This is a crackpipe belonging to a friend of a friend of friend [Fofafoaf]. A piece of tin foil covering the top of the bottle would have a bed of cigarette ash placed in it, the crack sitting on top and the smoke drawn through it. Fofafoaf says he really likes it a lot, it …
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in permanance
Sitting in a café on the high street, looking out across the road I suddenly notice a young woman standing in a telephone kiosk, still while people on the street pass by. I realise she runs the stall selling hats and scarves. Her stillness surprises me, emphasising how busy I am, how busy we often …
working class, yes i said it, working class
I heard an interview with Len McCluskey, the General Secretary of Unite. Asked about why he wouldn’t accept the current plans concerning pension reform bearing in mind the financial pressures everyone was experiencing he spoke about how the pension funds that provided for the pensions of the Unite members were in good financial health. He …
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meeting the people
In the atrium, OK, the arrival lounge, no, the lobby, I don’t know, that bit inside the supermarket but not inside the shopping area proper… is an information board which announces (top left) that you can meet our suppliers. I would guess that this is a typical display in such shops which tells people about …
games people play
Around Christmas one of my daughters received a Monster High Doll or four. I’d never heard of them until a week before the 25th when I realised she had stopped obsessing about Moshlings and that there was a new gravity at work in her universe. We managed to change her gifts in time, shuffle a …
Occupy, Punch and Judy
The occupation has been in front of the Cathedral for a couple of months now. I have several friends who have been supportive in one way or another and conversation has often been in favour of giving assistance to the movement. The model of general assemblies appeals to certain sensibilities as does the absence of …
othering ourselves
In research there is always an issue of the researcher having power over the researched. This is typical of anthropological work where the ethnographer comes to their field, spends time, forms relationships and then buggers off stage left, perhaps to return with a chapter or a copy of a book if they are that successful. …
pain(t)
One of my daughters drew this on top of a photo of her younger sister. It was supposed to be mean, she was angry and wanted to draw her sister as a pig. It seemed that as she finished something else had happened, the drawing had a life of its own and the object of …
unlikely community space
a consuming shame
There has been a Tesco Extra open near to us in Sheffield for a couple of months now. It is located just at the edge (the town side) of a vibrant, mixed and low income/high unemployment shopping area called Ellesmere Green or Spital Hill. There was a lot of discussion before the giant supermarket opened …