Archive for March, 2004
London Eye, Venus
The London Eye with Venus showing through the centre as a spoke-like line during a long exposure. For more detail, see NYCLondon Blog.
Kensal Rise
Where I lived from 2000 to early 2002 – a street in Kensal Rise, London. I don’t live in Kensal Rise anymore. Nice houses but not much else around except a cemetery (which I never visited) and an old, tiny library around the corner that, bizarrely, Mark Twain opened a hundred and four years ago. Oh, and the 24 hour “food and wine” place where drunk people would stumble in to buy instant noodles at 2am and buy alcohol even though the licence forbids them to sell it past 11pm (weird rules here). Kensal Rise likes to style itself as “up and coming”. My old landlord told me once: “There’s nowhere else it can go, really.” Convenient transport links, though.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
While I find the time to actually take some photos of London, an old one taken in New York back in 1999. Speaking of museums, we went to see the Lichtenstein exhibition at the Hayward Gallery last weekend…