Archive for July, 2006

Strange pyramid-hatted man stalking Covent Garden

24Jul06

Anyone fancy a guess at what this chap might be doing wearing a pyramidal hat made out of what looks like thick metal wire? He was sauntering around Covent Garden this Sunday with a relatively normal looking companion. I saw him twice and it was too much to resist, I had to try and grab [...]

Chiho Aoshima at Gloucester Road station

23Jul06

Gloucester Road tube station has been the focal point of Transport for London’s “Platform for Art” scheme for years suited, as it is, by having a spare platform which passengers never use as well as a large series of arches which artists seem to be very successful at fitting their material into. The new exhibition [...]

100 Portraits of Londoners

16Jul06

We got bored of taking the same old photos so Eamon and I went out to take one hundred portraits of Londoners (flickr set|alt. slideshow) in a single summer’s afternoon. Figuring that people can be lured into doing anything for sweets, we set up on Brick Lane with a big box of jellies, a sign [...]