[HN Gopher] How Long Does It Take to Draw a Picture of Every Pub...
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       How Long Does It Take to Draw a Picture of Every Pub in London?
        
       Author : mooreds
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2025-06-10 11:17 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | n4r9 wrote:
       | https://archive.is/P6HpU
        
       | timewizard wrote:
       | I guess we'll never be fully rid of industry bought puff pieces
       | but to put this in the "World" section is absurd.
        
         | dylan604 wrote:
         | some people read HN in their free time. this person has decided
         | to draw pubs in her free time. i don't see her making shit
         | posts about how you choose to use your free time.
         | 
         | if it were not for this article, I'd never have known that
         | someone was trying to draw by hand every single pub in London.
         | so it was successful in delivering news to me
        
       | simonw wrote:
       | Those drawings are beautiful. Here's her Instagram:
       | https://www.instagram.com/lydiawooddrawings/ and TikTok:
       | https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiawooddrawings
       | 
       | I love the ambition of attempting to draw 2,500 pubs, at a rate
       | of about 3 a week, spending a full day on each one. That should
       | keep her busy for at least 17 years. 300 done already!
        
       | tdeck wrote:
       | The "archive" angle feels like a stretch to me - there are
       | already photos of all of these pubs, so it's not as if their
       | appearance would otherwise be lost to history.
        
       | wdaher wrote:
       | A bit reminiscent of Tallis's "London Street Views":
       | https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051808932&se...
        
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