Last Sunday morning while on a break in London there was some filming being done on Duke's Road, Camden. I took these photographs on Sunday 16th October 2011.
Anybody know who this actor is and what they are filming? Looks like its set in the 1940s, I don't recognise the actor. Could be a film or a TV series. I'm sure someone out there will recognise this.
Who is this actor ?
More photos of the filming :
Filming taking place in Dukes Road, London in October 2011
Filming taking place in Dukes Road, London in October 2011
Filming taking place in Dukes Road, London in October 2011
The filming was attracting lots of attention from passers by, The only reason I spotted it was because of the old bus.
Duke's Road is a side street off Euston Road which is the main road that runs past St Pancras International railway station.
Please watch at full screen and at 720p/1080p if you can. I created this unique time-lapse video from a total of around 10,000 photographs taken from the live Monument webcam. The Monument webcam is a special 360 degree webcam that updates every 60 seconds. I have only just got around to creating this video even though I had the frames for over two years on my hard disk. My video is rendered at 1080p and needs to be played in fullscreen due to the letterbox aspect ratio otherwise you will not be able to see all the little details.
The Monument to the Great Fire of London, more commonly known as "The Monument", is a 202 foot tall stone Roman Doric column in the City of London, England. Its located where the Great Fire of London started in 1666. It was constructed between 1671 and 1677, it is the tallest isolated stone column in the world! The monument closed in July 2007 for an 18-month, £4.5 million refurbishment project and re-opened in February 2009. A special live 360 degree webcam was then fitted to the top of the Monument. Based on a Kaidan VR360 with a Canon EOS 1D Mk3. My time-lapse video is made from the 360 panorama's taken by this equipment.
Points of interest - If you watch this video in Full Screen mode at 720 then you will keep spotting new things, here are some you may have missed 01:19 to 01:29 - The Moon rising on left and travelling across sky. 01:50 - Window cleaning gantry going up and down on the brown building about 35% across from left of panorama. 02:08 - Tower Bridge lifting. It can be seen lifting several times in my video.
If you spot something of interest let me know the time-code.
When was the week of recording?: Monday 6th July 2009 to Monday 13th July 2009 First frame captured at noon on the 6th. Frames were captured every 60 seconds for a whole week and then played in sequence.
The frames were captured using a CRON job on a Linux machine. The images are 1024 x 240 pixels and cover a full 360 degree view of London from the top of The Monument. I had to go through thousands of frames and delete all the corrupt ones, these are images that contain vivid colours due to jpeg corruption. I'm guessing this happened due to the images being sent by Wi-Fi from the camera? I may have missed the odd corrupt image in my video but I think I caught most of them.
Google Streetview: Here you can see the Monument captured during restoration as seen from Monument Street with its junction with Pudding Lane. http://g.co/maps/yqswq
Here you can see the Monument captured after restoration work was completed. Fish Street Hill http://g.co/maps/u3vv3
I discovered this unusual situation. In this Google Streetview you can see the Monument wrapped up during restoration but then you move forward two steps and the restoration work is fully completed!. I guess they must have driven this bit of road in two parts. http://g.co/maps/uzc8q
Note: This webcam seems to have stopped working as of August 12th 2011, It keeps showing the same image. I have contacted them about this but not had a reply. I hope they get it up and running again soon.
Please watch in HD and fullscreen for best clarity.
The train ticketing system in the UK is extremely complicated to understand. Here in this tutorial I will demonstrate how easy it can be to track down the cheapest prices for your journey from Derby to London in First Class. You can use this method for any train journey of course and you don’t have to travel First Class.
You may be asking yourself why not just do the whole thing on the Trainline website, well the simple reason is they charge a £1 booking fee, plus an extra £3.50 for credit card payments and also a charge to have the tickets posted to you. So for this reason I think its best to use their site as a tool and then go and book the tickets in person. This avoids all those extra charges and you get the tickets in your hand rather than them getting held up by the postal strikes.
Why go First Class? Once you have tried first class you won’t want to go Standard Class again, on a longer journey such as Derby to London (1 Hour 31 Min or more) it makes the journey a lot more relaxing. Travelling by first class often costs only an extra £5, or sometimes such as in my example video only £1 extra.
So what do you get in First Class on East Midland Trains? 1) Extra roomy seats to work or relax 2) Free newspapers 3) Free cups of tea/Coffee (served in a proper cup) 4) Free bottled water 5) Free snack cake 6) Mains socket for a laptop or mobile phone charging. 7) First Class menu with waitress service to your seat. (Food is not free) 8) Better clientele, so no noisy children kicking the back of your seat! 9) Reserved seats
Its worth pointing out that if you travel on a weekend or bank holiday then you do not get items 2 to 5 above which is why I have recommended weekday travel to get the most out the first class experience. You never know who you may see in First Class, last time we went first class Jimmy Carr was in the same carrage!
Useful Notes At weekend or bank holidays there are sometimes engineering works and other disruptions from time to time so its worth checking before you commit to buying tickets. East Midlands Trains have a dedicated page which lists any alterations to train services, usually for planned engineering works: http://www.eastmidlandstrains.co.uk/EMTrains/Tickets/Alterations.htm
Be flexible In order to achieve the lowest possible prices for your journey you need to be flexible in your travel times. For example if you go into this with set times in your mind of when you want to travel then you will pay a lot more. Using the dates in my tutorial if you were to decide that you want the following travel times 27th November leaving Derby at 07.05 arriving in London at 8.57 First class ticket is £115 and 1st December leaving London at 18.55 arriving in Derby at 20.46 First class ticket is £62 So thats a total of £177 return, This goes to prove that you need to be willing to adjust your travel times about to maximise the savings.
Book well ahead Contractually Network Rail must have the timetable set 12 weeks in advance, Booking as early as possible gives you the best chance of being able to buy the cheapest ticket for the journey you want to make. I have found in practice that you can still get real cheap tickets even just a few weeks before you want to travel as in this tutorial example.
Reserved Seats When you get onto the 1st class coach and look for your seats you will notice a scrolling green message above your seats saying "Reserved Derby to London". When you book your tickets you can choose if you want to be facing in the direction of travel and if you want a table with 4 seats or two.
Save more money by using the 2 for 1 London tickets. There is a great website that you can use that allows you 2FOR1 entry to over 100 top London attractions, restaurants, theatres, exhibitions and more, when you travel by train to London: http://www.daysoutguide.co.uk/attraction-types/2for1london.aspx In August barriers were installed at both Derby and St Pancras. When you get to St Pancras you put the ticket in the barrier and it will take the ticket from you so you will need to keep your inward bound tickets as proof when you use the 2 for 1 system.
St Pancras London St Pancras station is where your journey will end, from here you can get on an underground train to anywhere or even the Eurostar to Paris.
The small timelapse video journey along London Road/Midland Road to the Railway station was filmed on 8th November 2009 at 14.57
Another reason for making this tutorial was so I could learn how to get to grips with Camtasia studio to capture my actions on screen. I will be making tutorials soon on how to make any sound into an iPhone ringtone and some Sony Vegas 9 stuff too.
If you found my tutorial on how to get the cheapest first class train tickets of use then please rate and comment. Do you have any handy tips?
This is footage I took at the finish line of the London Great Gorilla Run on Saturday 26th September 2009.
The run, in its seventh year, is one of the most popular annual events in the capital. This year the run was started by childrens television presenter Helen Skelton (Blue Peter).
The quickest gorilla-runner completed the 7km course in just 34 minutes. The slowest was Ian Redmond, who walked on all-fours for most of the circuit and finished in just under 2 hours.
Since the first Great Gorilla Run in 2003, thousands of people have donned their gorilla suits and walked, run or jogged the 7km City of London route that takes in sights such as Tower Bridge, Tate Modern and the Globe.
If you like dressing up and helping save endangered creatures from extinction, this is the charity fun run for you. By doing the Great Gorilla Run, you'll be playing a crucial role in helping save the remaining 700 mountain gorillas left in the wild.
Last year runners raised more than £300,000 for the Gorilla Organization's conservation and development programme, helping to ensure the survival of the Gorillas.
On Monday I went to see Ross Noble Things at the Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue in London. Ross Noble is one of the best stand up comedians around at the moment. His current tour is called Things and is on at this theatre until 24th October 2009 so if you are a fan get yourself down to London to see him.
Address: Apollo Shaftesbury Avenue London W1D 7ES Phone: 0844 579 1971
Stalls £35.00 Dress Circle £30.00-£35.00 Upper Circle £25.00 - £30.00 Balcony £20.00-£25.00 Stalls Premium Seats £65.00
P.S. Dont miss his new series which started last Monday, Its a six-part series which started on Channel Five on Monday 28th September 2009 at 10pm. Ross Noble combines two of his great passions – biking and comedy – as he takes us with him on an epic, 26,000-kilometre, five-month road trip round Oz. Roaring across the outback to the beyond and back again during an 85-gig stand-up tour, Ross presents us with his highly idiosyncratic eye-view of the most quirky and memorable sights, sounds and encounters of his adopted country as he bikes his way between venues – and shares his observations with his audiences in typically spontaneous style. Ross Noble’s Australian Trip September 25th, 2009 Ross’ brand-new six-part series starts on Channel Five on Monday 28th September 2009 at 10pm.
Ross Noble combines two of his great passions – biking and comedy – as he takes us with him on an epic, 26,000-kilometre, five-month road trip round Oz. Roaring across the outback to the beyond and back again during an 85-gig stand-up tour, Ross presents us with his highly idiosyncratic eye-view of the most quirky and memorable sights, sounds and encounters of his adopted country as he bikes his way between venues – and shares his observations with his audiences in typically spontaneous style.
The adventure begins in Queensland where Ross quite literally drives off the stage of the Brisbane concert hall straight into the first leg of his journey. Leaving behind the excitable crowds in Australia’s answer to Ibiza – Surfer’s Paradise – he soon experiences the scorching hot silence of desert highways, close emu encounters, admires the giant prawn of Lismore and visits Mad Max territory before succumbing to the citrus delights of Orange World in downtown Mildura.
P.P.S. If like me, you saw Ross during his last tour called Nobleism then you may be wondering when thats being released on DVD, Well the wait is almost over as Ross Noble: Nobleism (2 Discs) is due for release on 09/11/2009.
On Saturday, I went to see a play called Speaking in Tongues at the Duke of York's Theatre in London. Here is a photograph I took with my iPhone of John Simm signing autographs for the many fans outside the stage door at 10:05pm The play stars John Simm (Life on Mars), Ian Hart (Harry Potter), Lucy Cohu (Torchwood) and Kerry Fox (Shallow Grave).
This play runs from 18th September 2009 to 12th December 2009 so you still have plenty of time to go and see this play.
Theatre location Duke of York's Theatre St. Martin’s Lane London WC2N 4BG
PERFORMANCE TIMES Monday - Saturday: 7.30pm Wednesday & Saturday: 2.30pm
The nearest Underground station is Leicester Square, the Theatre is about 3 minutes walk away (down Charring Cross Road, Down St Martin's Court past the Salisbury pub on the corner and down St Martins Lane)
The last play I saw John Simm in was Elling at Trafalgar Studios in summer 2007.
Have you been to see Speaking in tongues? What did you think?
Until you start looking you don't realise just how many things John Simm has actually been in. Of course he is most famous for playing Sam in Life on Mars. Lots of his work is available on DVD. Next year he is doing Hamlet
This was the scene on the morning of Friday 31st July 2009 at the end of London Road where it meets up with the bottom of Bradshaw Way and Traffic Street. The water was emerging from the ground over a large area, several fountains. It was even comming out of the base of the traffic bollards and the traffic light control Iron cover. Most of the water was comming out of the tarmac near the lights as you can see at 0:15
There was so much water that all the drains were blocked and the water was going all the way down London Road and then down Liversage Road (See 2:25 ), Carrington Street and starting to go up Trinity Street. I left at that point as I don't have a boat and can't swim!
did not have my HD video camera with me so unfortunately the quality is not great as it was done with my old Olympus 5050 camera.
