Two buskers practicing, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London, this morning. They each had three skittles, and threw one up with their right hand at the first and second beat of three beats, while throwing a skittle to the other juggler on the third beat. The other juggler caught the thrown skittle with his left hand. They stopped practicing as soon as they saw me take this photo.
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Brussels life
Stained glass window in Eglise des Peres Carmes, Brussels, Belgium.
Paris life
Brussels life
Composition xi by Theo van Doesburg at Bozar.
Brussels life
Restaurant Le Mess, Brussels, Belgium.
Coffee with an Economista
Franco’s Cafe, Jermyn Street, London.
Alice Nampitjinpa at Temple
Workmen replacing the wall tiles at Temple Underground Station in London have temporarily revealed patterns on the concrete walls that bring to mind the sublime optic minimalist art of Alice Nampitjinpa. For a limited time only. Guaranteed to make you homesick for Australia.
Reminded of Nampitjinpa’s Tali at Talaalpi (1998).
London life
St. Paul’s Cathedral from Borough (HT: WP).
I was reminded of Thomas Jones’ Houses in Naples (about 1782, now in the National Museum of Wales).
London Life: Ethereum DevCon1
Gibson Hall, London, venue for DevCon1, 9-13 November 2015. There was some irony in holding a conference to discuss technology developments in blockchains and distributed ledgers in a grand, neo-classical heritage-listed building erected in 1865. At least it was fitting that a technology currently taking the financial world by storm should be debated in what was designed to be a banking hall (for Westminster Bank). The audience was split fairly evenly between dreadlocked libertarians & cryptocurrency enthusiasts and bankers & lawyers in smart suits: cyberpunk meets Gordon Gekko.
Hackathon life
At the first Internet of Things and Distributed Ledgers Hackathon, Barclays Rise Hackspace, Notting Hill, London, 7 November 2015.