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The London Banana Project is an “ongoing documentation of banana skins in the urban London landscape”. I’m fascinated with this type of project because I also like to take note of strange, funny and mundane details, especially in big cities.

In London, for example, I am obsessed with remnants of history that people pass by every day without noticing; recently I visited the last remaining sewer gas lamp in the city, found by turning down an alley, passing through a busy pub avenue and theatre stage doors, and loitering by some parking lot exits. There are other funny elements in the city that I could perhaps document…like the habit of pressing chewed gum onto the eyes of celebrities and models on posters in the Tube and in bus shelters.

Anyway, I couldn’t help but think of this strange story from 2006, “Falling banana kills woman.” I’m sure that reporter is still chuckling over including terrible produce-related puns: “Friends said it was seen as an appropriate end to a unique and fruitful life.”