Check out Iain Anderson?s animation made entirely with passenger/pedestrian symbols.
>> View the flash movie here
The complete set of 50 symbols is available here so you could make your own movie!
>> The human cost of nuclear catastrophe
April 26 2006 marks the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Dutch photographer Robert Knoth has visited the area worst hit by radioactive fallout to document the toxic legacy of Chernobyl and other nuclear accident sites of the former Soviet Union. The Fallout exhibition runs from April 18 to May 14 at the Oxo Tower in London.
I was walking down Gower Street this morning where I found this ET look-alike.
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war!
? Donald Rumsfeld
Major right-wing publications in US are calling on President Bush to urgently plan for military strikes against Iran in the wake of its announcement this week that it has successfully enriched uranium to a purity necessary to fuel nuclear reactors. >> antiwar.com
The first year was McBlog, last year Blogger King and this year is StarBlogs!
Here is Aref-Adib?s first podcast, where I was joined by Max.
>> radioaref-adib.mp3 (1.62 MB, 4 Minutes)
This is another picture I took on the London's South Bank with my mobile phone.
And here is the same bridge by Claude Monet:
>> 12+1 photos of Sizdah Bedar 2006 in Trent Park, North London
The thirteenth day of the Iranian New Year festival is Sizdah Bedar (meaning "thirteen outdoors"), is a day of festivity in the open, often accompanied by music and dancing. The day is usually spent at family picnics.
The thirteenth day celebrations stem from the belief of the ancient Persians that the twelve constellations in the Zodiac controlled the months of the year, and each ruled the earth for a thousand years. At the end of which, the sky and the earth collapsed in chaos. Hence, Norooz lasts twelve days and the thirteenth day represents the time of chaos when families put order aside and avoid the bad luck associated with the number thirteen by going outdoors and having picnics and parties.
At the end of the celebrations on this day, the sabzeh grown for the Haft Sin (which has symbolically collected all the sickness and bad luck) is thrown into running water to exorcise the demons (divs) from the household. It is also customary for young single women to tie the leaves of the sabzeh before discarding it, so expressing a wish to be married before the next year's Sizdah Bedar.