Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What about hotel room toilets? Sometimes it's a challenge to find out exactly how a particular one flushes, especially in England where the button can be hidden in the wall some distance above the plumbing. Ted Grant wrote: > Robert Appleby and Sue Darlow wrote: > > > A friend of mine, a swedish political journalist who writes about India a > > lot, got into the habit of photographing every toilet he used in India. > > After a six month tour, they published a two-page spread of Indian toilet > > photos.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > Hi Rob, > I can imagine an interesting series of pictures. When I've traveled > countries of the world and used the "biffy" in many, the subject had > crossed my mind several times thinking it could be an international one. :-) > > In the early '80's a friend and I were pushing publishers to do a book > entitled: "Urinals of the World." It would probably be a "guy thing," > although women tell me they'd be curious about "Urinal Stalls of the > World." and it would be a better sounding title. Same subject. > > However, publishers in Canada don't have any imagination when it comes > to books, unless they can get great amounts of money from the government > to cover publishing costs. They don't, because we don't have imaginative > government nor politicians either. ;-) > > In any event we started shooting across Canada while we were working on > "paying assignments" and as often as not we got strange looks while > shooting in the "mens". > > But we kind of lost interest very quickly after being accosted by a > couple of great big muscle bound pee brain types, who took us to be of > another gender. They felt we really needed to get "close-ups in the > urinal bowl head down!" If ever there was a time I thought I was going > to "piss my pants," let me assure you it was the scene of me head down > in the bowl with a 15mm on an R4! :-) > > One might say, I didn't think it was a pretty picture and got the hell > out of there as fast as my feet would go! Basically ending the "Urinals > of the World" project. > > After your post and the many urinal stalls I've stood at since the > "muscle encounter," I still think it would produce one hell of a book, > simply because it's an international location. I just need a fairy God > Mother with lots of bucks to bank roll an around the world tour of urinals! > > Any of you guys out there know a benevolent fairy God Mother? ;-) > > ted