Brixton Village/Granville Arcade indoor market, Brixton

[TruXta]

Would it fit you?

The size or the style? The latter - hell yeah. I'd look HOT in a dress like that.

 

[editor]

The size or the style? The latter - hell yeah. I'd look HOT in a dress like that.

*steps away

 

[Pickman's model]

The size or the style? The latter - hell yeah. I'd look HOT in a dress like that.

www.specsavers.co.uk

 

[TruXta]

*steps away

Why, afraid of the trannies are we?

www.specsavers.co.uk

Shush, freakazoid.

 

[editor]

Why, afraid of the trannies are we?

Post up a picture and let me decide.

 

[TruXta]

Post up a picture and let me decide.

http://cdn.stripersonline.com/1/1a/1ab109a6_tbash-3.jpeg

 

[Winot]

I don't like how they've used the trees in the background to make it look like some sort of European boulevard. That's trafficed, polluted Coldharbour Lane out there. Those sorts of people may be there at the weekends but it doesn't really realistically represent the environment.

Eh? Has it been photoshopped?

 

[pissflaps]

God damned gentrifying trees! Someone should chop the fuckers down! Brixton isn't about trees, it's about realness!

 

[nagapie]

Eh? Has it been photoshopped?

I don't think so but that's not the only way to make a place look different to how it actually is. I believe some photographers have quite good skills that way.

 

[Winot]

I don't think so but that's not the only way to make a place look different to how it actually is. I believe some photographers have quite good skills that way.

Well I guess people have to make up their minds whether the photo is:

(a) realistic (in which case they can complain about reality) or

(b) unrealistic (in which case they can complain about the photo).

 

[nagapie]

Well I guess people have to make up their minds whether the photo is:

(a) realistic (in which case they can complain about reality) or

(b) unrealistic (in which case they can complain about the photo).

I think there's a bit of both of those going on.

 

[Winot]

I think there's a bit of both of those going on.

*head explodes*

 

[editor]

I think that picture accurately manages to capture the kind of scene you might expect to see in that part of the Village on a weekend.

Thankfully, there's still more to the place than jolly nice people chomping on jolly nice food, although those traditional stalls may be deemed too unphotogenic to the demographic they're trying to attract with their Facebook page.

I imagine it works both ways though as I'd have no interest in going to a place that looks like the one they've posted up.

 

[Rushy]

Cornercopia (in the photo) is great. Local guy and his partner (she's in the photo). Much of the food is locally sourced - not just from stalls but local tiny scale producers.

Has no one noticed the elderly Afro Caribbean (probably?) shopper carrying full blue market bags slap bang in the middle of the shot?

Makes me think of the awareness test. "It's easy to miss something you're not looking for."

 

[editor]

Has no one noticed the elderly Afro Caribbean (probably?) shopper carrying full blue market bags slap bang in the middle of the shot?

What a strange comment. Yes, I have eyes. I noticed her immediately. I'd hazard a guess that she's probably the only one in that shot supporting the traditional market traders too.

 

[TruXta]

What a strange comment. Yes, I have eyes. I noticed her immediately. I'd hazard a guess that she's probably the only one in that shot supporting the traditional market traders too.

It's really not very strange.

 

[editor]

It's really not very strange.

Sure seems strange to me to assume that people are all unable to see a rather obvious part of a photo and then start posting up links to awareness tests, presumably to suggest that we're collectively having some sort of a problem seeing what's in the photo . Oh well.

Anyway, here's some pics I took of the Village recently.

 

[Rushy]

It's really not very strange.

Thank you.

 

[TruXta]

Thank you.

No worries. Ed's got that bee in his bonnet again.

 

[editor]

No worries. Ed's got that bee in his bonnet again.

I think you might need to take that awareness test.
Anyway, anyone got any comments or insights about the photos I just posted up?

 

[TruXta]

I think you might need to take that awareness test.
Anyway, anyone got any comments or insights about the photos I just posted up?

And I think you're missing the point again. anyway, we've done this to death.

 

[leanderman]

I don't like how they've used the trees in the background to make it look like some sort of European boulevard. That's trafficed, polluted Coldharbour Lane out there. Those sorts of people may be there at the weekends but it doesn't really realistically represent the environment.

The picture in question could just have equally been of the beer gardens at the Duke of Edinburgh and Trinity Arms last night.

 

[TruXta]

The picture in question could just have equally been of the beer gardens at the Duke of Edinburgh and Trinity Arms last night.

Or the Effra Social, Crown & Anchor, Grand Union *spits* etc.

 

[sleaterkinney]

I think you might need to take that awareness test.
Anyway, anyone got any comments or insights about the photos I just posted up?

I still agree with your post from the start on the thread:

It's certainly brightened up what was a seriously ailing part of Granville Arcade (yes Granville Arcade - not this rubbish 'Village' nonsense) , even if it bits of it are a bit art-hipster-wank.

Still, it's better to have something going on than empty spaces, and hopefully it'll kick start some life into the arcade.

But I hate what's happened to Market Row.

 

[DietCokeGirl]

Posting here, because 'Brixton Village' routinely block or remove anything 'honest' posted on their facebook page, and frankly, it's gone far enough!

Is someone paying them to present 'Brixton Village' as some kind of yuppie paradise, rather than portraying an honest view of 'Granville Arcade' with ALL it's users/shoppers/workers?

It used to be a volunteer, now it's one of the traders who I shall not name but is certainly divisive and with own agenda.

 

[Crispy]

well that is indeed a separate issue, the blocking of commenters is highly suspect - that sort of behavior is never acceptable, regardless of your opinion. sorry for pissing on your parade. you can all get back to sniping at stranger's sock choice now.

Good. It is a bad sock choice. The wrong sock choice.

 

[editor]

Here's a scene from Market Row today.

 

[TruXta]

Nice and selective shooting there, ed.

 

[pissflaps]

dick move.

 

[Crispy]

Nice and selective shooting there, ed.

Still an impossible photo to take just 2 years ago.