Things you see on your commute

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/61798879@N00/5189971467/

^ Brighton's new soccerball multiplex in the distance

btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Monday, 14 May 2012 10:54 (eleven years ago) link

god damn

btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Monday, 14 May 2012 10:55 (eleven years ago) link

no suitable image results for "man's suit armpit"

ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Monday, 14 May 2012 12:39 (eleven years ago) link

I love the statues ("The Spirit of Progress" on top of the old Montgomery Ward building, and Ceres on top of the Board of Trade) because they are so atavistic.

Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Monday, 14 May 2012 12:42 (eleven years ago) link

http://i48.tinypic.com/r7iyyt.jpg

Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 14 May 2012 12:49 (eleven years ago) link

My girlfriend shot this, I drive by here most mornings. Bridge is being rebuilt, not supposed to be done for another year-plus.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/henleybridge.jpg

something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 14 May 2012 12:53 (eleven years ago) link

Apparently part of gr8080's commute is by canoe? Mine is by bicycle, so I suppose it's possible.

Anyway, lots more that I get to see.

http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/art_museum.jpg

i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Monday, 14 May 2012 13:59 (eleven years ago) link

carl agatha can see my old office on her commute

♆ (gr8080), Monday, 14 May 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link

Which building? I will wave on my way home.

Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Monday, 14 May 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link

http://rockytrail.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/chicago_board_of_trade_building.jpg

― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Monday, May 14, 2012 7:40 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my workplace is in this picture

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 14 May 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link

n/a's desk is in Ceres's head.

Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Monday, 14 May 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link

Opened the thread planning to say that I see examples of poor parenting, since my mass transit journey unfortunately encounters quite a bit. But these are great photos. I don't see nearly as much great architecture, except for this bridge:

http://www.johnweeks.com/cablestay/pics/sabo40.jpg

Advanced Uncle Meat recovery system (Dan Peterson), Monday, 14 May 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link

Christchurch is great. Much to my eternal shame, I've never been to St Patrick's.

gyac, Monday, 14 May 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link

Sometimes there's a houseboat on the canal when I drive to/from work that's called "si prurit scabendum" - Latin for "when it itches, you have to scratch"

StanM, Monday, 14 May 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link

ha,oops.

zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Monday, 14 May 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link

ugh you guys have exciting commutes! mine is p much boring suburbia

Sometimes the drive-in is showing movies and I try to guess what ppl are watching as I whiz by
http://s3-media3.ak.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/lWVmEhusVZjFr_w-_kD-NA/l.jpg

there's a strip club about halfway to work that backs onto the freeway, and they have p funny signs like 'NAKED PILLOW FIGHTING'..plus the classic sketchy looking RV parked off to one side

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 May 2012 23:21 (eleven years ago) link

Obviously, most of my commute is on a train.

Jeff, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 01:02 (eleven years ago) link

same train as carl agatha's from the looks of it

♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 01:32 (eleven years ago) link

My commute is a one block walk from my house to my office, so there's not much but a couple weeks ago I encountered a duck family that needed help crossing a wide street. (they were on their way to the LA River/Griffith Park side of the street)

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7118/7113988493_ec378466d2_z.jpg

Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 03:05 (eleven years ago) link

did you help them?

mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 03:19 (eleven years ago) link

Yes I did. It's kinda fun to block four lanes of traffic.

Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 00:53 (eleven years ago) link

<3 those ducks

navihchkan (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:01 (eleven years ago) link

drive past what used to be top gun and is now marine corps air station so i see tiltrotor ospreys and black hawks and f-18s and c-130s passing scary close to my head

bit farther north theres a big new sign advertising AMBIENT COMMUNITIES

http://www.ambientcommunities.com/

the late great, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:10 (eleven years ago) link

<3 xp

mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:10 (eleven years ago) link

BTW, this wasn't the first time I had duck traffic on the way to work. A couple years back I encountered this family but they didn't need help crossing a busy street.

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4005/4582386006_b7195baac1.jpg

Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:09 (eleven years ago) link

aww

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:14 (eleven years ago) link

no pic, but today justine and i saw a car with the license plate "<3CLUBN" (an actual heart, not the symbol <3)

how did we get here how? (ytth), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:23 (eleven years ago) link

elvis you should add something about ducks to your family crest/next album cover

mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:29 (eleven years ago) link

a roundabout!

Ian svenonononius (admrl), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link

aww patos sydney pic makes me kinda sad. that used to be my commute. now its all interstate, another interstate, but HEY MY WORK HAS A PARKING LOT so...

educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link

http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/images/wabc/cms_exf_2007/news/local/5989994_600x338.jpg

pretty much just this everyday.

Spectrum, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/FKvKJtk.jpg

хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/ElectrifiedFence_zpsc94df7b4.jpg

I took this from a moving bus, so the words are probably illegible, but there are two signs on the corrugated metal fencing in the backyard down that alley. The larger one reads something like "DANGER Electrified Fence OMG U GONNA DIE" and the other one is some kind of "Guard Dog on Duty" placard.

how's life, Thursday, 30 May 2013 12:36 (ten years ago) link

In the morning I drive in with friends so they are people I often see on my commute. I don't really see anyone interesting on my commute home anymore really.

Years ago though there as this man on my bus who was amazing. He was maybe in his 50s with curly salt and pepper ringlets and he wore two little gold hoops earrings in one ear. In the winter he would wear a man fur and matching Russian style fur hat and sometimes he carried a guitar. One of my then co-workers rode the same bus as me and she and I were obsessed with finding out this man's story. After months of speculation she came running into my office one morning to tell me that she'd happened to spot him in a hair salon nearby called "H@ir by Denn!s". Naturally I needed to know more so within five minutes I'd booked an appointment with him. It turned out that he himself was Dennis and that he had owned the store for years. He was straight and single, sometimes played in jazz band, and had one of the thickest Boston accents I've ever heard. Dennis was actually pretty fucking cool and I had him cut my hair for a good couple months before I realized I was only going there for the company and that he was actually really shitty at cutting women's hair. I had to stop seeing Dennis. Sometimes I have to walk by the shop and I always look the other way when I do so because I'm afraid he's going to see me and then I would feel bad.

Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Thursday, 30 May 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link

things I see on my commute

on the way to work:

http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/19021918.jpg

Beacon Hill from the Longfellow Bridge.

one the way home:

http://www.pictureninja.com/pages/united-states/massachusetts/crazy-buildint-at-mit.jpg

these crazy-ass buildings at MIT.

Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Thursday, 30 May 2013 14:11 (ten years ago) link

Ha I didn't realize I put those buildings on here last year but they're really neat!

Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Thursday, 30 May 2013 14:18 (ten years ago) link

The Stata Center!

how's life, Thursday, 30 May 2013 14:23 (ten years ago) link

http://i41.tinypic.com/10wnn0h.jpg

los blue jeans, Friday, 31 May 2013 04:19 (ten years ago) link

today the Hipster Viking Games Programmer was wearing a scarygoround t-shirt

I ran through a mental filmreel of all the possible outcomes of an ugly woman on a bus blurting out some or all of the words "hey cool Scarygoround shirt, I love Bad Machinery", possibly not in an order that makes even that much sense because my brain/mouth interface hates me, at a younger hipper attractive dude, and decided none of them were good. so I did not

(must find the cable to get photos off my phone so I can have a less stalkerish, more architectural/waterfowl-based answer to this thread)

susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 08:45 (ten years ago) link

in the front garden of a corner house i walk past on the way to work is a tree, and in the tree is a cuddly panda. the thing is filthy but it appears to belong to the householder because it's been there month after month, sitting high up in its tree. the garden is neat and looked-after, with a little rockery and a cute plaque saying something to the effect of "home sweet home" iirc. i keep meaning to photograph the panda but i don't want to get caught.

Doctor Who's on first (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 09:03 (ten years ago) link

eleven months pass...

http://i.imgur.com/RT4CxO9.jpg

°ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 29 May 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/BvyHHWW.jpg

So the original artist who painted this rock as a teenager came back to update it and match it closer to his vision of the alien being who visited him and inspired him to paint the portrait in the first place.

http://i.imgur.com/NmEIFYo.jpg

I usually don't care for the George Lucasization of artworks, but I'll make an exception in this case.

pplains, Thursday, 29 May 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link

Every day I pass by a field that looks exactly like the default Windows XP background...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/Bliss.png
...only without the mountain.

an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Thursday, 29 May 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link

holy crap, there's a mountain back there.

pplains, Thursday, 29 May 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link

two years pass...

New garda station being built opposite GMIT.
The Woods beside the hospital, still trying to think how far down inside them I went. Had been wondering how much of them there was, now know that there is a narrow strip that's about 200 foot deep that goes quite a wa. Very difficult to guage depth or anything from the bus.

The stretch of woods on the far side of the main road that I've passed for years and still never seen the extent of

Stevolende, Monday, 12 September 2016 09:56 (seven years ago) link


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