Pomme::TAB

I’ve come back from the open weekend organised by The London Transport Museum Depot in Acton.
Part of it consisted in a tour of all the posters, maps and the original artworks they were based upon since 1908.

These posters were used mainly as promotional material for London (and therefore the Underground), and it was quite fascinating: the diversity of artistic styles as well as the messages conveyed through them.

These posters can be browsed online on on a dedicated web site.

Among the original artworks, there was a special edition of Harry Beck’s London map:
The topology is about the same as the original, but all the station names are replaced by personalities names and the lines name are replaced by careers(engineers, dignitaries, film actors, italian artists,…)
A cross between two lines represents someone who’s known for being more than one thing, which make the whole process quite a challenge
unfortunately I couldn’t find this map on the online collection but It was quite funny to read and is nice followup to my previous post.

Here are some suggestions for other alternative London maps:
• each station represents an airport and the lines are airline companies
• each station represents a food and the lines are the group of nutriments supplied by the food
• each station represents a london pub and the lines are types of beverage served

Any more ideas?

World Metro Map by Mark Ovenden

Originally uploaded by Annie Mole

This is a map I’ve just found on Flickr even if it’s quite old news (sorry).

It’s the metro map of the world and that’s so amazing. I do leave in a city with a dense metro system, and looking at this map make my brain start planning some exotic trips the same way I plan my high street shopping

This map is a powerful mind stimulator, kudos to Mark Ovenden.

Londoners will obviously recognize that the network diagramme is based on the London underground tube map:
the topology is almost intact and you can easily identify the central line and the circle and the others where there are supposed to be

It’s also made twice nicer as: Transport For London guards jealously the copyrights on their data (making tube map/status based creations rare and dangerous) and this one is available with a Creative Commons licence!

On the 12th of January, I attended a photo walking in central London.
I discover the event on Upcoming but most people were Flickr users.

The organizer Phill Price has written a wrap-up post on photowalking.org.

If you’ve got Google Earth and want to navigate the photos on the route we’ve walked, here’s the Flickr link to the KML file for that event.

Below are some of the photos I took on that day (it was an exceptionally sunny day for this time in the year in London):

Torrential rains poured in England yesterday. London was not spared as seen in these images.

Soon visiting London will look like that.

Each time I’ve walked past the Cutty Sark, I wanted to visit inside. I’ve always deferred it to later as It never managed to reach the top of my prioritized to-do list.
I hope I’m not going to regret it.

(Via BBC News.)

The big tech news yesterday was of course the joint press conference in London by Apple and EMI. Below links cover that stunning news:

• BBC News
• Another BBC News report
• The Guardian (subscription required)
• xml.com blog
• Daring Fireball
• Tech News World
• Barrapunto (en español)
• Ratiatum en français)
• MSNBC NewsWeek
• Liberation (en français)
• International Herald Tribune(with an EU commission twist)

Technorati Tags:
apple, music, musicindustry, itunes, DRM, mp3, download, legal, emi, nodrm, pressconference

Were they so desperate to sell their stuff?

Sony gives 46″ HDTV to everyone in PlayStation 3 line in London!: “PlayStation 3 launched in Europe just a short while ago but some got a bigger surprise than others. At the console’s official launch event in Virgin Megastores, Oxford Street, London, every console buyer netted a FREE 46′ Sony Bravia LCD HDTV. Some might say Sony are finally showing Europe some love…”

(Via digg.)

London

Originally uploaded by Moxette.

This amazing shot has been posted in the West London flickr group this week by fellow flickerer and west londoner Moxette.
She said the dogs were waiting outside a café on Portobello Road for their owner.

Paddington

Originally uploaded by crouchy_crouch.

Superb work of light and shadows on this photo that has been posted on the West London flickr group

Routemasters - Lower Regent St SW1

Originally uploaded by JJ Willow.

I like very much this superb shot of 3 (not 1) Route Master buses.
Symbol of London they have now been decommissioned. You can still see some of them on some tourist routes though (and also use as private hire). The photo has been posted on my flickr group West London