After Effects...

intimidatingly complicated at the start, but I'm gradually getting to grips with it... I don't know if I want to be an architect or a director at the moment... both very easy careers obviously...

The Shard

Is anyone else filled with an impending sense of doom by the inevitable rise of the Shard?  It seems too massive, too dominant, to not have some kind of supernatural power attached to it... I sort of imagine the last double-glazed plate clicking into plate, and some kind of bad-CGI cloud effect emanating from the finished pinnacle, Zuul reborn and the end of the world or something...

Apart from the ridiculous film-set of it, when its finished, it is going to be like some massive Archimedes Heat Ray, the sun reflecting a beam of light grazing over south London... or more appropriately the Eye of Sauron.  Surely with the full sun reflecting off it, and into your window, it'd be a like being under some kind of blowtorch...

all the information is there if you want it...

http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/