Showing posts with label commuting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commuting. Show all posts

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Mobile images

I've been so busy with work, life, travel, everything these days that I've sadly had little time for creative pursuits. In desperation, I've begun snapping a great volume of pictures with my mobile phone, usually while commuting or running errands, anything to feel a bit more creative. My mobile camera is quite poor, which is fun because it makes taking interesting images all the more challenging.

I remember reading an interview with a Cuban filmmaker who was asked whether his country's limited resources prevented him from realising his vision for a particular movie. To the contrary, he said the constraints forced him to be even more creative. Not that my little mobile images are on par with Cuban cinema, but you get the idea.

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Self portrait, Southbank, London



















Parking ramp, Kingston-upon-Thames


















Detail of sculpture, British Museum






















Saturday night boxing at York Hall Leisure Centre, Bethnal Green




















Southwark Tube station
























Car wash, West Kensington























Foggy morning on the Thames, as seen crossing Kew Bridge




















Phone booths, Turnam Green






















Rainy evening, Oxford Street























Scott at Prince of Wales, Esher





















'Reflection', Antony Gormley sculpture, Euston Street





















Rising moon and solitary porch light, Kew Green























Escalator, Oxford Circus Tube station





















Scott in reflection, morning commute on #391 bus






















Self portrait, upper deck of #65 bus, rain






















Self portrait, morning commute, #391 bus
























Waiting for my ride, lonely road, Esher railway station



















Evening commute, rain






















Wintery platform, Hammersmith Tube station
























Elderly man's reflection, upper deck, #267 bus

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Dispatches from Scott's Blackberry

Received this from Scott this morning:

I board the train and am happy to land a seat. I nice young woman in her late 20s or early 30s seated to my right, reading a novel. "wonder what she's reading" I think.....perhaps Dickens or Hardy. No! Maybe she's a biography person - I bet it's the new biography of Beatrix Potter....I glance at the page......

"I'm going to rip his f'ing eyeballs out and make him suck them like gobstoppers," Cafferty was snarling, flecks of saliva pocked the inside of his windscreen.

Oh well.

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Commuter's Haiku

A haiku honoring passive aggression by British commuters and in particular commemorating this morning's 7:44am Southwest Trains service to Waterloo.

Yeah, like you don't know
You've squashed my hand on purpose
I will punch you, fool!