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Cotch: The Hutong

Joe — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:55:47 +0000

At the start of the 15th century, when the Ming Dynasty was young, Beijing was established as the new Chinese capital — a heavily planned city, a rectangle laid out on a north-south axis around the great imperial palace, the Forbidden City.

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Cotch: Night Bus

Joe — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:51:46 +0000

A young smartly dressed woman gets on, concentrating on her phone call. The bus pulls out before she has time to mount the stairs, and the motion throws her to the side, her bag swinging and bashing the passenger behind her. Fifty. Nine. To. Streatham Hill. She climbs slowly, letting everybody know about the important things she has done today. Then drops into the nearest seat as the bus brakes at the first set of lights. “Did you remember to tape Eastenders?” Puts a laptop on one knee, opens Microsoft Excel, a page full of graphs. Continues call, continues describing her brilliant sucess with the Weight Watchers account. More passengers board, one indicates to the empty window seat beside her. She turns to let him through. Drops the computer. “Fucksake”. People chuckle.

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AWWTM: Crap cycling and walking in car sick Glasgow

Joe — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:20:40 +0000

On Sunday I took a look at Glasgow, a town I have previously only passed through without stopping. Here’s my commentary: a mix of cameraphone and proper camera photos; some of the commentary comes from the live tweets that accompanied the cameraphone pictures.

Continue reading at At War With The Motorist…

AWWTM: Can you work out where I am?

Joe — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:02:07 +0000

I’ve been away from London for three weeks now, taking a break from the noise and the taxi drivers. I needed to eliminate distractions to get a couple of work and writing projects completed, so I’m doing an extreme telecommute experiment for the winter, while observing the transport and environment situation at the opposite end of the urban-rural spectrum. Can you work out where I am?

Continue reading at At War With The Motorist…

Cotch: How to deliver a petition

Joe — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:20:32 +0000

The awesome Science Is Vital campaign organisers kindly asked me to accompany them to Downing Street to capture the delivery of their petition of 35,000 opponents of science cuts. Over at cotch dot net, I have a short photo essay on how to deliver a petition.

Cotch: The Cheese Festival

Joe — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:16:25 +0000

I love the Durham Township photoblog — all the fabulous atmospheric shallow-focus photos of rural Pensylvania. Especially the ones of the traditional county fairs and farm shows. The kids with candyfloss, prize livestock on display, and old fashioned family entertainment.

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Cotch: Los Lagos

Joe — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:15:27 +0000

This time last year, I was cycling around the lake district, Los Lagos, in Chilean Patagonia. I was there with Computer Aid International, who refurbish old office computers and send them to schools, hospitals, and development projects around the world, including the small city of Osorno in Los Lagos. Below are a selection of out-of-context and out-of-order extracts and photographs from my record of the week. All profits from sales of Chile prints go to Computer Aid.

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AWWTM: Crap cycling and walking in Beijing

Joe — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:11:59 +0000

Over at At War With The Motorist, I look at another of the obvious ill-effects of Beijing’s burgeoning car dependency — the plague of badly parked cars filling the pavements and cycle paths. You can read it here.

Also, try out our China traffic quiz: what’s wrong with this picture?

Protest The Pope!

Joe — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:48:36 +0000

At the weekend around 12,000 people marched through London in protest against the policies of the Pope. A photo essay on cotch dot net explains why we were there.

Cotch: Arno’s Vale Cemetery

Joe — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:31:39 +0000

Over at cotch dot net, I’ve thrown together a quick photo essay on the Victorian park cemetery at Arno’s Vale in Bristol, which until recently was rather derelict and overgrown. You can read the while post at Arno’s Vale Cemetery.