Holy crap. I need a flight to Japan immediately. This beautiful video was shot by Jon Rawlinson at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium — the second largest aquarium in the world. According to the Wiki: The main tank called the ‘Kuroshio Sea’ holds 7,500-cubic meters (1,981,290 gallons) of water and features the world’s second largest acrylic …
Red Bull BC One
On Wednesday, the 2009 Red Bull BC One international breakdancing competition will be held at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. This is the first time I have heard of this competition but it’s been running since 2004 and apparently tickets for this year’s competition sold out in 30 minutes. It is a knockout tournament …
Chelsea vs Atletico Madrid
I went to my first football match tonight. Miguel managed to get some tickets to the Champions League match between Chelsea and Club Atlético de Madrid at Stamford Bridge. It was a lot of fun! Things didn’t go too well for Atletico, though. Despite some determined singing from the Spanish fans Chelsea cruised to a …
Anniversary
Yesterday was our 7th wedding anniversary and to celebrate we went to the Criterion Restaurant for an early dinner before seeing The 39 Steps at the Criterion Theatre. Opened in 1873, the restaurant is an amazing building. A long shoebox shaped hall that stretches back from Piccadilly Circus. Marble pillars flank huge mirrors that reflect …
New camera
I took a few photos on my shiny new Canon EOS 7D today. It’s a pretty awesome camera but it’s going to take me a while to learn what all the buttons do. I think I’m also going to need a bigger, faster memory card; it does a good machine gun impression when you hold …
Musical Tree
The other day I was thinking about music teachers and the idea occurred to me that you could trace your musical history like you could your family history. If you were to follow your teachers’ teachers back through time you would end up with something like a family tree, except it would be a musical …
The return of Buzz Lightyear
Buzz Lightyear returned from space on Sept. 11, aboard space shuttle Discovery’s STS-128 mission after 15 months aboard the International Space Station. His time on the orbiting laboratory will be celebrated in a ticker-tape parade together with his space station crewmates and former Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin on Oct. 2, at Walt Disney World …
Yippee-ki-yay
Cool. Just received notification my new t-shirts have shipped from Last Exit to Nowhere. Can you recognise them without clicking through to the site?
BBC London – Be Part of It
Love London? I love this ad.
Stravinsky on conductors
It is said that one morning in London he was with a friend in a taxi when, just as they came to Ludgate Hill, the bells of St. Paul’s began to ring. He leaned forward to listen and tapped on the window for the driver to stop. Then he turned to his friend and said: …