These are actually from yesterday. Direct hits of the visual kind. This little selection reminds me again how much I love living in London with such an interesting varsity of people.
(taken with my iPhone and the Hipstamatic app)
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Something tells me…
…that someone lacked a bit of artistic talent when patching up the speed sign here. It’s a bit of a Style Clash.
Lending Two Eyes
Not only as a photographer the idea of not being able to see is unbearable. I wouldn’t know what to do without my two working eyes.
Yesterday morning I saw a tube worker helping a blind man down the stairs. I thought “How nice of him!”
A few hundred metres down the road at my bus stop I saw the two again. The tube worker made that extra effort to bring the blind man to his next travel point. It really touched my heart. And re-freshed my hope in mankind a little.
Thank you tube worker! 🙂
From Dusk till Yawn
French Correction
This is the Black Board outside the Coffe@Goswell Road around the corner from me. Every morning they have a different message on it. And I take a photo of it.
Like yesterday:
And today:
Made me smile.
I guess not many people speak French around here – except the one person who corrected it maybe. So throughout today they changed to this a bit more mass compatible one:
Fall in Love with Music (again)
When you love music – then you must love it when you encounter it in its rawest form. Live and unplugged. Stripped down to the bare minimum. Less is – i find – more. If the band is good – you don’t need much more than a voice, melody and rhythm.
The French production team of La Blogotheque do exactly that. They take a band – known or unknown – and film them playing on the street, in a courtyard, parks, tunnels, car parks etc. Equipped with nothing else than a few basic instruments – without any amplification – they show you how powerful good songs can be if played by talented people.
Acts like Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend, Fleet Foxes, Sigur Ros, Jamie Lidell all have taken part in the so called “Take Away Concerts” (Un Concert A Emporter). All videos are so incredible special because of its innocent playful style – they surely become an unforgettable event for us fans but also for the bands themselves.
There are more than 200 videos by now. I have picked one by Tomi Lebrero that really touched me. It made me happy to have ears that work, eyes that see and a heart that beats.
This is how music should be done.
the london i (Vol. 29)
I must admit I neglected itchy i a little in the last few weeks. Was just too busy holidazing in Berlin and then working on my first book. But *psst* don’t wanna tell too much, yet.
Here a selection of my latest encounters with London and its incredible mix of inhabitants.
Lens Glances
And yes it happened again. People managed to look right into the teeny tiny lens of my iPhone. But for some reason they still didn’t realise I cought their glances forever. 😉
Beard Envy – Part 2
I hope Mother Nature will allow me one day to grow a beard like those.
Hardcore like no other
Remember that Sony Bravia ad with the billions of coloured balls bouncing down the hilly streets of San Fran?
This version here kicks the arse out of it. Instead of little toy balls they’ve used BOWLING BALLS!!!
Shame it’s for such a shitty unnecessary product.
ITCHY EYE 