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Kobe Ti to be retired for a while

26-01-2012

I’ve been talking about it for a while but I’ve gone and bought a full suspension frame 2nd hand off eBay in apparently immaculate condition. I’ve been riding her since around 2004 time so counts as the longest time I’ve owned a bike. I can’t bring myself to sell or give away to anyone so she’s going in the loft to one day be used again perhaps. I’ve ridden a lot of miles on this bike and enjoyed every moment of it. From the Surrey Hills, Wales, Scotland and even to Les Arcs in France. All has been great fun.

Anyway, I think I need a bit of spring in the rear (snigger) these days to take the sting out of some of the trails. So here’s the last few moments in tasteful black and white – an excuse to use the camera really.

I need to speak to Corb again

By: Andy

25-01-2012

Architecture

Been thinking about a trip round Europe to catch up on some old building friends – La Tourette, Ronchamp, The Unité (maybe some buildings not by Corb too) – dive into Switzerland for a bit perhaps?

I was reminded of La Tourette after seeing a few hits to Flickr on this old neg from 1998/99 time. Would really love to go back.

365 days of a bicycle in NY

By: Andy

24-01-2012

Cycling

I sometimes feel I’m watching this effect with some of the bikes locked up on my commute to work. A particularly sad looking one on Waterloo Bridge at the moment.

The week in pictures

By: Andy

22-01-2012

Photography, Week in pictures

Snapped earlier today, the barbers a few doors down has closed leaving this strange series of mirrors. Perfect for a reflection shot!

My desk at home where I spend a lot of my time. Enjoying working with a pen tablet for Photoshop work now. Really good.

A beautiful sky over London last night. Quickly grabbed the Nikon and the 85mm. Not as sharp as I’d have liked though as I didn’t have time to set the tripod up. Also made the Londonist Sunday page which is nice.

Books in the office – inspiration.

Oh and of course lots and lots of lovely Instagramming as usual. So much pleasure from seeing things, snapping and sharing. Much love for Instagram.

Video clips of the week

By: Andy

20-01-2012

Love this!, Video, Viral

A few videos which have been keeping me amused this week.

Hello

Pingu – The Thing.

James Bond song

Computer games – Look around you

Angry ginger kid – scary

Otter’s pocket – BBC Breakfast

Stamner Park trails

By: Andy

08-01-2012

Cycling

Nice to get out for a ride today down at Stamner Park near Brighton with Finn, Stu and Matt. New trails to me and Matt but these are the local ones for Finn and Stu. Slippy and slidey as per last weekend but also nice and fast in places. Nothing too steep or techy but just a nice loop. I managed to fall off a few times so plenty of bruises appearing in the morning. Still not managed to take a riding shot with the X100 either. No ride next weekend but hoping to go to Swinley the following. Loving being back on the bike.

Need some design inspiration?

By: Andy

05-01-2012

Architecture, Inspiration

Another “I found this on Twitter” post but that’s where all the cool kids are these days I guess.

So I stumbled across this collection of images which is probably one of the best Tumblr pages I’ve seen so far (most are a bit crap in my opinion). The theme really works and doesn’t get in the way which helps massively. It’s full of amazing images from the usual suspects of design based websites (Dezeen, ArchDaily, DesignBoom etc) but it’s nicely curated (except they included boxpark) and shows an enormous amount of content in a simple effective way. Lots of ideas and nice to scan through for a few mins or even longer. ~~I had toyed with using this same theme to collect any images I found but I’m not sure I could match this.~~

Go and have a good poke around – SheLostCtrl.

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Ok, maybe I will then! architecturepastebook.tumblr.com

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Many favourites

By: Andy

02-01-2012

Flickr, Photography, Web

One of the best things about Flickr is the community of other photographers that exists around it. This is the primary reason I’m still so addicted to it. Perhaps one of the best functions of this community is the ability to mark a photo as a favourite – add it to your library of things you like. I have a fairly large set of favourites, currently running at 4,144 photos so far!

For me one of the best ways of finding new and interesting work is by looking at another users favourites collection. It’s easy to go from user to user and find a bunch of incredible work to look at. It’s like a curated guide to Flickr.

favourites

White room > stickers > coloured room

By: Andy

01-01-2012

Art, Love this!

Take one completely white empty room, add some sticker sheets, thousands of kids allowed to add them anywhere they want – and you end up with something strangely beautiful!

From this fairly soulless white space…

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To this which I find completely beautiful and fascinating at the same time. It would have made a great time-lapse seeing all the kids adding the dots in.

The installation, the obliteration room, is by artist Yayoi Kusama at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane. More info at the original post over at thisiscolossal.com.

It looks like she has a show at Tate Modern coming up on the 9th Feb too which I’m definitely going to have to see.

Via Toby Bull

Happy New Year

By: Andy

01-01-2012

London

No massive party tonight as we were both a bit sick. Anyway, here’s a crap time-lapse video of sorts from our bedroom window for you. Hastily thrown together in iMovie*.

And a few stills.

*No idea why the compression is so bad but you get the idea.

— bikes and things

Kobe Ti to be retired for a while

I need to speak to Corb again

365 days of a bicycle in NY

The week in pictures

Video clips of the week

Stamner Park trails

Need some design inspiration?

Many favourites

White room > stickers > coloured room

Happy New Year

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