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Harvest Twestival a Real Tweet

Benjamin Ellis — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:21:17 +0000

Sorry… That title was just there for the taking, and no it isn’t a typo. The Harvest Twestival was a gathering of the twitterati in Londinium at doonstairs. A very snazzy venue, if a little hot! It gave me the chance to put some 3D faces to 2D avatars from the twitter world, as well as catching up with friends. There’s a lovely photo in the post at This is Now and post by Sizemore (I love the design of Sizemore’s site – very warm and homely).

Wonderful as meeting absolutely everyone was, the highlight for me was seeing Ben (aka ihatemornings) singing his twitter song. “you’re no-one if you’re not on twitter“. Don’t worry, you are someone if you aren’t, but you’re missing out on meeting new people like this lot (my photos from the very dark night):

London Solo Bass Night

Benjamin Ellis — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:44:49 +0000

A very nice evening yesterday, seeing Steve Lawson, Yolanda Charles and Todd Johnson in concert at Darbucka, which turns out to be a rather special little venue in NE London. Not great for photography, as it is very dark, but a nice atmosphere, great food and there was enough mobile coverage to do a little bit of twittering.

There’s a fuller write up on the Bass Blog here.

Going All Visual – London at Night

Benjamin Ellis — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:36:46 +0000

Every so often I like to do something different for a change. Learning new skills and meeting new people keeps you young and flexible. With that in mind, I signed up to a meeting of London Flickr folks, to do an overnight photo walk in London. As a result, I met a great bunch of new people (thank you to you!), picked up some photography tips and took some great (I am told) photos:

Just click on any of them to see the larger version. If you really like them, I have them as RAW and very high resolution JPEGs. My feet were sore when I returned, but I discovered more of London and the value of a tripod (some of the photos are VERY long exposures)!

Wondering Which London Train

Benjamin Ellis — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:51:35 +0000

Two things that save me hours when I go to London:

The Transport for London web site – brilliant design and v.useful.
The National Rail site – design not so good, but it functions.

Between the two I can usually work out which train to get into London, and when.