observations...-soho

Construction workers
Pigeons on pavement
Couple looking for vintage magazines (I later realized they were walking in the opposite direction)
Main with suitcase
Old man walking towards queens theatre
Sounds of metal cutting (I named the recording at drilling)
Yoshino is open so early
Samurai sushi + bento open
Avenue Q – lady smoking in front of the closed entrance doors
Sound of vehicular traffic
Apollo theatre doors / shaded passage – ideal spot for smoke / sandwich break
Territorial behavior
Lady in RED walked up and down Rupert street and vanished into winnet street
Cars parked
Man walking through – in no hurry
Shops seems closed from Rupert street end
Video library open
White horse pub – open
Bocca di lupo – coffee shop visible only if u walk through archer street
Archer street studios – ground floor has a hair salon – a very old man, very meticulously cutting a person’s hair – a tanning salon (receptionist looking bored in life) – and the third partition is the entrance to the upper floors
Studio’s existence is doubtful, as there are two ‘to-let’ signs
Apparently, area is subject to increased police activity tackling drugs and prostitution!!!!! How ironic???
Other streets look like there’s more probability of the above said activities
be@1 bar + windmill international + the lyric – two bars sandwiched in between a gentleman’s club
Street light maintenance
People walking towards Shaftesbury and towards Brewer Street – nobody is in a hurry – Monday morning blues??
Stage door open
Awfully quiet
The lyric bringing in plants from the outside
Freebird burrito shop set up.. 5quid for a burrito!!!
Prowler – visitors more during the day
2 indians looking around sex shops
Less crowded times
People walking leisurely
Two guys in suits looking around for strip clubs trying to be inconspicuous but unsuccessful I guess
View of ‘mamma mia’ from the end of Rupert
Food joints attracting crowd as lunch time approaches
Outside snog – corner with bollards – man taking smoke break from shopping / walk
Market – flowers
Fruits
Vegetables
Colourful bags + leather
Shops behind hidden by the mid street stalls
Leather + junk accessory shop
Everybody facing the wider sidewalk – retro shops – vinyl shop – hair salon
All coexist
I’m making people around me curious – they probably think I’m either a cop or a nosy journalist or nosy activist
Most likely, a suicide bomber – from the looks of the corner sex toy shop
People using walkers court as a link passage
2 people discussing the ongoing construction and their opinion on what is happening

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Dirt is black in London – why?
Why not brown? Red? Green?

Snog is always lit. that space remains constant at all times of the day

Tisbury court
Strip clubs
Live girls
Straight into old Compton street
6 pound haircut

Such bliss – SOHO in the morning

Rupert street – man collecting change from telephone booths
Painters in the corner – white overalls and red tshirt – one of them with a very serious expression. What was he thinking?
2pm – police patrol – walkers court empty for the moment – after they left – life’s back to normal there
More and more tourists taking picture below the soho revue bar
St. annes churchyard garden – perfect spot for lunch break – serene, green and right in the middle of soho
food kiosks on Rupert street vanished
Bag man still present
Crowd changing attitude and colours
More relaxed environment
More joyful….

Party on….