June 2010
12 posts
Oil →
british postage stamps - a set on Flickr →
british textiles stamp - andrew foster
Sound less loud →
This short link has made me think about urban noise. There’s a lot of it, and generally it’s awful. It also made me think back to my trip to Japan, where, as I recall it (probably erroneously) there was a lot less noise, and ‘undesigned’ incidental noises, such as alarms, announcements, etc were less intrusive (the birdsong compared to the beep of equal volume).
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