Installation at the Elephant and Castle

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Dolphins!

Contributing towards the re-generation of the Elephant and Castle?
What an assignment! I might suggest the Goering plan, but that would be poorly viewed! I have so little in common with the E & C that even considering the topic is difficult.

I spent yesterday aboard a catamaran, half a mile off the shore at Folkestone, looking out for dolphins and porpoises. The animals have been seen on each of the last few days, but the wind and tides had put a little bit too much chop on the sea and so it made drifting (so many jokes, so little time) along a little uncomfortable. After three hours we returned to Dover, at 16 knots.

I had been to Parc Asterix, just north of Paris at the weekend, but I did not go on many rides because I do not like them. Too bumpy.

Sixteen knots, in a catamaran, in a choppy sea?

Replicate that you pleasure-park owners!

And no pictures, except a shot of Dover castle; and sadly, the boat was not called the Elephant.




I was reduced to snapping at herring gulls.











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Perhaps I can put a wild animal installation into the waste ground?
The E&C locals will probably never have seen real British wildlife.
Apart from rats and pigeons.

Ah well, off to see how the woodpeckers are this morning. No boat trips!

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Day One

So does anyone have any interesting ideas for a spatial photographic project for an urban area? Current suggestions include getting plastered and walking about the region, just looking at it!
I mean, what is the use of that? Have they no idea that winter is approaching and it is fast becoming the season of getting plastered INDOORS?