Paul Mison’s random stuff that doesn’t go elsewhere. Is it microblogging, or microactivity? (Previously known as ‘tumblr is my sock drawer’, for reasons that are somewhat unclear.)Tumblr (3.0; @blech)http://notes.husk.org/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ef4d8580d875a5b6042a0d48b3c7bc6f/tumblr_mihjpdUb8y1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Catherine Meyer: “<span>The Shard transformed into a lighthouse”.</span></p>http://notes.husk.org/post/43554740123http://notes.husk.org/post/43554740123Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:08:31 +0000imagelondonshardmistmillennium bridgethamesriver thamessun<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a05c97917cf33476035212d19ad19855/tumblr_mevl8k5gqn1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/da886036950206394facf76feb7d8025/tumblr_mevl8k5gqn1qz4vjro2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Photos from <a href="https://twitter.com/richjamesmetro/status/278438793642651649">Richard James</a> and <span><a href="http://www.itv.com/news/london/2012-12-11/london-bridge-forced-to-open-for-50-foot-rubber-duck/">Lewis Whyld/PA Wire</a> of a fifty foot rubber duck on the Thames, which required the opening of Tower Bridge as it headed upstream.</span></p> <p><span>Top: Canary Wharf. Bottom: the Tower of London.</span></p>http://notes.husk.org/post/37723501417http://notes.husk.org/post/37723501417Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:08:30 +0000imageimageslondonrubber duckthamesriver thamescanary wharftower of london<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m46g5kdvBI1qz4vjro1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p><em><a href="http://www.gpsdrawing.com/gallery/maps/dont_go.html">Don’t go where I can’t see you</a> </em>by <a href="http://www.gpsdrawing.com/info.html">Jeremy Wood</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span>GPS flight tracks with section of the River Thames in London</span><br/><span>1:500 000 Scale, 100 km Grid</span></p> </blockquote> <p>Indirectly via <a href="http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/23235251963/london-overland-gps-drawing-project-by-jeremy">prosthetic knowledge</a>. I also noticed his earlier <a href="http://www.gpsdrawing.com/maps.html">My Ghost</a> in <a href="http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/about/favobjects.html?02">Claire Dobbin’s</a> new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1848221045">London Underground Maps</a>, which seems to have some overlap with the previous three Capital Transport books on the map (which I should probably write about), but which also covers some new territory. I may have to buy it.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/23235598786http://notes.husk.org/post/23235598786Thu, 17 May 2012 18:26:06 +0100imagemapflight pathheathrowgatwickthameslondonjeremy woodgps<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3fdtfmlWy1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Anthony Gormley’s <a href="http://www.sandralousada.com/work/london/index.html">Quantum Cloud on the O2 Pier</a> by <a href="http://www.sandralousada.com/">Sandra Lousada</a>.</p> <p>Previously: <a href="http://found.husk.org/post/21181990172">Quantum Cloud construction</a> (<a href="http://www.lusas.com/case/civil/gormley.html">via</a>); <a href="http://notes.husk.org/post/22298103480/">Robin Hood Gardens</a> by Sandra Lousada. (This location is barely a mile, but thirty or more years, from the other photograph.)</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/22299060628http://notes.husk.org/post/22299060628Thu, 03 May 2012 03:36:00 +0100imagelondonthamesanthony gormleysandra lousadaphotographquantum cloudsculpturelandscape<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m195c0dv0S1qengi4o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://blog.pointlineplane.co.uk/post/19692635204/this-apple-is-how-you-do-beautiful-map-tiles">toffeemilkshake</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://maps.stamen.com/watercolor/#12/51.4975/-0.0874">This</a>, Apple, is how you do beautiful map tiles.</p> <p><a href="http://www.stamen.com/">Stamen</a> are just miles ahead of anyone else when it comes to this stuff.</p> </blockquote> <p>Yes.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/19692961513http://notes.husk.org/post/19692961513Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:44:39 +0000imagemapstamenwatercolourlondonthamesroadsdesign“As we drive out to the new dock wall, the car’s sat nav shows us sailing out into the Thames - the map has not yet been updated for a project that has literally redesigned the coastline of Essex.”<br/><br/> - <em>Yes, it’s from the Evening Standard’s Life and Style section, but <a href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-24035503-supersize-superport-london-gateway.do">Supersize superport: London Gateway</a> by <a href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-home/columnistarchive/Kieran%20Long-columnist-3725-archive.do">Kieran Long</a> is a surprisingly good read about the new container port being constructed on the Thames estuary. (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tumblr.iamdanw.com/">iamdanw</a>)</em>http://notes.husk.org/post/18197800003http://notes.husk.org/post/18197800003Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:43:05 +0000quotelondonshippingcontainersgpsthamesriverland<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw96ne0SLn1qz56cko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://mondoagogo.tumblr.com/post/334528097/viewfinder-story-image">mondoagogo</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/story/slide.aspx?storyUid=87&slideNo=12">ViewFinder - Story Image</a></p> <p>John Gay extensively photographed urban scenes, particularly in London. He published a book of photographs of the capital,<i>London Observed</i>, in 1964. This is his own take on Tower Bridge.</p> </blockquote>http://notes.husk.org/post/334546073http://notes.husk.org/post/334546073Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:24:55 +0000imagelondonreblogcranetower bridgebridgethames<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpn1jt70gj1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Hampton Court, UK: Thousands of plastic ducks sail down the river Thames during the third Great British Duck Race to raise money for the NSPCC</p> <p>Photograph: Steve Parsons. Seen in <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/gallery/2009/sep/07/1?picture=352621838">24 hours in pictures</a> at the Guardian.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/182611983http://notes.husk.org/post/182611983Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:50:16 +0100imageguardianducksthamessteve parsons