london, society

Although I hate the tube…

…I love the tube map. Harry Beck did the one we currently use, and a masterpiece it is. It could be improved in some small ways, but in general it works pretty well. What I ahdn’t realised, until some fortuitous googling, was that there are many different versions; most of them pretty useless or odd (though not entirely devoid of interest). First of all we’ve got this:

Which I got from here. Frankly, I think every londoner should have one on their wall. It’s a good reminder that sometimes it’s just easier (and better) to walk. On which note, Chairman Miaow and I went for a lovely stroll through Wapping today. Of which more later, no doubt. You can also grab a full size version from that site; perhaps the first Worship St Irregulars merchandise will be a poster of this?

Next up are these awesome little culture jammed posters on tubes. Given our 8-bit flava here, this seems appropriate.

Which is just fucking cool. Moar here.

Over here, you’ll see that Stefan Magdalinski, general good egg and social provocateur (he’s one of the guy’s behind the awesome mysociety), has done a pretty wicked little video up he’s made of TFL’s tube disruption map. And yeah, the London Underground is, objectively, as shit as it subjectively seems. Video here; don’t raep his bandwidth!

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