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Breaking Tradition and The Demon Barbers performing excerpts from "The Lock In" on one of the Virgin Money free stages on the Royal Mile - a very strange combination of folk dance and hip-hop / street.
19 April 2015. Sperling Road, Tottenham. Someone's fence is broken. A few other people seem to think it's okay to use the hole to leave litter. To "tidily" tuck cans and card into it.
As though it was a bin or waste basket. And do they also think somebody - the rubbish elves? - will come round and clean it?
My photoset Containers / Improvised bins gives more examples. Including : a can wedged into a wrought iron fence; stuff slotted behind street phone cabinets; inside hedges; and tossed into wire sapling guards put round new street trees.
Liz Ixer noticed and commented on the street phone cabinet problem.
An optimistic part of me hopes that shows some (misdirected) impulse to tidiness. Which perhaps can be "nudged" in a positive direction.
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§ Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein.
§ Link to Liz Ixer's pen portraits of nine types of litterer.
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An old photo, taken next to the small green on the east side of High Road Tottenham.
The bench here was often used by street drinkers. In the absence of a litter bin, the street cleaner used his/her intelligence and hooked a green bag over the railing spikes to collect empty bottles and cans.
This gentle "nudge" seemed to work.
Someone before me tried to fill the gaps in the walls and windows with newspaper.
Willow Prairie Cabin. Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, Oregon.
Where: On Nassau Street in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
When: Mid-May 2011.
What: An old man sitting in front of the buiding of Bank of America.
Two cd's glued together with some velcro'ed textile band.
I came up with a very improvised but also a very quick and easy Quadra headcover.
Made with stuff most people will have laying around.
I glued two CD's together with two strips of fabric in between. The fabric has Velcro on one side
( I actually used the fasteners that came with the PLM's)
I already had velcro on the Quadra reflector, I use that to attach gels.