7.25.2006

 

First two things I notice: coke can - affordances of bars as dry cleaning hangers.

This woman who got on at Brixton with her friend seated across, both having these push carts, and her using her cellphone to blare music.

Got off at Oxford Circus and changed to the Bakerloo line.

Saw some trash on the escalators as usual - seem to be a lot of fruit peels, mainly orange and banana and McDonald's cups.

Busker.

Blank walls with sign indicating they are soon to be unblank.

Woman focused on iPod while other people 'do waiting' for the train, by looking, crossing arms, etc.

Woman leaning holding out ticket, then you can see the girl carrying two bags and the other with the water bottle.

Guy playing PSP guards his bag with his feet.

Diagonally across from him and seated was another PSP player. Was surprised I was seeing so many on this line - first time I'd seen any. Wondering if they were playing each other. Also there was a little boy clutching a tube map and shopping bag who was accompanied by his quite obese mother.




The look of Baker St. station.

These two women with their tube maps, one listening to headphone and man with crossword.

Waiting postures (right) - crossed arms, holding things, looking. Girl with headphones and PSP (?).

Holding bags, protecting bags.


The look of Marylebone - checked out this station because it was the road Frank said he was dropping his film off at. Different use of tiles, old infrastructure made of quaint wooden things.

Private tunnel telephone.

Guy playing a PSP and the other guy turning in to the aisle - how seat configuration affects these things. On right - people holding newspapers, guy with soda can. Way that yellow shirt puma guy is taking up more space than he deserves.

Beyond beautiful - the striking green of the arch in the Edgeware road station.

Tiny door with excessive cautionary sign. I particularly enjoy that it is private.

Coke bottle, almost full yet courteously capped. Textures - of the bench.

Guy carrying an ironing board, listening to music, having shopping bags. What do you take on the tube and what do you get locally? (echoes of Orange County study). Also you can see person in background holding something in their hands.

Girl looking a bit like one of Ken's cosmopolitan women. All done up, with a pink bag and pink Motorola RAZR - contrast with the guy next to her with his arms across his chest.

Queuing and rushing up the escalator.

Long view of the escalator queue.

Long view of the escalator queue.

Ride the escalator, walk up it, or walk up the stairs?

Would you pick a paper up off the ground? When does trash become trash?

The Bakerloo associated with fashion - interesting choice, and the poster itself represents an interesting aesthetic.

Holding a water bottle (left). Reading a book, people holding bags between legs. The combinations of orange and turquoise - accidental or do they gravitate together?

The Sony Walkman phones give you something to occupy your hands and listen too - a multipurpose device. Also note the water bottle cap at the bottom right, now attached so it doesn't become refuse.

Woman playing with worlds most bizarre device - no clue what it is. You can also see a newspaper and someone's hands folded around a pole.

Doing the crossword, holding shopping and sunglasses.

Using a datebook and tearing off the corners - our daily debris.

All of the bags (left) and the way the guy leans in to the girl. Man holding camera (tourist?), guy with paper in hands, blue nails and blue in dress.

Smallness of way out sign. Style of tile.

PSPer.

Newspaper and headphones. Check the way this woman frames up in the door, I saw this a lot. Pinks, newspapers.

Explosive design of Embankment station. Mind the gap citing.

Lap bags and boredom.

Feet on seats, sunglasses in shirt, patterns, Oyster and cellphone in hands, blue and blues.

Empty Lambeth North. Strutting it hobo style. Bottle in doorway.


Navy, cream and brown. Very tubular. Lift.

Out the lift a big clog of people has built up. Ticket hall is right on the street.

Light and shadow - the leaves blow in, nature gets involved.

Views from the outside, church, ferris wheel emerging, iron gate. Matt Haynes favorite and home station. He described it as little and odd or so, and I agree. Quirky, peculiar. Evening Standard tucked just back.

Popsicles, pinks and food. Multiplicity of bags.

Detail of seemingly disused ticket booth on the inside of the barriers.

Lifting. Greens. Headphones.

Thank you for your concern.

Stairwells and sunlight. Am I a summer cottage or an old-timey station?

Transitions, impressions, textures and overlays

Signage and decay.

Reading on the edge. Clustering to the back - bags and bags.

Cans returned to their maker.

The business man's posture?

Fans.

Bottle tops and papers.

PSP and camera - held in two different ways. Open and focus or glance and holster. Loose paper.

The train is stopped and hot. We are all going to die down here. The view out the window.

Reading position.

Book to phone, human transfer. Headphones and book guy. Big headphones guy. Hands folded woman.

Calendar book.

Hunched reading, playful children and water bottle mom.

Corralling your bags or the safety of objects. Metro as fan.

The perfect commuter and peeking headphones.

Celebratory sticker to be scraped off after the party's over.

Body blocking - she gave me attitude.

One after the next. Shoe bag shoe. Knee paper hand.

Rest.

A tired vigilance.

Empty, topless trash.

Why crumple the tube map?

The blankest.

The Evening Standard switch and an empty perch.

An unexpected bagpiper and the dizzying way out.

Thank you for material Sony - spotted on the 35 bus home from Liverpool.