Aaaah Shoreditch

I saw this on a poster on the way to work. It set me up for the day. I thought: ‘yes, I’m going to use better skills to overcome challenges’. So far it’s working…
On the bus this morning I spotted this guy taking photos of some police people pulling over a motorbike. After what looked like a brief ‘You can’t take photos here’ telling off, the policewoman started to check what the guy had been taking photos of.
In a world of public camera ubiquitousness surely this kind of things is a bit silly, after all we’re all on ‘their’ cameras everywhere we go.

So I figured I’d take a photo of her checking the photos he’d taken of her. Yoiks!
I posted this a couple of weeks ago and commented on how I found it a big unsettling.

Then this morning I think I twigged as to one of the reasons why I found it so odd. It’s this sign that I walk past every morning on the way to work:

Yes, it’s the other eye winking, but I’m not sure that has any relevance.
In smiley-speak a winking smiley, like this ;-), indicates that you’re joking, or being sarcastic, just generally that you shouldn’t take the point too seriously. In which case I’m not quite sure how to read either of these…
Last night I went for a quick drink in the T-Bar near work.

When I got there I noticed that someone was ‘doing’ Second Life massive on the wall. It was quite odd being the same size as the animated characters who were all doing some messed up Macarena style dance.
It kind of freaked my groove.