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Discover Transit by Tøm

December 29th, 2007 12:42 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Take transit to a city or distant neighborhood you've never visited before.

For this task, I went to Birmingham!

I didn't use public transport all the way, having already driven to Banbury from here, but from there it was buses all the way! I had been to parts of Birmingham before to visit family, but never gone far enough into the town, so thats where I headed. I had a camera with me to take some photo's to put a portfolio together for my college interview (curse the requirement of an art GCSE) so the photo's are a bit arty (I hope) and less people based, I like buildings! Great Yarmouth needs more tower blocks and railway bridges (which I passed on the bus and failed to get a photo of).


Whilst in Birmingham, I got crushed by busy sales shoppers, walked around the ICC, ate a Homemade Burger, visited a rather awesome shop (you'll probably see the attire I purchased in future tasks) and rock climbed (my hands hurt so much).

If anyone thinks any of these photo's are good, can you tell me which so I know which to include in my portfolio :) My favourites are:

This was right by the bus stop

The Iron man

Roof

Tower

Hook by the canal

You'll have to excuse my captions, I don't know what's what in Birmingham.



I suspect this to be my last Glasnostian completion, bring on insatiability!

We already have something good planned....

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This was right by the bus stop
Hall again
New and old?
The Iron man
Selfridges
More bull
Roof
Tower
Some street are lighting
Christmas-ness!
Scaffolding
Hook by the canal
Canal Bridge
The Hyatt Hotel
Stair fail
Canal 1
Canal 2
Canal 3
Canal 4
Canal 5
Canal 6
Skyscraper 1
Skyscraper 2
Skyscraper 3
Mans head.
The ICC
Ice tower

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Charlie Fish

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posted by anna one on December 29th, 2007 1:00 PM

I agree with your favorites, but I also like the contrast, scaffolding and hyatt shots.

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posted by Tøm on December 29th, 2007 1:29 PM

Thanks, I wasn't sure about the scaffolding one, would have really liked to have gotten closer.

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posted by Lank on December 29th, 2007 2:27 PM

I like the hook one too!

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posted by Tøm on December 29th, 2007 2:42 PM

Thanks :)

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posted by Charlie Fish on December 31st, 2007 2:08 AM

The hook one is my favourite. Really cool.

I lived in Birmingham for six years - I'm quite fond of it.

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posted by Lincøln on December 31st, 2007 2:31 AM

Agreed. The hook is the best of the bunch.

Hook.
posted by Spidere on January 2nd, 2008 7:32 PM

It's quite cool.

The statue
posted by Ben Whitehouse on January 25th, 2008 2:53 PM

The statue is by Anthony Gormley and is in Victoria Square in the city centre.

Victoria Square redeveloped and that was unveiled by Princess Diana.

There's a huge fountain which has a reclining woman in it. She's locally known as the floozie.

The tall round topped building.
posted by Ben Whitehouse on January 25th, 2008 2:54 PM

That's the rotunda.

In the 70's there was a pub at the bottom (where the tourist info place is now) and it was bombed.

It's now being turned into luxury flats. (Isn't everything?)

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posted by Tøm on January 25th, 2008 2:56 PM

The statue was awesome.

We have very little street sculpture here, it's all bollards.