Happy Halloween

To make it easier for all those people searching for "scary cemetery" photos on google images .....

Around Town

Billy Bragg Concert Online

There is currently a Billy Bragg concert online that he did as part of the Electric Proms - "a truly multi-media festival" (their words, not mine). You can check out the gig here. It is only up until the 1st November - so if you're a fan (yes V - thats you!) check it out.

Millenium Bridge @ Dusk

One good thing about it starting to get dark by the time I leave work .... great time to take photos !

Twilight

Went to the Twilight exhibition at the V&A on Sunday. Was worth a look - particularly the works of Bill Henson and Gregory Crewdson. Highly recommended.

Battersea Power Station

A couple more photos from the Chinese contemporary art exhibition currently on in the Battersea Power Station. More on flickr here.

Battersea Power Station

Yesterday I went to an exhibition of contemporary Chinese art at the Battersea Power Station. Well, theoretically anyway. I did go to the exhibition but, just like nearly everyone else there, I was far more interested in the power station itself. My bus goes passed it everyday on the way to work. It is owned by some property developer in Hong Kong so I always thought the chances of seeing inside it before it got converted to expensive riverside flats was fairly slim. Definitely well worth checking out. Will post some more photos on flickr later of the internals - it is pretty derelict inside.

More info : Wikipedia and development plans.

Upcoming Photo Exhibitions In London

I always seem to have trouble finding out about photo exhibitions in London so I thought I would mention a couple that are opening soon. Might come in handy for those others out there having the same problem ! Both should be pretty good.

Twilight at the V&A : INFO.
In the Face of History at the Barbican : INFO.



Photo taken at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Boston Photos

Arrived back from Boston this morning. Was meant to arrive at 635 in the morning, but got in around 9 due to spending 3 hours on the tarmac in Boston while they changed one of the planes tires. We had to sit on the plane the whole time - fun fun. They even did the meal service before we took off ! Needless to say was very late getting to work and was not overly functional due to the five hour time difference and sleep quality on the plane.
Anyway, will write more later. For now here are a few photos. I wasnt really feeling that inspired photographically over there and that kind of shows ....
You can check all ten (yes just ten ...) photos here.
Starting off with the Stata Center at M.I.T. (designed by Frank Gehry and home of the Computer, Information and Intelligence Sciences)



Brownstone on Newbury St

And something a little random ....

Boston

Made it to Boston safe and sound yesterday. 7 hour flight wasnt too bad but the 5 hour time difference is a bit of a killer. So far Boston seems pretty nice. Things seem cheap when you convert them into pounds, but not into Aus dollars. London warps your mind with respect to how expensive you expect things to be. Caught up with an old school friend after she finished work and went out for dinner for her birthday. By about 9pm A & I were fading fast. Not surprising considering our bodies thought it was 2 in the morning.
Anyway thats about it for now. I caved after work the day before we flew out and bought a D80 .... so far I like it. A lot. Cant wait to see how the photos turn out.

Boston

A last minute holiday decision sees A and I heading to Boston this weekend for a few days. One of my old school friends from Adelaide is working there for a month so will get to catch up with her - we arrive on her birthday. Nice timing !
Really looking forward to it. Have always had a bit of a fascination with Boston - not sure why. MIT maybe .... It will be Autumn so hopefully should get a few good shots of the New England fall.
Tried to buy a D80 today but failed. Went to one place on Tottenham Court Road - Ask Electronics - who quoted me 25 quid more than what they quoted yesterday (I still wasnt sure yesterday okay.) That kind of stuff shits me so I headed off to Jessops. Asked if they had any D80 bodies in stock - yep 5 - sweet - 10 minutes later - stock error. i.e. they couldnt find them. I think I might get a job at Jessops. Knock of 5 D80s, sell em to my mates and blame it on a "stock error". Oh well, looks like I am destined to be using my D70 for a bit longer. Am really starting to hanker after the 10M goodness of the D80 ....

Return of Winter

Weather was a bit rubbish on the weekend. Thought I would try and make the most of it and take a few wintry shots. Didnt really work though, just got rained on and uninspired. Oh well - heres my effort.

Island Crises ....

Spent last weekend on the annual work weekend away - this year it was Mal lorca. A lot of fun - took lots of photos but mainly inside dodgy nightclubs. I'll spare you !! Anyway thought I'd post a couple of non drunken photos - I particularly like the Island Cr_ises .... (These photos were taken with my new camera - a Fuji F30. Its very cool - quite happy with the photos. Great low light performance and nice and small. Aperture and shutter priority too. Handy. Replaces my Sony P100 which seems to be suffering from a few dust spot issues.)

Photos From Canary Wharf

Okay - I know yesterday I said Canary Wharf was interesting (in the context of its history rather than its current state) and that I got some photos - I didnt necessarily mean they were interesting photos.

Canary Wharf

Having some great weather over here at the moment. Decided to head out to Canary Wharf today as I am trying to venture to more places in London that I havent been to. Interesting area - though it would have been more so a hundred years ago ... Walked back from Canary Wharf to Tower Bridge along the north bank of the Thams, stopping at a pub along the way for a sneaky pint. Got a few photos that I will post later once flickr starts accepting uploads again - it seems to be broken,

Got the tickets from some f****d up bloke in Camden Town.

Sweet. Just picked up a couple of tickets to go see Jarvis, as in Mr Jarvis Cocker. He is doing a solo show in November @ Koko in support of a new solo album. Sadly the tickets were actually from ticketmaster ....

Take Me Out

Just got back from seeing Franz Ferdinand play at the Kentish Town Forum. Absolutely brilliant gig. Second to last song there were three guys playing on one drum kit drumming up quite the frenzy. Awesome. Its been a good week for music ....

V Festival (aka My First Radiohead Gig)

Headed up to the V Festival in Chelmsford yesterday. Luckily the rain held off until the last song of the night and it turned out to be a fun day. Strangely, after being quite excited about the line up when I bought the tickets, there didnt seem to be that many bands I wanted to see! I got to see a bit of Beck (didnt see much as have tickets to see him at a much smaller venue in a couple of weeks), The Go! Team (which were pretty cool) and a few other bands which were okay. The highlight of the day, by several orders of magnitude, were Radiohead. I have never seen them before so didnt really know what to expect. They were amazing - Thom Yorkes voice was in fine form. Incredible gig. Brilliant. You get the idea ....

Set list for those who are interested (stolen from ateaseweb.com)
01 Airbag
02 2+2=5
03 The National Anthem
04 My Iron Lung
05 You and Whose Army?
06 Bodysnatchers
07 The Bends
08 Nude ["That was an old bugger, this is a new bugger." Thom]
09 No Surprises
10 The Gloaming
11 Paranoid Android ["You can take your hoodie off Jonny." Thom]
12 All I Need
13 Pyramid Song ["Glad you can appreciate a good song." Thom]
14 Lucky
15 Just
16 Idioteque
17 Street Spirit

Encore 1:
18 A Wolf At The Door
19 There There
20 Karma Police
21 True Love Waits/Everything In Its Right Place

Encore 2:
22 Creep [Thom didn't play guitar]

TAR 10

The Amazing Race Season 10 starts the day before my birthday - isnt that nice of them ...