Tag Archives: art

11-11-11 ‘09 — Through the viewfinder

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 [...]

Alicja Rogalska’s 11-11-11

Artist Alicja Rogalska did a circuit with her fisheye lens. She’s currently working on a research project — Transitions — commissioned by Longhouse that concerns the possibilities for creating and disseminating art in a public transport context. You can help by taking a survey.
Some photos are of on the bus:

And as the doom gathered she [...]

So, who’s 11-11-11ing?

Well, I am. But who else?
We’ve had 27 “definites” say yes on Facebook, and 40 “maybes”. We’ll see.
A further 7 or so have said yes on the blog’s sign-up page.
Louise Whitmore will be photographing and drawing.
‘Eightball’ has “something planned with original hammond music”.
Mark Steadman is planning to record or broadcast for his Rhubarb Radio show.
Tom [...]

Wanna take a survey?

Unrelated to 11-11-11, except that it also features art and public transport, Alicja Rogalska is looking for people to help her with her research — fill in the survey and you could win a week’s travel card for your efforts.

Into the belly of the beast

Today I got the chance to hang out of the door of an eleven, point to one while grinning inanely and even do the “jazz-hands/camp jesus ta-da” motion of posing in front of something that every local paper requires for it’s photos. TWM had let me borrow a bus for some publicity photos and we [...]

Promote 11 – 11 -11 yourself

By request(!), there’s now a download it yourself, print it yourself, put it up yourself, with your own blu-tac poster to promote our fine artistic adventure:

Download the 11-11-11 poster. No flyposting now.

Photos here are tagged 111111c on Flickr.
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