Pros and Plinths and Boing...
Sunday, 23 August 2009 05:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
byslantedlightLovely day in London yesterday - met up with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
angel_ci5 and made time vanish over coffee and Pros-y chat. I swear, we met at 10am, when I looked at my watch a minute later it was 11.30am, and a minute after that it was past one in the afternoon! How does that happen?! It's all to do with the lads...
Eventually we wandered down to Trafalgar Square (which is now something of a tradition, following our hunt for the lads' wander across the Square, which I've just realised I've not posted about! Twice! Twice we had to go, cos we couldn't figure out how they'd got the shot, cos... well, look:
Lads holding hands in Trafalgar Square, and view of all Trafalgar Square from the ep, right? (It's Only A Beautiful Picture of course...) And there's the pillars on the National Gallery to measure it all by, and the end of the building in shot, and the tree, and two massive great fountains in the square itself to limit the camera angle possibilities, so - should be easy, right?
But no, we had to go back twice to figure it all out, because of this...
First shot taken at our first attempt in December last year, the second in April - can you all see what we somehow failed to see until April?
They've built a bloody great set of stairs in the middle of it all! Cut off the traffic, added a whole level, a cafe... and there we thought it was cos the Christmas tree was in the wyay of where the cameras must have been... *g* In our defence, see whole chatting-thing above, and time-distortion and... general... lack of observation skills... *g* Good excuse to go back though, eh? *vbg*
So - we went to see who was up on The Plinth and it turned out to be a girl playing hangman, and we hung about for a while...
(I'm cheating, this pic is from when we came back and they were changing over...)...but our attention was totally distracted...
...see it?
Bockers! They totally made me think of the Walkers in Star Wars, the way the stilts kind of go backwards... We actually found out later what they were, reading t-shirts (*g*), long after the guy in orange had wandered up the stairs on his powerbocks, but we did get a hint when we saw this...
Cool, eh? Dontcha love what the kids're doing nowadays... *g* After way too longsurfing searching, I found these impressive chaps and chapesses...
(I wanted to put up the Welshbockers, cos they were doing it in Cardiff, but they had more still shots in their vids... *g*)
Anyway, they were fab, and then we wandered the streets for a while looking for somewhere with comfy seats and a slightly better choice of vegetarian than Cheese sandwich with real ale chutney (come on, this is London!) - hampered slightly by the fact that I seem to have somehow... bruised the ball of my foot? I dunno, how do you even do that? I got home on Friday night, and owww... Actually it's okay when I sort of stretch it in, but... weird... So we were trying not to stray too far (after everyone's gorgeous suggestions too...) - but that didn't really work out! Next time we're orienting ourselves around the decent veggie places to eat - there was a Turkish place in those suggestions, I seem to recall!
Aaaand... that's pretty much it. Chatting Pros and the Plinth, and Bockers and the search for vegetarian snacks in London! Gorgeous day, it was... and Pros! *g*
angel_ci5 and made time vanish over coffee and Pros-y chat. I swear, we met at 10am, when I looked at my watch a minute later it was 11.30am, and a minute after that it was past one in the afternoon! How does that happen?! It's all to do with the lads... Eventually we wandered down to Trafalgar Square (which is now something of a tradition, following our hunt for the lads' wander across the Square, which I've just realised I've not posted about! Twice! Twice we had to go, cos we couldn't figure out how they'd got the shot, cos... well, look:
Lads holding hands in Trafalgar Square, and view of all Trafalgar Square from the ep, right? (It's Only A Beautiful Picture of course...) And there's the pillars on the National Gallery to measure it all by, and the end of the building in shot, and the tree, and two massive great fountains in the square itself to limit the camera angle possibilities, so - should be easy, right?
But no, we had to go back twice to figure it all out, because of this...
First shot taken at our first attempt in December last year, the second in April - can you all see what we somehow failed to see until April?
They've built a bloody great set of stairs in the middle of it all! Cut off the traffic, added a whole level, a cafe... and there we thought it was cos the Christmas tree was in the wyay of where the cameras must have been... *g* In our defence, see whole chatting-thing above, and time-distortion and... general... lack of observation skills... *g* Good excuse to go back though, eh? *vbg*
So - we went to see who was up on The Plinth and it turned out to be a girl playing hangman, and we hung about for a while...
(I'm cheating, this pic is from when we came back and they were changing over...)...but our attention was totally distracted...
...see it?
Bockers! They totally made me think of the Walkers in Star Wars, the way the stilts kind of go backwards... We actually found out later what they were, reading t-shirts (*g*), long after the guy in orange had wandered up the stairs on his powerbocks, but we did get a hint when we saw this...
Cool, eh? Dontcha love what the kids're doing nowadays... *g* After way too long
(I wanted to put up the Welshbockers, cos they were doing it in Cardiff, but they had more still shots in their vids... *g*)
Anyway, they were fab, and then we wandered the streets for a while looking for somewhere with comfy seats and a slightly better choice of vegetarian than Cheese sandwich with real ale chutney (come on, this is London!) - hampered slightly by the fact that I seem to have somehow... bruised the ball of my foot? I dunno, how do you even do that? I got home on Friday night, and owww... Actually it's okay when I sort of stretch it in, but... weird... So we were trying not to stray too far (after everyone's gorgeous suggestions too...) - but that didn't really work out! Next time we're orienting ourselves around the decent veggie places to eat - there was a Turkish place in those suggestions, I seem to recall!
Aaaand... that's pretty much it. Chatting Pros and the Plinth, and Bockers and the search for vegetarian snacks in London! Gorgeous day, it was... and Pros! *g*
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Date: Sunday, 23 August 2009 06:00 pm (UTC)Oh, I'm so envious of your day out with
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Date: Sunday, 23 August 2009 09:43 pm (UTC)Apparently they're called Powerbocks, and people wearing them are Powerbockers (or various other names) - cos they were invented in Germany by a guy called Bock... He didn't call them that, but generally they're referred to as Bocks out of respect - or so the websites say! *g* It seemed to be a meet-up of Bockers, cos they were wearing various t-shirts - EA Bockers, Banned Bockers, others too - and I think there was even an NYC Bockers t-shirt there! *g* It looks like total fun, and I'd love to try it (bone-breaking aside, obviously... *g*) They made it look really easy and elegant, but I'm sure it's not to begin with!
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Date: Sunday, 23 August 2009 06:21 pm (UTC)Glad you had a good that though! ;D *hugs*
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Date: Sunday, 23 August 2009 07:06 pm (UTC)It does look like a fab day to be in London ::beams:: and doing the Pros-y bit too - does it get any better? Glad you had such a good time, and thanks for the piccies. Hope the pesky foot gets better soon.
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Date: Sunday, 23 August 2009 09:45 pm (UTC)Was thinking of you too of course, Plinth-wise! *g*Well that totally went to the wrong person - eep! Erm... it's late, and I'm all thinking about Phillip Mark, and... shall I just go to bed now? *headdesk*
I need my foot to be better tomorrow morning, cos I'm planning to walk into work as usual... *g* It's funny, sort of comes and goes... better be gone by then! *g*
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Date: Sunday, 23 August 2009 07:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Sunday, 23 August 2009 09:48 pm (UTC)It was a fab day, thank you - and... yes, foot must be better tomorrow so that I can walk to work! Gawd 'elp me, I quite missed that walking-to-and-from-work over the weekend... Luckily we walked/hobbled around London yesterday, really! *g*
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Date: Sunday, 23 August 2009 09:49 pm (UTC)And heeee!