Epic Snow

20 Dec

20 December 2010

London was hit with a snowstorm this weekend that crippled the city. Central London saw only 3 or 4 inches, with greater accumulations in the north and west. All the airports were shut, the Tube was halted and cars were somewhat absent. Saturday morning’s snow globe made for some fun photos.

Living in Trafalgar Square means I don’t have far to slide to get it done, either. The snow is so thick and wet that it was hard to keep the camera dry and the lens clear, but that’s what sealed seams are for, amiright? The photo above is kind of fun because there are several scenes in one. Click on it to see it larger.

Fortunately, I made it out on the first flight back to the United States when most of the following days’ flights were still cancelled. Happy to be home.

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Students take the streets

09 Dec

9 December 2010

A man walks across Trafalgar Square in the calm between the police barricade and the students marching towards him. The Tesco behind him his boarded up to protect the windows that remain after the shop was damaged in previous demonstrations.

London has seen a number of student demonstrations protesting the cuts in education funding and increase in tuition this fall. Most of the demonstration pass through Trafalgar Square or end up there at some point. That line of police in the photo above was easily surmounted and the groups made their way down Whitehall to Parliament Square. Click below to expand the other photos, or view the full album here.

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A Modern Looking Glass

17 Oct

17 October 2010

Allow me to geek out a bit. This isn’t anything all that new, but I’d never seen it for myself and thought I’d share a little.

Have you ever been walking down the sidewalk or standing in a square and wondered what you were looking at? Perhaps a bit about the architecture, the history of a particular building, or whether that restaurant with that great happy hour deal is in fact any good?

Enter Augmented Reality. These applications for iPhone, Android and others use the phone’s camera, GPS, accelerometer and compass to overlay graphical information on the live camera view. Hold the camera up to the building, and peer through the looking glass to reveal the dense world of information behind it.

On my way home from the gym yesterday, I stopped in Trafalgar Square to give acrossair a spin…literally. See my photos below with Wikipedia entries floating about. You can also display Yelp reviews, bars, subways and more. Really incredible stuff. I look forward to (read: dread) wearing contact lenses that do the same thing in a few years.