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What Colour is the 11 route?

From my 111111 explorations: This year I decided to see what colour the outer circle was. I’ve been fascinated with an iPhone app called Color Identifier that does nothing else but read out the colours it detects in the centre of the camera’s sensor — based first on RGB values and then this list of colour names. I sat on the top deck of the bus and angled the camera so the colours it was reading were around eye-level for someone on the pavement. The headphone output of the phone was linked up to a recorder, recording it in real-time. The app reads a new colour about every three seconds. I got on the 11C at around 11:20am, on Vicarage Road in King’s Heath, but it took around one stop to set up the iPhone and Zoom H2 to record. So, the circuit started here, opposite King’s Heath Park. The circuit took around 2 hours 20 min — the driver had a fag break in Ward End and popped in to a house opposite Acock’s Green Garage for a minute or two. So here’s what colour the outer circle is. A beautifully relaxing two-plus hours of spoken word (please feel free to download...

111111 2010

On the eleventh of November 2010 you are invited to take part in a pyschogeographical epic. A window of eleven hours to complete a circuit of Birmingham’s number eleven bus. 2009′s results were recorded here… including MoxyPark’s wonderful 11 bus song:

Tweleven, sorry

Replay a quick snapshot of today’s 11 bus extravaganza – via the medium of Twitter: 11 bus tweets

Last November I encouraged,nay nagged around 30 people to spend 11 hours on the eleven bus. Not many made 11 — but each recorded their journey. It was recorded by means of: Wonderful photos: Pub Splash Pans The TV Hundreds of tweets Live blogging And in many other ways, but no crochet. This year a circuit will be enough — sign up to come, here…

Which way do you like to go round? Don’t forget we want a circuit off you on the 11th November. Either way you’ll want one of these badges, or both, or a number of both. 50p each (plus p+p, should be no more than 50p for small numbers) is what they’ll cost ‘ya. Email us with your order & we’ll send you an secure paypal payment link

The psychogeographers on the bus go round and round

One thing those old Hebrew storytellers had was a grasp of the symbolic power of encircling a town. When Joshua brings down Jericho it’s not the brass arrangement, it’s the ongoing circumnavigation. So if there was an easy way to surround one of Europe’s largest cities you’d do it, wouldn’t you? Luckily there is — the eleven bus. The number eleven skirts the city of Birmingham, the 11C clockwise, the 11A anti, taking in all of its great suburbs as far from the city centre as you can get without ending up in the wider conurbation. At two hours 45 minutes long it’s one of the longest bus routes in Europe, and if you stop on you can go round and round again. And that’s what we’re doing on Tuesday the 11th of November. From 11am, around 30-40 people (we reckon) will be spending 11 hours on the 11c bus, photographing, recording, blogging, drawing, mapping, writing about the experience. You’ll be able to watch some of the action on the web as it happens. There are few rules, we won’t be together (unless by chance we meet) and we’ve not divvied up tasks. This will be a random, personal,...

Mapping and planning for 11 11 11

Plan your day for the forthcoming 11 hours on the 11 bus spectacular. "An expedition of our scale needs careful planning. If you’re going to spend eleven hours on a bus, you need to know places to eat, places to get off to go to the toilet, places to charge your gadgets if you’re doing anything like filming or photography. So we need an editable collaboratable map. Luckily here’s one:"

The unwritten history of the eleven bus

Help us build a history of the eleven bus, for research peurposes prior to 11-11-11. Just pop along to the site and add to or edit.

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Posts Tagged ‘ 111111 ’

What Colour is the 11 route?

111111 2010

Tweleven, sorry

11-11-11 what happened last year?

Are you an 11A or an 11C?

The psychogeographers on the bus go round and round

Mapping and planning for 11 11 11

The unwritten history of the eleven bus

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