One other side effect of the Google release into the wild UK of Street View, has been people checking up places they know – and I’m no exception. This is where the band Crawling Chaos played their first gig:

….and this is a dude in a farty twat car, debating whether to give the finger to the google car parked outside my Auntie Margaret’s old pub under the Tyne Bridge, what used to be “The Newcastle Arms”:

It’s a different world, you see. Elsewhere across the globe people are shuffling oblivious along the streets or struggling to hide from the lens – in Newcastle they’re observant and leaping in front of it with no fear, har har.

Hard to bear. Hard to bear.

It used to be rough as fuck down the Sandhill, the Keep and Dog Leap Stairs. Now it’s all rather twee.

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Curtain Road Puker

Following yesterday’s release in the UK of the Google StreetView service, the BBC reports here that some images have already been pulled  because of privacy doings.  One of the things shown as an example was someone hoying-up (vomiting, in English).  It’s not very clear on the BBC website the exact location, but my eagle eyes have pulled it out (it’s the picture in screen dump above left).

One of the offending images removed by Google, but on the BBC website

What is clear, is that the BBC have published a screen dump (duplicated at left), of the picture that Google subsequently pulled!  So what does all that mean for privacy? Personally, my opinion is that if you are in a public place, say entering a sex shop, then you are available to photograph although in your own private space is a completely different matter.  The camera doesn’t capture your “soul” any more than a mirror.

But the government think it’s okay to plaster CCTV cameras everywhere – so why can’t anyone take pictures in a public place?   This has direct relevance to my earlier post here which discusses the double standards that UK government use for photography in a public place. Anyway, the phantom puker in Curtain Road, Hackney, London EC2A, UK is now fuzzilly revealed.

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Currently there is an undersea eruption happening at the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano in Tonga.  Check out the video above which was filmed by some tourist/fishing types in a little boat who went to look at it.

   Then wait until about 0:45 as a white cloud starts boiling towards them and they shout,

RUN AWAY!

Painfully funny, I know, but compare it to the second video (below) of the Montserrat eruption.

The similarity is obvious, and for anyone who’s witnessed or knows about pyroclastic flows, “Run Away” is about it, although laughably inappropriate on a boat!

It’s important to realise that this volcano is undersea.  I don’t know how far down, but for every 100m of depth, each square metre of the eruption has already managed to shift 100 tons of seawater even before it reaches the surface.  These are colossal pressures and forces.

Things like this happen in Europe too – such as Pompeii in 79AD, and these pictures taken by me of some pyroclastic sediments in an old quarry, now car park, above Volvic, France.  These successive events finished about 8000 years ago, I’m told.

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