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Taxis-with-adverts photoed five years ago
For quite a while now, I have been curious as to when my habit of photoing taxis-with-adverts kicked in. I’m still not sure, but by August 2015 (August 15th 2015 to be exact) this habit had evidently...
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Upside down pylon
A pylon is just a pylon, but if the pylon is upside down, it must be art, because what else could it be? Also, the bloke who turned it upside down gets the credit for this, rather than the people who...
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Big Things combined differently
I was in John Lewis in Oxford Street a few days ago, and despite being encumbered with two huge new pillows in a vast bag, I managed to photo this photo: The inevitably artificial light was unhelpful...
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Mirror and white
As I said, I didn’t do much photoing when I met up recently with GodDaughter2. But I did do some. Of this dazzling object, for instance, in a shop window: This is why I love digital photography. I...
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A Japanese lady sits on a shop front
Photoed by me last Tuesday, in Acton: See eleven more photos of this mural and further information about it here. As my title says, I like how Fin Dac has used the details of the surface he was faced...
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More London
Back in March 2019, on the same day and just before I photoed these photos, I photoed this photo: What I like about that is what I also find weird about it, which is the way that this metal circle of...
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Bingeing on Haydn symphonies
Every so often, a combination of my ever more gargantuan classical CD collection, of my own shifting tastes in classical music, and of my particular life circumstances result in me experiencing musical...
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View of Old London Bridge from the West
Found this here: Painted in 1650. it’s this. I particularly like how this shows the architectural dominance of old St Paul’s, on the right, and even more so of the Tower of London, to the far left....
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The President of Turkmenistan expresses his love of dogs with a golden statue
Here: Says Eurasianet: The new monument that was commissioned several years ago puts the Alabai in exalted company at the forefront of state propaganda. The Alabai being a breed of dog. The statue,...
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A Fake Ancient bridge with buildings on it in Scotland
I encountered this amazing place …: … on account of it being advertised at, of all bizarre places, This Is Why I’m Broke. Not the whole thing to buy, you understand, just a stay there for the night....
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EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT
I’ve been feeling down in the dumps lately, and I came to realise that the permanent photo on my computer wasn’t helping. It was of a boarded up house in Brittany, and it was there because that seemed...
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Ship in a bottle in Trafalgar Square
Ten years ago, I photoed this, in Trafalgar Square, on the plinth where they keep having different sculptures: But I immediately forgot about it, and only learned about it again now. But, the internet...
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One for the “You Are Here” collection
Nowadays, cameras can tell you exactly where you were when you took a photo, as well as exactly when you took it. But I can’t be doing with all that. I prefer taking photos like this one as I do my...
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Giving the green light to a cement mixer
For me, a complicated day. What spare time I had was spent paying attention to sport, basically to take my mind off all the complications. So, here’s an illuminated cement mixer, which I photoed...
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Wooden sheep out east
So there I was, out east, exploring what was happening to the canals in the Bow, Hackney Wick part of London, photoing photos like this, …: When, rather suddenly, I came upon this: All that grubbing...
View ArticleSteven Johnson’s history of what we do for fun
Tell ’em what you’re going to say, tell ’em, tell ’em what you said. I believe that’s the formula that many preachers follow when they give their sermons. The bit from a book below is from the “tell...
View ArticleYou cannot be unconventional if there are no conventions
Last October, I wrote about, and quoted Misha Donat writing about, the astonishing outburst that happens during the Andantino movement of Schubert’s penultimate Piano Sonata, D959. In Standpoint,...
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EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT again – and its reflection
Ever since doing this posting, I have had that photo up on my computer screen, and I remain very fond of it. Here are two more photos of that same piece of art/signage, photoed around the same time,...
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Another quota advert
Yes. Spent the day chasing details, and keeping half an eye on the Six Nations. In an empty Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, the crowd was not missed much and Wales beat England. Oh well, it’s only a...
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Email problems: EIG2BA
I am suffering email problems just now. I can send them, but I can’t receive them. As of now, I am relying on The Guru to ensure that …: … which they surely will, eventually. Meanwhile, the only other...
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