File:Forlorn, forsaken, forgotten.jpg
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English: Sunday 11 May 2008, 3:28 pm. In Rosebery Avenue, Tottenham, London N17.
═════════════════════════════════ What do you see? Well, obviously, a fridge-freezer. Why is it on the pavement? Probably dumped there because it doesn’t work. And its owner (a resident? or perhaps a landlord?) didn't know - or couldn't be bothered - to make just one phonecall. In 2008 Haringey Council offered all residents a free recycling collection of fridges from people's own homes. It took one phonecall to arrange. Plainly, not enough people knew about that. So one person’s throwaway becomes another person’s problem. It needed to be reported and collected. And in the meantime it creates other problems. Imagine you’re blind, for example. How does the local council – and its waste contractor - get across its message about recycling?? The Fridge Door as a Medium of Domestic Art? Now think of what we don’t see. When it was 'at home' - inside the house - was this fridge bare? Or was it, for instance, like Nico Hogg’s fridge door in his photo covered in magnets, notes and . . . a toy monkey? Aren’t fridge doors one of the significant breakthrough media of domestic art and design? As with T-shirt logos of the 1960s & '70s, isn’t the kitchen fridge magnet an iconic, signature artefact of contemporary Western civilisation? And fridge door and magnet together the art and heart of everyday family life? Well, alright, that's a slight exaggeration. But look at some of the Flickr groups which celebrate the fridge door. What it tells us about private lives. How it can be fun. Millions of people treat their fridge door as a noticeboard. And many thousands as a frame to create their own domestic art. Forget fridge. Think poster. Think temporary street noticeboard! Announce to the fridge dumper and everyone else walking or driving-by that there is another way! That it's environmentally friendly. And it's free! Back in 2007, at a local neighbourhood meeting, Laura Berryman came up with a modest proposal. Why not have colourful, lively, sticky labels on dumped fridges; to give information about the free fridge recycling collection. Laura suggested a slogan. Give Your Fridge a Good Send Off ! ________________________________________________ ¿Como un collage cotidiano? § Click here to read a bit more about Laura’s suggestion. § JenX5 ran out of space on her fridge door and used the cooker. § A Spanish group tells us: "la puerta de la nevera entendida como un collage cotidiano ". It's a collage of everyday things which we need or like to see. § A multilingual Flickr group celebrates beguiling fridge magnet poetry. § Nico Hogg’s fridge door . § The Great Refrigerator Project reveals that: : "The refrigerator door is a microcosm of our lives". § Flame airbrushed fridge by Jerry Cates. |
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Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/53921762@N00/2489627128/ |
Author | Alan Stanton |
Camera location | 51° 35′ 48.07″ N, 0° 03′ 40.81″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 51.596687; -0.061336 |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Alan Stanton at https://flickr.com/photos/53921762@N00/2489627128. It was reviewed on 22 December 2021 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0. |
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Camera manufacturer | Canon |
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Camera model | Canon PowerShot A640 |
Exposure time | 1/125 sec (0.008) |
F-number | f/4 |
Date and time of data generation | 14:28, 11 May 2008 |
Lens focal length | 7.3 mm |
Orientation | Normal |
Horizontal resolution | 180 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 180 dpi |
File change date and time | 13:59, 13 May 2008 |
Y and C positioning | Centered |
Exif version | 2.2 |
Date and time of digitizing | 14:28, 11 May 2008 |
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Maximum land aperture | 2.96875 APEX (f/2.8) |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Flash | Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression |
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File source | Digital still camera |
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Digital zoom ratio | 1 |
Scene capture type | Standard |