17 Sunday Feb 2013
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East Greenwich Pleasaunce, February 2013
A different kind of recording for this week’s A Recording A Week For A Year:
Just past the midpoint of February and suddenly: a break in the interminable cold. Over to East Greenwich Pleasaunce on Sunday morning; kids and dogs playing, the birds singing. More of this kind of weather, please.
PS, for this kind of thing done properly, I can’t recommend London Sound Survey highly enough.
12 Tuesday Feb 2013
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E1, East End, iPhone, london, Middlesex Street, Petticoat Lane, photography, textiles
A day when even the African textile shops struggled to cheer the place up.
More photography from Aldgate and around here.
05 Tuesday Feb 2013
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Anthony McCall, art, exhibitions, Hayward Gallery, light, Light Show, Southbank, You and I Horizontal
Anthony McCall’s ‘You and I, Horizontal (2005)’
To the Hayward Gallery for ‘Light Show’. Came out feeling slightly as though I’d been beaten up, and not a little travel sick. Recommended.
23 Wednesday Jan 2013
Posted by Neil Clasper | Filed under London, Photography
22 Tuesday Jan 2013
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This appeared in Aldgate shortly before the Olympics, but it’s proved remarkably difficult to photograph satisfactorily; too much stuff in the way: pedestrians, cars, buses, lorries, roadworks, temporary traffic lights, street furniture, and so on. Yesterday the streets were quiet and the sun emerged for a short while just as I left work.
More photography from Aldgate and around here.
19 Saturday Jan 2013
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Such was the weather that a good proportion of the people wandering around the middle of Greenwich were sporting expressions similar to these cheery sorts from St. Alfege’s.
Me, I’m daydreaming about sunny days and the re-opening of Charlton Lido…
19 Saturday Jan 2013
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Aldgate, london, photography, square format, subway, underpass
…of the Aldgate roundabout.
This corner of London has been much improved for pedestrians in recent years; railings removed, pedestrian crossings installed, and generally made less complex to navigate by the fact that you can go in most directions at ground level. But not quite every direction.
17 Thursday Jan 2013
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Christ Church, Spitalfields; winter sun, originally uploaded by neilclasper.
The working day much improved by a stroll through Spitalfieds, and a hot pie for lunch.
Christ Church glowing in the low winter sun; a sight that never gets dull, and a reminder that I need to take the camera inside the church sometime soon.
08 Tuesday Jan 2013
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Rock’n’roll thrills are fairly thin on the ground in Charlton, so it was pretty exciting to see Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook playing a set at Cattleya’s on Charlton Church Lane on Sunday evening. Playing with a version of The Los Dawsons with the addition of Dennis ‘Nine Below Zero’ Greaves on guitar, and occasional Ripchord Gus Glen on bass, Glenn rattled through an hour or so of covers, joined for a couple of songs by Dave Suich of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain on vocals and harmonica.
Here’s a snippet of Gus singing Buddy Holly’s Rave On.
(* “it never f*ckin’ was“, according to the man at the bar)
08 Tuesday Jan 2013
In the marginal zone on the edge of Docklands, where the first round of 21st century redevelopment sits slightly apart from the last round of post-war regeneration, and the post-Olympics/Crossrail changes to come.
Posted by Neil Clasper | Filed under London, Photography
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