Lovely weekend in Cambridge hanging out with Emma’s Mum and Ivan as well as Snoopy the dog. I think I’m a little obsessed with him.
I tried to take him out for a run around with me riding my bike but he wasn’t keen. He’d been running around playing ball with all the kids in the pub. I had to put his lead on him to get him out of the van. Anyway, lovely and relaxing. Shame you have to go back after that but never mind.
And also lovely to spend some time with these two.
We recently had a work experience student from a local school come and work with us for two weeks. He was a really pleasant young man and seemed to have a great time seeing how an Architect’s office works. On his last day he sent an amazing email round which was touching. The line that got me the most was as follows;
Being here has allowed me to see how cool being an Architect (and Architect’s assistant) is when other people have told me its not worth it. It definitely is.
Amazing. Good luck Seni.
I’ve posted before about how ridiculous LinkedIn is sometimes. The most ridiculous thing is the endorsements feature. I mean, I’m an Architect and I’ve been working in the profession since I was 16 and qualified since 2009, but somehow I still need to be endorsed for Architecture. The question is posed to others “Does Andy know about Architecture?” – of course he fucking does he’s a qualified Architect. If you can’t see from my CV that I can do Architecture then something has gone wrong.
So I started playing with it a little. Endorsing people for ridiculous things like, waking up, Microsoft Word, Turning a computer on, Herding cats and the like. And others similarly played with it such as Peter Guthrie who endorsed me for Laughter Yoga – ha ha ha ha hahahahahhhaaaha. Seriously search YouTube for it, it’s hilarious. Emma also endorsed me for dogs and making coffee.
What I hadn’t realised is that all these skills I’ve added, or had added for me get emailed round in a newsletter to others. So a few days ago Daisy Froud sent me this image. Hilarious. I hope everyone sees the funny side. You can’t take these things too seriously now!
Funniest thing I’ve seen in a while on Twitter. Whilst I love Instagram I do tire of it in equal measure, especially all those fucking hashtags. There should be a limit of two per image.
Via @utterben
BAT Studio have been at it again, making playful installations that engage the user in a cross over of art and architecture. This time they’ve been fucking with the fragile minds of whacked out ravers festival goers.
Humans’ relationship with their reflection has been a source of superstition for thousands of years. This pavilion is a play on the classic hall of mirrors, however these are animate mirrors which distort, magnify and focus the reflections of people and their environment.
The look on some of these people’s faces when they see the mirrors moving and distorting is hilarious. Apparently this is their “largest mirror installation to date”, hopefully there’s bigger and better versions still to come.
Standing in Peckham Rye park at 10pm with a long lens and a tripod seems little odd. But hey, why not. The results are a bit crap really. Not sure what I was expecting though but something better than this.
This is from a 70-200 with a TC II at full reach. Still not enough zoom to get there to fill the frame. Not the sharpest either but I guess that’s down to the TC II. It’s heavily cropped to get even this much out of it. Ho hum, back to buildings, dogs and bikes I guess.
An often asked question but thinking of sending people in the direction of this post on PetaPixel. A Nikon ‘kit’ for around $80,000.
So that’s a D4 and 20 N series lenses and the full kit contains some pretty expensive longer reach lenses which make up sixty percent of the cost. Nutso! Worth reading the camera nerds get stuck in with the comments on which lenses overlap and generally just have a pop at each other.
Incredible work.
A master of color and geometric composition, Andy Gilmore’s work is often characterized as kaleidoscopic and hypnotic, though it could just as well be described as visually acoustic, his often complex arrangements referencing the scales and melodies in music.
Since 2010, Gilmore has been collaborating with Ghostly International, creating several album covers for the artist Gold Panda, along with releasing his own visual compositions under Ghostly International Editions, Ghostly’s art house division dedicated to releasing the work of a growing cadre of talented visual artists.
Via Weequizzie.
Stats, love them. See what people looked at, what they searched for etc. But oh my Flickr stats doesn’t half turn up some odd things. Here’s a selection from earlier. Highlights include “ugg love” and “shaved babes”. I’m not sure what’s more concerning, the fact that people searched for those terms or that they ended up on my page.
