Links to the Shark page
The Shark page excites more interest than any other page on this site, with at least 200 new people looking at it each day. Here are some other webpages about the shark, most of which link back to the one on the Headington website.
Reference works, tourist sites, and magazines
- Wikipedia: The Headington Shark
The Shark shares the honour of a Wikipedia listing with such other Headington luminaries as Brian Aldiss, Bill Heine, and Councillor Stephen Tall
The Wikipedia text on the shark is also on licence to AnswersCom, Biocrawler, and ReferenceCom - Arts Toolkit: This day in the arts (August 9)
This site ensures that 9 August will be remembered in the arts world for the birth of the Headington Shark (as well as for the Sistine Chapel and the Leaning Tower of Pisa) - Nothing to see here
"A collaborative guide to some of the world’s lesser-signposted places to go" - National Geographic
A very early shark sighting (May 2002)
Photographs
- HaHa-Nu: Strange statues around the world**
See the Headington Shark at No. 30 (page slow to load) - Geograph British Isles project: Shark
The shark occupies the map square for central Headington - Geograph British Isles project: A rival fish
Someone in Norbury with a marlin on his roof! - Vox**
"There is nothing more awesome than sharks, man. Nothing. Sharks. Rule." - Kamshots
A different picture of the shark, with eight comments - Deke’s page
Another new picture of the shark - BBC: Headington shark gets the bends
Pictures of the shark and New High Street taken with a panoramic lens
- Christopher Griffin: stock photograph of the shark
Patently thinks the text on the Headington site just can't be improved - The Hoary Ape’s photos
Four original photographs by Peter Evans - Flickr
There are numerous pictures on the above link to the search results for "Headington Shark". There were five other people who helped themselves to the shark picture on this site, and not only passed it off as their own work but offered it copyright-free to the rest of the world. These have now been removed. - MySpace:
Dave Dark and the Sharks** Shark used as avatar
Blogs & message boards etc
These are too numerous to list, but here are just a few:
- Sir George Young MP**
"Si monumentum requiris..." The planning minister concerned gives his side of the story. - Fool.co.uk: Latest casulty [sic] of the North London tornado
"Independent Financial Comparison" message board - Riannan’s world**
"Just when you think it’s safe to get out of the water" - Archibase architectural forum (slow page to load)**
Chooses the Headington shark as one of the world’s top ten most strange monuments - Grouse
"To me it expresses something more like 'Holy shit, my neighbour is a mentalist!' " - Guardian News Blog: "One blooming big bunny"
Describes the shark as "one of the most famous outside installations" - Richard Huzzey: The Headington Shark
An Oxford LibDem notes the shark’s twentieth birthday - The Mortgage Bloggers**
Behind on the Mortgage – Expect a Call From a Shark - Stephen Tall
Another Oxford LibDem: "Giving tryst to the people" - Alec Muffett
"I rather suspect that today this would be classified under one of New Labour’s beloved new antisocial neighbour regulations, and dismantled" - FunTrivia
Showing how the web has taken all the fun out of trivia quizzes about sharks - Jonson Blog
An American regrets having left Oxford "right before it became interesting".... - Fireblades Forums
A d iscussion of "anything that doesn't fit anywhere else", which describes the shark to a T - Road Remedies
"Only in Oxford would decapitated, displaced megafauna convey the 'make love, not war' message" - Look at This
Bringing you the best and worst of the web (but it doesn't say into which category the shark falls)
Other mentions of the Shark
- Independent: "The Weird and the Wonderful: The bizarre side of the UK"
"But, in building, it takes something extreme these days to qualify as eccentric. Take the Headington Shark" - English at Oxford
The shark as an advertising gimmick - Stumbleupon**
Plenty of people are stumbling upon that picture again.... - Dementia-friendly cities: designing intelligible neighbourhoods for life
You can only read the abstract here; you have to pay to see the whole article, which apparently features the shark - Infomotions: Sharks in Oxford
Possibly the earliest reference to the Headington Shark on the web, dating from 5 January 1993
** These people have all helped themselves to the picture of the shark on this site without asking, but they are hereby granted retrospective planning permission to use it.