I don’t know exactly where this was, only approximately. It was somewhere in the vicinity of Leicester and Trafalgar Squares, these being the places where I photoed the photo just before this one and just after this one: But I do know for sure when I photoed this photo: April 30th 2015. And I know … Continue reading Keeping up appearances with scaffolding and pictures
But a lot of rock and rollers are about to leave the stage for ever. Ed Driscoll: Behold the killing fields that lie before us: Bob Dylan (78 years old); Paul McCartney (77); Paul Simon (77) and Art Garfunkel (77); Carole King (77); Brian Wilson (77); Mick Jagger (76) and Keith Richards (75); Joni Mitchell … Continue reading Rock and roll is here to stay
This is the first time I’ve tried embedding a bit of video in this blog. Let’s see how this works: Seems to have worked. Another major improvement of this blog over the old one, especially important for me at moments like this, is that when I press “Save draft” and them “Preview”, I get a … Continue reading Drones replacing sheepdogs (and some embedded video about this)
Dezeen reports on this new bridge, to be built in Serbia: Every time a bridge like this gets proposed (or even built), with architecture on it, however bland and boring it is, I rejoice that the day comes a bit nearer when such a bridge will get built somewhere in London downstream and east, in … Continue reading A bridge in Serbia with an office and a hotel on it
Today I went on a photo-expedition, my first big one since getting back from France. It went really well, but because it went so well, it also went on a long time, and now I only have enough energy to show you two of the many photos I photoed. The first, before I got seriously … Continue reading A photo-expedition that started well and ended well
These are technically terrible photos, but I had a lot of fun photoing them, and I get a lot of pleasure when I stumble upon such photos-from-airplanes in the photo-archives. What are these exactly?: Well, I cranked up Google Maps, and also maps like the one here, and set to work. That photos have exact … Continue reading Four Channel Islands and a fifth Channel Island
As I said earlier, a nasty old sofa is due to depart from Chateau BMdotcom, and nice new sofa is due to arrive. And as I also said, I hoped it would be in that order. Well, now it looks like the new sofa will be here tomorrow, while the old one is still here. … Continue reading Fighting back against IO and dust
Yesterday, my friend Nico invited me to an orchestral concert that he was playing in. He was playing the drums. But this was not some ghastly rock and roll ordeal, it was an orchestral concert, in Blackheath. Blackheath has a place called Blackheath Halls, and last night, the Blackheath Halls Orchestra performed, in the particular … Continue reading Debussy and Sibelius at Blackheath Halls
Maybe “art” is putting it a bit strongly, but nevertheless, I do really like this photo …: … which I took in the summer of 2015, somewhere in the City of London. The directory I found this in is called “Looking4BroadgateTower”, so that tells you roughly where I was. BMdotcom-wise, this photo has so many … Continue reading Art and information
One of the more tiresome things about Twitter is the way that a photo goes viral, without the photoer who photoed the photo getting any credit for the photo. So, I am happy to report that, when I learned, via Mike Fagan, whom I follow, that a tweeter by the name of Arturas Kerelis reported … Continue reading A dramatic Chicago photo and the photoer who photoed it