I went for a walk on Southampton Common on Friday, and the crows were out in force, mainly pulling off twigs for nest material. The urgency of the task means they are more approachable than usual. Yeah, yeah, what do you want? Can't you see I'm busy?
I thought this grafitti, carefully stencilled onto one of those ubiquitous galvanized utility boxes, was quite apposite, following the sentiments in the previous post and its comments. Although it seems that the person who felt the need to make this public intervention still thinks TV is the enemy...
8 comments:
I think the last line suggests that the writer actually knows that TV is no longer the enemy, and we have a new, albeit quite similar, one
It's British humor, innit? Wot? Wot?
No, don't think so, the "gogglebox" is the TV, not some iPhone app...
Mike
OH! I read it as Googlebox. Which would competently change the meaning, wouldn't it?
My bad!
See? It's already started to work... Throw away your phone, burn your TV, put on the tinfoil hat as instructed, and run, while you still can!
Mike
Yesterday, whilst working out the back, I watched two crows pull furiously at a tv aerial cable that ran across a neighbours roof, presumably to line their nest or maybe they wrote the graffiti?
Gavin,
Well spotted! To adapt Twin Peaks, the crows are not what they seem...
Mike
Re: pretty but signature-less imagery, I once was at a club giving a lecture and got talking to a couple of club members.
One said to his friend "the judge didn't like my landscape picture last week".
His friend replied "that's because you didn't have a JCB in the foreground".
"You take pictures of diggers?" I asked.
"No, JCBs... Joe Cornish Boulders!
Graham,
Yes, indeed... People will insist on forging other people's signatures! I've occasionally been dropping by a magazine/website "on landscape" to look at the (unsubscribed!) content, and there's clearly a British online landscape photo-club going on there, where Cornish and Co. are demi-gods! Some of the work is interesting, but in the main it's an object lesson in what to avoid, because *everybody's* doing it...
Mike
Post a Comment