Jodie Silsby has produced the Portsmouth Vernacular Map.

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!

A lovingly created map of Portsmouth with roads replaced by local phrases (there’s also a dictionary). Super, it almost makes you want to move there. Apparently London is next for the treatment — come do Birmingham instead please.

(via D’log)

Miss Baskerville T-Shirt

“Each Typewoman is created entirely with type (letters, punctuation, ligatures) in the typeface of their namesake and sit atop a pattern created with the same. No letterform has been skewed, stretched, flipped or any other bastardizing technique — just scaling at rotating. So the letters are pure as the driven snow!”

This is Sir Norman Foster’s plan for FC Barcelona’s stadium, the Nou Camp - a brilliant echo of Gaudi’s Parc Güell, and it’ll all be built around the current stadium. Not only that, it won’t cause disruption to any of the team’s fixtures - why can’t we do architectural renewal like this?

Image nicked from - Some People Are On The Pitch: ‘New’ Camp

Naboo and Bollo decide that INSIDE the couch is funOriginally uploaded by bounder
My mate just asked if I had any pictures of the cats with ‘green eye’ (like red-eye, but for cats) for a book on photoshop he’s writing (not these, but one like them he does loads) and I sent him a couple. Of course you wouldn’t charge a mate, but quite a few of my pics from flickr have been purloined (with permission) for magazines (and no doubt a fair few I don’t know about) and I haven’t asked for more than a credit there either.

Then I think of all the free writing I do as well, snippets for The Birmingham Post and some charity magazine this month alone.

So I suppose the question is, do you have to start charging or do you have to say no?

JB Birmingham Street Atlas : Originally uploaded by bounder. See it in all it’s glory here

I’ve always thought that roads, like music, crystallize memories. I can’t listen to Oasis’ ’stop crying your heart out’ without shedding a tear, purely because it was used in the closing credits after England got knocked out of a World Cup not because it’s lumpen rubbish.

The original idea was this (was before the invention of digital photography); I’d get up very early one Sunday morning and nick the actual signs. They are very difficult to remove, however, and I’m not Banksy or Tracey Emin (or even Bill Drummond) and I doubt the Highways Agency would see the art.

I’m not saying why I picked these particular roads, or where they are - you can guess if you like. I had to make a cut off somewhere, it was odd deciding what memories were important enough to make it. I purposely didn’t just do ‘every street I’ve lived in’, what was too simple. Nothing at all happened in at least one of the roads, it’s just the name.

It was actually quite an emotional experience in a couple of places (not to mention dangerous when standing in the middle of the Pershore Rd to get ‘just the right angle’).

See it as a flickr set.

There might be a follow up - I’ve already been thinking of ‘every pub I’ve ever been in’, or ‘every‘ church I’ve ever been in’.

As for the street atlas thing - I’d like other people to have a go.

Otter stencil in our back yard,
originally uploaded by bounder.

banksy might have taken disneyland, but he hasn’t got to the wall of our outside toilet yet - we have.

it’s the logo of the otter brewery, which is of course a cute little otter, printed out on card, cut out and then stenciled onto the wall with some black masonry paint that i found in the shed.

smashing.