I recently had the pleasure of visiting Hong Kong for a week while presenting a poster at the 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. In short, Hong Kong was an intense experience. The population density was overwhelming and the 25C temperature in November caught me by surprise.
You can see more photographs in the Flickr set.
I didn’t want to create an ordered list of my favourite albums from this decade accompanied by pretentious paragraphs explaining my choices so I abandoned that idea and decided to just put up the album covers and forgo the reasons.
Bonus: Clicking on an album cover will lead you to a legal stream of the album so you can check it out.
Ask yourself this: can you ever remember being willing to pay £16.99 for a CD?
I wanted to take some time to reflect on what I liked and what I disliked at The Edinburgh Festival 2009.
An outstanding, entertaining, and engaging puppet-show. I strongly recommended it to everyone who would listen, however, I think the stigma of puppet-show was too much to overcome. (A alternative reason is my friends don’t trust my recommendations!) Randy was a children’s entertainer telling us about this life and relationships and how it was all messed up. The writing was excellent and the performance was brilliant. I’m sure from time-to-time I’ll fondly remember Randy shouting “WHERE’S WILLIAAAAAAAAAAAM?”
I have been building an interest in Classical music since living in Bristol – Jim regularly listened to BBC Radio 3 when he drove us into work. Seeing a live orchestra was an great experience, there was much more energy than can be conveyed over the radio or on a CD.
I didn’t know anything about this until I saw a 5-star review on somebody else’s newspaper on the Glasgow Underground. Power Plant was an incredible light and sound exhibition at the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens Glasshouses. There were some beautiful touches like the flame pipes producing rhythms and sitting on the couches looking over the disco ball palm trees. It’s difficult to explain this exhibition but I strongly recommend seeing it on tour. I didn’t take any photographs because it wouldn’t do this exhibition justice.
I queued for tickets to watch the concert from Prices Street Gardens and I would do it again. Hopefully I will remember ear buds for next year because fireworks have never sounded so loud. A friend managed to take some great photographs of the display and this is the best quality recording of the concert I have been able to find:
We recently attended the free Banksy Exhibition at Bristol Museum after queuing for just over two hours.
The only restriction on taking photographs was that you couldn’t use a flash. Here are two pieces I particularly enjoyed. Overall, the exhibition was playful and I liked how you were forced to explore the entire museum to see everything.
The exhibition is on until 31st August and entry is free, however, you are advised that you may need to queue for at two-to-three hours. See twenty-one more photographs in the set.