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Do you begin and end your day with the world framed by a window or windscreen? Maybe it’s your own or perhaps it is the fingerprint smeared one of the bus or train. Do you run? Or cycle? Do you stare ahead, focussed on the point of horizon, enjoying the sensation of the landmarks flying past you? Or do you walk? Head dead ahead. Music sounding. Telephone chattering. Daydreaming.

Have you walked or driven the same route for as long as you can remember? Have you one day, for whatever reason, looked up and seen something that surprised you? A building above a shop perhaps? A blue plaque? A piece of graffiti impossibly high up? A flag. This blog is about what you can see when you tilt your chin and see a different view of your everyday world.

Look up.

You might enjoy it.

You might see something good.

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Showing posts with label street signs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label street signs. Show all posts

Sunday, 4 December 2011

Scruffy Signs


As you can probably tell; I tend to favour the old and battered to new and shiny. This road sign caught my eye- partly because of its enameling but also because it has so much more character than its newer counterpart. I also find it interesting that the older street signs are almost always placed higher up, maybe they are lower nowadays because you need to be able to see them from car level. If this is the case then its strange how technology makes everything adapt just that little bit.

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Intoxication Initiation


A humorous sign for a local student pub in Oxford.

Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Starspotting in Dublin


Rory Gallagher, one of my favourite musicians, has this small part of Dublin's Temple Bar dedicated to him. I love the addition of the guitar below the street name. Strangely I walked past this sign about three or four times before I noticed it. I'm glad I did.