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At last one of these London Tube Maps relexifications that actually works conceptually. I always thought The Great Bear was a missed opportunity. Download it here.
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At last one of these London Tube Maps relexifications that actually works conceptually. I always thought The Great Bear was a missed opportunity. Download it here.
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Interesting idea but also funny that it doesn't draw more on some obvious London/UK links - jungle, the Beatles and George Martin at Liverpool, etc. I like that Mahler's down in Lewisham, presumably behind the counter at Independance.
There's a good essay on the Tube map and modernist space in a book called 'Imagined Londons.' Interesting bits on its rationalistion of chaotic space and the way it collapses peripheral areas that the centre likes to foget.
Posted by: paul autonomic
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February 3, 2006 04:20 PM
well i think it's great and a step in the right direction for this idea too.
i think there's a balance to be made between the surreal juxtaposition of the tube map content with some other rhizome and being (maybe) too literal.
i suppose you could get REALLY anal and start putting Dido in Islington and Dizzy in Bow, but I wonder if it'd be entertaining.
point withstained anyway.
Posted by: WOEBOT
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February 3, 2006 04:57 PM
Oh I like it, don't get me wrong. It's fun and doesn't need to be too literal. Just saying I'd have put the Beatles at Liverpool station for larfs and let rest sort itself out from there.
Plus, having a fetish for subways and their maps, I just wanted to chime in. I'd like to see more of these. And a psycheographic remix of the tube map would be interesting as well.
Posted by: paul autonomic
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February 3, 2006 05:22 PM