Sioned Williams
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Foster Family
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Google Street View Mooning
…and the Street View Camera fun goes on!
Yesterday, if you typed 16 Bolton Road W into Google Maps this was the Street View image.
What tickled me was the way the face recognition software had blurred the lads faces. Should they also include …erm …botty recognition algorithms? 
Today however, Google must have decided their servers couldn’t cope with the number of hits it was getting from the lad’s mates in Bury. Typing in the same address today results in this:
Spoilsports!
Pictures from the new “Liverpool Eye” on the Albert Dock
Featuring video and still photographs showing views across Liverpool and the River Mersey from the top of the Ferris Wheel. This was my first attempt at using the Nikon in video mode. Edited in Windows Movie Maker.
Set to Building Memories (Turning Circles) written and performed by Isaac
We all dream of winning the lottery. Well now you can witness how one family lived the dream – and the nightmare – in the comedy Lucky Numbers at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.
The storyline revolves around a selectively senile granny whose ticket comes up £8million and the way the rest of the family vie for her affections and try to persuade her not to leave the lot to a donkey refuge.
Michael Starke (of Brookie, Corrie and The Royal fame) plays her work-shy son-in-law and Rachel Rae as her granddaughter gives a frighteningly accurate and hilarious portrayal of a stroppy teenager.
But the undoubted star of the show was Sheila Reid who pulled off a complex and convincing performance throughout the play. Remembering when she was supposed to be forgetful and not forgetting a single word of her lines, Sheila proved she has far more of her marbles intact than the ageing granny that was her character.
On the first night, you come to expect a few fluffed lines. However, all seven members of the cast kept the banter, humour and slapstick flowing sweetly and hilariously as if they’d been doing this show for weeks. Even during a scenery malfunction when a door knob fell off in his hand, Michael managed to work it into the script with a clever ad-lib, much to the appreciation of the attentive audience.
- (Please excuse the low quality of the two pictures above, taken on a camera phone.)
Lucky Numbers runs at the Royal Court until April 10th. You really shouldn’t miss it.
You can also read my reviews on the Liverpool Echo and Daily Post websites
Caroline Firth
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Street View Fun
Wow! I know buildings go up pretty fast these days – but the guys working on the new apartments by the roundabout at the bottom of Ruthin’s Market Street must have had steroids in their flasks of Bovril!
As you can see, when the Google Street-View Camera Van joined the roundabout from Park Road, the new building (top right) was only completed up to the first storey.
By the time it had gone halfway around as far as the Station Road exit, the builders had completed the other two storeys and were already putting the roof on!
Who says British workmen are slow??!!
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Google portraits
Google’s latest Street View technology incorporates automatic face recognition to blur faces so people can’t sue them.
They even blurred the face on a portrait in my studio window!
Hmm! I wonder if I can sue them for implying that I don’t take sharp photographs?!
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Rachel’s Album
Rachel’s Album page layout proofs
Page sequence starts with a single, right hand page one, followed by three double page spreads 2/3, 4/5, and 6/7.
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Your finished pictures won’t have the watermark, of course.
Update: 18/05/2010
Additional choices
These are the (unretouched) images from your “second” short-list. Let me know which you want to have instead of page 6
