Walk away from your dreams?

[squirmelia]

The little girl twirled, and then wildly bounded past the boathouse, disturbing the castle's reflection crackling on the water that I was taking photographs of. She stopped for a moment and said the words, "walk away from your dreams." When the little girl and her family ahead of her disappeared from sight, possibly towards the daffodils, my mum asked me what the girl's words were that we had heard earlier. I told her, feeling a bit sad and definitely contemplative, as we walked away from Scotney Castle.

The picture did not appear in my dreams though: Part of a tree in Eynsford that ignored barbed wire to the extent of growing over it.

Comments

Re: Hi

[gentio.livejournal.com]

Man i miss that subway :( had a really good chat with one of the guys as he was doing it... which reminds me i really do need to check out more graff art :)

If you're wanting to use rubbery buttons then you're gonna have to be a great aim, as there are only a few places you can ping them to have any effect! a remote control would be a much more viable weapon against the invading swarms of jacks.. but then wouldn't that stop you remote controlling whatever it is you remote control?
My memory fails me, was there actually something at the top of the bean stalk in the story? or was jack just being a nosey parker.. :)

Re: Hi

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

It is a pretty subway. Another picture of it here (http://squirmelia.fotopic.net/p3510359.html).

Do you know of much good graffiti art in Southampton?

I don't have anything to actually control with most of the remotes, since they're just left over from projects I worked on. Maybe I could control the Jacks with them, if the Jacks can be tuned.

There was a giant and a castle at the top of the beanstalk, and possibly a goose that laid golden eggs. I expect there are such things at the top of the clocktower also.

Re: Hi

[gentio.livejournal.com]

That's a great picture, I love the texture in that so much! must.. get... digicam..

Well I spoke to one of the guys that did that subway, he said that he was at a graff bash in totton where they put up a blank wall and it's like a competition.. and a guy spotted him there and employed him. They work for soton council doing projects like the subway and maintaining them and so on.. he said there are a couple more around, I think I spotted one out past shirley as we drove over it, looked quite different to this one but had the same kind of quality look to it, maybe i'll go on a hunt the subway day when I eventually get a camera and pass my driving test! perhaps there's some info on a website somewhere ....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/southampton/features/graffiti/graffiti1.shtml
yes there is, and it seems soton common will be on my graff-tastic adventure tour :)


I do definately remember a giant, and a golden egg laying goose did spring to mind, but I thought it was part of another story.. hmmm. So i guess if the weeds did come and take me up into the clouds, i'd become a giant? I could probably live with that, and a castle would be pretty cool, although the golden egg laying duck would get quite annoying.. unless maybe I used the eggs to fend of the jacks? as that is probably what they're after in the first place, and i can't imagine much other use for a golden egg in a castle in the clouds...
Have u ever been up to the clock tower? my old college had a very similar one, but we could never seem to find the door however hard we tried. I think it was behind a bookshelf, but never had the time to test all of the books to see if they would reveal a hidden passage. perhaps a book in the library beneath the tower will let you up?

:)

Re: Hi

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

>maintaining them and so on.. he said there are a couple more around,

Cool.. I wandered around some of the subways of Southampon and then tried writing a piece about the different subways, but I never finished it, and some closed down. The one closest to where I work has planets on it, that seem vaguely educational, which is weird, since it's in practically a wasteland (well, golf-courses, busy roads, and litter-strewn streams). It's not the same style as that other one though.

>on my graff-tastic adventure tour :)

Let me know if you find any good ones!

gnimmel wrote a niceentry (http://www.livejournal.com/users/gnimmel/61397.html#cutid1) on different types of graffiti in her LJ a while back. Barbelith has also had a few interesting threads on graffiti and magick (http://www.barbelith.com/topic/13102) and a little bit about stencils (http://www.barbelith.com/topic/17260).

>i guess if the weeds did come and take me up into the clouds, i'd become a giant?

I'm not sure you'd actually become a giant, but you'd get to live in the giant's castle, which would indeed be cool, until you realize you can't reach the cupboards/windows/whatever a giant might keep in his castle.

>i can't imagine much other use for a golden egg in a castle in the clouds...

Maybe the golden eggs are superior to normal eggs in egg-rolling competitions?

>perhaps a book in the library beneath the tower will let you up?

I've never been up the clocktower, so maybe finding the right book is the way. Either that or being handcuffed at exactly the right time in the adjacent police station.

Re: Hi

[gentio.livejournal.com]

I will let u know for sure :)

The bit gnimmel wrote was great, I especially loved the space invader ones!
It's amazing what you see when you open your eyes :)

It's so unfair that society represses and frowns upon these things, still they always manage to prevail, no matter what anti-art measures are taken :)

Re: Hi

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

The space invader ones are indeed great!

I found an alternative map of architecture when I was in London at the weekend, and there were some supposedly good grafitti places marked on it, but unfortunately I didn't have time to see them. Maybe I will next time I'm there.