Markets are fun: Tuba guy at Colombia Flower Market

Fire Tuba?? What's that?

コロンビアフラワーマーケットでちょっと変わった大道芸人を発見。ただのチューバ吹きじゃないんです。

When I was in Colombia Flower Market I saw this innovative performer. Touch of fire makes an ordinary tuba player quite special.

 Don't know how it's done. Anyway the tuba is the most suitable music instrument for a fire blowing from a bell part of it. Trumpet would be wrong with angle, trombone too long, horn you'd burn your hand.

秋冬にかけてぴったりの炎のチューバ。ちょっと日が暮れてくると一層効果的かも知れませんね。白い手袋と腰掛けに使っているラジオがいい感じです。

Markets are fun: Spitalfields Antique Market in London

 スピタルフィールズマーケットは東ロンドンの有名なインドアマーケットで、毎週木曜はアンティーク市。ロンドン価格なのでは、という先入観がありましたが、意外と買いやすい値段のものばかりであります。この日は日本の旅行雑誌の取材。

 In Spitalfields Market. A guy in charge of a furniture stall gets relaxed on his horse.

 気持ち悪いボトルストッパーが沢山。もしこんなの貰ったらいやだなあ。

 This screams PRETTY. If my kitchen got a clean slate, I'd start right from here.

店のおじさんに許可を貰い、人形を配置してみましたが、場違いなニワトリが気に入っています。

 Pretty much all of them had contents untouched. Nasty and vile? Or sweetened with age?

数年前に再開発されたマーケット。西側は金融系のビルが間際までそびえ立ち、東側はパキスタン・インドのレストランにロンドンの若者が集まるショップやカフェが混沌と存在。こぎれいになったけど中身はぐちゃぐちゃなこのマーケットは、その両者をかける橋のようなもの。

the 2010 Chap Olympiad

Picnickers at the 2010 Chap Olympiad

Under The Butler’s impassive gaze, a contestant in the Bounders event at the 2010 Chap Olympiad offers remarks caddish enough to provoke a slap

A spectator at the 2010 Chap Olympiad stiffens his drink

Chap Olympiad

Contestants in the 2010 Chap Olympiad assemble on the podium for the Lighting of the Olympic Pipe




Protected from the sun by his topee, a contestant at the 2010 Chap Olympiad takes a musical break with his ’cello




Umbrella Jousting contestants in the 2010 Chap Olympiad make successful attacks on each other’s wheels

Chap Olympiad: Behold the Pipe

The Butler holds aloft the Olympic Pipe at the 2010 Chap Olympiad

The London Elephant Parade

The elephants are on the streets of London from May until July.
It celebrates the beauty of the magnificent Asian elephant. This is one of 258 painted elephants in locations across central London.