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Snow and mist in Lightwood Park

2007-11-20T22:46:00.001Z

Snow and mist in Lightwood Park, originally uploaded by new folder.

First snow of the winter.

Shibboleth, Tate Modern

2007-11-14T06:52:00.001Z

Video of the latest installation in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London, United Kingdom, 'Shibboleth', by Doris Salcedo

One hour before iphone launch at Carphone Warehouse, Oxford Street

2007-11-13T23:41:00.001Z

Iphone launch at Carphone Warehouse, Oxford Street, originally uploaded by new folder.

Rush at stores for iphone launch - The Guardian.

"Apple's much-hyped iPhone is prompting a rush to stores when it finally launches in the UK.

Carphone Warehouse, O2 and Apple are braced for huge queues and a surge of customers when the must-have gadget goes on sale."

Blue Carpet, Thomas Heatherwick

2007-11-11T20:13:00.001Z

torn carpet, originally uploaded by fotofill.

Thomas Heatherwick's recent public art commission for Newcastle, Blue Carpet.

Hooker Girl Pile, best of Boing Boing

2007-11-11T19:23:00.001Z

Natalia Fabia's 'Hooker Girl Pile'
Photos from film found in thrift store cameras
Toilet sign in Korea warns to be on the lookout for sickos

Lights Out Liverpool, 1 November 2007

2007-10-30T08:51:00.001Z

Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool, originally uploaded by new folder.

Lights Out Liverpool this Thursday sees major city buildings turning their lighting off for an hour to promote energy efficiency. Great idea, it'd be good to see them commit to doing it one day every week.

Goal post, Stanley Park, Liverpool

2007-10-12T17:02:00.001+01:00

Goal post, Stanley Park, Liverpool, originally uploaded by new folder.

Fog on the West Coast mainline

2007-10-05T17:19:00.001+01:00

Fog on the West Coast mainline, originally uploaded by new folder.

Bad Drivers and RottenNeighbor.com

2007-09-22T13:27:00.000+01:00

This driver was unbelievable this morning. At the previous traffic lights, he pushed past a frail old couple unable to cross the road quickly enough for him. Of course he jumped this red light in front as well.

Why hide his number plate? Well, it put me in mind of RottenNeighbor.com, a google maps mashup I was looking at this week. The site allows you to anonymously post information on a google map detailing your neighbours' alleged antisocial behaviour. It's getting loads of uncritical attention online but I feel really uneasy about it, it stinks of vigilantism and harassment.

Blast, Birmingham

2007-09-19T18:10:00.001+01:00

How to do justice to one of the best audio-visual performances of the year? With a twenty second pixellated video shot on your mobile phone of course.

Tramp Attack - Oh! When The Sun Goes Down

2007-09-17T11:58:00.001+01:00

Came across this doing some research this morning. Very funny.

Tea House, Festival of Xtreme Building

2007-09-16T19:52:00.001+01:00

Tea House, Festival of Xtreme Building, originally uploaded by new folder.

This Tea House, intended as a place of contemplation, is part of the Festival of Xtreme Building in Birmingham. I've been meaning to visit it for a couple of months now but came across it by chance while attending Artfest. The festival is sited on waste ground in the city centre and looks at sustainable architecture. The installations are great, including one of those Micro Compact Homes which seem like a gimmick but actually looked to work really well.

Blast, Curzon Street Station

2007-09-16T19:44:00.001+01:00

Blast, Curzon Street Station, originally uploaded by new folder.

Went to see this spectacular public art performance behind Birmingham's disused Curzon Street Station on Saturday night. The free show was superb, up there with Tate Liverpool's Chinese exhibition fireworks as the best show of the year so far. We arrived to find a row of twenty or so burning furnaces, each one heating a barrel of water, providing steam.

We were kept behind barriers thirty foot back. Behind the furnaces runs one of the main train lines out of Birmingham New Street, Virgin's high-speed Pendolinos and an assortment of crappier trains running past regularly.

Black and white projections of steam trains lit up the full wall of the listed Curzon Street Station building, showers of fireworks occasionally raining down from it. A massive hot pipe organ shook the ground with its impersonation of a steam train gathering momentum. Completely overwhelming. Whistles rang out from the barrels over the furnaces. The pipe organ fired horizontal fireworks at the station building; the station building fired them back. Hundreds of helium balloons carrying hundreds of lights were released into the sky creating an man-made starlit sky. A huge blast of flames brought the show to the end.

Fantastic public art, combining spectacle with a real history - the station, the Lunar Society and Birmingham's pivotal role in the industrial revolution.

Great photos and reports on the event at Created in Birmingham and Stef Lewandowski.

Birmingham University floodlit pitches

2007-09-13T22:05:00.001+01:00

Birmingham University floodlit pitches, originally uploaded by new folder.

Brighton Foam, Vine Street

2007-09-13T16:40:00.001+01:00

Brighton Foam, Vine Street, originally uploaded by new folder.

Cricket scores on Google

2007-09-13T15:59:00.000+01:00

I'm running out of reasons to ever visit the BBC site now - live Cricket international scores are now available on Google by searching for 'cricket'. The scores, provided by Cricbuzz are updated real-time; as convenient as this is I can't help feeling every time Google screws around with the search results like this they are moving further away from their simple user interface.

Suckling pig roast

2007-09-02T16:11:00.001+01:00

IMG_5894, originally uploaded by new folder.

Flickr photo top result in Google in 2 hours

2007-08-24T00:05:00.001+01:00

Wasteland and wheelie bins, Lodge Lane, Toxteth, originally uploaded by new folder.

I posted this photo on Flickr at 11.37 this morning. 2 hours later I was wondering what used to be on the site and I remembered reading a blog last year that covered wastelands all over Liverpool (great blog if you can find it). So, I searched for 'wasteland lodge lane' and the first result on Google was my Flickr photo! I've noticed Google indexing blogs quickly recently but I've never noticed this for Flickr before.

Tate Liverpool fireworks

2007-08-15T12:25:00.001+01:00

This firework display at Tate Liverpool earlier in the year was the best I've ever seen. You get some idea of how intense it was from this video the Tate have posted on You Tube.

The King's Highway, Quinton, Birmingham

2007-08-12T15:30:00.001+01:00

The King's Highway, Quinton, Birmingham, originally uploaded by new folder.

new folder (15): liverpoolwebsites.info

2007-08-05T22:38:00.000+01:00

liverpoolwebsites.info - directory of Liverpool websites updated daily.

Defiance in Madryn Street

2007-08-04T00:57:00.001+01:00

Defiance ..., originally uploaded by The Renaissance.

I've been taking a series of photographs in Toxteth recently. I'm really enjoying it and I hope to continue for the next few weeks. This great photo was posted on Flickr today, a house in one of the 'welsh streets', Madryn Street, destined for demolition under the government's notorious new heartlands scheme.

The photo's fantastic, beautifully lit and composed, whilst also documenting a wonderful act of hopeless defiance.

Product not found: Mathew Street Festival 2007 (and maybe 2008?)

2007-08-03T09:51:00.001+01:00

This morning's Daily Post coment (sic) says it all, 'The only explanation is unmitigated incompetence'.

Obviously, the first thing that crossed my mind was how would you react if you were editing one of the promoter's websites? Firstly, I'd add a news story on the front page of my site, both Liverpool08 and Visit Liverpool did this. Secondly, and more importantly, I'd make sure that the existing pages are edited to carry a clear announcement.

Or maybe I'd just delete all information and hope it quietly goes away....

Here's the Visit Liverpool Mathew Street Festival event page:

How about a search for Mathew Street on Liverpool08.com?

OK, the Mathew Street festival website then, www.mathewstreetfestival.com (with the great user-friendly homepage page title MSF index!). Click logo to enter and:

Shed, Black Country Living Museum

2007-07-30T20:47:00.001+01:00

Shed, Black Country Living Museum, originally uploaded by new folder.

Ale installation, Made, Birmingham

2007-07-27T15:24:00.001+01:00

Ale installation, Made, Birmingham, originally uploaded by new folder.

An exhibition celebrating real ale culture. You could pull your own pint, eat cheese and pickle, pork pies and look at some photographs of a brewery. I don't like real ale so the exhibition was a bit lost on me but I thought the building, Made, was a great exhibition space.