bikes and things

Warren is back blogging again.

Check him out at designcrimes.tumblr.com/

Last night I worked late at work and had an awesome ride home with virtually empty roads. This morning I rode to work in the pouring rain but still loved it. No nodders due to the rain and nice and clear roads again. Completely soaked through but after a shower and a coffee I felt great.

This morning I went past a big BMW private hire car who had his left wing mirror tucked in. I gestured that it was in. He then started honking his horn at me! Oops. Thought I’d made him mad and carried on hoping to lose him. Turns out he wanted me to tap it down for him! Smiles all round and a bit of a laugh at the confusion.

Looking forward to this talk by Morley Von Sternberg. Should be good!

A friend sent me a link to the RIBA Pix site the other day suggesting I put forward some of my photos after seeing this request for new Photographers. I sent an email over and have had some of my images selected for use in the library.

Hopefully it’ll be a good way of getting my name noticed and maybe earning a few royalties from sales. We’ll see. I’ll be shooting a lot more in the coming weeks for the library as they seem to be a bit short on images of contemporary work.

This is Roger Lean. He fixed* my Lomo LC-A for the very reasonable price of £40 including recorded postage back. I found out about him via Flickr and there’s lots of very happy people on out there who have had theirs repaired too.

*I use the word “fixed” when actually it was stripped right down and every part checked, lubed, tightened and all put together again, not just the bit that had gone wrong.

If you need your Lomo LC-A fixed then give him a call!

Roger Lean – Russian Camera Repairs
32 Ravenstone Road
Hornsey
London N8 0JT

0208 881 5208

roger lean, originally uploaded by the brownhorse

look at that! a dog with panniers, originally uploaded by vaughan london.

For some reason this came up in conversation today in the office. Hilarious!

Might be due for a make over according to this Building Design article.

The well-used track is one of the oldest in the world. It opened in 1891 and hosted the cycling events at the London Olympics of 1908 and 1948. But its covered grandstand is now so dilapidated it has become unsafe.

I went there last September time to do my track induction. It would be great to see the place brought back to life, especially as it’s a five minute ride from my house. There’s also a beautiful Victorian pavilion that is in serious danger of collapse.

Fingers crossed for a decent revamp!

Paul Mill-Elite cyclist, originally uploaded by mikekingphoto.

Finally managed to upload all my 365 images to my portfolio site. Been uploading a few each lunchtime and now all finished. Good to see them all in one place too. Think it shows the scale of it quite nicely. The page might take a few secs to load for obvious reasons

andymatthewsphotography.com/project/365/

I bloody love this dog. Total genius!