The DiGpuss shop is now open
Written by Nicky Getgood on Sunday, June 7th, 2009 ( One response )
Tags: digpuss, michaelgrimes, shonamcquillan
Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a little girl and her name was Nicky. And she had a shop. Here it is.
It was rather an unsual shop because it didn’t sell anything. You see, everything in that shop window was a thing that somebody had once lost and Nicky had found.
Yes, the random crap I keep finding and photographing on the Digbeth streets can now be seen through the window panes of my very own DiGpuss shop. Please go and take a look. If you hover over the window panes and click on the image within it will take you to the Flickr photo page.
The above image is my favorite find so far – a discarded photo of a biker girl. In my head it was thrown away by the owner of the second helmet, an embittered ex-lover. The truth of how it ended up on Bradford Street is probably a lot more boring than that. Does anyone know who this girl is, and how her photo came to be there? Are you she? Please comment if so.
Many thanks to Shona McQuillan for a grand idea and Michael Grimes for making the magic happen. There are a few browser issues with DiGpuss (it’s a big fan of FireFox and Safari, but doesn’t seem to like Opera very much). But as poor Michael, who put a lot of hard work into it says, ‘please appreciate that all the work here is voluntary and time is scarce; and head-scratching hurts.’
Comments:
on June 7th, 2009
[...] keep meaning to write about this (now spurred into action by spotting that Nicky Getgood has finally blogged about it too) because it’s partly my fault that DiGpuss exists. It was the brainchild of Shona McQuillan [...]
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