Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts

Tuesday, 14 December 2010

Holborn to Finsbury Park

Words from announcements join the travel sections.

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Oval to Moorgate

First time ever using Oval station. "We're just waiting for an empty platform" was the announcement before Kennington.

Wednesday, 8 December 2010

Vauxhall to Finsbury Park

Writing a word, heard or seen, whenever the train stopped.

Tuesday, 30 November 2010

Finsbury Park to Pimlico

A collection of "found text" - from adverts in the carriage, headlines in newspapers being read, labels on clothing, wording on shopping bags, announcements, text on posters outside the train, conversations...

Wednesday, 23 June 2010

Kensal Rise to Crouch Hill - via Barking



As it was a beautiful midsummer morning, after changing trains (6:57), I stayed on to the end of the line (always wanted to do that!), photographing (through a dirty window, often into the sunlight) at each station. As the route was new to me, and there were announcements, I wrote down the names of the stations:
Gospel Oak
Upper Holloway
Crouch Hill
Harringay Green Lanes
South Tottenham
Blackhorse Road
Walthamstow Queen's Road
Leyton Midland Road
Leytonstone High Road
Wanstead Park
Woodgrange Park
Barking
-- and back.
While transcribing the names, I fell into my own trap - starting reading each page from the top. It's not written starting from the top of each page - for the line to be continuous, it goes from side to side down the right-hand page, then at the outer edge it continues onto the bottom of the left-hand page, and then it travels up the left-hand page to continue onto the top of the right-hand page. (Easy when you know how... and obvious when you know where to look.)

Thursday, 13 May 2010

Finsbury Park to Pimlico


A long station stop meant there was time to copy a few lines from "In memoriam" - a Poetry on the Underground offering.

Friday, 16 April 2010

Finsbury Park to Swiss Cottage, and back

via Oxford Circus
with an audible mother-of-two
and other overhearings

Sunday, 17 January 2010

Holborn to Ealing Broadway

Why not add station names when they are announced?
Writing slower, smaller to get the entire journey on one page.