Someone tries to drive in

You are over run with Goat

Hygeine issues

Missing shopping trolleys

Broken window

People who cannot park

Accidents

People with weird pets

People in costumes

Bad manners

The half dressed shopper

People injuried in the rush

A Stripper

People dressed up

Crazy Kids running wild

Guest Blog by – Geordie Girl

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2  – Baltimore Washington International

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3 – LAX airport at night

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4- Gatwick at night

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5 – Shanghai Pudong International Airport

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6 – Beijing airport at night

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7 – Kuching_International_Airport

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8 – Hong Kong International Airport

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9 – Bahrain International at night

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10 – Portland International Airport at Night

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11 – Munich International Airport

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12 – kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang

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13 – Dulles international airport

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14 – Newark Liberty Airport

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15 – Dublin airport

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16 -Barcelona International Airport by Night

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17 – Jomo Kenyatta International airport

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18 – Paris airport at night

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19 – Dubai airport at night

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20 – Abu_dhabi_international_airport

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Jess has been blogging for 4 years and has written for numerous holiday and travel related blogs and websites including Sir BransonsVirgin holidays and random ecology posts.

Red and Blue logos

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Tam Airlines logo

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TAC logo

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United Airlines logo

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Air Tran logo

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Virgin Atlantic logo

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Presidential Airways logo

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American airlines logo

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Cathay Pacific logo

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Red Logos

Air Algerie logo

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Air Jamaica logo

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Swiss Air logo

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Air Berlin logo

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Air India Logo

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Japan Airlines (before) logo

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Blue logos

Air Mexico logo

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Air Gabon logo

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Tame Airlines logo

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Air Siam logo

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Kuwait Airways logo

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It does make you wonder where the next generation of aircraft such as Virgin Galactic will take corporate aircraft design, and whether this beautiful slick and simply stlye will be replaced.

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Thinking Digital is basically the Geordie equivalent of the TED conferences,  in that TED is a non-profit collection of events that promote Ideas Worth Spreading. Thinking Digital or TDC is an annual conference where some of the worlds brightest and most inventive thinkers across the area of digital, attend to demonstrate and highlight their latest technologies and ideas.

The conference is an inspirational blend of new tech, social media innovation and business inventions, and it is a great place to make new contacts and new friends. Unless you are me and then you tend to stand in a corner and wish you were home hidden behind your machine blogging or digging.

The whole event was organised by Codeworks a not-for-profit organisation that has been promoting digital innovation in the North East of England for the last 8 years, they work closely with a major investor  One NorthEast and are there to help develop and support new and existing digital media technology in the North East.

Herb Kim

The conference director was Herb Kim who I had met when we both gave talks to local company delegates some two weeks before, Herb is the CEO of Codeworks and has worked in the field of media and tech for the past 17 years, originally heralding from Brooklyn with honors from Princeton, Herb’s resume reads like a dream from BOL.com and O2 to Marketing manager st IBM.

The day of the conference – 27th of May 2010

I entered the Sage building at around 8.15am, the building is awesome like a gigantic metal beetle lazing on the side of the tyne. Its concaved roof glinting in the unusually bright May morning for the Northeast.

Paul Miller

I took my seat in the main hall sometime around 8.30am and as i watch the Twitter stream roll up in the background, Lauren Laverne stepped on to the stage and introduced Paul Miller from Gavurin. Gavrin’s mission is to turn the raw data that is mostly meaningless into an understandable, usable format.

The companies technology called G-View allows companies to find patterns and trends that are normally hidden in data, thus allowing them to use this data to make effective decisions. The technology seamlessly works through the data, integrating the numerical data with charts and maps to create easy to understand visuals.

You can watch a demonstration of this technology below, just click on the images.

Managing large datasets

Making Numbers Easy

Creating great looking graphs

Performance reporting in 11 seconds

You can watch the rest of the video on http://www.gavurin.com/whats_on/#one

Herb then came onstage to introduce one the the best videos of  this year so far Embrace Life – always wear your seat belt campaign, probably one of the most underated commercials of this year.

Lauren Laverne then walked onto the stage and joked that the video had brought the mood down saying “well that was feel good” – everyone laughed

Professor Gilbert Cockton

We than had a very interesting, but a little overmyhead talk by the brilliant Professor Gilbert Cockton of Northumbria University’s internationally renowned School of Design.

The same school that gave the world Jonathan Ive the genius behind Apple’s award winning designs, and now the Senior Vice-President of Industrial Design at Apple.

He talked about his work in accessibility in the web and his work with people with trauma brain injuries, using social networks to provide better care for people with disablity and also spoke about the 4 types of principles about design. I won’t go into this as i will make a rather large fool of myself, but thanks for the Professor.

Mary Ann de Lares Norris

We then heard fom Mary Ann de Lares Norris General Manager of Oblong industries in Europe, basically Oblong create the kind of technology that we were in awe of in the 2002 sci fi film Minority Report, and in fact the director of Oblong was the science advisor on Minority report. This science in the film is from his life’s work in which he hoped to emancipate the pixel from the screen into the user actual environment.

In the film the glove-controlled, wall-sized computer display that Tom Cruise controls by hand gestures is the one thing that has stuck in peoples minds.

What Oblong want to do is to tap into the part of the human brain that covers spatial calculations about the persons environment, something that is very natural to use and that remains untapped, they wish to do this be completely altering the way that we interface with our computers. This kind of technology should be a long way to being common place, but is looking like it will be with us within the next 5 years.

Now if you think that this is futuristic, G-speak see the future of this technology being the installation of high-resolution projectors in every light bulb, this would mean every surface in our houses or offices could be an interface. It is their idea to make computers work for us and help them compliment our environments instead of us having to mould to this technology.

The platform, which runs on Linux and OS X, is currently in use at Fortune 50 companies, government agencies, the defense market, the oil and gas markets and universities.

I will be writing more about the TDC10 over the next post.

Therefore due to this and the prompt of one of my friends purchasing the 64GB wifi ipad, i thought that a test of it’s capabilities was highly overdue.

I have had my niggling doubts about Apple’s latest designer product ever since Mr Jobs began to talk of it, and sent ripples through the social communities. I found the wave of hate of the name, lack of flash, no multi tasking and it’s wireless capabilities only drove my interest deeper … either in a concerted effort to prove them wrong or whole heartedly agree with them.

In this video we unbox the new Apple ipad – specs 64GB wifi (not 3G), it’s raw unedited so don’t expect any fancy intro music or logos plastered all over it.

This video covers how to set-up your new ipad, the crazy thing is that since the ipad is simply a larger version of the ipod, you still need to sync it with itunes before you can do anything.  So in that respect it is not really a replacement for your PC or notebook, but lets carry on.

Here we are looking at the quality of sound on the ipad but testing it out on a range of music, from classical and pop to acoustic.

Now we are looking at reading on the ipad, using the app that the ipad it’self recommends ‘ibooks’. This is something that I was personally pretty impressed with, the design of the application and functionality is superb.

In this one we look at the quality of the ipad’s backlit screen for reading, as this is something that the Kindle lacks.

Since the ipad that we have is not 3G we thought that we would check out the wifi and see just how well it works.

This is a test of the quality of itunes movies on the ipad vs the iphone, taking into account the size, we are looking at image quality, speed and Robert Downey Jr.

This is probably the most important test, can we get porn on an ipad… “can we get it and will it PLAY?”

Well i hope that you have enjoyed a little glimpse at the new ipad and it’s functions and enjoyed our company for a few minutes, it was lovely to see you and we will be testing out a few more things on the ipad, so you really must call again.

If you do have any requests for us to try out, drop us a line (the more bizarre the better)

• If it’s the image of a kitten in a shoe box it says “I bottle feed my cats”
• An image of the Goddess Kali could either mean “My Karma is fucking awesome” OR “I have a bunch of arms and eat people”
• Anything to do with the Twilight series screams “I have no concept of taste, please kill me before i embarrass myself?”

So I thought it would be interesting to consider what types of backgrounds a horror icon such as Barker might have, I have mostly chosen Barkers own work, which is as diverse as one of his novels, i hope you enjoy them.

1. Books of Blood

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2. The Phantom Hand

3. Infernal Parade

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4. History of the Devil – Theatre project

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5. Jericho Game

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6. Abarat Artwork

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7. Midnight Meat Train

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8. Night Breed (Kabal)

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9. Jericho Game

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10. Clive Barker Artwork

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12. Philip Lemarchand (creator of the Hellraiser box)

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13. Hellraiser Cenobites

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14. The Midnight Meat Train

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And the UK is not happy. While most reviewers on the other side of the pond admit to enjoying the full-size screen and the ease of familiar functionality (if you own an iPod or iPhone, you wont have any trouble interacting with Apples new product), they have been fairly critical of the product as a whole.

The hubbub seems to center on the price range, which was suspected to start around £399, but was later revealed to have a starting price point of £429 for the 16GB base model, with prices climbing as high as £699 for the 64GB+3G iteration. That translates to a range of about $620 to $1,000 American, while prices in the U.S. started at $499, or about $550 with tax. In addition, the data package offered in the UK looks to cost about £40 per month for unlimited usage (almost $60 U.S.). And thats not even mentioning the 17.5% VAT (although its rumored that this tax has been included in the listed price). Ouch! No wonder theyre upset. And although Steve Jobs has commented that this is the price of bringing American business to the UK (shipping and storage), reviewers chalk it up to a simple matter of supply and demand theyre charging more because they can. Public commentary on the topic tends to promote the opinion that for the same amount of money, one could buy a laptop and an iPhone and have all the functionality and then some.

Other gripes include the lack of a front-facing camera, which many suspect will be available on the next version of the iPad, and limited usage (one app at a time). Most reviewers are recommending that buyers wait for the second round of sales to take advantage of add-ons that are not available on the current model. This could mean serious trouble for international sales of the iPad, except for one things an Apple product, which almost guarantees it will sell out (despite delays and rumors of add-ons). Regardless of forewarning from the press, iPad is expected to do just as well overseas as it has in the U.S. Its the latest golden Apple and everybody wants a bite.

The iPad is set to ship in the UK on May 28th for those who pre-ordered (after a two-month delay) and will reportedly be available to everyone else on June 7th. It will also be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland on the same date.

Guest Post by – Sarah Davis is a content writer for DiscountVouchers.org (Currys discount codes) and aside from her passion for writing she loves a great discount and is an avid bargain shopper

So this time, i took a late high tea, some nice brown bread cucumber sandwiches and a vegan fairy cake to me dirty little den in the basement, and I began another grand quest …………….

“to find a slightly cooler looking Facebook icon that the typical basic blue ones, or those part of a cute collection with Twitter, Flickr and RSS ones that are out there!” and ok.. it was hard as designers just don’t seam to be that bothered with making cool ones, but i hope you (as the groovy social media incrowd) like what i found.