UK: Random Pics
I'm at the end of my UK posts, so here's an uncategorized assortment of pictures. I just thought they looked kind of neat.
This is a view across the Charing Cross Bridge, from the Hungerford Bridge. The Hungerford Bridge is a pedestrian bridge across the Thames, that sits right alongside the Charing Cross Bridge, which is a railway bridge.
I forget what this building was, I believe it had something to do with transit.
A sewer grate in Leicester Square, right by the discount ticket booth.
80 Victoria and 100 Victoria are a matched pair of unusual-looking office buildings that have a shopping mall on the ground floor. This is the roofed gap between the buildings.
This is the pointed end of 100 Victoria. The unusual shape of the building had an interesting effect upon the airflow around the building. on the right, the wind was unremarkable. But in the left, it felt like a gale. You can kind of see how the woman in the picture is resisting the wind trying to blow her toward the camera.
The gap between the buildings is aligned to it stares directly across the street at Westminster Cathedral. This is not the same building as Westminster Abbey, the large protestant church next to the Houses of Parliament. This is a major catholic church which is home to a famous choir.
The backside of 100 Victoria, where there is an elevated open space.
Another funky building I ran across at random.
People in glass office buildings shouldn't throw fax machines.
A skinny building across from King's Cross. There are vacancies, I guess because people prefer to rent offices that have actual floor space.
Night time in Westminster.
I went to see the "Lord of the Rings" stage musical, in a theatre just off of Covent Garden. I'd have taken pictures inside, but photography was prohibited.
The musical itself wasn't bad. But three hours is not a lot of time to squeeze the entire trilogy into. It didn't feel so much like a musical as it did a play, with a couple of songs thrown in. But this didn't hurt its entertainment value at all. Plotwise, they basically took the first and third movie, and deleted all the Rohan stuff and the Battle of the Hornburg. Instead of going to Rohan, then to Gondor, they simply went to the Kingdom of Man, which was Gondor. The stage was interesting, it had a rotating section in the middle, with pie-sections that rose and descended. Overall, I quite enjoyed the production. The stage design and costumes were quite good, and they even had some scary orcs roaming the audience at one point.
(I use the movies as a point of comparison instead of the books, because they didn't really add anything significant that the movies had left out. So it was like they took the movies, which were a reduction of the books, then reduced it further.)
An exhausted nerd takes the Tube (subway) to Heathrow Airport.
Next time: Home!
For my other posts of the UK, click on "uk" up above, where it says "Tags."
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pegasusmaiden is selling cute hairclips and stockings!
waynekaa is selling costumes and a puppet!
aimeekitty is having a Huge Garage Sale!
pixel_stitcher is selling the Feb 2009 issue of CosMode Magazine!
Amanda is selling this amazing jacket!
Don't forget to buy your tickets to the May 9 SoCal Spring Cosplay Gathering!
This is a view across the Charing Cross Bridge, from the Hungerford Bridge. The Hungerford Bridge is a pedestrian bridge across the Thames, that sits right alongside the Charing Cross Bridge, which is a railway bridge.
I forget what this building was, I believe it had something to do with transit.
A sewer grate in Leicester Square, right by the discount ticket booth.
80 Victoria and 100 Victoria are a matched pair of unusual-looking office buildings that have a shopping mall on the ground floor. This is the roofed gap between the buildings.
This is the pointed end of 100 Victoria. The unusual shape of the building had an interesting effect upon the airflow around the building. on the right, the wind was unremarkable. But in the left, it felt like a gale. You can kind of see how the woman in the picture is resisting the wind trying to blow her toward the camera.
The gap between the buildings is aligned to it stares directly across the street at Westminster Cathedral. This is not the same building as Westminster Abbey, the large protestant church next to the Houses of Parliament. This is a major catholic church which is home to a famous choir.
The backside of 100 Victoria, where there is an elevated open space.
Another funky building I ran across at random.
People in glass office buildings shouldn't throw fax machines.
A skinny building across from King's Cross. There are vacancies, I guess because people prefer to rent offices that have actual floor space.
Night time in Westminster.
I went to see the "Lord of the Rings" stage musical, in a theatre just off of Covent Garden. I'd have taken pictures inside, but photography was prohibited.
The musical itself wasn't bad. But three hours is not a lot of time to squeeze the entire trilogy into. It didn't feel so much like a musical as it did a play, with a couple of songs thrown in. But this didn't hurt its entertainment value at all. Plotwise, they basically took the first and third movie, and deleted all the Rohan stuff and the Battle of the Hornburg. Instead of going to Rohan, then to Gondor, they simply went to the Kingdom of Man, which was Gondor. The stage was interesting, it had a rotating section in the middle, with pie-sections that rose and descended. Overall, I quite enjoyed the production. The stage design and costumes were quite good, and they even had some scary orcs roaming the audience at one point.
(I use the movies as a point of comparison instead of the books, because they didn't really add anything significant that the movies had left out. So it was like they took the movies, which were a reduction of the books, then reduced it further.)
An exhausted nerd takes the Tube (subway) to Heathrow Airport.
Next time: Home!
For my other posts of the UK, click on "uk" up above, where it says "Tags."
Your Friends Are Awesome. Buy Their Awesome Stuff!
pegasusmaiden is selling cute hairclips and stockings!
waynekaa is selling costumes and a puppet!
aimeekitty is having a Huge Garage Sale!
pixel_stitcher is selling the Feb 2009 issue of CosMode Magazine!
Amanda is selling this amazing jacket!
Don't forget to buy your tickets to the May 9 SoCal Spring Cosplay Gathering!