I am pleased to announced the launch of the brand new Greenwich Rising site. Greenwich Rising covers the developments, housing and other major projects springing up from around the borough.
The site will show where and when new buildings and regeneration products will be built, approved or when they begin construction.
Our aim is to help you visualise how new buildings will look.
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Scan with your Tag app to download this wallpaper for your smartphone. The image is of a model of the Greenwich peninsular master plan model.
Get the free mobile app at http://gettag.mobi (iPhone, Windows Phone, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian)
Scan then save the picture, in your phones settings select to set it as your wallpaper/lockscreen or background.
I was about to create a windows phone wallpaper lockscreen template for the masses to use, however, I found one that I will simply link to.
This will allow anyone to see and display their images and see how they will look as a lockscreen wallpaper thanks to zed Martinez
Click to download
The size is correctly set at 800 by 480 pixels and has a 262dpi. The darkness opacity between the ui elements and the wallpaper is 15%, ust so you technical people out there can know.
Happy New Year everybody! Hope you all had a good one. I spent mine visiting the big Apple and Miami. Christmas in New York followed by New Years in Miami. Such contrasts in everything from the pace of life in both cities to the look and feel of the streets. The hustle and bustle of new york where everyone is in a rush, pretty much like here in London. Contrast that by the strolling relaxed pace that people wonder along the sidewalk, ahem mean pavement.
I of course had my camera with me to capture both cities. I put together a short movie.
I remember, each evening, right by the hotel I was staying at, there was a long line of people queuing up in the cold. The sort of queue you see for a night club or the launch of a new Game or Apple product. However there were no such thing at the front of the queue. It wasnt a gadget, it was also not for getting into a nightclub. It was for food. These stalls that are dotted around manhattan. The equivalent to kebab shops here in London. With the word Halal across the top in yellow and red the food smelled aromatic, but, like I mentioned earlier, they are dotted around the city, why was this one so popular? Who knows.
Another thing I recalled from my trip was how “alive” times square was, even during the early hours of the morning. The lights flashing, animating and advertising to anyone walking along its streets. So many boards and lights, why so many, well it is the city that never sleeps there is always someone who will see it.
Then there was Miami. All I will say about it is that…it is paradise. Back to reality, back to London.
So hope you all had a merry christmas. I sure did, I have been in New York soaking up the sights and sounds. One of the places high up on my list to visit during my stay in the big apple, was the Museum of Modern Art.
MoMA as it is abbreviated aslo has a book store as one would expect. Naturally I was drawn to this shop like a fish to a worm on a hook. I purchased two books:
Vectorism: Vector Graphics Today
Contemporary Graphic Design.
The HTC Trophy was my first windows phone, one of the first windows phones to launch. It was hard to find, Vodafone representatives at their call centres didn’t know what it was. Staff in shops said they had not recieved any stock. I went to Three Vodafone stores until I got my beloved Trophy. It felt like it was a trophy, after all the trouble I went through to get it, I deserved it.
Why did I want it so bad. Why not get an Android or an iPhone. Better yet, why not bow down to peer pressure and grab A BB. I chose A Windows Phone because I saw a phone that gets me.
I use facebook like its an extension of my life online, these days we all do. It’s How we communicate, how we plan get togethers and parties, how we say happy birthday, how we remember its their birthday, how we share videos or articles, its where we store and share our photos, its how we express who we are, how we show our appreciation for the things we love wether that be books or restaurants. I also like my Xbox – I am a gamer. Playing Halo online or getting engrossed in the science fiction universe via the novels. I also love my music, in the past I have used last.fm, spotify and Zune to get my tunes. Movies are also an interest of mine, whenever possible I make visiting the cinema at least once a month a routine. I watch movies on the Xbox and its High Definition and surroundsound. These are my interests my activities and the Windows Phone seemed to be the only phone that stood to enhance these activities let alone support them.
The Windows phone is tightly intergrated with facebook, you contacts pictures are pulled fromt their fb profile pic. Their status update shows next to their face on your phone and you can comment on it just like that, no need to jump into a seperate app. You can view their photos like they were already on your phone. I remember one time a friend of mine was puzzled when I was showing him and our friends pictures of an event he was describing, he said “how did you get my pictures?”. Little did he know that from the pictures hub on the windows phone one can look at all their own facebook photos, all their own skydrive photos as well as all the photos their friends have shared on facebook. All the albums are just there!
The gamer in me got excited when I learned that Xbox will be on the phone. I would be able to play a game on my phone and get achievments for playing that game just like on the Xbox. Being able to message friends, see what their doing on their consoles and compares game acheivements was a mind blowing prospect. Today you can do much more than that; any windows phone can control their xbox 360 just by touching their phones screen. It allows you to search all content on your Xbox, whether it be from Zune music, Zune Videos, Sky or Lovefilm. Then you can launch it, and control the play back of that movie or song from the touch of the screen. I mentioned Halo, well I think you should simply watch a demonstration of this app. I need not say more. With regards to the Novels, I read them on my phone using the Kindle App from the marketplace.
Zune, Spotify and Last.fm are all on my phone now. Though I stopped using Spotify and use Zune and last.fm I have never found a device so perfect for playing music. The only thing I will say is the gap between songs needs to be sorted out or an option to toggle made available apart from that It has to be the best exmple of having music on a phone.
I now have a HTC Titan. With it I can watch movies, music videos from Youtube or Vevo and play games on its HUGE screen. I do my groceries with the lovely Ocado app, look for inspiration with the ffffound app, browse the web and keep up with the latestes news on the BBC website. At night before I sleep, I plug my charger into the phone an fire up Kindle to continue reading Halo cryptum whilst reading a page or two of Frank Gardeners blood and sand.
As you may gather, I love my windows phone, I wouldn’t part with it. I never hesitate at the chance of showing off its features and educating others about this wonderful and easy to use smartphone. One thing I am extremely proud of is giving away my Trophy to a friend of mine. She had a phone that didnt have colour. It wasnt smart. It just called and text people. She was happy with it. But since I gave her my old phone she has been very pleased with it.
Promoting and sharing with others the joys of windows phones seems like an act of giving something back to Windows Phone, rewarding it for the joys it has given me. That is probably why I created Windows Phone Wallpapers for people to download on to their phones. Surprisingly This got noticed by people at Microsoft, what happened after that will be left to the second part of this post “Windows Phone – Wallpaper – Part 2″.
With the flurry of activity happening on the construction sites, it has come to light “pun not intended” that the cable car interior and exterior lighting will be designed and overseen by Speirs + Major and Mott McDonald as well as the architects . In a post on the Spiers + Major website dated september 2010 it explains creatively how they aim to light the gondola.
My favourite pictures of the month that I have snapped
I'm a Graphic Design Graduate at the University of Arts London College of Communication.
