A visit to Chernobyl Mar 26

Neil Byrne’s pictures of his excursion to Chernobyl are compelling to say the least. He describes the graffiti there as the ‘most bone-chilling’ he’s ever seen in his life. See the rest here.

A bicyclette Mar 25

Wonderful early cycling photos released by Biblioteque de Toulouse on Flickr’s Commons project.

#commons #flickr

The Tunnel: A New York Story Mar 24

The upcoming documentary about Brooklyner Bob Diamond’s quest to discover a legendary lost tunnel beneath the streets of New York (and maybe learn the truth about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in the process) looks like an absolute must-see.

Here’s the trailer:

Brixton, 1970s Mar 18

An anecdotal, journalistic film telling what is ostensibly an insignificant story about the construction and subsequent destruction of a church in SW9. But somehow that just makes it even more emotionally coruscating.

Hello, I’m still alive Mar 17

Hello, this is the kind of post I hate reading on other people’s blogs but it seems necessary so as not to lose my last five or six readers. I will continue to blog but there are a number of technical issues that currently make it too time-consuming to post regularly.

I’ll be getting them fixed as soon as I can, and in the meantime you can still follow what I’m up to on Twitter.