Monday, July 30, 2007, 10:30 PM
The man sitting next to his wife on the tube in this picture is guilty of a mild form of infidelity - he is totally disregarding the missus and instead devoting his full attention to a Ms JK Rowling and her seductive new book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. As you can see, he is on tenterhooks as he enters the final few pages of the book, whilst for her, the next station stop cannot come soon enough.
I have seen worse - I have seen a man climb on board a tube train with his girlfriend, stick on his iPod and actively ignore her for at least 5 stops - this looked like it was the way things were with them on any tube trip. But this made a better picture.
This man is probably one of thousands in the land who consider themselves failures if they fail to finish the new Potter within the first week of its release.
Now that is magic.
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Friday, July 27, 2007, 01:42 AM
Left the best till last with the iTunes Festival this week - the ever-spellbinding Jamie Woon and Jack Peņate - a pretty unique and fired-up performer.Ever since seeing him in the Lark in The Park several years ago, Jamie Woon has blossomed into an amazing performer with a growing repertoire of songs and a growing fanbase. To see him playing at the iTunes Festival was really inspiring - ignore this man at your peril.
Jamie Woon
Jamie Woon
Jack Peņate
Jack Peņate
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Sunday, July 22, 2007, 01:06 AM
There is nothing like taking one of Europe's classic road trips, and the journey from London, via Calais to Hamburg in Northern Germany is nothing like one of Europe's classic road trips. It is a featureless, flat, unprepossessing piece of tarmac 600 miles long, and does no favours to Holland or Belgium. You enter Germany, desperate for some form of visual spectacle, and all you get is the Rhineland's towering coal chimneys. At the wheel of a very unexciting white van, this can really destroy your will to live when you have another 250 miles to go.And then the whole trip becomes worthwhile as you drive past one motorway exit just inside Germany. You grab the camera, making sure you keep control of your vehcile, get the image, and push on, relieved that the journey had a little bit of fun to it. I am sure that the residents of Wankum have long got used to the rude-sounding name of their town, but this will not stop the uninitiated wetting themselves at the very sight of it.
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Sunday, July 15, 2007, 10:40 PM
A mad week of music is at an end - I 'did' Paolo Nutini this evening, and it was a brilliant, charged, atmosphere down at the ICA.Whilst he is an amazingly gifted musician, I have to say that the fact that he barely opened his eyes was a slight frustration speaking from a photographer's point of view. It could be nerves - I mean, a decent technique for overcoming stage fright might be to close your eyes and imagine you are in your living room with a TV remote for a mic. In any case, the throngs and throngs of girls didn't seem to complain.
Paolo Nutini
Paolo the second
Paolo Nutini's arm
Paolo Nutini's catchy single 'New Shoes'
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Friday, July 13, 2007, 02:25 AM
I am proud to say that this blog is now a one year-old, and a rosy-cheeked, well-developed one at that. It is potty trained, does not complain if it is rarely attended-to, and an absolute pleasure to look after.Happy birthday diary - I am quite frankly astonished that I actually started this and kept it going.
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