chronophotoentropy

More envelope-related signs

2009-01-03T02:22:00.000-08:00

I can't help but feel that this advice would have more credibility if the sign was slightly cleaner...

Did you have a good new years?

2009-01-01T11:55:00.000-08:00

I did

Large G&T Molecules

2008-11-27T14:00:00.001-08:00

I enlarged some molecules from a gin and tonic using a pair of tweezers, a microwave, and some socks that I had to throw away afterwards. And this is what they look like. Pretty tasty.

Lexico-entropy

2008-11-06T11:34:00.001-08:00

This sign reminds of the book, Ella Minnow Pea, where letters just stop existing and cease to be used in the narrative.

Still Watching You

2008-10-30T14:48:00.000-07:00

I also like the five wee units above the street sign but not sure they qualify as art.

Traffic Light of Infinite Possibility

2008-10-27T14:25:00.001-07:00

Drive where you like, up in the air not necessarily prohibited.

Watching you

2008-10-20T12:10:00.000-07:00

Never sleep. Never even blink. One slip and you're mine.

Shoreditch Torch

2008-10-19T08:52:00.000-07:00

Richard Serra Tripleheader!

2008-10-18T13:33:00.000-07:00

I went to the Richard Serra show today in the Gagosian, it's very good. Serra is the bloke who did the big slabs outside of Liverpool Street station, and there is an excellent bendy thing of his in the Bilbao Guggenheim too. It was quite good for taking photos too.

Side view

Front view

Sign for the express purpose of being disobeyed

Cup Art

2008-10-18T03:07:00.000-07:00

Graffiti made of plastic cups

Smoked

2008-10-09T13:14:00.000-07:00

Finger

2008-10-05T14:10:00.001-07:00

Finger in close-up

Don't Indulge in Horseplay

2008-09-15T16:02:00.000-07:00

nuff said

Planet "Not Destroyed" Sensation

2008-09-14T10:42:00.001-07:00

That's a relief isn't it?

Seizure

2008-09-13T12:05:00.000-07:00

If you are anywhere near Southwark I recommend an art-thing called Seizure by a chap called Roger Hiorns. Essentially he found a condemned council house and filled it up with copper sulphate solution for 2 weeks. Then he drained it out leaving everything coated in brilliant blue crystals. They are hard and scaly and it's a bit like being trapped inside a dinosaur. Anyway, do go, it's free and it all gets knocked down very soon.

Daybreak

2008-08-22T13:14:00.000-07:00

Thought I would put up a photo not taken in Hoxton for a change. This is halfway up a mountain called Pequeño Alpemayo, must have been about 6 in the morning, sun's up but it didn't get on us for another couple of hours. Glorious day, if a bit poo-making!

Double Oral Delinquency

2008-08-21T14:17:00.000-07:00

Naughty naughty. Stick some chewing gum on the wall. Then stub your fag out on it. Great skills - misdemeanour stacking rules!

Really sorry and all

2008-08-20T13:32:00.000-07:00

My home internet has been down for SIX WEEKS. Before I went away on holiday, it was down. I had a three week mountaineering circuit of madness in Bolivia, got back. IT WAS STILL DOWN. Got over jetlag and easing myself back into work. INTERNET STILL DOWN.

Just tonight the internet has come back, so here's my favourite photo from my holiday. I took this pretty much by accident, not even looking through the viewfinder, which probably certifies that I'm a shit photographer, or just lucky at best. Oh well. I'll settle for that.

Non-scheduled downtime

2008-07-13T13:41:00.000-07:00

Dear readers - I'm sorry that not many photos have been appearing here of late, my home internet has gone down. Going back to 1988 has actually been pretty dire and I have had to start reading books and having conversations again, it's a bit much.

Anyway, I've now managed to take myself off to sunny La Paz where they DO have internet, so I can browse random Charlton websites to my heart's content. There might be some photos of llamas in a few weeks time as well!

xx

cp

Fuck All You That's Learnt Ya

2008-07-02T16:09:00.001-07:00

If you put letters in here a man comes along and stabs you.

Don't say you weren't warned.

Hackney Ghost

2008-07-01T11:17:00.001-07:00

Someone found this blog a while ago by searching for Large Hadrian Collider, which I find very appealing.

Antwerp Central

2008-06-24T11:30:00.000-07:00

Antwerp Centraal Station is the bollocks. The station was finished in 1905, and they got the Olympics in 1920. Alcoholism may have been an invitation sport.

It's inconceivable that something as ambitious would be built today. But in 1905 King Leopold II still personally owned the Congo - an area, Wikipedia helpfully tells me, 76 times larger than Belgium. It made me think of Samuel Johnson's descriptions of the pyramids in Rasselas:

"I consider this mighty structure [the pyramid] as a monument to the insufficiency of human enjoyments. A king, whose power is unlimited, and whose treasures surmount all real and imaginary wants, is compelled to solace, by the erection of a Pyramid, the satiety of dominion and tastelessness of pleasures, and to amuse the tediousness of declining life, by seeing thousands laboring without end, and one stone, for no purpose, laid upon another. Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly."

Where in the world?

2008-06-19T11:44:00.001-07:00

Trendy grafitti - check
Vespa - check
Man (left) wearing a Bjorn Borg headband - check!!!!

Ooh yeah it's Hoxton time!

Tate Gallery Zebra Crossing

2008-06-12T14:13:00.000-07:00

Hadrian's Wall

2008-06-09T13:48:00.001-07:00

Sorry for being away for so long. I know I have been a bit of a bad boy. But I was in Borders the other day browsing Europeans by Henri Cartier Bresson. Fun me I thought, those are amazing photos. It is almost as if HCB has got supernatural powers.

So that inspired me to start taking photos again.

Canal Trip

2008-04-23T14:54:00.000-07:00

The most frightening discovery of the trip was that spelling doesn't work outside the M25.

Scheduled Downtime

2008-04-08T14:55:00.000-07:00

Dear readers -

I am going to be walking along the canal from London to Birmingham over the next few days. So there probably won't be any updates. Do check back around the 20th of April for lots of exciting images of teenagers drinking cider in Berkhampstead or perhaps a dead swan if you are really lucky.

xx

C.P.

Hoxton Commandments

2008-04-08T14:14:00.001-07:00

1. Buy hat
2. Wear hat
3. Contemplate Modern Art
4. Nice shoes

Alien Invasion

2008-04-06T03:08:00.000-07:00

When the aliens come for us, out of the ninth dimension (which hides down the back of the sofa) then this is what they are going to look like.

Driving off into the sunset

2008-04-01T14:05:00.000-07:00

Life's not so bad really.

Clifton Suspension Bridge

2008-03-29T13:47:00.000-07:00

Doesn't it look moody?

Secret Code part 2

2008-03-26T01:47:00.000-07:00

Devilishly taxing

Secret Code part 1

2008-03-21T01:43:00.000-07:00

Can YOU figure it out?

Demo One

2008-03-20T01:56:00.000-07:00

- What's happening granny?
- The universe is coming apart and whatever doesn't fall down is torn down
- Can mum and dad stop it?
- no.

RIP Gary Gygax

2008-03-16T15:17:00.000-07:00

Sharmahand

2008-03-13T16:55:00.000-07:00

Chris Sharma is maybe the best climber there's ever been. This is one of his hands -check out the ridiculous musculature on even his little finger. His hands are so strong he probably has to wear special lead gloves when cleaning his teeth, to prevent himself accidentally shattering his own mouth.

Boring

2008-03-11T15:12:00.000-07:00

Robert Capa said "If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough." By extension, therefore, if your pictures aren't boring enough, you're not far enough away.

Inside CERN

2008-03-09T11:31:00.000-07:00

Last Thursday my girlfriend and I got to look around inside the new Large Hadron Collider in CERN. It's pretty crazy-looking and chilled to almost absolute zero so bring your woolly mittens.

Zone of Maximum Entropy

2008-03-04T23:12:00.000-08:00

Stealth Lamppost

2008-03-03T11:43:00.001-08:00

You can't see them. But that doesn't mean to say they're not everywhere.

Men in Trees

2008-02-25T13:30:00.000-08:00

Inside the human brain, we all have a chimp brain, and the chimp brain wants to climb trees.