…it was sunny this morning, and it’s getting dark now. Today’s park demolition:

Still no reply from Lambeth Parks department…

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It looks like our friend’s gripe goes beyond myspace. Well found, Iain.
Whoever it is, I think I like them.

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Ominously, the fencing was up in the middle of last week. By Thursday the digger and portaloo were in, and a couple of trees lay uprooted on their sides. On Friday the fun started and, like a Magnus Mills protagonist,  the one man and his digger had taken up the gravel pit/football pitch and had [...]

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Anyone know what this is about? Art? A promotion of some sort? Is that a beer can or a mobile? Old fashion masking tape rather than the chalk easy option is a nice touch. It might be in very poor taste given that it’s about 30 yards from the scene of a shooting outside the [...]

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Further to Hoxton 2.0?, I received a Flickr comment from Dr Max who has seen more anti-myspace graffiti around the Shoreditch area.
From the fast becoming mantra-like:

to the no nonsense directive:

I like the blue background on these.
I also like that there’s apparently an unfinished version that just says MYSP…
GET OUT OF MYSPACE… Hmmm. See, suddenly I’m [...]

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Nice idea. I can do that.

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This has possibly been blogged to death… Saw this graffiti last night in Hoxton. I wonder how long it’s been there and what exactly inspired someone to go to the effort. Someone whose mates won’t come out anymore? The unsigned band member who sends out demo tapes to no avail?

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Just noticed the Flickr Maps (via Plasticbag.org). This makes me very, very happy. When google maps and its many subsequent mash-ups began to appear, it brought to mind the often-quoted Borges & Casares short story Of Exactitude in Science:
…In that Empire, the craft of Cartography attained such Perfection that the Map of a Single province [...]

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Went along to the Ace Cafe London, biker hang-out extraordinaire, at the weekend to see a small gathering of Routemaster buses and their proud owners. A funnier bunch of bus devotees you never did see. We were mainly interested in finding out what people had done with them once they’d been decommissioned and sold off, [...]

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As the big man would say, boilk.
A pleasure as ever, sir.
Arseblog was the first online social network thingummy I got involved with. It was pretty special to watch it grow from the (usually hung over, always funny) blog of an Irish Arsenal fan in Barcelona in 2002, to the inception of the ‘arses’ community [...]

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