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After a year coming heavily to te tunnels one may think it's not impressionable anymore. But one would be wrong wouldn't one?
Just wait for the proper pictures.
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Webdev on a fab team at Betfair, photographer at the amazing Old Vic Tunnels. Cyclist for fun, cook, cinephile, beer lover. A few other things. I Can't do just one thing: More is more, less is boring.
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A treat - Teasers of the London Contemporary Orchestra at the Old Vic Tunnels
Last Friday, the London Contemporary Orchestra gave a fabulous show on the Old Vic Tunnels and here's a teaser of what the pictures are going to look like.
The Old Vic tunnels will publish the full set on their Facebook page, and I will publish them on this flickr set.
Here's the whole set, more pictures will show as they are uploaded. Bookmark this page to have it handy.
Enjoy!
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Jam session at beer O'Clock
Every Friday at 5pm Beer O'Clock is declared at the office.
I'm lucky enough to work on a team with far wider talent than just professional skills (and believe me, that's not for lack of professional skills) which in short makes being around always interesting on pretty much any context.
When you add to this a company that provides you the beer, weather gorgeous enough to silence even the most skeptic of British weather critics and a passion for music, this is what you get just in time for Priya's leaving do.
Come As You Are, by Tim, Brendan and Dom. And by the way, I'm impressed with the percussion that can be taken out of that box, truly amazing.
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Pictures of the Secret Cinema at the @oldvictunnels
Last night I was at the old vic tunnels for a Secret Cinema session. It's supposed to be secret so I won't spoil it to you, suffice it to say it's an unmissable event, so if you're in London, go to their official website and buy tickets before they sell out.
Here are some pictures to tease you out. Watch them as a slideshow, the order is relevant ;-)
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If you missed it, I photographed Bernardo Bertolucci in Conversation at the @BFI this weekend
Saturday, I went to another great event, this time to see Bernardo Bertolucci in Conversation to mark the two months Bertolucci Marathon the BFI will be running, showing all his filmography.
As usual, I carried my camera with me and snapped the all the pictures I could without annoying people around me, which turned to be around 10 altogether, here are my faves. Enjoy.
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TV culture is dying, what will become of the children?
I was reading this interesting post about what TV used to be and what it represented for a generation of now grownups. TV has changed so radically and broadcasting was augmented in such a way that TV shows are not perceived as special as they used to be.
I understand the nostalgic feeling the author is talking about and of course, the memories of something one grew up with are always magical and special just as today's children activities will be for the adults of the future. Mind, though, I didn't say today's TV, I said today's activities because TV, as you said, it's becoming less magical and special, and it also means it's becoming obsolete.I don't mean TV sets are going to become obsolete, but the TV broadcasting model is. TV became interactive over the years and that's going to increase. And countless devices can be plugged into it for further interactivity. Does that spoil TV as it used to be in our generation? I think it does.Is that a bad thing? I'll dare to say not at all. There are many things today that children can grow up regarding as magical and special. Willing that our children to grow up with the same childhood as ours would be just like our parents telling us the TV spoiled the magic of the radio. Which if you ask me, it did.But so what? In the current technology model, children are more empowered to find things that are more special than, dare I say, the sound of music, but that are only viable because someone in their home just have the technical ability to produce and share it within a domestic realm. Even better, children of today have the technical empowerment to create those special things themselves and that's something that can be magical and special and it was much, much harder on our generation. The TV era is dying. So long, farewell, auf wieder sehen, good bye. Parents should embrace the new era and environmentally empower, as well as guide, children with what they are already technologically empowered so things don't derail and their childhood can be as special as the one of the TV generation.Comments [1]
Tim Minchin - The Pope Song
Very politically incorrect but highly catchy, don't start listening if you don't want a song in your head for hours to come...
Fuck the motherfucker, Fuck the motherfucker
Fuck the motherfucker, he's a fucking motherfuckerFuck the motherfucker, fuck the fucking fuckerFuck the motherfucker, he's a total fucking fuckerFuck the motherfucker, Fuck the motherfucker
Fuck the motherfucker, fucking fuck the motherfuckerFuck the motherfucker, fuck the motherfucking popeFuck the motherfucker, and fuck you motherfucker
If you think that motherfucker is sacred (fucking motherfucker)
If you cover for another motherfucker who's a kiddie fucker
Fuck you you're no better then the mother fucking rapist
And if you don't like this swearing that this motherfucker forced from me
And reckon it's shows moral or intellectual paucity
Then fuck you motherfucker, this is language one employs
When one is fucking cross about fuckers fucking boysI don't give a fuck if calling the pope a motherfucker
Means you unthinkingly brand me and unthinking apostate, and
This has naught to do with other fucking godly motherfuckers
I'm not interested right now in fucking scriptural debate
There are other fucking songs and there are other fucking ways
I'll be a religious apologist on other fucking days
And the fact remains that if you protect a single kiddie fucker
Then pope or prince or plumber you're a fucking motherfuckerYou see I don't give a fuck what any other motherfucker
Believes about Jesus and his motherfucking mother
I've no problem with the spiritual beliefs of all these fuckers
While those beliefs don't hit back on the happiness of others
But if you build your church on claims of fucking moral authority
And with threats of hell impose it on others in society
Then you, you motherfuckers, can expect some fucking wrath
When it turn out you've been fucking us in our motherfucking assesSo fuck the motherfucker and fuck you motherfucker
If you're still a motherfucking papist (fucking motherfucker)
If you covered for a single motherfucker who's a kiddie fucker,
Fuck the motherfucker he's as evil as the rapist
And if you look into your motherfucking heart and tell me true
If this motherfucking stupid fucking song offended you
With it's filthy fucking language and it's fucking disrespect
If it made you feel angry go ahead and write a letterBut if you find me more offensive then the fucking possibility
The pope protected priests when they where getting fucking fiddly
Then listen to me motherfucker, this here is a fact
You are just as morally misguided as that motherfucking
Power hungry, self aggrandised bigot in the stupid fucking hatFuck the motherfucker, Fuck the motherfucker
Fuck the motherfucker, he's a fucking motherfuckerFuck the motherfucker, ...
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Pictures of the Drugstore Gig
After the absolutely spectacular Drugstore Comeback Gig in September last year, Isabel Monteiro has changed the whole line up of the band for its new iteration. The original Drugstore members live in three different continents and there are other problems Miss Monteiro explains on her blog.
I can't say I wasn't aprehensive about a whole new lineup for yesterday's gig but while it feels strange to see Drugstore with a new composition, I think it doesn't lack in quality and I'm looking forward to the new releases.
What I missed from yesterday's performance was an even more flamboyant superstar attitude of Isabel's onstage persona that is so entertaining.
"They told me not to drink too much, not to smoke and not to talk too much on stage, f**k them!" She says! And right she is, talk on!
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