Clock Opera, Guy, Nick, Andy and Che, were at Oh Inverted World at the Hoxton Bar and Kitchen on a playbill that featured Gaggle, So Say So and La Shark along with DJ sets as well.

There are pictures of all the bands to be put up here but for the moment here’s our favourite up and coming, should be signed already, band – Clock Opera.

Over the last year I have been following the work of theatre company Tangled Feet as they workshopped, developed and then performed their latest show – Home to audiences around the country.
Those of you who may have been lucky enough to have seen the show will know what an amazing piece of theatre it is and those who haven’t may have missed out on the live aspects but will now be bale to appreciate some of what the show means through the newly published book – Home – Tangled Feet …

Christoph Rehage decided in 2007 to walk from Beijing to Germany.

Going on foot for 4500 km he didn’t make it to Germany but stopped a little short of his target, making it passed the Gobi Desert before deciding to stop the journey for now.

He did, however, manage to have some great experiences on the way and blogged about them on his website (The Longest Way ).

He also posted up an inspirational video of his journey which can be seen below and shows how he changed as the journey went on.

Bring some photo id, your on the guest list but they like to be careful.

Welcome to YOYO, venue for some pretty high profile acts in the past and now venue for Clock Opera, not once but twice in ten days. Last week on the 21st of July they were with Marina and the Diamonds and last night they were with GhostCat who headlined the evening with some raucous rock that had the audience joining in.

A very cool summary of the way in which effects have changed over the years in the film industry, some of the early ones are still a bit hard to unravel when you watch them now but this short video brings you up to date from the earliest through to the most recent cutting edge technology.

They call it Sod Wednesdays.
It’s a chance to see some great music from country and western to pop.
Its also the venue where Clock Opera have played their latest gig.
They were preceded by BRASSNECK + LONESOME COWBOYS FROM HELL + CLAPTON FOX
The Legion – Sod Wednesdays brought to you by Vis the Spoon.

Or rather, what I saw at the Hat Fair.

This was the second trip to the Hat Fair for me after going there a few years back to see Bollywood Steps. This time I was there with Tangled Feet for their two performances of ‘Home’ on the Cathedral Green.

While waiting for their shows to start I did get a chance to check out some of the other acxts that were there, the Hat Fair has progressed from being a buskers festival nearly 35 years ago to a vibrant and mixed affair with something going on practically everywhere.

Here’s a selection of photos taken with a Canon 40D and various lenses and then processed using tone mapping software.

Especially good this month are the images of the gin still taken at 3 Mills Island studio complex in Bromley By Bow.

Clambering around on the upper gantry, about 50 feet up, in one of the spaces while taking photos of Tangled Feet theatre company in rehearsals the view of the still was amazing.

They say it is ‘frenetic, bleep ridden, synth rock’ (TimeOut) but I say its just a great night out listening to raw creativity.
Guy Connelly and the Clock Opera crew were out again last night (10 June) at 83 Feet East along with Magic & Fur, A.Human and Dead Monroe.
I got there too late for the last two acts, due to crawling around on a gantry photographing Tangled Feet, but did catch Magic & Fur who really do need to be watched in the future too.

High dynamic range imaging was originally developed in the 1930s and 1940s by Charles Wyckoff. Wyckoff’s detailed pictures of nuclear explosions appeared on the cover of Life magazine in the mid 1940s.
The process of tone mapping together with bracketed exposures of normal digital images, giving the end result a high, often exaggerated dynamic range, was first reported in 1988 and by 1997 this technique of combining several differently exposed images to produce a single HDR image was presented to the computer graphics community by Paul Debevec.