The Maaru Collective — Ongoing — London

— Issue N° 026

Notes, pictures, records and places, kept because there's life in the mundane.

A creative collective of one. Nothing here is trying to sell you anything. It is a place for things that would otherwise go unnoticed: the 07:12 bus, a stairwell at 08:50, a record bought up a flight of stairs in Nairobi.

Recent

The latest 8, in no particular format

— Journal — essay

The 140 at 07:12

Same bus, same seat, same eleven people. Notes from a year of the same commute, and why I stopped wearing headphones on it.

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— Journal — observation

Concrete does not pretend

The multi-storey car park behind the high street is the most honest building in town. A short defence of a building nobody likes.

1 min read

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Bus stop typography

Tracing the lettering on every bus stop flag between home and the station, to see if they are all the same. They are not.

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