Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

Oybike, locked up

Originally uploaded by Simon.

I dropped by Olympia this afternoon to watch Stephen Parkins-Knight cook up a storm at Viva Espana. He’s at his element with a crowd - loves it. As soon as Steve says Thank you, the audience zoomed to the front to try […]

Another confluence of words in the vein of Metrosexual - Tanorexia.
As defined by Urban DictionaryA disease like anorexia, no matter how tan a person is they never think they are tan enough. We in the UK know our Tanorexic sufferers, dear Judith Chalmers and the far less dear Robert Kilroy-Silk.
via Washington Socialites

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Looking for something to get your adrenaline levels up?
This re-mastered 1976 film short by Claude Lelouch will do the job.
A driver, a low slung camera and a Ferrari 275 GTB.
It starts is the wide Parisian boulevard and gets more intense as he skips to the other side of the road when his way is […]

On BBC London TV News and radio, they’re running a news items about Happy Slaps TV, where school kids are running around slapping people around the face, while one of their friends does a video recording on their mobile phone.
These video then get swapped around in the school playground.
They’re going around in groups of three […]

Occasionally Slashdot turns up some really funny postings, here’s a bute from yesterday. Here are the top nine comments made by NBC sports commentators so far during the Summer Olympics that they would like to take back:
1. Weightlifting commentator: “This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up […]

The lovely Mark Thatcher, son of the even lovelier Margaret Thatcher has just been found guilty of being involved in a plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea, by “unwittingly” financing a helicopter. He’s been fined about 0.25m pounds and sentenced to 4 years in jail - suspended for five years.
He now will be […]

Today launched of a rocket, Deep Impact, designed to crash into a meteor. NASA hope to find out what sparked the start of life on earth.
Given the strength of the christian fundamentalist in the US, their passion for the teaching of creationism and their influence in the current US government - I wonder how long […]

More from the Best of Still Photojournalism 2004 site. How great is this?

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BoingBoing pointed me to a very interesting photojournalism awards site, the Best of Photojournalism 2004 (some of the photo are pretty distressing, so be warned).
Looking at this amazing atmospheric photo (right) by Mark Zaleski brings a flood of questions into my mind as to how this situation occurred. Clearly he’s not an one shot wonder.
The […]

Looks like Philippe Starck’s latest hotel project is getting some rave reviews, even from himself. Starck, calls it “the best creation I have ever done,” although it’s possible that he says this at the end of each of his projects.
The Faena Hotel + Universe, Buenos Aires, Argentina does look stunning. Previously called El Porteño, it […]