Other banned activities include drawing on pavements with chalk, charity collection, sleeping in cars, revving of engines, preaching, skateboarding, spitting, smoking electronic cigarettes, looking after more than six dogs per person and selling lucky charms.
And at the Zabludowicz Collection on Chalk Farm Road, I loved Andy Holden's MI MS project: where he revisits a manifesto for art that he and his friends set out when they were 18 and living in Bedford.
Five minutes later, as Tony and I were making plans to meet the next night at his house for a look at his collection of old chalk stream books, we saw a fly-line suddenly appear over the Piddle cast upstream, of course, and dry.
One friendly volunteer who had no pins was desperate to start a collection, so I chalked up some karma points and gave him one of mine.
He was the first Yale Graduate School student to cross over to the Medical School, to study anatomy and embryology.Later, he illustrated his lectures with fine anatomical drawings, painstakingly rendered with what he proudly called Harvard's best collection of sharpened chalks (he was not a PowerPoint person).
Beside the front door are a collection of steer skulls, bleached chalk white by the sun.
In London, Matthew Miller presented a collection built around classic boardroom chalk stripes subverted into patchwork, jean jackets, and biker shapes.
A black chalk drawing by Raphael consigned from the historic collection of the dukes of Devonshire sold on Dec. 5 for £29.72 million, or $47.86 million.
His uncle sidled up to him, and pointed to the Black Fleece collection in the back, where a chalk-stripped flannel by Thom Browne could be purchased for $699, down from $2700.
And the designer Francisco Costa ran with it, creating a streamlined collection in black and shades of ivory, chalk and parchment white, with just three splashes of color, including copper-strap sandals.
The fossil bird collection contains material from the Cretaceous Niobrara Chalk; the Eocene Green River Formation; the Oligocene of Goshen Hole, Wyoming; the Miocene, Agate Springs, Nebraska; and mid-Pliocene deposits of Florida.
