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First photos with the FZ150

I can still remember the Great Leap Forward that the Panasonic Lumix FZ150 “bridge” camera was. For me if not for all of photoer-kind. For me, the best “bridge camera” I could have was my perfect...

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Antisocial Benches

Remember Jeppe Hein’s red seat sculptures outside the Royal Festival Hall. Well, when I went back there, in early May of this year, when Lockdown was getting started, to see how the red seats looked in...

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Disco goats

Here. LATER: Mountain goats.

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The Plague has brought back the Seventies

I remember when people looking like this were all over Top of the Pops: Following a heavy dose of injury, Surrey quick bowler Reece Topley is today back playing international cricket for the first time...

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“This is how people are in London …”

Apparently there have been complaints about this: I agree with DebApre, replying to an American complainer: This is not an issue in England. We share culture. We don’t consider this appropriation. You...

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M AGA

Here‘s the big reason why Trump is going to win. He wants everyone to vote for him, black or white, gay or straight. He’s not picky. All you have to be is pro-American! Ricky Rebel explains his video,...

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The Airbus A390 “Clickbait”– etc.

Indeed: I encountered this glorious airplane on Twitter, but just now Twitter is refusing to load onto my computer, for some idiot reason to do with me refusing to update or generally do as commanded,...

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Funerial thoughts

Strange day. I spent a lot of it planning my own funeral, which will, as is traditional, be an event at which I will be present but not paying any attention, if you get my meaning. The thing is, it’s...

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Do you love robots now that they can dance?

I watched this video, and resolved to repost it here, only then to realise that I had encountered it because my favourite Twitterer, Steve Stewart-Williams was the reason I was seeing it in the first...

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Bernstein’s posthumous victory

Last Saturday morning they chose the best recorded version of Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms. In the course of this, the guest chooser, Edward Seckerson, read out this excerpt from a poem that...

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