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More pictures from film I shot about a year ago in Trafalgar Square.>






Wednesday, March 30, 2005 12:43 PM 0 comments

Trans Siberian Railway

I've pretty much decided that my holiday this year will be to take the train from Sheffield to Bejing (via London, Paris and Moscow). My current plan is to go in winter so that I can visit the Harbin Ice Festival, which is a festival in China where they make stuff like huge snow sculptures and things like replicas of the Great Wall of China from ice. So, you could say that Chill will be chilling on a chilly train. DO YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE?

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 1:51 PM 2 comments

London Zoo

I mentioned last week that I found a load of film that I had forgotten about. I've had it processed and one of the batches was taken at London Zoo last September. I didn't like London Zoo. Pretty much all of the cool animals have gone to Whipsnade Wildlife Park, as it was quite rightly decided that a pokey little cage in a Victorian zoo is not an ideal place for things like elephants. The animals that are left all look depressed. They must have seen the other animals being released and are all jealous. Maybe the tigers sent the lions a postcard saying things like "Wish you were here? Well you're not. I am. It's great. They didn't move you here because they think you'll be dead soon anyway, and so there's really no point, loser. (You will have to envisage me making an L shape with my paw. I know that being a tiger this is not technically possible, because I haven't got opposable thumbs, but you get my point, which is that you are a loser). Everyone knows that the tiger is the real king of the jungle. You're just the twat of the jungle."


9:51 AM 0 comments

London Again


Underground
Originally uploaded by chill.
I was in London again this weekend. I don't know why I don't just bloody well go and live there.

Monday, March 28, 2005 6:25 PM 0 comments

GNER Route Information


GNER Route Information.
This is quite cool. GNER have wireless internet on their trains (free in 1st class), and are using GPS to display you a map on the train's web page showing where you are and what direction you are pointing in. As you can see, when I took this screenshot a few moments ago, it was 09:24 and I have just gone past Newark-on-trent, heading towards that London.
All it needs is a more detailed map and a speedometer, and it would be perfect.

Saturday, March 26, 2005 9:37 AM 0 comments

That London

I went to the Opera in London on Saturday. The Royal Opera House is a great building, a really stylish blend of old and new. There are endless details, some purely functional, some purely cosmetic. It doesn't really comes across well in the photo below, but I really liked the way that the upper bar area seems to float in the middle of the mirrored wall of the "Floral Hall".
Floral Hall - Royal Opera House
There's not a bad view from the terraced area outside the bar and restaurant area...
Covent Garden

London itself was thankfully full of its usual eccentrics...

Tagged Man

Sunday, March 20, 2005 10:50 PM 0 comments

Mystery Photos

Oooh, this is exciting. I was having a massive clearout of junk over the weekend, and came across 6 films that I had forgotten about that need processing, and I can barely remember what's on them. I know that there's some pictures of a peace rally in Trafalgar Square, and some pictures of Harvey and Benson (black Labradors), but beyond that I haven't a clue. Hopefully there'll be something on them that is worth posting here.

I saw a cool book in Waterstones the other day. It was called Ernie (I think) and was basically a book of witty postcard sized pictures of the photographer's cat. So, while Nick's homosexualist cat Jimmy is still living with me, I have decided to compile a similar compendium of photos. I've got some cool ones so far, but will wait and publish the whole lot when he goes up to live in Edinburgh, so be patient.

Monday, March 14, 2005 11:22 AM 0 comments

Site Updates

Tony pointed out earlier that the archives didn't work, so that's fixed. When I was sorting that I realised that Blogger will publish a site feed, so for those of you with rss readers, I've set it up here.

Thursday, March 03, 2005 8:57 PM 0 comments

The Way We See It

The Way We See It is a fairly new photo site where each week a group of photographers visit and capture a different part of London in their own style, with frequently impressive results. I'm thinking this would be a cool thing to get going in Sheffield. I might pop over to the Sheffield Forum later and suggest it.

8:25 PM 0 comments

Sad But True Quote of the Week

"The ratings aren't that great," Cross [Tobias Fünke in Arrested Development] admits. "The mass of American viewers aren't that bright or clever or have the patience with a show with a format like this -- the single camera style, no laugh track. And Fox -- which is this little mom-and-pop network run off of a boat in Australia by a guy named Rupert Murdoch -- I don't know if they have that patience either, especially if they think they can make more money off some My Littlest Retard reality show."
Taken from this interview with Arrested Devlopment and Ally McBeal star Portia De Rossi. Unfortunatley the same can be equally be applied to British viewers in spades.

Wednesday, March 02, 2005 8:48 PM 0 comments

For Your Consideration

Here are a few blog sites that you may or may not know about that are worthy of your time...
Travis Ruse's great photo blog about the New York Subway.
Richard Herring's always funny blog - today he explains how he dealt with a persistant female heckler by ad-libbing a bit about how she was a horrible old gnarled witch who baked children in pies.
Zach Braff's site (director/star of the brilliant Graden State and director/star of the equally brilliant Scrubs) is worth checking in on though the posts are fewer these days.
The Observer's brand spanking new blog - media transparency at its finest.

8:26 PM 0 comments

RSS Tags

I realised today that the tags in Flickr are available as an RSS 2 feed, which is pretty cool. Here's a feed of photos tagged with "Crookes" containing a photo of Tim's car covered in snow, taken last Thursday.

Tuesday, March 01, 2005 12:08 AM 0 comments