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Geekfest...

My US/Canada trip is up

In July I did this year's big ECC trip to the US and Canada.

You can read all about it by clicking the link over on the left or this link here

Gnarcade

Rapping Rodents

Elephant Parade 2010 part 2

Well after 2 intense weekends and three mini walks I've finally managed to photograph all 258 elephants in this year's parade. The final one had been eluding me for a number of weeks being late to appear and then hidden in a sold-out Chelsea flower show.

I also discovered a bonus one that isn't included in the list, acting as a temporary replacement to one that must have been off undergoing some maintenance.

So that's all 259 in the bag.

Photos are here

The Sistine Chapel

If you've ever visited this you'll probably find it a little anti-climatic for the following reasons.

You're not allowed to take photos
Hypocritically the room is full of tourists

So someone has gone to the trouble of putting in a 360 shot you can interact with on your own.

Link

Elephant Parade 2010

Well the elephants are in town with just over 250 of them in town.
I spent most of Saturday finding as many as I could.
You can see them on flickr

Google Earth Plug In

Just having a quick play with the Google Earth Plugin

This is my theme park project. Unfortunately iframes don't work very well.


and this is my banksy project. This works a little bit better.

Cheeky advert

Roa hits East London

Pure Evil galleries are currently hosting a Roa exhibition. He's the guy that's associated with large brush style animal pieces. I first spotted his work earlier in the year with a rabbit that made great used of a cantilever garage door to show two different views depending on how you look at it.

Along with the gallery he's also put a number of pieces up around the Hackney and Brick Lane area. I managed to find all but 2 of them, which couldn't be seen as they're on shop shutters and the shops were open for trade today. I'll need to go back to Brick Lane either first thing in the morning or at night.

My photos are here

Interesting quote

Ignoring the fact there's a missing letter, who might have said the above?
Click for answer.

Trip to Poland

This weekend I went to Poland taking in Katowice, Chorzow, Auschwitz, Berkinau, Krakow and Poland . The trip had been planned for sometime and it was just very bad luck that whilst there the country's President died in a plane accident and the city went into a state of mourning meaning lots of places closed and I didn't get to do everything I wanted to. I also had an issue with the pre-ordered train tickets and got attacked by a dog.

Photos are on flickr

and I will be going back to Katowice and Krakow and probably visiting Lodz and Gdansk.

World Clock

Some quite sobering stats on this...

World Clock

Tiesto @ Brixton

Now the 6th time I've seen "The Worlds Greatest DJ" play and whilst not his best set the night was still a good one with me dancing from start to finish.

Rather surprisingly he chose to not play some of his older tracks (which get the better crowd response). He did however play a lot of tracks from the new album which being collaboration heavy led to poor progression in his set.

As ever lots of people chose to film the event on their cameras and iphones and post onto youtube meaning I didn't have to.

Cyriak's "Cycles"

How bonkers is that?

Check out planes over Europe

Not sure how long this will be around, what with our paranoid fear of another 9/11, but its quite an interesting website.

Virtual Radar

Wykahmix #5 - Happy

My 5th mix which I started in January and didn't really complete til February 2010.
Based on feedback I've tried to tighten up the progression but I know I can still improve in that area.

Trancey stuff upfront, a bit of tech in the middle with some cheesy remixes, and finishing with some epic trance towards the end...enough to make me "happy"

Tracklisting
1. Piovere - Sindre Eide - Enhanced
2. Always - Simon Patterson - Reset
3. Borealis - DJ Eco - Infrasonic
4. Tuvan - Gaia - Armada
5. Montego Bay - Ingsha - Armada
6. Mainstage - W&W - Captivating Sounds
7. Papillon (Tiesto Remix) - Editors - PIAS Recordings
8. Earthquake (Ali Wilson Tekelec Remix) - Little Boots - White Label
9. Perfect - Smart Apes vs Anna Lee - Emphase
10. Above the Clouds - Fast Distance & Dimension - Magic Island
11. Healesville Sanctuary (Signum Mix) - Roger Shah & Signum - Magic Island
12. Don't Give a Fuck (Vocal Mix) - Stoneface & Terminal - Euphonic

Wykahmix #5 - Happy  by  wykah

Graffiti Walk Feb 2010

I was on the hunt for a rabbit piece by Roa, which a friend had seen in a magazine and I recognised the location immediately. Along the way I found plenty more graffiti which I've uploaded to flickr here.

Exit Through the Gift Shop

This is Banksy's new movie and it's a very amusing documentary of the street art movement. Following Thierry Guetta, a rather odd French man with a penchant for filming everything he does the movie tells the tale of how he got in on the scene and began filming a number of artists who wouldn't normally want to be seen on camera.

It's not all about Banksy, he does feature and is quite amusing but there are clips of his LA show, his Disney invasion and some of his other work. It also features Invader and Obey amongst others.

The title of the film doesn't seem to work, the original title was "Selling Sh*t to C*nts" which is a lot better.

The movie is out in the middle of March but there are some preview shows in a unique location. A custom built cinema under the arches beneath Waterloo station entered in the graffiti bombed Leake St.

My photos can be seen on flickr here.

Jerry Sadowitz @ Leicester Square Theatre

Saw Jerry Sadowitz tonight at one of his last of a run of shows in Leicester Square. He was totally offensive but hilarious to boot. If you're offended by jokes about human misfortune e.g. the Haitian earthquake then you don't want to be here.

Like Stewart Lee a few weeks ago its nice to see some of the genuinely funny comedians who don't pander to the PC brigade. Stewart managed to get a BBC series last year. I doubt we'd ever get another one from Jerry (anyone else remember The Pall Bearers Review?). He's still way too wrong for TV, yet right to see live; its just a shame he doesn't play out more often.

Oh and he's a brilliant magician too, starting the show by making a piranha tank appear from nowhere (why bother with rabbits and doves) and ending by producing a suited Royal Flush chosen by the audience using sleight-of-various-body-parts.

Oh, and if you're Amanda Holden, don't be there for the start of the show :D