do devil snaps but theirs apparently do not go bang. Not sure how impressive a piff or a paff is to anyone.
Coke bottle tops and necks
100810 [August 10, 2010] – 18:55
I don’t really buy fizzy pop at all so I am not sure if this is an entirely new phenomenon. Bought this Coke bottle in Paris and immediately noticed it had a short screw top and neck. Yes I realise this is not amazing news but it has changed the dynamic of using the bottle. [...]
Inside TFL’s bike hire stations
080810 [August 8, 2010] – 21:40
Everyone is talking about London’s new bike hire scheme but who wants to know what is going on inside? Well no one probably but here are the pics- the insides of one of the terminals, the one opposite Euston station in fact.
Spotting the unusual is easy
160710 [July 16, 2010] – 23:20
People have some sort of ‘normal’ filter where only the odd signals from the visual processing unit get pushed to conscious thought. This window would have gone unnoticed and a passerby would not have been able to tell you what they just ignored yet with no flashing lights or signage this simply ‘not right’ scene [...]
how do they do it?
120710 [July 12, 2010] – 11:08
This may sound a little stupid but i have always wondered how they coat nuts with, well, anything. Take a chocolate covered Brazil nut – perfectly shaped, no flat spots, no mount marks in fact, no marks at all, just a smooth shape…. So how is it done? are the nuts shot through a chocolate [...]
Wait For The Coin To Drop
030510 [May 3, 2010] – 10:02
I have walked past this box many times, tried to slide open the panels, leaned on them – all the things you do when you are a good boy of 14. Only now have I realised it has special features. Insert 5p Coin Wait for the coin to drop Then Lift Up Flap No icons. [...]
1/8 Irish
090410 [April 9, 2010] – 09:30
One day our discussion was looping around how my wife had Irish blood but ‘how much’ was the question… After a large family tree, some fractions and an outward bound tide we established that Philippa was one eighth Irish. Now for the next problem – when should a person accept that they are no longer [...]
Head smashing. Yeah.
290310 [March 29, 2010] – 10:35
This was taken in Japan, part of an art school show that I wandered into whilst exploring the streets of Kyoto. I liked this piece; it reminded me of all the pictures I drew when I was at school – heads melting off the hands they were cradled in but this student went that step [...]
Hobsons Postman’s Knock
210310 [March 21, 2010] – 15:00
Nutty sweet treacle mild with a quiet burn. Yum.
I’d rather be fighting Chavs
080210 [February 8, 2010] – 10:55
The best fitness promo (on the street) i have seen was a group of girls in fitness clothes looking well, er, fit and healthy – what made it memorable was not their beauty it was their attitude. They were running up to passers by giving them a leaflet then bounding off like they were in [...]
The dying art of DIY snow maintenance
130110 [January 13, 2010] – 11:57
It snows. It will always snow. Well, some years… but that is no excuse. All people, residents and users should take some responsibility for their environment. In the last week people have done nothing but whinge about how the snow has been compacted and is now ice – unwalkable and unclearable. The shortage of grit [...]
This man is not amused…
011009 [October 1, 2009] – 17:40
This is my brother-in-law pulling a face at some point in a discourse. For the record – I don’t think he was angry.
Nice Day. Nice Smoking.
160909 [September 16, 2009] – 16:00
I had a fascination with the vending machines in Japan and the amazing range of products they contained . This machine was the only one that I managed to take a photo of the message is VERY strong.On all nice days I may now consider smoking!
Barbican – ‘I Am So Sorry. Goodbye’
310809 [August 31, 2009] – 18:45
‘I Am So Sorry. Goodbye’ by Heather and Ivan Morison A Tea House of sorts – positioned outside on the terrace of the Barbican, just at the water’s edge. I made a bee-line for this place on quite a few lunch breaks. Taking just myself, or someone else. The two faces in two images are [...]
Reclaim your street
220809 [August 22, 2009] – 00:30
This was taken the other week on leather lane, outside the newsagents near greggs at the north end. The pile was next to a group of workmen with digging implements. Leather lane has a lot of Market stalls, some with flowers and the like. I do not know who created this installation but either way- [...]
Reclaim the streets
210809 [August 21, 2009] – 22:30
Nature rules. The organic overlord will always prevail. There are amazing pictures of Chernoboyl where nature has / is reclaiming the land. This silly example is in EC2N, London. I just like the structure the tree has formed- it has neither ignored or covered the sign but has chosen to somehow ooze around it in [...]