Sunday kettles
At about ten past nine on a Sunday every kettle on our road clicks off within the same minute. You can hear it if the windows are open. It sounds like a very polite round of applause.
The Maaru Collective — Ongoing — London
— Issue N° 026
, , and , kept because there's life in the mundane.
A creative collective of one. Nothing here is trying to sell you anything. It is a place for things that would otherwise go unnoticed: the 07:12 bus, a stairwell at 08:50, a record bought up a flight of stairs in Nairobi.
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Frequencies — MRU-007
Sunday, late
SIDE A — 6 TRACKS- A1Mr. Fingers — Can You Feel It
- A2Kerri Chandler — Rain
- A3Moodymann — Shades of Jae
- + 3 more
— with player
The 140 at 07:12
Same bus, same seat, same eleven people. Notes from a year of the same commute, and why I stopped wearing headphones on it.
2 min read
ROLL 03 / 8 FRAMES
Station Road at noon
Concrete does not pretend
The multi-storey car park behind the high street is the most honest building in town. A short defence of a building nobody likes.
1 min read
in progressv0.3
Bus stop typography
Tracing the lettering on every bus stop flag between home and the station, to see if they are all the same. They are not.
Started 09.26 — last touched
Three names on a tiffin
A steel lunch box from Bhuj, scratched with three names in three different hands. Nobody in the family can agree whose it was first.
1 min read
CLIP 01 / MOVING PICTURE
Upper Hill, rain
ROLL 02 / 5 FRAMES
Stairwell
ROLL 01 / 6 FRAMES
Salt white
Frequencies — MRU-006
Promised land
SIDE A — 4 TRACKS- A1Joe Smooth — Promised Land
- A2Frankie Knuckles feat. Jamie Principle — Your Love
- B3Ten City — That's the Way Love Is
- + 1 more
donev1.0
Typographic sleeve generator
The record sleeves on Frequencies are drawn from the entry itself — title, catalogue number, a colour field and grain. No artwork needed.
Started 06.26 — last touched
pausedv0.2
Lift recordings
Recording the doors, chimes and voices of every lift I use for a year. Paused because the best lift in Harrow is still broken.
Started 04.26 — last touched
abandonedv0.1
A zine in one A4 fold
Eight pages from one sheet of A4 and one cut. An issue a week. Lasted three weeks.
Started 02.26 — last touched
Index
- 01JournalWriting, notes, things noticed on the way somewhere else.6 entries
- 02VisualsPhotographs and moving pictures, in rolls and sequences.5 entries
- 03FrequenciesRecords, mixes and listening notes. After hours.5 entries
- 04ElsewherePlaces, kept as postcards and fragments.5 entries
- 05ExperimentsThings made, half-made and abandoned on purpose.5 entries
