Clark Sorensen decided they weren't interesting enough, apparently. Check out his range of Urinal Sculptures and see if you really feel like peeing into an orchid. The symbolism is overwhelming here.
http://www.clarkmade.com/urinals.html
Amazing!
Monday, September 28, 2009
Mysterious forms blossoming in the men's
So this is why I'm jealous of the men's room. I know, I know. The men's room is disgustingly dirty compared to the women's. What's that about, lads? But honestly: with urinals added to cubicals, men's toilets have more interesting challenges in carving out space and design.
Clark Sorensen decided they weren't interesting enough, apparently. Check out his range of Urinal Sculptures and see if you really feel like peeing into an orchid. The symbolism is overwhelming here.
http://www.clarkmade.com/urinals.html
Amazing!
Clark Sorensen decided they weren't interesting enough, apparently. Check out his range of Urinal Sculptures and see if you really feel like peeing into an orchid. The symbolism is overwhelming here.
http://www.clarkmade.com/urinals.html
Amazing!
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Fish and Falafel and Chips
This was a mishmash late night food stop, complete with live rock and roll star impersonator, singing to you as you down your plate of food.
Fish and Chips, Chalk Farm.
Yes, that is a huge tub of mayonnaise.
Cut a hole out so you can flush.
Angrydan?
Fish and Chips, Chalk Farm.
Yes, that is a huge tub of mayonnaise.
Cut a hole out so you can flush.
Angrydan?
Next to greatness
Union Chapel, Highbury
A lovely venue for concerts, with some dingy temporary buildings for toilets.
This plant wants in!
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Touch of Lime Green
The National Portrait Gallery, London
Bizarre wall covering... for some reason?
Just some lime green paper towels to add some colour.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Toilet Paper Banner
Here's a peek into The Alice House Bar in West Hampstead, London.
This was up behind the toilet bowl itself.
Behind the modern exterior was a classic British toilet that needed to be flushed with a chain.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
This is amazing!
Perhaps the idea of a public toilet will some day become obsolete, because we'll all have portable toilets in out handbags.
Taken from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6130918/Germans-invent-portable-toilet-for-women-that-fits-in-a-handbag.html
Germans invent portable toilet for women that fits in a handbag
A German company is marketing a mobile toilet for women that fits into their handbags and can be used whenever they are caught short.
Aware that the fairer sex battle with long queues at conveniences and are loathe to relieve themselves at roadsides like men, the makers of the "Ladybag" believe they are on to a winner.
The disposable portable lavatory consists of a plastic bag fitted with absorbent polymers that turn urine into a gel.
The size of a chocolate bar when folded, it has a wide opening and can be used squatting, sitting or standing.
The gel can absorb a pint of urine, but in an emergency the bag itself can hold 2.2 pints.
"It can be used in cars, or to avoid dirty toilets or at open-air festivals when you don't want to queue. You can just nip round the back of the toilet and use this," Eva Tinter, who invented the Ladybag, told Germany's Der Spiegel magazine.
"There's never been a product like this in this form."
The Ladybag is recommended for one-time use and comes in a bag of three for €11.27 (£9.85) including packaging.
"The gel prevents unpleasant smells and the bag can be disposed of in rubbish bins. It is not harmful to the environment," added Ms. Tinter.
Taken from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6130918/Germans-invent-portable-toilet-for-women-that-fits-in-a-handbag.html
Germans invent portable toilet for women that fits in a handbag
A German company is marketing a mobile toilet for women that fits into their handbags and can be used whenever they are caught short.
Aware that the fairer sex battle with long queues at conveniences and are loathe to relieve themselves at roadsides like men, the makers of the "Ladybag" believe they are on to a winner.
The disposable portable lavatory consists of a plastic bag fitted with absorbent polymers that turn urine into a gel.
The size of a chocolate bar when folded, it has a wide opening and can be used squatting, sitting or standing.
The gel can absorb a pint of urine, but in an emergency the bag itself can hold 2.2 pints.
"It can be used in cars, or to avoid dirty toilets or at open-air festivals when you don't want to queue. You can just nip round the back of the toilet and use this," Eva Tinter, who invented the Ladybag, told Germany's Der Spiegel magazine.
"There's never been a product like this in this form."
The Ladybag is recommended for one-time use and comes in a bag of three for €11.27 (£9.85) including packaging.
"The gel prevents unpleasant smells and the bag can be disposed of in rubbish bins. It is not harmful to the environment," added Ms. Tinter.
On a more humerous note
Don't get stuck down the toilet.
Taken from:
http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2009/09/05/down-in-the-dumps-after-toilet-trauma-61634-24611751/
Down in the dumps after toilet trauma
Sep 5 2009 by Neil Preston, The Journal
A TEENAGER dubbed ‘poo girl’ has told of the horrific moment she got stuck down a toilet at a music festival.
Charlotte Taylor from Sunderland who became trapped in a portaloo at the Leeds festival when she attempted to retrieve her purse which had fallen into it
Charlotte Taylor was wedged in a Portaloo for 20 minutes at Leeds Festival after dropping her bag down the toilet and reaching down to get it.
The 18-year-old couldn’t reach her bag – which contained her phone, ticket and all her money – and lunged down to try to get it.
But poor Charlotte got her shoulders wedged and she had to be freed by a group of laughing firefighters.
Charlotte, an apprentice at Specsavers who lives in East Boldon, said: “I travelled down alone on the Friday night and met up with a group of about a dozen friends.
“On Saturday we got up late then went to see a few bands in the morning.
“About 12.30pm me and a friend went to the toilet. I had my handbag on my shoulder when I went into the cubicle.
“As I got up to leave I swung my body round to open the door and my handbag slipped off my arm and disappeared down the toilet.
“It was disgusting seeing my bag down the toilet in among all the poo.”
Charlotte had been to the festival last year and, after having money stolen from her tent, was this year carrying everything with her in her bag.
“It had my phone, ticket and all my money in so if I left it I wouldn’t have been able to get home, I would have been stranded.
“I put one hand down but I couldn’t reach so I put the other one down too to try and grab it.
“I had both my hands down the toilet. I was straining so far down that I got wedged.
“My shoulders were stuck on both sides and I couldn’t move at all.
“I was struggling and trying to get out and just made it worse.
“I kept saying to myself ‘Oh my God I can’t believe this is happening, it can’t be real’.
“I knew I couldn’t get out myself and was so embarrassed.”
But that was just the beginning of Charlotte’s humiliation.
She continued: “Soon my friend came to look for me because I had been so long. I told her I was stuck and needed help.
“My friend raised the alarm with some firefighters but they didn’t believe her and thought it was a joke.
“Eventually my friend persuaded them to come and look.
“They still thought it was a joke and loads of them came over. They stood looking at me for a while.
“Eventually they took the top of the toilet off so they could get to me.
“Two firefighters got hold of me on either side and pulled and pulled at me.
“They pulled so hard I got bruises on my hips and shoulders.
“Loads of people were now looking on and laughing at the scene. Eventually they got me out by sheer force. They took me away to the showers where I had to get undressed and I was hosed down. I went to the welfare tent to get some clothes so I could get back to my tent to get my own clothes.
“All of my friends were laughing at me when I told them what had happened.”
Soon the story of Charlotte’s ordeal spread among the thousands of festival-goers, with the rumours becoming wilder and wilder.
“Throughout the rest of the weekend I could hear people talking about it.
“The rumours got out of control – I heard one that a dwarf had fallen in and drowned.”
Charlotte’s mum Chris Taylor, 51, who runs a post office, said: “When Charlotte told me I just laughed.
“I felt bad for her but you have to laugh at these things.”
Taken from:
http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2009/09/05/down-in-the-dumps-after-toilet-trauma-61634-24611751/
Down in the dumps after toilet trauma
Sep 5 2009 by Neil Preston, The Journal
A TEENAGER dubbed ‘poo girl’ has told of the horrific moment she got stuck down a toilet at a music festival.
Charlotte Taylor from Sunderland who became trapped in a portaloo at the Leeds festival when she attempted to retrieve her purse which had fallen into it
Charlotte Taylor was wedged in a Portaloo for 20 minutes at Leeds Festival after dropping her bag down the toilet and reaching down to get it.
The 18-year-old couldn’t reach her bag – which contained her phone, ticket and all her money – and lunged down to try to get it.
But poor Charlotte got her shoulders wedged and she had to be freed by a group of laughing firefighters.
Charlotte, an apprentice at Specsavers who lives in East Boldon, said: “I travelled down alone on the Friday night and met up with a group of about a dozen friends.
“On Saturday we got up late then went to see a few bands in the morning.
“About 12.30pm me and a friend went to the toilet. I had my handbag on my shoulder when I went into the cubicle.
“As I got up to leave I swung my body round to open the door and my handbag slipped off my arm and disappeared down the toilet.
“It was disgusting seeing my bag down the toilet in among all the poo.”
Charlotte had been to the festival last year and, after having money stolen from her tent, was this year carrying everything with her in her bag.
“It had my phone, ticket and all my money in so if I left it I wouldn’t have been able to get home, I would have been stranded.
“I put one hand down but I couldn’t reach so I put the other one down too to try and grab it.
“I had both my hands down the toilet. I was straining so far down that I got wedged.
“My shoulders were stuck on both sides and I couldn’t move at all.
“I was struggling and trying to get out and just made it worse.
“I kept saying to myself ‘Oh my God I can’t believe this is happening, it can’t be real’.
“I knew I couldn’t get out myself and was so embarrassed.”
But that was just the beginning of Charlotte’s humiliation.
She continued: “Soon my friend came to look for me because I had been so long. I told her I was stuck and needed help.
“My friend raised the alarm with some firefighters but they didn’t believe her and thought it was a joke.
“Eventually my friend persuaded them to come and look.
“They still thought it was a joke and loads of them came over. They stood looking at me for a while.
“Eventually they took the top of the toilet off so they could get to me.
“Two firefighters got hold of me on either side and pulled and pulled at me.
“They pulled so hard I got bruises on my hips and shoulders.
“Loads of people were now looking on and laughing at the scene. Eventually they got me out by sheer force. They took me away to the showers where I had to get undressed and I was hosed down. I went to the welfare tent to get some clothes so I could get back to my tent to get my own clothes.
“All of my friends were laughing at me when I told them what had happened.”
Soon the story of Charlotte’s ordeal spread among the thousands of festival-goers, with the rumours becoming wilder and wilder.
“Throughout the rest of the weekend I could hear people talking about it.
“The rumours got out of control – I heard one that a dwarf had fallen in and drowned.”
Charlotte’s mum Chris Taylor, 51, who runs a post office, said: “When Charlotte told me I just laughed.
“I felt bad for her but you have to laugh at these things.”
A look into our culture
Toilets and the rooms that house them provide an insight into our worlds. I'm not trying to dramatize the toilet, but just think about how we organize our homes, what we expect from public and private toilets, and how the restroom experience affects our behavior as consumers. Look how much there is to say about the toilet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet#Private_toilets
We have a wide variety of names of toilets, and the diversity of their design around the world is equally impressive. But before I wander off into academizing the toilet, I'd just like to briefly defend my choice of topic.
This blog is interested in how we organize everyday spaces, and what insight that can provide into our worlds.
Just look at how people inhabit the space of a bathroom.
We primp, we adjust, we examine and apply various means of manipulating our appearance. These acts happen almost exclusively in bathrooms and when we leave we're better prepared to face the world. In theory. I'm interested in how the spaces around us affect this experience.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet#Private_toilets
We have a wide variety of names of toilets, and the diversity of their design around the world is equally impressive. But before I wander off into academizing the toilet, I'd just like to briefly defend my choice of topic.
This blog is interested in how we organize everyday spaces, and what insight that can provide into our worlds.
Just look at how people inhabit the space of a bathroom.
We primp, we adjust, we examine and apply various means of manipulating our appearance. These acts happen almost exclusively in bathrooms and when we leave we're better prepared to face the world. In theory. I'm interested in how the spaces around us affect this experience.
This is a blog about toilets
I am fascinated with toilets. Bathrooms, washrooms, toilets, powder rooms. Call them what you will. What a bathroom looks like is interesting. Restaurants and bars may spend lavish budgets decorating their main atria and dining room, but then the owners can really let loose in the bathroom. So I have created this blog so you can peek into all the toilets that I've gone into.
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