h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Simon Patterson's 'The Great Bear' - A8859414
Author: Beatrice - U190170

Hello?

First time getting involved with AWW, but I'd like some wider input into this. Plus it's not really destined for the edited guide...

Welcome to the AWW.

I'm afraid I got bored before the end of the list. I would rather know more about Simon Patterson and his work. What gave him the idea for his work of art? How long did it take him, etc?

I was fascinated. Didn't know that about the origin of the 'Domini canes'.

Found the map: http://www.artland.co.uk/Patterson_Great_Bear85.jpg Shouldn't there be a link?

Perhaps also for us furriners, a regular Underground map? (It's been a long time since I had the pleasure of travelling to Elephant and Castle.)

And yes, more about this Patterson fella. I think I like him, although Mel Brooks???

Yesss, I know it's a looooong list, that's whay I reckon it aint going in the Guide.

But I did get some input when researching from others who could say "Oh yes, the connection between these stations is...." or "That ties in with the London Undergorund station since...."


and I kinda hoped putting it in here might expand that collaborative aspect

Can certainly add a biog of Patterson, and a link to the Tube map proppa.

Sounds good to me.

Big project! I think I understand now. The challenge is to work out the connections? Whether there's any connection between the person used and the station they represent?

That's interesting. My initial reaction was along mVp's line - that it just looked like a long list.

If you're putting it here to collect ideas this won't be relevant, but if you want to make it an entry/article in its own right my suggestion would be to write something that outlined the art work and gave enough detail of the artist and some examples/theories of connections from that list, to intrigue readers. The complete list could be a separate, linked entry that was just a list and which coud be updated as information arrived.

Dipping into it, I wondered if some links were just associations triggered by the sound of the station and the sound of the name. Not sound-a-likes, just association.

Waz

Wow. The Bear. I did think about doing this as and entry about 7 years ago.

I think it could go into the guide as a set out entries one pointing out Simon Peterson and his work. The one for each of the alternative lines as the real Underground is done.

However, even I baulked at the amunt of work in this.

Bea,

Are you looking for something like:

Captain Cook
Captain James Cook is generally accredited with charting the east coast of the continent now known as Australia, whose citizens now plague London's Earls Court like the rabbits that arrived with the First Fleet. Whilst Cook himself is not a Saint, he is named for St James.

This will take some monumental investigation.

D'you know what? I think "white elephant" is about as good an ambition as this can have. Trout, it would be lovely to think that people might come along and suggest inventive connections, but that's just not going to happen.

Thanks for your interest - creating it kept me sane during a very boring 6 month assignment, but I believe it has reached the end of its line/ run out of steam/ insert your own railway analogy.

Of moderately related interest:

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25992702-5013016,00.html

Now there's a thing!