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The Photographers’ Gallery
Tomorrow evening across Europe, millions of people will be watching the annual festival of… well… music I guess, that is the Eurovision Song Contest. There have already been a couple of semi-finals, with the big show happening in Baku tomorrow night. So it was interesting in the same week as this is happening to go…
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How Should I See Prometheus?
I’m an enormous fan of Sir Ridley Scott, and can claim to have seen pretty much everything he’s directed. Yes, even the horror that was A Good Year. So with Prometheus imminent, with personal anticipation levels matched only by Dark Knight Rises, and perhaps Skyfall, I decided tonight that I really ought to sort out…
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RAJAR Q1 2012
It’s May, and that means it’s time for another round of radio numbers and RAJAR. I’m not sure that there’s a completely compelling over-arching story this time around. Nationally, Radio 1 has slipped a little in reach and hours, but Radio 2 has done well with a decent increase in reach to nearly 14.6m adults,…
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Damien Hirst
A friend organised a trip to Tate Modern to see the new Damien Hirst exhibition. To be honest, I’m not really a fan of his. Partly it’s the distaste I have for the overtly commercial imperatives placed on his work, either by him or others, and partly it’s the nature of it. You hear stories…
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Rolling Thunder
listen to ‘Storm Passing By’ on Audioboo I just can’t help myself when there’s a storm. I need to get out there and experience it. Sadly, this one passed away just that bit too far in the north, and I missed the initial hail. Still, here’s a binaural recording of some of the rolling thunder.…
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The Big Ride
Watch in HD over on Vimeo Yesterday, I joined several thousand others riding around some closed streets of Central London as part of the LCC organised Big Ride. In the week before Londoners vote for who should be the next Mayor, this was a massive protest to ensure that the person who does sit in…
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The ZX Spectrum at 30
While sometimes you have to rely on Wikipedia or somewhere else on the internet to work out how old something is, that’s never been a problem with the ZX Spectrum. It came out in 1982, and you know that because the first thing you saw when you switched it on was “© 1982 Sinclair Research…
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Margate
I recently went down to Margate to visit the Turner Contemporary gallery. Very nice it is too, and those HS1 trains whizz down there pretty fast from St Pancras if you’re in London. Anyway, I clearly took some photos while I was there (And so did David Bailey according to an interview on Front Row…
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Lomo Red
A couple more photos, this time using Lomography Redscale film in an Olympus Trip.
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X-Pro Photos
Continuing to post a few pictures. A few more here.
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The City
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HTC One X – Some Initial Thoughts
I’ve finally upgraded my by now venerable HTC Desire. In choosing a new phone, I knew it had to do a number of things. It was almost certainly going to be an Android device. It was certainly not going to be an iOs device (If I buy a computer, I get to choose what I…
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Yellowface/All The Lovers In The Night
Yellowface by R F Kuang I first came across R F Kuang with last year’s very enjoyable Babel, an alternate history of the British Empire told in a world where magic exists and is controlled by an elite group of individuals. Yellowface is very different, but no less enjoyable. It’s a book about books, and…
Hadrian’s Wall
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