Personally, I would of thought it's quicker to fly, but what do I know.
Friday 16 May 2008
Catch the Pigeon
This (very blurred) little fella got on at Hammersmith and off at Shepards Bush.
Personally, I would of thought it's quicker to fly, but what do I know.
Personally, I would of thought it's quicker to fly, but what do I know.
Thursday 15 May 2008
Road Trip
Spent much of the last week hopping around Austria and Switzerland looking at Euro 2008 venues. In four rather manic days I managed to visit Zurich, Vienna, Innsbruck and Salzburg. Here's some stuff I saw...
The Zurich stadium. Really impressive structure, it's hunkered down into the ground, so from the outside it looks like a single story building, great unrestricted viewing internally.
It's surrounded by large steel panels left untreated so they'll slowly rust to add character.
In the Zurich train station we spotted this animated light installation, made from an individually controllable grid of LED spheres. Had real depth and movement. Just been covered by The Cool Hunter (they have much better pictures and more info on who made it).
Swiss multistory car parks are a model in efficiency. Each level has a little digital read out telling you how many bays are available. Added to which each bay then has a little light above it - red for full, green for available. When looking down the line you can instantly tell which spaces are available and where they are.
The Ski jump tower in Innsbruck lives up to the hype, sure you've all seen the images of this Zaha Hadid designed beauty. It sits protectively over the town and has a cafe space on the very top floor with stunning views.
It's being used as a Fan Park for the tournament so we went to check it out, I managed to get out onto the launch platform and can assure you it's a very brave man who can throw themselves off from here.
The Zurich stadium. Really impressive structure, it's hunkered down into the ground, so from the outside it looks like a single story building, great unrestricted viewing internally.
It's surrounded by large steel panels left untreated so they'll slowly rust to add character.
In the Zurich train station we spotted this animated light installation, made from an individually controllable grid of LED spheres. Had real depth and movement. Just been covered by The Cool Hunter (they have much better pictures and more info on who made it).
Swiss multistory car parks are a model in efficiency. Each level has a little digital read out telling you how many bays are available. Added to which each bay then has a little light above it - red for full, green for available. When looking down the line you can instantly tell which spaces are available and where they are.
The Ski jump tower in Innsbruck lives up to the hype, sure you've all seen the images of this Zaha Hadid designed beauty. It sits protectively over the town and has a cafe space on the very top floor with stunning views.
It's being used as a Fan Park for the tournament so we went to check it out, I managed to get out onto the launch platform and can assure you it's a very brave man who can throw themselves off from here.
Spotted - The bloke from Hot Chip...
On our way to meeting in Hammersmith Catherine and I spied the fellow from Hot Chip in the next carriage (we think).
Be great if anyone could confirm or deny our 'spot' before we send it into Heat.
Be great if anyone could confirm or deny our 'spot' before we send it into Heat.
Meat Meeting
We've been doing a lot of work with the good people of Kempster. We're both working for Castrol to make their Euro 2008 sponsorship work as hard as possible.
At a recent meeting instead of the normal plate of dried biscuits more usually associated with such an occasion we were presented with this plate of cured meat.
Very good meeting etiquette and a pleasure to eat.
At a recent meeting instead of the normal plate of dried biscuits more usually associated with such an occasion we were presented with this plate of cured meat.
Very good meeting etiquette and a pleasure to eat.
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