The Infamous Fractal Pavement at the author's chaos shop in Notting Hill Gate 1991 - with artist Howie Cooke and manager Grant Warrell (standing)

"But imagine what would happen if everybody did this - it would be total chaos."

The actual words uttered to this author in 1991, when a beautifully painted fractal pavement appeared in front of my Strange Attractions shop devoted to chaos theory. The council team were there within two days to dig it all up and put new grey paving down. I queried the why of it with the local bureaucrat in charge, and this is what he said verbatim, whilst complimenting us on the work. Meanwhile two burnt out abandoned cars littered the same road for two months, endangering children and looking pretty ugly. I contemplated starting a "terrorist" group after this which would have gone out in the dead of night to paint pretty pictures around dangerous potholes that needed filling.

(Taken from chapter 17 of Uncommon Sense)