Members of the Bored in the City Collective and friends met outside the Palace Theatre, Oxford Road for the Monkey Magic walk. Those involved did not know where the walk would take them, but one person decided to lead the way and walk to the Roman Fort. Before we started moving, a poem was recited:
This is the monkey magic walk
We are monkeys
Monkeys are real situationists
Monkeys are real psychogeographers
Monkeys have fun
Monkey goes where monkey wants
Monkey climbs trees
Monkey finds bananas and a peach
If you find the peach of immortality from the Jade Emperor's Heavenly Garden and if you take one bite, then you will be granted immortality forever.
Let's begin the walk!
So on this note, we began the walk. Fortunately, we were armed with some bananas and a peach - essential food for magic monkeys. One of the members of the collective had recently bought a plastic toy camera (Holga) and they have taken some of the photos included in this blog posting.
What's interesting with photos taken with toy cameras, is that because of the plastic lens and the potential for light leaks into the film, this means that the images which are produced can be unpredictable...sometimes rubbish as a result, but sometimes awesome! Also, photos taken with plastic cameras are not crystal clear, but instead do give much more mood, contrast and also more 'subjective' qualities to images ...
We arrived at the fort, with the Beetham's Tower (known by the bored in the city collective humorously as the 'tower of satan'!). A photograph was taken of the roman fort, with the Beetham's Tower looming over ...
One tower, plus two ...
The remains of a roman wall ...
The watchtower ...
A car park for modern day Romans
A location close to the Emperor's Heavenly Garden ...The seed of the peach is buried in a secret place in the Emperor Jade's heavenly garden and we hope that it will grow to create more magical peaches to grant others immortality ...... Concluding the walk, we ended up in the Arndale Centre and we ate our bannanas
From the Bored in the City Collective

What would this fisherman say that psychogeography is?