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. These were, for many centuries, London’s Biggest things. In 1666, the Great Fire damaged old St Paul’s so … Continue reading View of Old London Bridge from the West
There has been lots of photo-reminiscing here lately, so here are some photos I took much more recently. Well, in May of this year anyway: Yes, it’s the lion at the South Bank end of Westminster Bridge. This South Bank Lion has quite a history, the strangest thing being that it used to be red. … Continue reading The South Bank (red) Lion
The things you find in your photo-archives, if you are someone like me and you forget two thirds of what you’ve photoed as soon as you’ve photoed it. This bloke, for instance, whom I photoed somewhere or other in London, I think somewhere near Embankment tube station, way back in 2006: You see lots of … Continue reading Der Bomber
Is this for steering, or just to damage you if you rub them up the wrong way? With thanks to Matt Ridley’s Twitter feed. According to a commenter, these are “dermodenticles”, but google asks: Did you mean dermal denticles? According to this: These denticles decrease drag and turbulence, allowing the shark to swim faster and … Continue reading Shark skin under microscope
Another Michael Jennings photo, this time taken in January of this year, and posted on Facebook by him yesterday: I investigated, and found my way to this: Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex in Yerevan is dedicated to the memory of the 1.5 million Armenians who perished in the first genocide of the 20th century, at the hands … Continue reading Armenian Genocide Monument
It’s still Friday, right? So, an elephant: Photoed by me in March of 2016. (I’m doing a lot of rootling in the archives just now.) The next photo is even less technically accomplished, but it does show a bit better where I saw this elephant: This was beside the Regent’s Canal, in the vicinity of … Continue reading An elephant on top of a bird
This is a Tweet where you have to show it all or it makes no sense: "Bill if you take this TV thing, you're finished. You're an actor, for God's sake! Theatre! Movies! I've seen that script too – it's kid's stuff, embarrassing! Not even a medical drama! I'm begging you, Bill – do not … Continue reading “Bill – do not do this!”
If I add all that href https blah blah stuff to the link, then I can put the link to this cute video here. But if I just shove the address without any hrefery, I get the video right here: A straight rod glides through a curved hole in this 3D print. This device is … Continue reading Video of straight line going through curved gap
I photoed this vapour trail in December 2005. I’m pretty sure I have others, but this was the first vapour trail I found in the archives: And I think that it is indeed a vapour trail. But now take a look at this next vapour trail. That’s not a vapour trail. This is a vapour … Continue reading Vapour trails
Two interesting recent postings by Norman Lebrecht. First, Anna Nebtrenko has been bunking off from Bayreuth in order to go to a family wedding. Both she and her also-bunking-off husband were simultaneously “ill”, but then put themselves all over social media, being not at all ill, in Azerbaijan. Lebrecht is not impressed: Today’s breed of … Continue reading Misbehaving opera stars