IF ANYONE WANTS TO TAKE THIS PROJECT ON, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE IT.
So I'm in Hythe today, mooching around the bookshop and chatting with my friend Jackie. We put the world on the right track discussing the finance turmoil and laughing at the bankers. Then it was time to get some food.
I nip over the road put in a order for a baguette. In the sandwich shop are a gaggle of estate agents, also waiting for food. I knew they were estate agents because they were young, wore the team colours of the local branch of estate agents and also because they (like a lot of property developers) have done everything on the cheap to make their 'buyer appeal' a lot higher than if they'd remained on good foundations.
It was like they'd gone foursies on a packet of peroxide. Silly hairstyles (flock of seagulls for anyone old enough to remember them) and tiny, thin, weak beards framing tinier, thinner, weaker chins.
I realised then that estate agents in the UK had become the embodiment of their own industry of making something seem a lot better than it really is with a little bit of MDF and a splash of magnolia/blonde.
Of course, with the current trend in the housing market going the way it's going, then I think it would be kind of fun to do an artistic photography project of these young estate agents, all done up like peacocks but with the facial expression letting down all of their splendor. As if they're realising for the first time that substance outweighs style.
If anyone wants to do it, I'd love to see it.
