Friday 6 September 2013

Anybody out there? - Dating in Cambridge

Love O.N.O #7
The first 6 cards have been drawn up and are ready to go the printers.
All taken from real Cambridge singles ads with just a little twist each time.
Here they are with an brief explanation of how they've been altered.


#1
Once printed they'll be placed in newsagents windows across Cambridge city centre.
Some will be for sale in Cambridge's Oxfam shop.
These will be part of the fascinating Art:Language:Location exhibition which runs from 17th October to 3rd November 2013.

#2
#1 Breathless - Change of Title from 'Positive Mental Attitude' and addition of NoPunctuatedLiving

#3
#2 - Took out a little content but very little to do, just addition of last 3 words.

#3 - Aiming High - Change in title from 'Home loving' and reversal of words. Born again Christian lady originally wrote she was accepting of a man who had had a few knocks in life.

#5
#5 - Change of words from 'Good time' to 'little upflow furnacing' and 'more' to 'bimetallic coupling'.

#6
#6 - No additional words on this one. A few removed and a simple rearrangement of words to make it rhyme.

#7 - My favourite of this batch. The most satisfying are the statements where you change just one word and the meaning is transformed.
At least a third of women on Cambridge dating sites have children already and rightly are unapologetic about this. It is better to be upfront of course and honesty must be the best policy.
As you might have guessed I changed the word 'children' for 'parents', and 'man' to 'women'.

Alban.

More info - http://artlanguagelocation.wordpress.com/







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