Building Empire State – the other photo
You know that famous old black and white photo of the workmen having lunch on a girder high above Mahattan?
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The Starving Writer
I’ve done it! Five bastard years of broadening my already swollen noggin. A couple of weeks ago I sent off my final essay for my Open University degree in English Language and Literature (with hons). I am now totally educated and shit. It has happened at a weird time though. Some background is needed as…
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London in the 20s. Colour video!
It’s pretty amazing to see colour video from the 20s and this is even more amazing if you happen to be a Londoner.
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Real Astronaut sings Bowie
Astronaut Chris Hadfield sings Bowie in actual space.
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The World’s End Trailer
The World’s End is the third film from the guys who brought you (and me), Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.
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Oculus Rift – Virtual Reality is finally here.
Oculus Rift was invented by some ‘soon to be a billionaire’ gaming brainy-pants in his garage. It has since been crowd funded. The cool thing is that it doesn’t cost a 100,000quid, it will actually be affordable. Plus, advances in screens and motion sensors have allowed it to be incredible.
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Railay Beach, Thailand
As I have mentioned frequently over the last few weeks, I am currently on holiday in Thailand. For some reason this caused a lot of envy-laden comments amongst my Facebook buddies. Bastards. I suppose, to be fair, I had just posted a link to this website from a hammock. Which would annoy me too if…
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Live London Tube Map
Ok this isn’t Thailand OR beach related. Happy? If you are a trainspotter or a Londoner, you will probably find this pretty cool. It shows the position of every tube train in London. Live. Something even the guys who work in the little booths claim they can’t do when you ask them ‘Where the bollocks…
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A hammock, Koh Jum, and a technology test.
This post is something of an experiment just to see how brilliant the technology at my disposal is. I’m currently lying in a hammock on the very quiet and quite remote island of Koh Jum in Thailand in the Andaman sea. I bought a cheap smartphone in Hong Kong which I then took to Thailand….
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Coming to you live from Bangkok!
Dear readers, I apologise most profusely for my lack writing. But I do have a pretty awesome excuse. I left my flat of 4 years and had to pack everything in storage. As anyone who has ever moved apartment will know, this was a massive stressful ball-ache. Not just the lifting but calling half of…
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Why I won’t be buying the next gen consoles
Consoles were great multimedia gaming devices and my PC was for toil or writing superb website entries. Recently however, this seems to be changing and it is a change that will be permanent and the end of consoles.
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Best of the Web 4
I don’t know who made this or why but basically it is the best of the web (minus porn) volume 4. In HD!
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Death at the Wellcome Collection
No this isn’t Agatha Christie novel, it’s an art exhibition. About Death. Which was brilliant.
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Deep Space Industries
This fanciful dreaming has been inspired by the science-fiction-sounding Deep Space Industries.
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A fascinating tour of the International Space Station
An amazing tour of the international space station and observatory.
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Happy 2013!
I forgot to mention the digit change and wish all my readers a happy 2013. (Funnily enough, this replicated the Indie Retro New Year’s Eve party I went to in Camden where everyone was so drunk it was 5 past midnight before anyone noticed.) As I look wistfully back over 2012 I realise that personally…
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Ansel Adams – Photography from the mountains to the sea
I saw this exhibition yesterday at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich (London). It was downright awe inspiring. Alongside Cartier Bresson, Adams is probably my favorite photographer in equal first place. I guess I’m a sucker for black and white photos.
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Richard Feynman’s Ode to a Flower
I found this brilliant and touching and admirable. I love the scientific mind, the need to question everything, to test things, to find out what makes them them tick. This is from a BBC interview entitled ‘The Pleasure of Finding Things Out’. Which says it all. As Feynmam argues here when discussing aesthetics and the…
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Happy Christmas from the Word of Ward
Happy Christmas wonderful readers! If you aren’t a Christian, then happy Tuesday! No need to worry really Christmas is hardly a religious thing. Like Easter it is a made up date supposedly celebrating something to do with Jesus but in actuality is a mashup of wacky traditions. You don’t have to be religious to like…