“A group of us each wrote an entry for a passenger riding all or part of one circuit of the 11 bus. An entry is 280 words. In 2009 Pete Ashton counted all the bus stops and come up with 280 (apparently no one knew prior to that)’ This is a tribute to two wonderful things: the [...]
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What colour is the 11 route?
11 November 2010 – 10:14 pm
This year I decided to see what colour the outer circle was. I’ve been fascinated with an iPhone app called Color Identifier that does nothing else but read out the colours it detects in the centre of the camera’s sensor — based first on RGB values and then this list of colour names. Here’s what it looks like: I [...]
Nicky Getgood’s 11-11-11
18 November 2009 – 2:58 pm
“It was the first time I’d ever traveled on the 11 Bus, and I stupidly misread the timetable and thought a full circuit took about an hour, so thought my Flip’s memory of 60 minutes would pretty much cover it.” 11 Bus on 11th Nov 2009 from Nicky Getgood on Vimeo. Not quite, Nicky — [...]
Friends of the 11
18 November 2009 – 2:19 pm
Birmingham Friends of the Earth (probably promoting public transport) took an evening circuit: “Given that we had taken up most of the back half of the top deck, it seems we also confused quite a few seasoned back seat dwellers by occupying their preferred spot, and hence forcing them to sit in unfamiliar territory further [...]
Laura McDermott’s 11 word 11-11-11 ’09
17 November 2009 – 6:12 pm
Eleven word texts from the number 11 bus route, November 11th (2009) – Halfway down Vicarage Road, the demographic shifts dramatically. No more bohemians! – Coterill. Home of Party Shops. Five of them, actually. Glitter everywhere. – Bourneville. Quaker territory. Speech punctures silence. A good way to remember – Officially outside ‘City of Birmingham’. Bearwood the name [...]
11 Bus – the song
14 November 2009 – 12:16 pm
The gorgeous Mark Steadman (trading as Moxy Park for comic song-writing) produced this fantastic bit of work. A song which lists every stop on the 11 route. Why he started in Acock’s Green is a mystery…
Omnibuses 2.0 — an 11-11-11 ’09 from outside the city…
13 November 2009 – 7:04 pm
Omnibuses 2.0 is a site that “aim[s] to reflect in bite-sized pieces, the many facets of the UK bus industry.” They came to Birmingham to take part in 11-11-11, and very interesting to read an account from people without emotional or historical attachment to the area. They blogged hard: An Outer Odyssey: “It’s 30 years [...]
GPS – 11-11-11 ’09
12 November 2009 – 10:33 pm
Nikki Pugh is an artist with a fine obsession with GPS and mapping, she took one of her gismos on a circuit of the 11C and this is the result.
11-11-11 ’09 — Through the viewfinder
12 November 2009 – 9:58 pm
Pete Ashton took 69 photos — one every other stop on a circuit of the route. He had to do it by bike, there simply aren’t enough elevens to get you round in a day if you’re going to get off every other stop. As you can see it took all day, Brum gets eerie [...]
Mike Cummins’s 11-11-11 ’09
12 November 2009 – 10:51 am
Mike did a circuit of the 11C from King’s Heath to King’s Heath — in the dark.
