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Dérive by Adam

February 20th, 2008 1:16 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Among the various situationist methods is the dérive [literally: 'drifting'], a technique of transient passage through varied ambiances. In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there.

One can dérive alone, but all indications are that the most fruitful numerical arrangement consists of several small groups of two or three people who have reached the same awakening of consciousness, since the cross-checking of these different groups' impressions makes it possible to arrive at objective conclusions.

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Undertake a dérive, and report your objective conclusions to your fellow players.

Just a quick note Tom already completed this task so he couldn't do it again but he was still there so if you do take the time to vote then please can you pop over to his completion of the task and give him a vote despite his first effort being frankly rubbish.

Anyway onwards.

It was a strangly warm Sunday afternoon in Great Yarmouth and Tom and I were chatting on Skype when we decided we should go out, usually to task but today we had not particular task in mind. We met at the Lighthouse Café which we usually do and decided to go for a walk, we didn't actually know where and it wasn't until I suggest dérive-ing that we decided to not have a plan. We followed our senses and our reasoning to try and find somewhere interesting to go in this town.

Dérive
We started off by walking into the town centre from hunger which I was feeling and visited Boots to purchase a sandwich for me, we continued on in the town and discovered that we had never been down one of the rows so our inquisitivity led us down Row 115 which led into Palmers car park and onwards to another part we had never noticed Howard Street Car Park. It was a completely empty place and it was peaceful if not a bit eerie as it was once the site of a fire, it also felt odd to be surrounded by billboards on most sides.

We decided to continue back to the market place where we knew where we were and then to Fullers Hill as it seemed the natural thing to do as it is the historical area of the town. This led us down a path we had not been before and through a subway which had really nice paintings in it of the town and we felt quite sad that they had been grafitied. We also felt spooked because we had seen pictures of this place when it was flooded up to the roof and wondered how the paintings survived. Left or right? Left. Under a low bridge which stated it was 5'9 tall even though I am 6' and I only had to duck slightly.

We had never been here either, up some steps as we had reached a dead end and over a bridge towards the less urban area. The sunset also enticed us to Asda where we knew it would be nice to watch it. When we arrived we walked across the car park to a path where I spotted a path which led underneath Breydon Bridge and onto the marshes. A great place to watch the sunset. We wondered if we could reach the railway line from here so we moved to the fence which produced fear as we found out it was electrified.

We then went down a slope to a gate and through it and sat down on a bank and watched the sunset which was beautiful and pondered just how small we are. Very, very, very, very small indeed. Infact smaller than you could imagine. When the sun was nearly done we wanted to get back before it was dark and moved on to the railway line which led us back to the railway station and to the old tram bridge which we wanted to look at as it was rusty and interesting. We watched the final moments of sunlight from here and then we went back to Haven Bridge House to conclude.

We walked 4 miles. Longer for Tom as he lived further away. We enjoyed it.

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Beautiful

Beautiful

It was worth it just for this shot. Sunset on the Bure


Video

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iPod

iPod

In my bedroom with my iPod which is in German for no reason in particular


Lidl

Lidl

A shop


Newspaper

Newspaper

On the door of the local newspaper office


Market Place

Market Place

3:30pm on a Sunday and the shops are shut


Row

Row

One of Great Yarmouth's rows


O'Gradys

O'Gradys

I used to drink here until someone was murdered there


Palmers

Palmers

Back of a department store


Howard Street

Howard Street

A hidden car park


Signage

Signage

Expensive car park


Where to go?

Where to go?

Tom decides


Market Row

Market Row

Home to some closed shops


A Row

A Row

Tom photographs


Freaky Freddie

Freaky Freddie

With painted on moustache, on a billboard


Sign

Sign

Cromer?


Do Not Swim

Do Not Swim

But if you do.


5'9

5'9

Lies


5'8

5'8

Tom is 5'8


A message

A message

A message which couldn't be read


Bridge

Bridge

The old tram bridge


Tom

Tom

Tom photographs me


Bure Bridge

Bure Bridge

A major road?


Staples

Staples

An American chain


The Red House

The Red House

I love this building


Some People Are Gay

Some People Are Gay

Get Over It. Anti-discriminatory billbaord.


Asda

Asda

Supermarket - Owned by Wal*Mart


Tom

Tom

On the marshes


Marshes

Marshes

Looking towards the railway and holiday camp


Sun sets

Sun sets

Down behind Breydon Bridge


Sunset Mode

Sunset Mode

Makes everything beautiful, looking towards Breydon Water.


Sunset

Sunset

And Tom


More sunset

More sunset

Slightly later on


Breydon Bridge

Breydon Bridge


Back to the sun

Back to the sun

The moon and a bridge over the railway


Platform

Platform

Railway platform


Railway Station

Railway Station

Slightly less impressive


This path is long

This path is long

We walked about 1/50th of it


Tom

Tom

Tom on the pedestrian bridge


The last moments of day

The last moments of day


Even fewer moments left

Even fewer moments left

My favourite time of day


Its going

Its going

going gone


Nearly down

Nearly down


Our finnish post

Our finnish post

Havenbridge House.


A map

A map

If it is needed



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Dog mess? And you used to drink there? Like, when you were 14? ;)
posted by susy derkins on February 21st, 2008 1:47 PM

Thanks for bottling up in pictures the very, very, very, very small feeling of the walk.

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posted by Adam on February 21st, 2008 1:55 PM

I used to drink there when I was 16 18.

Proving that Yarmouth can be beautiful
posted by GYØ Vicki on February 22nd, 2008 12:26 PM

Great pictures of the sunset, see, Yarmouth's not completely rubbish!

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posted by GYØ Daryl on February 23rd, 2008 4:27 AM

No, it's see, Yarmouth can be made not to look rubbish, however it is.

Tom used a vibrant colour setting on his camera at haven bridge and it came out black and white

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posted by GYØ Vicki on February 23rd, 2008 2:11 PM

We walked 4 miles. Longer for Tom as he lived further away.

Yes, we know how far away Tom lives...

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posted by GYØ Ben on March 5th, 2008 1:10 PM

Why does this not have more votes?