Significant Yellow Item: #2025.YO18 [Re_Configure]

All Images: Central Bristol, August 2025

[Reconfigured Found Texts]

Fluorescent-coloured objects are seen three times earlier than objects coloured with conventional pigments due to the fluorescent light given off, but now I am so disappointed. To be honest, there is nothing nice about cold, clinical looking lighting, and patience is vital when navigating cone-filled environments. There is a risk that pedestrians might enter the working space. This could happen if they trip and fall into the working space, because they make a mistake and take the wrong route, or because they deliberately enter the HTML and CSS code. This could be a huge backwards step [there’s been an apocalypse but there's no zombies - just hillbillies whose kids look a lot like their sister, if you get my drift]. The panel will separate out legitimate decisions to protect people from real risks just before the last flight of stairs… Argh! Ow! Ouch!… I mean, seriously, OUCH!!

This is a great opportunity for the public to stand with us against the jobsworths and cynics, the ill-informed, and those looking to make a swift decision on a perceived problem with the minimum of fuss. Not all traffic cones are created equal, so walk with caution, being mindful of your surroundings. If, through monitoring visits [or in any other way], you find that barriers are being tampered with and separated - then you must take additional measures to secure them. We do not oppose the use of clamps or ties that require a tool for removal. The lowest possible energy system, known as the ground state, is always favoured and so the system exists primarily in this state. There are lots of things to see and admire. You can charge your phone on the solar tree and look around, but sadly, no-one seems to have sorted out the leaks, so from time to time the odd lovely feature is turned off. Because of this, you really must avoid harsh chemicals that could degrade the material [Formaldehyde is now known to have carcinogenic effects]. In some industries formulators are looking to safely complete their tasks before proceeding through the area.

Due to the consistency of the certain energy levels of a molecule, most of the fluorescence-emitted light will be of the same wavelength each time. This helps maintain coordination and prevents accidents caused by miscommunication, but you will get an instant migraine. At the extreme end, the knock-on effect could be that we end up with policy-makers, business leaders and employees who do not appreciate that high-quality PVC or rubber with UV-resistant properties are the ideal. Stay alert for any unexpected changes or obstructions as the clever tracking gadget for satellites no longer works. Wind force should be calculated in accordance with the hexadecimal code [which can be achieved through the use of ballast or cross-bracing, if necessary]. Understand the importance of delineating boundaries and providing clear cues to ensure the safety of everyone involved [the ones relevant here are vibrational relaxation, internal conversion and, of course, fluorescence]. Having the panel find against a decision-maker will encourage them to reverse bad decisions [such as forbidding pancake races, banning fans from throwing underwear or preventing toppings from being poured onto ice cream]. In the summer I think children use the area as a paddling pool to splash around in, so just don't go there… really, just don't go there!

Composed without A.I. [for better or worse]

Liver_Pool 01 (trans_late)

 

All Images: Liverpool Docks, January 2022

En BBC News reports that a decision was made in China, the list was deleted, MEPs voted to vote, the list of five voted, the list of five was against the move Two, two, two, two, two, born two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, ruled two invalid ballots.

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The city's marina is connected to the history of the British Empire

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others are still under construction.

In February, Liverpool City Council approved another to serve Years as Mrs Cally Hitch reported Christal Milch to the Liverpool Echo in 2016. Liverpool used export coal to supply export coal.

MC Toad Nylon reports from Well I believe UNESCO business news to believe the pitch "With deep authenticity, laboriousMOR maverick unfavorable to the Ministry of Railways unfavorable unfavorable unfavorable unfavorably unfavorably unfavorably unfavorably unfavorably unfavorably".

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Significant Yellow Items #2021.Y011, #2021.Y012(a) & #2021.Y012(b)

 

North Leicester, July 2021

In each instance an interruption of the normal flow is effected (terminal/diversionary).

Illumination is denied, and the signals rendered provisional (an insufficiency of faith).

Amenity becomes impediment (the obstacle course reconfigured).

The cadmium alert makes its predictable reappearance (maximum contrast).

Inclined facets feature prominently (the chamfer and the pyramid).

The ground plane is a key feature (micro-mapping of reduced topographies).

Central Leicester, March 2021

The City patches.  The City renews.  The City prioritises.

Significant Yellow Item: #2021.Y010

 

Significant Yellow Item: 2021.Y010, Central Coventry, May 2021

Here, a small section of the city's biology is left exposed, twisting through ninety, and ninety again.  Tender vulnerability is cordoned within a guardian wasp-geometry - drawing only attention.  An exclusion zone extends on the diagonal.  Diverse angularity dominates throughout.

Transcending small debris, and the creep of oxides, the defining edges remain crisp here.  A remarkable calm prevails behind the scenes.  Soft light seeps from the reverse of a disregarded future.  The elephant-memory will not prevail.

 

This is a detail to cut-out and keep.  I might linger for a considerable term here - welcome seclusion within a small fold of time. 

Significant Yellow Item: #2021.009

 

Central Nottingham, October 2016

1:   A punctuation of the surface plane.

2:  Slightly raised (Trip Hazard) 

    3:  Highlighted in Safety Yellow.

    

    4:  The Creep of Corrosion

     5:  The seduction of repeat pattern.

    

     6:  Tactile/Ductile.

    7:  Access to a submerged conduit.

    8:  A node in the infrastructure.

Unboxing 3: Dangerous Goods Manifest

 

Leicester, December 2020

There's probably a limit to how many of these workplace-derived 'Unboxing' posts I can belabour you with - at least without a bit of creative manipulation of the source imagery.  Nevertheless, I remain deeply attracted to the honest simplicity and truth-to-materials of the honest brown cardboard box, and to the emblematic symbology and potentially allusive texts which adhere to them.  These particular examples were especially 'thrilling' as (unusually), they contained a potentially hazardous chemical, and demonstrate the double-boxing, stern, graphic warnings, and 'Dangerous Goods Manifest' attendant on such a deadly cargo.  For the record, the product in question was a single bottle of Isopropanol - hardly plutonium, but at least: no couriers were harmed in the making of this blog post.

As soon as I have unpacked such consignments, the boxes generally get casually stacked in the corner of the classroom - awaiting recycling.  Even at this scale - with only two elements of modest scale, a distinctly totemic quality begins to emerge.  Indeed, I'm reminded that this is exactly how the format of 2018's 'Sentinel' sculptures originated - almost by accident.

'Sentinel' Sculptures, 'Visions of a Free-Floating Island', Surface Gallery, Nottingham,
September 2018

Perhaps there may be some tentative connection between those pieces, and the spate of mysteriously emerging monoliths, at various international locations, a couple of weeks back.  The reporting of those (beginning with what may have been some kind of oblique art-prank in remotest Utah) appears to have dwindled already.  That makes me think the whole thing was little more than an online meme that failed to really catch hold - particularly as the vaguely unworldly examples at a handful of locations, were joined by reports of a puerile, and far-too-representational, phallic example in Germany.  I suspect we'll soon file the memory of 2020's monoliths away with crop circles, and the like (if we remember them at all).  It does emphasise the enduring fascination of totemic, columnar forms, in the human imagination, nonetheless.

Meanwhile, the primordial urge to stack up cardboard boxes; well, that's something altogether more profound - clearly.

Music Re-View 9

 

All Images: November 2020

This is a frustrating and shallow analysis / so, keep that in mind while reading this review (which I promise is coming).

Well this has suddenly cheered my year / it's like i just swallowed a barrel of mdma / I'll be properly soaking this one in / just gotta wait on my force gauge so I can install this new cartridge then ill finally get to jam / I had already scheduled a week off immediately following release date / I’m a simulated trans dimensional emissary from an ancient hyper intelligent race that existed many aeons ago / I grew up during a time when glitch was entering mainstream music sound, and it simply brings me nostalgia and joy / this the duo at their most approachable for a long time / the heads get it and nod in appreciation while new fans will enjoy / a peaceful landing platform for the wild ship we’ve been riding for some time / for all the fuckery of 2020, there is always meaning hiding around the corners of chaos / oh, and geez, has this year been schmefd am I right? / the effect is like hurrying down an airlocked gangway in the wrong-sized shoes.

The album begins intimidatingly, with a synthetic growl that might be the heptapods in Arrival discovering the ills of gluten / diverse and enthralling, it grows and enraptures over repeat listens, Always on headphones, always at night / something of a mental bear trap, it’s easy to get stuck in its vice-like grasp / the artwork could be better, tt’s not terrible or anything, just meh / it certainly tones down the relentless but admittedly compelling inhumanity of much of their music / what is daunting about their work is less the mystery in how it’s made and more the spectre of supreme disregard that lurks in the margins of / algorithmic machine learning / everything feels distinctly open to possibility, powered by a non-human lifeblood pulsating through the veins of each track / there are rumbles, and soft buzzes like someone tuning a radio, and distant hums and zaps / they have found new ways to make their favourite materials sing / sheet metal, soapstone, and pumice / some humming and whistling / the taste of copper / and even some clapping / every component is perpetually shape-shifting; good luck enumerating all the discrete elements in play / a cloud of powdered pigment ricochets off a cymbal in a soundproof room / a piece breaks off slowly and moves away in a contorted fashion into the air-conditioning / I like the track that sounds like it was made by a fish.

Sometime in 1999, an AIM user with the handle “chemical_redux” sent me a massive block of text around 2am / the composition is an affirmation of the melodic skill cleverly illustrated in their earlier releases, but bent, contorted, lensed and refracted through / non-human / ocular implants / I’ve attempted to digest it all. All with gratitude and nothing but a grin on my face / she was a criminal forensics student / we never met,  it didn’t matter / the only way we can communicate from one aeon to the next is through gravity waves / I probably should have expected that / with a culture as ass obsessed as Latin America there was never a slight possibility the Catholicism would win over horniness / it’s there, but on the periphery of the structure, bending the edges and augmenting the biological input values.

The duo's influence on the greater music scene at large cannot be overstated / to put it simply, they create a lot of work, and are unabashed with their serving sizes / they are indifferent to us by design / sometimes, naturally, this kind of thing can get exhausting / but the hallmarks of their style have never been as prominent as now / either way, it is a new era of their creative efforts / the subtle tweaks to their approach, in addition to the fact that their sound mazes never quite sound the same, lead to / an actual fully automated pseudo-mechanical large appliance techno-orgy like what used to be made / the survivors can only stare in bewilderment until their senses takeover and they take fight or flight / contrary to some beliefs, it’s more than just a matter of punching-in some numbers and letting the machines do all the work / more like how in TV show there a reference is a character’s performance in another film / which way does the sign point? And are we being misdirected? / we know that they can’t be trusted / they have put out some of the most influential / nOisy nON-SeNSe ElecTRoNIk muZiK / designed as a fuck you to the government / in the end, it is enormously pleasurable and a must-listen for / an autonomous being / that’s really all I need from these dudes omg.

If I’m going to start distributing CDs at some point I’m going to start putting a Madagascar bonus track on them that / far surpasses the limits of your preceprehension / there can be no nobler goal.

Chairs Missing

All Images: November 2020

"I shake you down to say 'please', as you accept the next dose of disease" [2.].

[1. & 2.]: Wire, 'I am The Fly', From the Album: 'Chairs Missing', Harvest Records, 1978

Viral Communication 2

 

All Images: October 2020

Here's another batch of pandemic-related signage, and related material, encountered in the workplace.  As what we must now refer to as 'the second wave' breaks over us here in Britain (and, indeed - in many other locales), the limits and restrictions on everyday life contort themselves into an increasingly confusing profusion of configurations.  Generally, they seem belatedly reactive, and beset by the kind of all-to-human compromise that must surely be of little use in the face of a highly efficient (and by its very nature - disinterested) virus.

I have no doubt that the suppression of many of our perceived 'freedoms' can play a major role in suppressing the spread of Covid-19.  The resulting effects of a reasonably comprehensive, and moderately well-adhered-to (if slightly tardy) lockdown, earlier in the year, certainly seem to endorse that.  However, as the whole sorry affair drags on, crisis-fatigue ramps up, and 'miracle' cures and quick-fixes prove predictably elusive, the waters of pure, mechanistic science, and practically-focussed expediency are muddied by competing narratives.  A fear that the economic or societal side-effects might be worse than the disease itself grows.  Individual fight-or-flight responses begin to outweigh any sense of the communal good.  Cynicism, conspiracy theorising, and possibly understandable paranoia ('one rule for us - another for them'; who is already seizing power/wealth?; how much of our customary liberty will be restored, etc.) all proliferate.  Any scope for concerted, coherent action, and its implementation by consent, is further compromised.

As ever - nothing is simple, and Cock-up Theory (always my favourite of the theories) holds sway.  'Defeating' the virus (or, as I suspect is more likely, adapting sufficiently - in order to manage it as just another existential threat with which we all live) will require a variety of negotiations.  Not least amongst these will be some consensus over acceptable risk levels, over what constitutes personal or shared freedom (and how much might be sacrificial).  Equally desirable could be some consideration of what exactly is meant by this 'normal' so many are so desperate to return to, and just how desirable its unchanged restoration might really be. And, while we're at it - a little clear-eyed honesty about the vagaries of human behaviour, and less denial about certain, inconvenient Darwinian or ecological truths, probably wouldn't hurt either.

One thing I do know is that the effective untangling of all of that is far beyond the scope of this little blog.  For now, the challenge is to live each day as crisis or neurosis-free as is achievable, and to remain constructively engaged and informed by whatever meaningful information might seep through the cracks.  No real change there, then - in other words.  The maintenance of creative activity is clearly integral to that - for me, at least.  And with that goes the inevitable (and doubtless - perplexingly nerdy) cataloguing of clues and signifiers.  Hence - this post.

As already highlighted in my first survey of such material, the current crisis comes with an ever-expanding array of associated graphics - ranging from the purely functional, to the deliciously emblematic.  Indeed, such stuff appears to proliferate at a rate exceeded only by the pathogen itself.  The examples here continue to reflect the need to coax, direct, prohibit, inform or otherwise crowd-manage within an educational environment.  I have yet to conduct a survey of how much of the information is routinely studied or internally digested.  Many of these are pleasing examples I have encountered recently, whilst venturing trepidatiously into a different  'bubble'/building from that in which I routinely work.  Others are clearly designed to set the scene, and possibly reassure arriving visitors at 'front of house'.  On visual and formal grounds alone, I find the ad-hoc and festooned hazard markings on the outdoor benches especially pleasing.

Enjoy, and stay safe.