A Snapshot of London http://www.t52.org/blog A London Photo Blog by James Bardolph Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:01:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Factory Theatre http://www.t52.org/blog/2010/02/the-factory/ http://www.t52.org/blog/2010/02/the-factory/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:45:46 +0000 James http://www.t52.org/blog/?p=2857 A few shots of performances by The Factory Theatre in London. Unforunately my scanner won’t scan a bunch of the negatives because they are too dark and it can’t tell where the shots end.  Film negative scanner recommendations, anyone?

I find that photography never does the theatre justice; you really must be there in person to see the brilliance of the performers.

‘Round 2′. Round 2 is their newest production – small plays where the audience gets to choose who plays what role beforehand. A different experience every week.

‘The seagull’. In this production they bring no props; they use items found in the theatre and they ask the crowd to bring props with them. The cast varies every week, and while they follow the story of Chekov’s ‘The Seagull’, all the scenes are ad lib.

P.S. go and see ’round 2′ by The Factory at the Electricity Showrooms from March. http://www.thefactorytheatre.co.uk/

Geeky stuff: Leica M6, Leica 35mm 1.4 Summilux, Kodak Tri-X +2

]]> http://www.t52.org/blog/2010/02/the-factory/feed/ 2 2009: a year in review http://www.t52.org/blog/2010/01/2009-a-year-in-review/ http://www.t52.org/blog/2010/01/2009-a-year-in-review/#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:21:06 +0000 James http://www.t52.org/blog/?p=2851 February

A huge load of snow came and messed everything up.

The Kiwis celebrated Waitangi Day

March

Noodles with Severin

Poker

Homeless people

Haircuts and bent horizons

April

G20 demonstration, riot, and photographer overdose.

May

Probably spent this time playing poker.

June

Gay Pride, NYC style.

Michael Jackson Died.

Times Square.

Philadelphia

September

Squatters in Mayfair

Broke my Bessa R2M (again). Bought a Leica M6

Got a developing app for the iphone

October

Shoooting with the Leica and Sumilux now.

November

Getting deep into the fighting game community. Off to Paris for a tournament.

Two weeks later, to Sweden.

On national TV.

It was a good year.

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16 of us flew from the UK to Jonkoping, Sweden for the Street Fighter IV tournament at Dreamhack Winter 2009. Here is what happened.

Ryanair

Flying from London to Gothenburg.

I stood here for ten minutes waiting for her to move her trolley up so I could get some shots.

Shau

Femi

Chunkis, David & Zade. Sleeping on Ryanair is not a comfortable experience.

Say aaaaaah

The weather in Gothenburg was actually worse than in London. Wetter and colder.

Sweden

For some reason, Dreamhack brought the tournament forward one day from Friday to Thursday, so we had to rush straight from the airport to the event. We were pretty whacked when we got there.

Waiting for the bus

Some of my matches

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Ryan Gutierrez (aka Gootecks, seated right) and Cami (behind players) were invited over from California by Dreamhack to do commentary on Swedish TV. We played some casuals with Gootecks.

Ramzi & Gootecks

Dawgtanian & Gootecks

F Word challenged Gootecks to a push-ups match – whoever lost the fight would have to do 30 push-ups. Here is what happened.

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F Word gets on all fours

And then tries to escape after one push-up.

Zak ‘The Beastman’ Bennet playing his group

One of Zak’s matches.

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Ryu was in the house, in F Word’s group.

Here is the main bracket after the group stages.

I had Ryan Hart in the first match; one of the three worst draws I could possibly get (the other two being Zak and Gootecks). Here is how our match went. Not great for me by any means.

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Ryan Hart took down the tournament for the UK, eliminating me, Afii and Zak in the process. It was inevitable we would eliminate each other when 14 of us made the last 32. Pretty good showing by the UK.

We were front row supporting our guys. We were on Swedish national TV!

United States of Kingdom

After the tournament, we had a 6v6 against the Swedes. Gootecks represented the UK and Xian joined the Swedish, to give us ‘The United States of Kingdom’ vs ‘Swingapore’. It was great fun and there was a lot of trash talking.

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Nom

The wall of microwaves. You could buy a TV dinner and heat it up here in 5 minutes.

Et voila.

Random guy. It seems a lot of my photos are slightly under-exposed. I need to get used to Leica metering.

This is Jadi, he has a pretty gangsta joystick.

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Some kind of card game going on here at 4am

Cami & Gootecks

Cami and Gootecks preparing for a podcast recording with Ryan Hart and Zak.

Waiting.

Breaking down what they are to discuss in the podcast.

Podcast time. Zak and Ryan had an interesting debate on the limitations of Street Fighter IV.

2nd place finisher Ho Kun Xian was really jetlagged.

Live studio audience

Xian is not very live.

Game over

The last night of Dreamhack, we grabbed a bunch of beers and played Third Strike until 7 in the morning.
Group shot of some of us, some of the Swedes, Gootecks, Cami and Xian before we all hit the road.

Cami & Gootecks still had the energy to climb a tank. Crazy cats.

Sleep

Getting the train back to Gothenburg to fly home.

We met Jenny on the way to Gothenburg; she was on her way to pick up her son from kindergarten. She speaks five languages but is not available for marriage. Sorry chaps.

The others were still in Jonkoping when we got to Gothenburg, so we waited for them at the internet cafe.

Is everyone asleep in Sweden?

Seems so, but some are still keeping busy…

Geeky stuff: Leica M6, Leica 35mm 1.4 Summilux, Kodak Tri-X +2. Panasonic SDR-H250 video camera.

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Bonjour

Welcome to Paris.

SFII Sagat stage

Femi on the hunt.

Crepes

We stayed up until around 7am every day playing Street Fighter IV & Pro Evo, so people closed their eyes every chance they got.

Lawrence

Homeless guy.

Tournament time

Bushido Impact 9. We came to Paris mainly to enter the Street Fighter IV tournament. Most of us made it out of our groups into the main tournament bracket.

Here are some of my group fights. I play Zangief.

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Zero2000 (Wes, right) vs Yamazaki (Olivier). Yamazaki is is the best Ryu in France.

Yamazaki vs Dawgtanian. Dawgtanian is very popular in France, known from his online matches. There was always a crowd when he was playing.

Jesus is a pad player

The King Sagat.

Logan Sama. Logan and I stayed up all night Friday and played 200-300 games vs each other, Zangief vs Akuma. That is my tournament stick next to him, with a custom Zangief faceplate.

Close up of my stick. My gamer handle is ‘WorstGiefEVER’. I play SFIV on PC, my gamertag there is JBARDOLPH if anyone wants to add me. I am improving all the time, so one day I will probably change from ‘WorstGiefEVER’ to ‘Maybe not the Worst Gief EVER, but still pretty bad’.

Zero2000 (Wes) in battle.

Dawgtanian vs StarNab. StarNab is an awesome Fei Long player. He is SG rank on XBOX (top league). This match had HUGE hype, and Femi got it on camcorder and commentated. Probably the most hype match of the day. Video below.

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Bushido Impact 9 was a fantastic event. They are planning to run an event every month; it is a one-day event, so from the UK you could get the Eurostar there and back on the same day for £50. I will certainly be doing this again. The people we met were great and very hospitable (thank you Bushido), and we all look forward to seeing them again.

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Geeky stuff: Leica M6, Leica 35mm 1.4 Summilux, Kodak Tri-X, Ilford Delta 400

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The squatters from the previous blog are now in Leicester Square

Yassin still refuses to have his photo taken. Instead he sticks his arm out.

Tanya chasing a squirrel

The ‘English Defence League’. Sounds immense, but in London it seems to be 20ish chavs. Experimented with the framing but the guy is distracting, isn’t he.

This one was an accident

Bikers protesting against proposed charges for bike parking in London.

Some people drawing Eros

Soho

Geeky stuff: Leica M6, Leica 35mm 1.4 Summilux, Kodak TMAX 40

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