Woodhouse Moor

Motfu Never Forgets!

Poster with drawing of a fat elephant, standing upright, holding its belly.

Hyde Park Unity Day 2009

Some photos I took during the weekend.

Lost Kids

Unity Day's Wheelie Bin Army

A hundred wheelie bins arranged in rows.

The Hyde Park Unity Day 2009 recycling bins, awaiting collection after the clean-up operation on Sunday.

Out Of My Tree at Unity Day

Tree trunk wrapped in plastic carrier bags.

One of three trees decorated with plastic bags at Hyde Park Unity Day 2009. Environmental slogans hung from the branches. All the plastic was removed during the clean-up on Sunday.

Unity Day 2008 Documentary

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The video made by Abdul and Mags from the Oblong Design Collective.

Watch out for yours truly, a minute into the film - my eyes look really googly!

There's a lovely moment where the narrator (Sarah from Oblong) very nearly manages to fluff her lines when describing our canine friends. I think it needed a few takes!

Knife in Silhouette

A knife stuck point first in a table

A fruit knife stuck in a table, looking way cool in the night. Nothing else gets your point across quite like a dagger thrust into a table.

We had a little place for making tea in the Unity Base tent, where the comms people were. I was still hanging around after all the crowds had gone, too wired from the excitement of the day to even think about going home to bed. My pals had all gone to Wendy House but I couldn't face that either, so I hung out at Unity Base and carried on helping with odd chores. Odd, like lugging a heavy transformer box across a muddy field in the rainy night. Things like that.

I was chatting with one of the field stewards when we saw how the knife had been left in the table. I'm quite pleased at how the photo came out, though it took me a few goes at lining it up.

At Some Point in this Conversation You Will Lie

I noticed this on my way to Oblong.

Stencilled a bench on Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, at the junction with Rampart Road.