peripathetic is moving house!

I've been thinking about moving hosts (and blogging platforms, for that matter) for a while, and it's recently come to a head with the revelation that I only have about 3MB free here on tripod.

So I'm going to be moving this blog to (hopefully!) http://paperpete.blogspot.com/ as of now. Please update your bookmarks, feed readers, etc. A 'copy' of peripathetic will stay here for a while so that this post is visible, and if the new URL isn't going to be what I think it is, please use google. This is the only blog of this name in the whole world.

Please also bear with me just in case any nastiness of any kind crops up over at blogspot. I'm treating this move to blogspot as really only a halfway house until another possible move to another blogging platform, but we'll see how things go over there. One thing that I can tell you is that your comments aren't going to move across, and only flickr photos will stay. The rest will most likely be replaced with nasty tripod placeholders until and unless I can fix them. Layouts will be different, and I may play around with them or not.

Now, fasten your seatbelts and hope this isn't a bumpy ride!

Innuendo

Strange linguistic collision - only a wee butt, originally uploaded by peripathetic.

It's only a little butt. I can vouch for that personally. On the side of a bus, Belfast. This ad is about rubbish and smoking - I wonder if the authorities would accept this excuse for more... flagrant offences?

Itching to go

Itching to go, originally uploaded by peripathetic.

Could anything be greyer? I can't wait to get home for a nice, long weekend.

Muñoz

Muñoz, originally uploaded by peripathetic.

This, because i can't get it out of my head, is one of the haunting works in Tate Modern's exhibition. If you can, go before it leaves in the near future. Image from the Guardian.

Musical Habitat

Musical Habitat, 2, originally uploaded by peripathetic.

This is a former cinema on Regent Street, London, and is now a Habitat. The cinema Wurlitzer Organ is still there behind the grille on the wall; you can see the console on the shopfloor - and there's a recital once a week. We weren't there for the recital, but for coffee, but the coffeeshop has shut. Shame.

Shades of community

Shades of community, originally uploaded by peripathetic.

A community centre near Waterloo, opened last year. The colours and overhanging glass are wonderful. It just needed to be a bit sunnier, that's all.

Placeless balconies, Tate Modern

Placeless balconies, Tate Modern - 2, originally uploaded by peripathetic.

Part of the Juan Munoz retrospective, Tate Modern, London. These were placed on the concourse on level 4, so anyone just walking past the exhibition entrance can get close to them. They started to unsettle me about 20 minutes after I'd seen them and had moved on.

Stepping into air

Stepping into air, originally uploaded by peripathetic.

I made this as light as possible so the dark grey sky would overexpose as white. It worked! Bankside, London.

Work, Wake, Woozy

Work, Wake, Woozy, originally uploaded by peripathetic.

Typical morning scene, Greenwich.

Shameless

Shameless, originally uploaded by peripathetic.

Notice who has nearly finished - and who has barely got a chance to start. Is this equality? Greenwich, London.

Undignified

Undignified, originally uploaded by peripathetic.

A bit of fish in the sink and your hauteur goes right down the drain. Greenwich, London.

Wild and lovely

Wild and lovely, originally uploaded by peripathetic.

The things you see on pavements! Seven Dials, London.

Upside-down venue

Upside-down venue, originally uploaded by peripathetic.

The Queen Elizabeth Hall entrance, reflected in freshly-fallen, foul, cold rain, South Bank.

Winter sheen

Winter sheen, originally uploaded by peripathetic.

I underexposed this as much as possible to approximate the strange effect that bright days can have on your pupils.

Reluctant

Reluctant, originally uploaded by peripathetic.

Lee was unconvinced that a photo would be the best idea in the world. South Bank.

You *really* think so?

You *really* think so?, originally uploaded by peripathetic.

Feline disbelief, Greenwich.

Fortified

DSCN1988, originally uploaded by peripathetic.

This building looks like it should be some Cold War era defence complex. In fact it looks a lot like the big spaceship which features in Aliens, in a way. Southwark, London.

Colours

DSCN1984, originally uploaded by peripathetic.

Muted slightly by the grey afternoon.

Starts here

DSCN1995, originally uploaded by peripathetic.

And keeps going riiiiiight to the other end of the Turbine Hall. It's a lot of chasm/crevasse/dislocation.

Deep

DSCN2030, originally uploaded by peripathetic.

And dark. Can't see the bottom.

Photo opp.

DSCN2068, originally uploaded by peripathetic.

People were making a bee-line for this all the time. Once they noticed it. One girl said "where's the sculpture?" and had to have it pointed out. But despite its depth nobody seems very afraid.

This actually isn't...

DSCN2088, originally uploaded by peripathetic.

...a crack but rather a penetration. Apparently. But it did get surprisingly deep in places. Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London.