SarahandPaul
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BIN FAN MARK TAKES THE MICKEY
Date : 16.05.06
Most people who go on a dream trip to Disneyland come back with holiday snaps of the kids with Mickey Mouse and Pluto. Not so fashionista Mark Timmins who returned with pictures of the Disneyland rubbish bins.
Even though his six-year-old daughter was picked as the princess to lead the grand parade, the customised litter bins were the highlight of his visit. So while his family were enjoying the rides and shows, he was snapping away as many pictures of them as possible.
Now a Bristol-based recycling centre, the Create Centre, is to stage an exhibition of photographs taken by the former West man who is now Fashion and Textiles director at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland.
There are nearly 30 photographs showing how Disney has decorated each of the bins differently to fit in with different parts of the park.
"My personal favourite is the twin-bins from ToonTown, which are decorated with the mops from the Sorcerer's apprentice section of Fantasia and the message 'keep it clean', " he said. "It's all to do with repeated images and the concept of mass customisation. It's the complete opposite of Ford's idea of 'any colour as long as it's black'." The Disney Bins exhibition opens at the Create Centre, Smeaton Road, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, today.
BIN FAN MARK TAKES THE MICKEY
Date : 16.05.06
Most people who go on a dream trip to Disneyland come back with holiday snaps of the kids with Mickey Mouse and Pluto. Not so fashionista Mark Timmins who returned with pictures of the Disneyland rubbish bins.
Even though his six-year-old daughter was picked as the princess to lead the grand parade, the customised litter bins were the highlight of his visit. So while his family were enjoying the rides and shows, he was snapping away as many pictures of them as possible.
Now a Bristol-based recycling centre, the Create Centre, is to stage an exhibition of photographs taken by the former West man who is now Fashion and Textiles director at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland.
There are nearly 30 photographs showing how Disney has decorated each of the bins differently to fit in with different parts of the park.
"My personal favourite is the twin-bins from ToonTown, which are decorated with the mops from the Sorcerer's apprentice section of Fantasia and the message 'keep it clean', " he said. "It's all to do with repeated images and the concept of mass customisation. It's the complete opposite of Ford's idea of 'any colour as long as it's black'." The Disney Bins exhibition opens at the Create Centre, Smeaton Road, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, today.
