Chocolate Factory

On our way to a failed attempt at getting a bunch of free chocolate saw this guy. That is it. We got two small bites of chocolate in the most expensive department store/grocery store I've ever seen. All in all, a bust.

Another day, another market, another blog post

Spitalfield market, cool stuff more much more pricey than say Portobello or Camden.

That's it.

Camden Passage via Little Venice

My title describes my day today, nothing pithy, nothing great. The first three photos were taken in (I'll wait for you to guess where) Little Venice on my way to Paddington station. I found it kind of funny that these kids were crawling around on this boat like they were Spiderman but then when the parents were paying attention they held them back.

Camden passage market had a bunch of little stalls sporadically set up outside in an area where there are a bunch of antique shops. The picture of the lady reading the newspaper is one of the VERY small shops at Camden passage. There is only room for one person in the place it was just jammed packed. Then on the way back to the tube I walked by this couple trying doing some shopping. It was kind of funny to watch. I wish I could remember the phrase the woman used to tell her husband that he shouldn't purchase one of the ties he was holding up.

"Levin in London"

The pithy writer of levinlondon.blogspot.com got a make over last night. It consisted of hair straightening and some girl's jeans.

Shady Debating

The presidential debates were on so I decided to take some pictures of cool shadows in our living room while listening to all the generalities John and Barack were spewing. It is so frustrating for me to listen to these guys talk; I hate that my vote will be for the lesser of two evils. I wish there was something that could be done, but I feel as long as we as Americans are so money hungry there will be no good alternative. I could go one but don't want to because I just get into a bad mood. So by far I think these fun shadows are a lot cooler than the debates were.

Julietta turns 23

Julietta turned 23 the other night. Andrew bought a gourmet Tesco chocolate cake.

Resumes, Cover Letters and Crossed Fingers

That is what I spent my time doing on this gloomy day. I think I have about 11 or 12 to post tomorrow. Real exciting stuff today.

The No-Jew seeing Jewish walking tour

Well today there was a Jewish walking tour of the East End of London. Since I am thinking that I might do a project of the cross section of religion in London I thought it just might be a great thing to go to and perhaps meet some people, maybe some Jews. But no, it was more of a historic Jewish walking tour. I was told that pretty much most of the Jews have moved to Ilford. So why didn't we go to Ilford you say? Well Ilford doesn't have the oldest Synagogue in England there. The synagogue in the first picture is just that, the oldest in England built over 300 years ago. We were able to go in but not to take pictures inside, of course (something I find so annoying). From there we continued on our rain filled walk to a place that would have been something like we would call project for Jews just outside of the London walls. But you can see how close they really are to the heart of London with the Mayor's office, which he doesn't really use in the background. Then we proceeded to Angel Alley.

I was slightly disappointed that I didn't see any orthodox Jews or anything like you would see in some places in New York City. Not that I haven't seen them and went on the trip just to see them like I would go to the zoo to see a penguin but it just wasn't what I thought it would be. So now I know I won't be going there for my project if I end up doing it and including the Jewish religion.

Stabilizers

I know this doesn't look like a fashion shoot that is because it isn't one. After assisting Lindsay in a fashion shoot (I rock as a reflector holder) we walked through the park a bit just to leave. As we were walking I saw this kid try to learn how to ride his bike. The mom said that they just took his "stabilizers" off. Personally I think training wheels sound much more appealing, for what reason, I have no idea. The kid ended up crashing and burning but got up and tried again.

All the ducks are swimming in the water....

but not this one. Will, Stef and I went to Borough Market. It is an all food market. For a very picky vegetarian it is probably an odd place to go. Although I don't like meat I am kind of fascinated by seeing the dead animals. I don't know why but even when people in the flat were cutting up a whole chicken I just had to stop what I was doing and watch. It just seems like a weird interest of a vegetarian.

Deck the Walls

This is my pathetic attempt at decorating my room. The London Tattoo Convention one is self explanatory the one with the dog is the business card that the policeman gave of his working dog. Just look for the earlier post.

Charlie, the explosive sniffing dog

Charlie is the one on the right. These four British Transport Police were at Paddington station and so I just had to take pictures and when I stopped to talk with them one of the policemen gave me their dog's card. Charlie's card said, "Charlie is a liver and white English Springer Spaniel born in 2004. He is a dog that seems to do everything at his own pace and loves work." I used to have a dog named Charlie.

Won't you be my neighbour?

Well the day started out to be very crappy weather so while walking through the rain to the tube station, without an umbrella even though I had one in my bag (it is just too annoying to try to deal with the umbrella not flipping the wrong way that I'd rather just put my head down and go) I sang to myself, "It's a horrible day in the neighborhood, it's a horrible day in the neighborhood."

Then it cleared up and we went over to what we call the other photo house because it is where the next largest group of photogs live together. On the way there we walked down Edgware Road that is very heavily middle eastern. Apparently it was the last night of Ramadan and everyone was out and about. It was kind of crazy but very interesting to be in and see. On our walk home I took a few pictures but after they realized that I was shooting them they all became posed pictures. Above is one that was shot before everyone realized there was a camera around. They were dancing on the sidewalk of a very busy road to music being played from the car.