Scouring the internet: Christmas chalking homework

It's really cold outside and it's really cold inside. The rain hasn't stopped since I woke up and I can't bear putting warmer clothes on because it would mean taking off a layer before getting to the good stuff.

So, here goes. Homework.

Of course, this isn't really homework, it's just me having a nose to see what other people are chalking/have chalked out there, so that by the time this gross weather stops and my camera lead reappears (hopefully somewhere really obvious like in my hand), I'll have lots of ideas for chalking experiments in 2013.

(It also means I can play about with chalk-related pictures from the comfort of my alien duvet covers. No raindrops in sight.)

Homework -20th December, 2012

Other People Chalking

  



Helen Levitt took this photo as part of a series of pictures aiming to document the lives of children on the streets in 1940s America.

I just like this. It reminds me of a book I've just asked my mum to get me called 'How to be an Explorer of the World'.

This doesn't look much like chalk to me, but I like the broken bicycle in the corner. I like to think someone tried to cycle across the tyres leaning against the wall, but that it went a little wrong about 90% of the way across...

This is what the BBC published this morning (21/12/12) in an article about how the people who believed the world will end today, are going to cope now that the world's still going.

I bet they're well chuffed.

I know how this looks, but it's not true...

Koblenz, Germany: Just about getting by...

Welcome to Koblenz. I've lost my purse and David's already been given the key to someone else's hotel room *cue brother being frog-marched back out of it again with his backpack still on*

Motorbike and bikes allowed!

But we only have feet.

And there don't seem to be any pavements.

Um.

We sort of want to be over there (on the other side of the Rhine).

'Eek'

Here's us walking down a main road in Germany, narrowly escaping death everytime a car drives past...

!?

'Phew'

After about 2 miles of avoiding death by fast car and falling chunks of mountain, we find a bus stop.

But by the looks of this person...

...and this confusing bus timetable...

'NO BUSES EVER' run along this route.

Distracting ourselves from a long wait by acquainting ourselves with a small university village on the side of the road.

Pretty gardens!

Cool trees!

...and big, fat men wearing green pyjamas looking out into the night's sky, on garage doors

'Cool'

'NOM'

Family members fast-walking back towards the bus stop

To see this huge banquet table in the middle of Koblenz...

These cool hand-painted chairs...

A palace!

(We don't know who lived here and we, despite there being forty thousand doors across the front, didn't know how to get in either)

Lots of the places surrounding Koblenz on both sides of the Rhine...

...and a small washing machine shop paying homage to the greatest music magazine on earth.

Kruger :)