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The Marc Bolan Memorial Crash Barrier.
A quarter of a century later, there's a mini statue half way down the bank and what looks like a parish notice board facing the killer tree. The board and the tree are decorated with the most charming and heartfelt amateur tributes. Messages to Marc in copywrite free fonts and clip art motifs printed out of bedroom inkjet printers. This fluttering A4 foliage is an explosion of amateur graphic design. Below this is a crash barrier that was most likely installed post crash by a guilty feeling traffic engineer to stem his teenage daughters tears. This generic crash barrier has been painted up to make it extra safe in day-glo pink and yellow. This isnât a standard colour scheme, its a fan tribute safety system that has been hand painted on. It's dumpy, gormless, ordinary infrastructure dolled up like a seventies Top of the Pops teenager. A tribute through improved road safety that transforms the glam rock lip gloss and eyeliner look into an urban intervention. An alternative kind of monumentalism: Tragedy, beauty, make up and roadmarkings confused into a brand new kind of popular, helpful and touching urban monument. Posted by sam at May 2, 2004 01:28 AMcomments
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'I, Faker' chronicles the descent of trade journal hack-ism into satirical search for humanity in the deathly press release prose....
December 07, 2004
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November 25, 2004
A fanzine on wheels: The rear window plastered with fading pictures of Freddie, the boot covered with stick-on lettering. The Queen Mobile spotted brightening up a traffic jam around Shepherds Bush....
November 21, 2004
"The objectives of the Knork are: to provide a single utensil capable of providing the benefits of a knife and fork ... "...
They say the first step is to admit to your vice. OK, my name is Sam and I like postmodern architecture. My love for this universally reviled twentieth-century movement began in bargain bookshops. The architecture section was like a Battersea...
November 15, 2004
A Contribution to the Ethical Taxonomy of Political Signage...
November 04, 2004
The secret history of Ketchup...
October 21, 2004
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September 19, 2004
Imagine sitting at home when suddenly the sky goes white. Not that shadowless white-without-limit where cloud meets mist on a winter morning. But a whiteness with a grid of reinforcements and repeating logos which stops a few yards from...
August 24, 2004
A scrap of of something for Intersection magazine : My parents had a Morris Traveller in the early 1970s. I have vague dreamlike memories of sitting in the back driving through the English countryside with a large clay Cider jug...
June 16, 2004
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May 27, 2004
I was asked by FX magazine to name my 4 favorite things. Here they are: Polly Pocket: Plastic toys which open up, swivel and fold to reveal incredibly intricate, pastel pink and blue landscapes. They have the kind of beauty...
May 16, 2004
Carlton Terrace runs along the back of the Mall, and if you’re ever there on a weekend you might see actors dressed in 19th century costume looking bored and drinking Nescafe. That's because if you stand in the right...
January 28, 2004
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Its one of those incidental London landmarks ... just where you hump the bridge over the train tracks at Barnes station as you head from Putney Common to the South Circular. This is the spot where Marc Bolans mini skidded off the road and smashed into a big tree leaving a crumpled mess of glamourous rock star, hip design icon and nature. Blood, sap and oil dripping into the suburban soil like an infusion of the purest liquid glamour.