Found this on a lamp post in Soho square this morning.
Plucked it off, and went to the url on the back, and entered the sharpie scrawled code.
I was then invited to post it back with my contact details, and they would be in touch soon.
Im not the only one, other people have found Bob around the Shoreditch area… were is this going? what does it mean?
And more interestingly, what about the way it looked made me take it off the lamp post (not something im in the habit of doing).
Perhaps i just wanted to know that next chapter in the story!
Update
I think i have just found our Ozzie –
http://spaceyideas.com/
Further Update
I’ve become obsessed with this. It’s a mystery and i love it.
I think its also a mystery to Mr Robert Osband, the man in the picture.
http://spaceyideas.com/todonnalovebob/
“As to how my picture got plastered all over Britain, I’ve got no idea. I’m waiting to hear from the folks at ToDonnaLoveBob.org myself”
A foodie, bloggy, yummy event coming up.
nom, nom, nomis “Cook-a-thon for bloggers or like an interactive version of MasterChef”.
happening this sunday at the Cookery School on Little Portland Street.
The E17 designers have a date set for their next market.
I like the poster.
Details:
FRIDAY 16th MAY
7-10PM
ASIAN CENTRE
18a Orford Road
Walthamstow Village
London
E17 9LN
FREE ENTRY
Seapeastudios, from California have made a series of necklaces featuring snippets of Hoxton, the Southbank, Kew… nice unusual pieces.
Here’s a slightly special post, a little email interview with Sophia Al Maria, who I stumbled across on Etsy.
Named after different London locations, her work looks at the human monsters in us all.
They are part repulsive, and for me at least, part endearing.
She kindly agreed to talk to me about her work, and here’s what she said:
Hi Sophia, thanks for letting me chat to you about your work.
First off, you have a great array of characters in your store. Do you do a lot of people watching to get inspiration?
Accidental people watching. The fact of the matter is I do alot of waiting here in London. Mainly for the bus or in a que. It’s in those weird limbo times that I usually glance around and 99% of the time there is something crazy going on or someone interesting milling about.
You mention in your description that your images reflect the villainous perception of the ‘other’ in London. Are your drawings about poking fun at stereotypes?
Definitely. Although over time it seems like the drawings are less and less like stereotypes and more and more like reality…which is scarier than any imagined lycanthrope could ever be.
I love the ghoulish, zombie-like look of your characters. Particularly ‘New Cross’. Do you have any favourites from your collection?
Funny you should mention zombies…They are sort of an obsession of mine. I am truly, deeply terrified of masses of shambling, moaning dead people. Worst of all I believe in them. I live in fear like the rest of the world…only I’m not scared of Muslims or Werewolves, it’s really zombies who do me in.
As for favourites, I think probably Waterloo who was the first werewolf I sold.
Finally, what illustrators / artists do you look to for inspiration?
James Jean, Aubrey Beardsley, Marjane Satrapi… Every night I wish on one of the werewolves red stars that I could draw like any one of them.
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All images, curtosy of Sophia.
Here’s a suspect cacti we spotted the other day at the Chelsea Physic Garden.
Hmmm.. the ‘woolii’ eh?
Getting to grips with this yarn business.
Photo from hobbledehoy-liz’s photostream
One of the reasons for writing the blog is to give me a little extra motivation to get off my arse and do more (remember the new years resolution?).
I was quite susceptible, therefore, to the email from Liberties that popped in my inbox. Sewing school anyone?
The time might have finally come to learn to crochet.
nice illustrations from London Etsy seller Mary Killvert
