Posts labled: recording

Photos from the Top Deck – Julia Gilbert’s 11-11-11

I know she has more thoughts to come and was tweeting durring the whole 11 hours, but Juila has quickly got her photos online in an 11-11-11 set on flickr.

This one features an 11A:

Qik Videos live from the bus

I (thanks to loan of an N95 from Stef) posted (nay streamed) live video from the bus through the day via Qik. It comes across as a series of outtakes from “Charlie Borman moans in the Desert” or whatever the programme is called where he talks breathlessly to camera and rides a motorbike. Luckily they’re archived, so here they are again:

Done, finish, kaput.

On the eleventh of November a disparate group of psychogeographers, artists, bloggers, photographers, bus drivers and babies spent eleven hours on Birmingham’s number eleven bus starting after eleven am. There were rules. But not many. The rules were:

  • Get on the 11C after 11am on 11/11.
  • Get off the 11C at 10pm — 11 hours later — on 11/11.
  • You can get on and off the bus as many times as you like (don’t spend more than an hour off bus at one time).
  • Document your journey; photos, film, writing, cross-stitch, knitting, amigurumi, poetry, blog, twitter, however you like.
  • Meet up with others as mad as you, if you want.
  • Record everything here — or on your own space and link us up.

The idea is that a snapshot of the real Birmingham from a number of different people will emerge, one that’s unedited, unspun, and unwashed. Circling the city will force the gaze inward, focussing our attention exclusively on our municipality. It’ll also freak out the drivers, who normally expect passengers to have a destination in mind.

The work of the travellers will be collated here. When we’ve had a kip.

The last video from the bus:

Thanks muchly to everyone who supported, took part (for however long), cheered from the sidelines, or just put up with the constant stream of nonsense generated.

Calling all cartographers

Over on BiNS Andy Robinson has commented asking if anyone wants to use 11-11-11 to help contribute to Open Street map. He says:

“How about contributing points of interest and all the bus stops along the route to http://www.openstreetmap.org (OSM)

“The OSM map of the 11 route is complete but many of the bus stops are not there yet. Link below gets you there. Zoom right in on the A4040 to see the bus stops already present.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.4839&lon=-1.9015&zoom=12&layers=B000FTF

What we record:
Bus stop reference number
Route ref(s)
Location
Direction (Towards)
Shelter (Yes/No)”

Photos here are tagged 111111c on Flickr.
Outer Circle Bus Stops 67 Outer Circle Bus Stops 68