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'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life' Samuel Johnson (Dead) London. England's capital of culture, finance, fashion and forward thinking. A city where the ancient meets the modern, the chic and, let's be honest, the shit. Despite the best efforts to smarten up the city before the 2012 Olympics, local pockets of immeasurable crumminess still abound in neighbourhoods and boroughs. Hidden behind the architectural delights, history and bright lights exists a world that proves London is a world class provider of bad taste and all-round awfulness. Shit London explores the world of ill-conceived community art, poorly named shops, cheeky graffiti, bad translations, comical signs and the unintentionally funny scenes that surround Londoners everyday. Revel in the rubbish that surrounds them all. You never know, it might make you feel better about where you live.
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Patrick Dalton was born in London and has lived in London his entire life (not including holidays). Professionally, he is a radio producer who worked for many years at the BBC and later at the London radio station LBC producing a variety of news and entertainment programmes. He is also a city-obsessed photographer who naturally gravitates towards the weirder aspects of modern life and pop culture. Patrick now works as a photographer and freelance radio producer and lives, you guessed it, in London.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A wonderful, comic evocation of a London not sanitised for tourists nor tarted up for outsiders seeking to gentrify areas which they have colonised. For those of us who grew up and lived in this real London it is a quirky but loving reminder of how culturally rich and diverse our city is at a time when so much of it is being gobbled up and changed
by a new London. I commend this little book.
by a new London. I commend this little book.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a really brilliant book, with some fantastically funny photos.
From the opening image of the massive graffiti wall that simply reads 'TRAIN WANKERS', I knew that this book would appeal to my base and juvenile sense of humour. Some of the photos are genuinely witty even artistic, but for me it's all about the knob graffiti, bizarrely named shops and abusive notices.
Enjoy it for what it is; a collection of hilarious photos that make you laugh... a lot!
From the opening image of the massive graffiti wall that simply reads 'TRAIN WANKERS', I knew that this book would appeal to my base and juvenile sense of humour. Some of the photos are genuinely witty even artistic, but for me it's all about the knob graffiti, bizarrely named shops and abusive notices.
Enjoy it for what it is; a collection of hilarious photos that make you laugh... a lot!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I bought it as a gift for a friend, and it ended up in her toilet, as I suggested and expected.
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Secret Santa, or a gift for a visitor to London.
A quite brilliant book of photgraphs capturing the more obscure, funny and cringeworthy locations and moments in London. Read more
Published 5 months ago by AllYouNeedIsNow
Simply awesome!
Really good book, very weird but awesome and funny, would recommend it to my friends, I usually show it off to friends whenever they come over. Hopefully part 2 coming out someday!
Published 8 months ago by TrumpBoy
HILARIOUS! A real treat.
What a fun idea for a book! Absolutely hilarious. Sometimes you do walk past something odd or funny in the city and wish you'd taken a picture of it. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Jamie Anson
Weirdness captured
A mildly amusing book with a few really fun photos amongst all the amateur mediocre ones. The 106 show what you can expect to see in various parts of down-market London though I... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Robin Benson
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