The Silent Listener

London's culture of using cards in telephone boxes to advertise prostitutes is well documented. The standard of printing however has deteriorated over the years, in line with the demise of the phone box itself... rendered almost obsolete by mobile telephony.

From the archive 1 2 3

(Number 3, advertising a dungeon offering electrocution services, was appropriated as a corporate identity by the incomparable IRDIAL DISCS.

In 1994, IRDIAL published a book entitled 'the X-Directory', which remains the finest document of these fascinating ephemera. Read the preface to the book >here<

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Monday 23rd June

Licht!

Oh Gosh!

TML OB

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Sunday 22nd June

Sunn O ) )

Life on Mars 2 3

Bilbo...

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Saturday 21st June

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Friday 20th June

Check out Dizzee's incredible flow. at ATP in 2004.

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20 years gone.

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'In Our Time' - Covers for a Small Library After the Life for the Most Part, 1969 by R.B. Kitaj. 1932-2007 A portfolio of incredibly beautiful screenprinted reproductions of selected book covers from his personal library, has for a long time been a huge inspiration for me.

from In Our Time. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

I secretly harbour thoughts of producing my own series in homage.

from 'One Day I'll Read Them' - selections from the Silent Library. 2008.1 2 3 4 5 6 7

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Tempar T

Scientists discovered that the vice-like grip of its jaws enabled Dunkleosteus Terrelli to exert a force of 11,000 pounds on its prey, enough to bite the toughest into two. The extinct creature, which grew 33ft long and weighed up to four tons, was armed with a formidable array of bladed teeth which exerted a pressure of 80,000 pounds per square inch at the tip of its fangs.

Keep watching >this< space

a view last monday

Lon don

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Thursday 19th June

Wonderful World of Knowledge

Adpar Street smurf.

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I've started to draw the covers from the vista books country guide series. The plan being to draw one a day - there's 29 in the series. Here's the first two.

Ireland

Yugoslavia

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as we enta

Float On

Surface of a man-made diamond.

>JK< (not Rowling)

Krapsonkaws Part 1

Wolf Eyes. ATP2004

Lightning Bolt. ATP2004.

Tree man / Pan man

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Wednesday 18th June

Introducing... The Yellow Dwarf

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A new Surrender collaboration for Fall 2008.

Watch >this< space.

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Saturn has 60 named natural satellites, although a precise number of moons can not be given, as there is no objective boundary between the countless small anonymous objects that form Saturn's ring system and the larger objects that have been named as moons. My personal favourite is one of the inner large moons, Mimas. ph: Cassini 2007. NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Remind you of anything?

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I can't help feeling a little nervous about CERN

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I'm not the only one...

Earth, this time next month...

Here's the lowdown

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Friday 13th June

Moon Rocks!

Gutted!

Londoner needs a >fix<

Rascal

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Thursday 12th June

Went fishing ...

with some friends 2 3

Sea Bass...2

...and a couple of these bad boys, 2.

Conger!

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Wednesday 11th June

Week-end camping at East Prawle

No editing, this is the >colour< of an approaching thunderstorm.

Can't get away from >this< fucker.

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The Gum Wall 1 2

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Tuesday 10th June

Reflections of a week in the Capital

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The Grant Museum of Comparative Animal Anatomy at UCL 1 2 3 4.

(Nothing human though)

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The British Museum: Hunting Lions in Mesopotamia, Interesting texts.

Rus in Urbe 1, 2, 3.

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Safeness! Hold Tite!

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Corner of Topsham Road SW17, corner of London Street W2.

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Thames beach mudlark paranoia.

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Wednesday 21st May

Arkitip No.46 Out Now !

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Tuesday 20th May

1 2 3 4

Who remembers this ?

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Monday 19th May

A weekend at Butlins. 2 3

Bumped into Dennis Coles.(aka G.F.K)

More vulpine research.

An early prototype.

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Friday 16th May

Who knows...?

---Surrender Lautsprecher---

1974 Grimness

Looking forward to attending ATP2008 (Part Two)

After a very long and happy association with All Tomorrow's Parties, I no longer design the artwork for the main festival, instead concentrating on the winter festival, "The Nightmare Before Christmas"

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Thursday 15th May

I care about Detroit

The N.I.C.E decade is over... Official!

Alphington Domestic

In through the...

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Wednesday 14th May

er....

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Observations from a rural outpost