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This weekend, thanks to a tip-off from a friend I visited Kinetica Art Fair. Having been to last year’s event, I knew what to expect and so I came prepared with my camera.

Immediately, the art afficionados amongst you will have noted “camera” - Kinetica is a very informal event. Photography is allowed as long as it isn’t disruptive and many of the exhibits are interactive.

The artists are usually on hand to discuss their work and are typically very keen to do so. Professor Frederic Fol Leymarie gave me a very interesting walk-through the art/research project on computation models of creativity that he is involved with, for example. I also chatted briefly with Giles Walker who I met at last year’s event when he was exhibiting his pole dancing robots.

So, what did the art look like?

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Snow seems to be a bit of a recurring theme in my blog. Here’s some more, this time from a walk with my parents and brother in Black Hambleton, near Osmotherly.

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These pictures are from 2009 but I was a bit slow putting them up.

When this was taken the idea of making a snowman seemed like a bit of a novelty. Now, three weeks later the novelty has started to wear off.

Here’s a couple more pictures so you can admire my handywork …

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This Friday I attended the Fashion In Motion catwalk show of clothing designed by Erdem at The Victoria and Albert Museum.

As you can see, I’m no fashion photographer! Unlike my friend Titus Powell, to whom thanks are due for obtaining the tickets to this event.

More pictures after the break.

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Can you guess what this is?

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My parents came to visit last weekend, so while they were here we did some local (for me!) sight seeing.

Here are a few of the pictures I took that I especially liked…

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Despite having been there twice a week every week since January, I still managed to find a reason to go back to London City Airport for a third time this week: The London City Airport Funday 2009

Strangely, despite leaving my house, then going back for my umbrella because it was raining, at the airport we were in for the hottest afternoon that I’ve seen so far this year. Perfect day to see some aeroplanes, and I took plenty of pictures, including the one above, which I was especially pleased with.

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Here is a picture of my house burning down. Nearly.

One of the things that is occasionally at the back of my mind when I come home from work is “What if my house burned down while I was away?” It hasn’t happened yet, but today was as close as it gets.

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Been a while since I wrote a blog entry. It’s not that I haven’t been doing much, just nothing that really warranted a full blog entry. I’ve been in Dublin for a while - could have written about that, maybe, but that’s already covered here. This time round I saw the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, although I didn’t get any photos. I say I saw the parade, although mostly I saw the backs of people’s heads as it was a nice sunny day and O’Connell Street was jammed full of people.

So, anyway, here’s a few miscellaneous pictures from my camera:

This one was taken a little while ago (obviously!) - I don’t know why but I thought it was amusing to look out of the window and see my car turned into a white blob. Needless to say it didn’t stay like that for long. I won’t bother to post my Crime Watch style blurred photo of one of the ill-disciplined local children using it as a step to climb over the fence.

You want more pictures?

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It’s been a while since my last site entry but that’s (mostly) because I’ve been away on a well-deserved holiday to Thailand. I had planned to go away earlier in the year but that didn’t happen due to work commitments. That excuse no longer existed by the end of September, so I made my plans for a holiday.

I chose Thailand because I expected it to be a relatively easy place to travel to and around. I’d decided to travel on my own and to go as an independent traveler, rather than as part of a package holiday or tour group. My concrete plans extended as far as a return plane ticket to Bangkok and three night’s pre-booked accommodation. And even that bare minimum plan didn’t go exactly as it was supposed to …

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