i seem to have a few unread messages after being away fo a few days...lets hope its just the iphone messing me about and not really that many otherwise I'm going to have to get through a lot of Viagra emails.

Part of me thinks, where were the Assistants who do the crowd control and did the director even tell the authorities that they were filming in the area??...Of course not, probably another production on the cheap thinking they can get away with it,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7149216.stm
----- The director of an Angolan crime film says police have shot dead two of his actors after mistaking them for real armed robbers.

The duo were carrying unloaded firearms as they filmed a scene in a rough suburb of the capital Luanda, director Radical Ribeiro told AFP news agency.

He said police roared up to the set and began shooting at close range.

Angolan officials have not commented on the incident. Mr Ribeiro says he had permission to film in the area.

Mr Ribeiro told AFP that police arrived at the scene in a pick-up truck and "started shooting at everybody at close range".

He was "stunned" when he saw the two actors fall down, he added.

"They went on shooting until I shouted out: 'Please don't shoot, this is a movie.'"

The officers then stopped firing and left without attending to the wounded, who were taken to hospital, Mr Ribeiro said.

Saw this on Mark's Blog and thought i'd share,

The Cubika broke this morning and I wasn't happy. So ever the engineer I open her up and it turns out that limescale had created a air pocket in the pipe that was stopping the water pumping. A little tweal if the pipe to break the limescale and we are back in caffine heaven. Now time for a coffee

Well it seem they decided to put up a poster of a scantily clad Billie Piper in one of the most conservative neighborhoods in London. Someone seems to have taken offense to the poster and covered it in White Gloss. Some one really doesn't like billie piper

The picture that they splattered is this one img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/09_04/BillieUndiesL_468x28...

The Grand Master Gee has been spending too much time getting the Silverlight love and has this on his blog, Xsan madness

A Bomb in Wardour St,? Nt really a bit of fire/gas on Berwick Street.  I'm glad I left work early as Phil's picture shows everyone else left early too.

Yeah another watch that is hard to tell the time on, My new Storm Circuit http://www.stormwatches.com/watches/limited-edition/product-details/Circuit/10605

Due to the tube strike yesterday I had to stay at a friends as it wasn't worth getting home and all the hassle that it was bound to be getting back to East London. So I got the No. 8 buses in this morning to work in Soho. Well that was until I got to Holborn and the traffic started to crawl and I mean crawl. I got off the bus and started walking and strolled a lot faster than any bus up to the top of New Oxford Street and this was the view that greeted me, it buses backed up all down the road. 

It wasn't till I got to the top of the queue of buses there was about another 5 or six all lined up that I could see the cause of the monumental tailback all down New Oxford Street into Holborn which had held traffic up for about twenty minutes and what had made this massive queue of traffic. The picture below is what greeted me. Oh joy a inconsiderate flat bed truck driver from Stanmore Quality Surfacing. The driver had just pulled out over the box juncation and tried to bully his way in, turn on his flashing amber lights to try and get traffic to move, I think they better get their drivers to read up on they Highway Code and not inflict more misery of the general public while the system is already understrain from the tube strike. Thank for making me incredibly late for work I hope you had a great start to the day too.

150: Box junctions. These have criss-cross yellow lines painted on the road (see Other road markings section). You MUST NOT enter the box until your exit road or lane is clear. However, you may enter the box and wait when you want to turn right, and are only stopped from doing so by oncoming traffic, or by other vehicles waiting to turn right. At signalled roundabouts you MUST NOT enter the box unless you can cross over it completely without stopping.
Law TSRGD regs 10(1) & 29(2)

Only in Texas...

Passing Side or Suicide, you decide!!!!

Does this remind you of anything Simon?

Stockholm at night

View from the sky bar at the radison royal viking

Today was a day for a bit of culture, Gaudi supplied it in droves. What an amazing building I'm never seen a church on this scale being built you normally see them 100 of years after they were finished. Lovely building.

photos are on flickr click on the picture and you can access the set.

Stanley makes himself at home in Barcelona

There is nothing like a photograph and nothing brings back memories than standing there seeing the place again,  While I was in Central Park, New York I popped down to the lake and tried to recreate one of my favorite photos. It was taken in 2002 when I was in New York with friends
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Its now 2007 and I've gone digital, over film and colour over black and white...i made it a mission to take the shot again.

This was a shot i took over the weekend, i personally think its great

Should this be classed as bullying in the office?

move uncle joes car on:
http://englishrussia.com/?p=865

The monkey has landed, again. In the surreal work that is Los Angeles who joys does this town have in wait for me, its always eventful and fun.

Today I had two days off in Washington DC before heading to NAB in las Vegas, This is my fav photo I took while out today, it from the Lincoln Memorial looking out over the Reflectling Pool down to the Washington Monument.

My Flickr Pool http://flickr.com/photos/akira_kev/sets/72157600070646782/

if you were looking for a bus in east london this morning. Then the reason is they were all probably here. There was another 7 buses waiting in the queue just around the corner. All thanks to District Line engineering works.

This is one of my fav photos i've ever taken, it just got great atomsphere

its sunday must be Stockholm

More bright Ideas it says, well I think a bright idea would be to turn off the lights at 3:16am on a Sunday morning and save us all from more light polution.

I took the camera to one of my fav places Tate Modern, to try it out and see what kind of shots I could get out of th camera, of course I didn't read the manual before going out so I had fun in low light and getting something I liked. Well this is one f the shots I liked
This is a shot a few hours before the lunar eclipse...

New Device Warning.



I needed a compact camera to talk to gigs and have on me at all times, it was only luck that I had my big digital Canon SLR with me when the Warren Street Bomb went off, so I was looking at compact camera and looked at the Canon IXUS series and the Fujifilm E900 but in the end I thought I'd better do it properly. Every news photographer I respect at some point the classic picture was taken with a Leica. From the flaming napalm on South Vietnameseof Phan Thi Kim Phuc by the South Vietmanese to the photo take by Kevin Carter in Sudan they were all taken with a Leica, now its my time to join the Bang Bang Club.

http://www.leica-camera.us/photography/compact_cameras/d-lux_3/

Well I'm delayed at chicago o'hare so I thought I'd upload a shot I took on my photo on the way over. its a shot  over the wing into the horizon

Kodak has a sense of humour

Well its not every day you come home to this on your road, I grabbed the camera and rushed out to get what pictures I could. Apparently the driver ran away from the accident.