Archives for November 2006
Published at last
Take a look at page 34 of November’s Hidden Europe and you’ll find a picture of a Norman Foster station in Bilbao taken by yours truly. I received a charming email a couple of months ago from the publishers who’d found the photo on Flickr and asked if I’d allow them to publish it in their journal in return for an attribution and a free copy. How could I say no? It’s a quirky publication by the way, worth picking up off my coffee table if you’re passing by.
This is an interesting example of how the internet is changing publishing. Small publications have access to a much wider pool of images whilst professional photographers have a greater opportunity of monetising their work. Unless the Evening Standard nicks it.
I’ve got another photo due to appear in a kid’s atlas soon, so will be sure to let you know how that looks.
Silly, silly mid off
What’s that? Three weeks until England begin their defence of The Ashes and you don’t know your silly mid on from your third man? Then it’s time for a crash course in cricket fielding positions, handily illustrated in this guide image from Rob Eastaway’s excellent What is a Googly? If there’s ever a question about cricket that you’ve wondered about but been afraid to ask, this is the book to turn to.
Even for the hard ones, like “who’s winning?”
Things that should be banned at gigs
» Booking fees
» Cloakroom charges
» Support acts whose names you never catch because they’ve already started once you’ve cleared security and had a drink. Thus, even though their stuff is really good (including the use of an egg whisk and cheese grater as percussion), you’ll never hear it again
» Headline performers going through the motions
» Tall people. Specificially, anyone over 5′11″3/4. (Alternatively, move all tall people to a special Lanky Zone’ to the side of the auditorium; or make everyone sit on the floor as if at an early ’80s Radio 1 roadshow, or an early ’90s James concert)
» Jigging, especially by tall people. Jigging means bopping around like someone’s granddad, often out of time with the music, creating a viewing hazard interrupting others’ line of sight
» Bottled beer in plastic cups
» Second encores. It gets confusing
Have I missed anything?
