I have an ongoing fascination with the Thames. The strap to this blog was originally “Tales from the riverside”. And my  first proper blog entry was one such tale. A lot of it comes from working in Vauxhall for 3 years and getting to spend at least a few minutes by the river most days. [...]

My first attempt at a sped-up cycle ride through London.

As I was cycling home this evening, the bus that was pulling away on the other side of the road made a noise that sounded a bit like the echoing beep of a submarine’s radar. Or at least the sound that we associate with submarines’ radar, thanks to a whole genre of war films. And [...]

Long photos are great. A by-product of the introduction of video to Flickr, long photos differ from short films in subtle ways. I’m not sure that there is a rigid definition of what constitutes a long photo, but to my mind  they work best when they have a fixed viewpoint and don’t zoom or pan. [...]

I passed the site where the Shard is being built last week. At the moment they’re still clearing the site. It’s a fantastic melting pot of destructive energy, with a team of diggers working in what seems like mechanical harmony to tear down the remaining stubs and corners of structure. Have a look: What this [...]

Driving down Baker Street the other day, we saw some tree foilage overhanging a building on the corner of Marylebone Road. Not having an iPhone, I had to make a mental note to remember to look it up on g-maps when I got home (very 2006, I know). Well, I remembered, and it’s lovely. Look: [...]

Large cat, originally uploaded by meltingman. The new turbine hall installation by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster is good. As soon as you push through the plastic curtains and find yourself looking at banks of bunk beds, it feels like a sort of mass evacuation isolation ward. There are raised wall-mounted industrial lights and a constant dripping. Like [...]