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Map of London tube with anagrams of the station names...

 
  

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All Acting Regiment
15:39 / 10.02.06
Here's the map. You'll agree that it's quite amazing.

But look who it's copyrighted to...

Hmm.
 
 
pointless & uncalled for
15:55 / 10.02.06
This doesn't bode well.
 
 
electric monk
16:01 / 10.02.06
Quite a sight to behold. "Concerning Torments", "Filthy Seance". Dare I ask who this person is? PM me if it's Someone We Don't Speak Of.
 
 
Triplets
16:22 / 10.02.06
Mornington Crescent anyone?
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
16:26 / 10.02.06
that certainly is bizzare.

Spoiler speculation anyone?
 
 
Bear
16:30 / 10.02.06
Is this a Doctor Who thing? I don't get the fuss isn't this just someone liking the name. It's just an AOL account after all?
 
 
All Acting Regiment
16:38 / 10.02.06
As far as I know, but who knows? I haven't checked out the rest of the site. I just thought it was interesting, verging on the situationist, to see familiar names whisked into new forms, and then I saw the torchwood thing and thought it might have something to do with RTD or DW or TW.
 
 
grant
16:41 / 10.02.06
Care to explain for non-uk, torchwood-ignorant readers?
 
 
A fall of geckos
17:03 / 10.02.06
Torchwood is going to be a Dr Who spinoff - starting later this year.

And it's an anagram of Doctor Who.

Don't know if this is connected, but the anagram thing is kind of provocative, and the Doctor Who team have a history of planting websites that link into the show.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
17:13 / 10.02.06
That's what I was thinking. I wonder how easy it would be to make a map like that. Hmm. Is there any map-making software out there?
 
 
electric monk
19:01 / 10.02.06
And it's an anagram of Doctor Who.

Ah. Clever clever.

You could probably do that with any ol' graphic software package, given enough time and a pre-existing map to work from. I thought "Illustrator" when I first saw it.
 
 
Dead Megatron
19:30 / 10.02.06
Never been to London (or the UK, for that matter), but I'd love to see what's in a place called "Twist New Lovers"...
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
19:32 / 10.02.06
I just burned a bunch of the University's color ink printing this to hang over my desk.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
19:42 / 10.02.06
I'd love to see what's in a place called "Twist New Lovers"...

Believe me, the reality of the place anagrammed is no match on what imagery the reworking might conjure.
 
 
trouble at bill
20:05 / 10.02.06
It's very good in terms of its eerieness, but it's also very Simon Patterson's Great Bear, and hence a bit early ninetees.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
20:14 / 10.02.06
See also the Tube map in German for a further intriguing variation on the theme.


(Was there a thread about the German map already, or am I suffering from false Barbelith memory syndrome in place of another board here?)
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
14:13 / 11.02.06
Since I myself am more early '90's than an EMF album, I happen to have a framed print of 'The Great Bear' on the wall of my boxroom, less than two metres from this PC. I like the way it causes visitors to get stuck inches from the wall, following the names from line to line and digging the interpolations.

Can't find a link but The Guardian's music section printed something similar on 03/02/06 - a London tube map with the lines as musical genres and each station a particular artist. Naturally, intersections were marked by 'crossover' artists so that for example, the meeting of the Pop, Rock and Reggae lines was The Specials (District, Circle and Central at Notting Hill Gate in reality). Still more naturally, the letters page the following week saw some outraged musical hairsplitting from readers.

Canty... formerly of Enneads/Silver Apples.*
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
14:14 / 11.02.06
*I swear this is the first and last time I sign one of my posts.
 
 
trouble at bill
14:40 / 12.02.06
There's some detail about the Grauniad's one here which I happened across when searching for the previous link.

Also just noticed this one here which is perhaps mildly amusing. Clearly there's a lot of this about...
 
 
Mistoffelees
15:20 / 12.02.06
The german tube map is genius! I can´t wait to visit this year and use a colour copy of the map, casually holding it, so my fellow traveller can have a peak and geek.

Morgentonnen-Croissant
 
 
doglikesparky
15:50 / 12.02.06
I've just noticed Burn If Sparky and can't decide whether to be nervous or not.
 
 
Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown
17:36 / 12.02.06
"This is HIDE FALCONRY. Change here for the LEMON PATRIOT line."

I'm naming a superhero the Lemon Patriot. He'll be a 5th stringer. The sort that gets killed by 3rd string villains in the first two pages just to prove they're serious.

Heh. Lemon patriot...
 
 
All Acting Regiment
18:17 / 12.02.06
There's a flash one that can morph between the graphic map and the actual physical layout of the lines. I'll try and dig it out.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
18:42 / 12.02.06
Here it is.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
18:49 / 12.02.06
Promises, promises...
 
 
Jack Fear
13:23 / 22.02.06
Look at the message now:

"Content removed at the request of Healeys Solicitors acting on behalf of Transport for London and Transport Trading Ltd."

The ludic approach to the world has been taken down by The Man.

What possible point is there to be made by threatening legal action here? Is this the thin end of the wedge for Tube fascism? First they came for the map-remixers—then they came for the Mornington Crescent players, mark my words!
 
 
William Sack
13:35 / 22.02.06
Interestingly, there is no such firm of solicitors as "Healeys". Perhaps TFL are represented by Healys, who, rather embarrassingly, can't even spell their own name.
 
 
pointless & uncalled for
13:42 / 22.02.06
Or perhaps it was just a typo on behalf of the page owner. The thot plickens.
 
 
Mistoffelees
13:45 / 22.02.06
Mind the map.
 
 
William Sack
13:52 / 22.02.06
I think the page owner should put the map back online and tell "Healeys" and TFL to sick his duck.
 
 
Mistoffelees
13:58 / 22.02.06
Or to cook his sock?
 
 
sleazenation
14:00 / 22.02.06
I'm sure he would if you promised to sign a disclaimer that you would cover all legal expense such an action might incurr...
 
 
pointless & uncalled for
14:01 / 22.02.06
I wonder if they would take up his offer and sub their peonas.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
16:00 / 22.02.06
The only sensible reason I can think of for this censorship is that someone might, possibly, if they were very lucky, put it on, say, a Japanese (or French or whatever) website and present it as the real map, and thus trick the (very, very) few Japanese tourists who aren't well versed in place names. But that hasn't happened, and as it is the censorship's disgusting.

Yes, Europe! Bastion of free speech! Err, so long as it's nasty shite about other people's religions and not our choo choo trains!
 
 
trouble at bill
16:30 / 22.02.06
but isn't that map the intellectual property of Harry Beck's estate or TFL? That is to say, someone somewhere owns it, it's not just there for anyone to help themselves to. (Unless of course this is all part of the publicity stunt...)
 
  

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