2013-06-12
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Map Stack | Stamen Design - London, Toner background & labels with an orange building layer.
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2013-06-06
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Presumably a real photo (given the weather in London has reportedly - finally! - turned nice) of the Serpentine Pavillion as constructed. Designed by Sou Fujimoto, it’s open until October, which is nice, as I should visit London before then.
(Source: serpentinegallery.org)
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Serpentine Pavillion 2013 “Indicative CGI”: renderghosts.
(Source: serpentinegallery.org)
2013-05-28
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#bikeshare day 1, much use. Brand hacked already. “the street finds its own uses for things”: #BikeNYC Love, not banks. (by neotint)
Earlier today Slavin, Tricia, CW+T, and I made predictions about the unintended uses for the new NYC CitiBikes:
- Ride from New York to Boston (or Philadelphia.)
This reminds me of Ian Visits taking a London bike hire cycle to Paris:
a check of the Boris Bike T&C’s showed that while there is a limit of 24 hours for hiring a bike, and oddly a limit on letting no more than three other people use the bike, there is no geographical or mileage restrictions.
In addition, as it happens, Eurostar are quite comfortable with carrying bikes on their trains and have a procedure in place already for that – although in our case some tweaks were needed due to the way the prize tickets were arranged, and double checking that it would be OK to carry heavy Boris Bikes on board when they usually carry light touring bikes for holiday goers.
2013-05-21
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Left: the Golden Gate Bridge in London, a scale comparison from “Triumphs of Engineering” (posted by WP Wiles).
Right: a screen shot of MapFrappe, a tool by Kelvin Thompson that allows you to place outlines of one feature on another part of the world, showing the Golden Gate Bridge in London.
If MapFrappe had a rotation feature, I’d be able to more exactly match the 1940s illustration, but that’ll have to wait for vector maps, I suppose.
2013-05-18
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A London taxi and a micro-scale Battersea Power Station (complete with flying pig) made from Lego, from Warren Elsmore’s book Brick City (via buzzfeed).
2013-05-06
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John Betjeman - film critic of the Evening Standard
It’s true; “In 1934 he became film critic for the Evening Standard but was fired less than a year later for his overly enthusiastic reviews. “
All of this serves as a rebuttal to Seth Godin, who wrote recently that “No one has ever built a statue to a critic”.
(Meanwhile, they’re doing construction work on St Pancras again already? The new station’s barely been open five years. Edit: apparently this is a five year old picture. Never mind.)
