art thing
stockholm obviously realises its wealth of gloves and incorporates it in to its art:
here is someone hiding under a lampshade in the same art gallery:
and here is a postcard of passport photo shops in Chicago
October 2003
gloves galore !!!
here are today’s found gloves:
hotel details
carpet doesn’t fit leaving little carpet nails sticking up:
smell of sewage in bathroom comes from here:
chipped sharp bit of tile in the bathroom:
hotel under wraps
a welcoming entrance
arab strap
arab strap are playing in stockholm tomorrow night at a place called debaser which i think is about 15 mins walk from the hotel. hoorah. doors at 8pm if you are interested in joining me there.
the doors
i came to stockholm 5 or 6 years ago. at that time i was collecting pictures of doors. what a strange chap i was back then. here is a door:
stockholm has lots of great doors. they are very big on doors. big on big impressive portals.
gloves
stockholm is rich picking for gloves !
gamla stan
pretty street in stockholm old town. taken with a cold, but steady hand
toilets
i won’t go in to details of my toilet experiences on the plane, but here is a sign i saw. not a clue what it means
follicles
study this man’s head in detail. i did. for two whole hours as he reclined his chair in to my face on the flight.
binoculars
the screens in heathrow have very small writing. so small you have to be standing right next to it to read it. i suspect it’s a rooooos to make us buy binoculars. but we didn’t so ha.
heathrow fire safety
here is a cardboard box in heathrow airport marked “fire safety equipment”. I guess they hope the cardboard will burn first and let the fire fighting equipment loose. it’s a cunning plan …
other stuff
when i get better internet i’ll tell you about:
¤ the flight – eating, a book review, strange noises and bald heads
¤ the total quality hotel i’m staying in …
¤ the number of gloves i’ve already seen (3)
but you need pictures. it’s what we all want !
stockholm
stockholm is very cold. it was a bit drizzly earlier but it’s now cleared up (that was for all you swedish weather watchers ¨ i know who you are !
swedish keyboards are good as they have extra letters like öäå
i shäll try ånd supplement wherev€r i cän.
cool hotel claimed the håve bröadbänd in the rööms. unfortunåtely i spent twö höurs when i årrived trying to måke it wörk. they even moved my rööm tö öne withöut åny windöws, but even the läck öf light didn’t make it wörk.
sö here i åm sitting in the hötel bår using their public mächin€.
i’ll try ägåin in a möment as nö rööm access, nö pictures and i’ve alreådy göt söme småshers
ooh, i just found a button whïch püts thöse fünny thïngs övër vöwëls. ï mïght gët öne öf th€s€ k€ÿböårds¨ät hömë.
and thêrês alsö thës€ chåräcters: ¤ ½§
sweden
off to sweden today. hopefully update later when i get there …
tate modern
after a meeting today i popped out for lunch with an ex-colleague. rather than fill our faces with unhealthy food (me) we decided to walk over to the Tate Modern and look at the new installation. It’s most excellent.
here is me
here is someone on the balcony
and here are some other people
st paul’s
do you see what i did to get this picture ? when i take pictures around london people stare at me more if i’m wearing a shirt and tie (especially my wooden tie) than if i’m wearing my street-casual-down-wid-it clothes. i suspect they think i’m doing something official. which i am. i’m the funkypancake official blogger.
gloves galore
lots of gloves spotted this morning in different places. possibly the first two are a pair:
glove finger tip (for precision work?):
