The recurring newspaper
FILM PROPS are frequently reused, as it’s a lot easier to pick an existing prop than to go to the trouble of making a new one. This is especially the case with newspapers, often glimpsed only briefly in a shot. This prop newspaper, created by the Earl Hays Press, has been featured in over ten […]
What’s the time?
A REASONABLY ATTRACTIVE retro-style clock in a Newmarket café. But can you figure out the time? With the hands exactly the same colour, shape and size as the structural bars you could be excused for missing them altogether. Then you spot the hour hand just before the 12, and shortly afterwards you make out the minute […]
Pissing policeman
THE WINDOW OF A POLICE STATION in Geneva, Switzerland. Is it just me, or does that graphic of a policeman pasted on the window look like he’s been taken short?
In-car messaging
HERE’S A HELPFUL MESSAGE from the car I rented recently. I have absolutely no idea what to do with this information, or lack of it. Is this similar to describing something as “indescribable”?
Brown’s Bldg’s
MAYBE IT WAS THE SIGN WRITER’s day off, and his work experience assistant did the job. Or maybe he’d had a heavy lunch and was suffering from indigestion. But can there really be any excuse for the misplaced apostrophe? And why didn’t they just make the sign bigger, since the space available is easily wide enough?