Made me happy to see this little protest/awareness gorilla action on the Barclay's cash machine on City Road, East London the other day.

There are quite a few new buildings mushrooming in my neighbourhood around Old Street in East London. And every time I pass by this little house I feel a bit sorry for it.

It reminds me of a children's book I once read where a little house during its lifetime sees the whole environment evolving from countryside to big city.

In the book the house then feels sad and lonely being surrounded by all these new high concrete blocks. But luckily the old owner comes to the rescue and takes it back to the country side.

I somehow doubt that the same will happen to this building here. But I am really curious what will happen to it. Will it have a chance to surive? I will keep you posted.

itchy i reader Bob sent me a link to this video. It shows a totally different take on long exposure photography.

In the film they show you a screen that plays a video of seemingly mad pixels making nothing else than a visual noise similar to an un-tuned TV set. But if you take a still camera and take a long exposure of that video you will see that those pixels only SEEMED chaotic. The photograph taken during the length of the whole video reveals that every pixel that appeared - even if it only showed up for a few brackets of a second at a time - was actually part of an image. An image that only became visible to us when the camera "collected" every single pixel of it.

If that doesn't make sense to you - then just watch the video - it's a brilliant new way of showing you the mostly unpredictable marvels of long exposure photography.

Thanks, Bob, for sending me such a great video. Keep 'em coming! :)

When you film a cymbal being hit full power and film it with 1000 frames per second the metal looks like a liquid wobbling up and down! Fascinating stuff:

I spent a few hours on the bus today to take photos similar to the ones from yesterday. It is actually really tough to get good photos from there as the bus most of the time is way to fast to see something interesting and then to catch it in time or it turns out too motion-blurred. But I'll keep trying.