Psychogeography: Synchronised Travel

Last night Psychogeographers around the world (we're still not sure whether the SHOP club member who was in New York actually did it or not, yet) synchronised their watches with SHOP and set about discovering city streets seldom ventured, or familiar ones from a different perspective and recorded the journey how they saw fit.

Taking directions from a hand out or live via twitter, feedback so far suggests mixed results.

We will post accounts from fellow travellers as we get them. So far, we know of the discovery of a curiosity shop and a 'nice pub'.

Here's how SHOP's own Synchronised trip played out:

Our starting point was Hotel Du Vin...

Woo, look at how the nature mirrors the architecture and look at those lights that don't look like a scarey monsters eyes.


Now walk in any direction for 50 to 100 paces and turn 180 degrees...

At this point we saw the traffic lights reflect off the trees, but the camera didn't pick it up very well and we couldnt draw it very well either. Trust us it was the most beautiful thing since that carrier bag blowing in the wind in American Beauty.

Continue walking in that direction until you see something blue...

Not the most wonderful examples of the colour blue, but blue none the less. After seeing this something blue, we noticed lots of other blue things. It's blue da-ba-di-da-ba-da.

Make a left turn and walk 50 to 70 paces...

We ended up right in front of this brick-work-art-work on the front of the eye hopital building, reminding us of the heady days of hedgehog flavoured crisps.

Walk in any direction until you see something that either is, or looks like the number 7 or 11...

Quite a claim! We didn't wait around to see if it could hold that many taxis, we had more discoveries to make.

Take the first left and continue walking until you find somewhere to sit...

On the way to find a seat we came across this little sign we hadn't noticed before.

We sat in a bus shelter. Someone's a little bit tired?

Choose any direction and walk for 25 to 50 paces...

This was where all the budget went: We flew in some professional leg models from Miami for this particular shot. As you can see from the results, it was worth every penny.


Continue walking until you see an unusual colour, shape or texture. Turn 180 degrees...


The mysterious tiled optical illusion on the outside of Cafe Delight on Perry Road provided us with our unusual shapes and one might on occasion say it twisted our melon man.

Keep walking in any direction until you see an archway or an unusual architectural feature...

Is there a better archway in Bristol (nay the world, nay the universe). There's only one way to find out...Fight!!

Head for home, but continue looking for something that catches your eye.

This caught our eye. Orbs of light, fancy!!

Wow! The stairway to the centre of the Earth (Nah, forget it let's go to the pub).

We ended up doing a kind of circle of the block and so were in very familiar territory, but we agreed it's still a worthwhile exercise as you are forced to engage with the streets and achitecture as apposed to using them as a corridor on your way from one place to another.