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Tesco communicate the price of their petrol with a triangle on a big pole. If I was a giant, I'd probably use it as a weapon. Except that it would snap in half under its own weight if I tried to pick it up, as people forget that large objects do not have the same physical properties as small objects. They can't hold themselves up. They need help.


This is the side of a semi-famous estate at the end of Abbey Road that the Beatles didn't make an album about. According to a resident, it's a popular location for shooting adverts, presumably because the film crew can buy drugs easily. Note the graffiti - a sure-fire indication that the area is run-down.


This is a park at the end of Abbey Road that the Beatles didn't make an album about. It was deserted when I was there, because it's probably part of some drug gang's area and the people are scared to go there. That's the problem with building parks in hidden-away areas without CCTV. The whole estate was built in the 1960s, and presumably it was intended for middle-class people who take drugs at clubs and parties, not in parks.


If I actually had cancer, I probably wouldn't enjoy looking at that sign. It says that you should eat lots of fruit, and that doing so will prevent your body from losing control and killing itself, like in the Lou Reed album Magic and Loss with that line about how Lou used to telephone the answering machine of one of his departed friends so he could hear his voice and pretend that he was still there. I suppose that's a good reason not to use those ready-made answering machine messages with voice-over actors and sound effects.

Compare this with the following, taken with a 35mm Lomo Smena. They were taken whilst standing on the same spot, and are a useful way of showing how the Lomo's lens 'zooms' a bit. Note that, apart from the aspect ratio, the fact that the Holga's picture captures more detail around the edges isn't a property of medium-format film, it's a property of the Holga's lens.

The picture above was taken first - the man with the light-coloured top in the picture above is pushing a trolley into the distance in the picture below, and another person who resembles a blob has taken his place, probably wondering what he was looking a (ice-cream, in fact, hence the sign that says 'Desserts'):



Incidentally, if you haven't got a tape measure in your head, 35mm negatives are roughly the size of two fingertips next to each other, whereas medium-format negatives are roughly the size of two thumbs next to each other (but square). Medium-format negatives can be enlarged more than 35mm negatives without losing detail, and they look a lot cooler, too (there aren't any borders or frame-advance holes).

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