London Landscape TV (HD 720p)
If you love London, you'll love London Landscape TV. This regular high-definition video podcast allows your TV or computer to become your...Society & Culture
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21:23:00 11/07/10
Cycle ride from Oxford Circus to Westminster Bridge
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A couple of years ago, an LLTV episode showed me jumping on my mountain bike and heading somewhat shakily through central London using a cheap 'cyclecam'.
Two years on, the equipment is better and the pictures have become truly high definition so it's time to do it again!
This time I:
* Start at Oxford Circus,
* Head south along Regent Street to Piccadilly Circus,
* Turn into Shaftesbury Avenue and cycle to Cambridge Circus,
* Head south from Cambridge Circus along Charing Cross Road to Trafalgar Square,
* Turn off into Whitehall, passing Downing Street,
* Arrive at Parliament Square and turn left ono Westminster Bridge to finish at County Hall.
It all happens in real-time and in high definition, so come along for the ride!
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16:27:04 09/26/10
Ancient and Modern London
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In this episode I wanted to contrast the fresh new architecture in the the City of London with the much older buildings around and about.
The LLTV camera takes us to Bishopsgate (Primrose Street) to look at the contrasting architectures of two buildings - one, Broadgate Tower, a few months old and and the other a church more than 250 years old.
We step from the modern public space of Exchange Square with sculptures and waterfalls behind Liverpool Street station to the church of St-Botolph's-Without-Bishopsgate built in the mid 1700s and full of ornate religious paintings an icons, where we attend a wedding ceremony!
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15:46:27 07/10/10
The Theatres of Shaftesbury Avenue
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Catch the sights of the different theatre productions as we walk the length of Shaftesbury Avenue - both on foot then by cycle!
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19:39:00 06/20/10
The Olde Shopping Arcades of Piccadilly
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Come and walk along the shops that line the old indoor shopping Arcades that spread through Piccadilly and Bond Street.
Upmarket brands from Gucci and Tiffany vie with the old specialist boutiques that sell everything from the finest clothing apparel to antiques and armour!
Featured in this episode are the Piccadilly, Burlington, Royal and Princes Arcades, alongside the more modern upmarket Brands that line Old Bond Street and Burlington Gardens.
Take a step into the Royal Academy of Arts at Burlington House, as you listen to the chimes on the hour of the clock at the famous grocery Fortnum and Mason.
After the end-credits of this episode is a short charity appeal by Nick Lansley, who films and produces every episode of London Landscape TV. Nick is running the London 10K Run in 11 July 2010 in aid of the Albert Kennedy Trust . I do hope you stay to watch. Donations from any worldwide debit or credit cards can be made at Nick's Justgiving page at:
http://www.justgiving.com/nicklansley
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05:01:00 05/11/10
Hung Parliament
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As British politicians grapple with trying to form a government after no party won overall control in Parliament, the LLTV camera captures the atmosphere outside the Houses of Parliament and Downing Street as the public and the media gather to watch unfolding events.
Filmed on-location in HD around and after 5pm on Monday 10 May 2010 as the British Prime-Minister Gordon Brown announced his attention to resign.
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22:47:00 04/30/10
Rich Man, Poor Man, Marathon Man!
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Spring has sprung in London and it's time to kick off a new season of London Landscape TV episodes.
We've just enjoyed hosting the 2010 London Marathon and on the day I went down to film along part of the route in the East end of London.
The episode starts in Poplar Park, a beautiful community park serving the relatively poor area of Poplar. Looming beyond the park, though, are the mighty towers of London's new financial district known as Canary Wharf.
The park looks peaceful, but hidden amongst the natural springtime birdsong are echoes of what sounds like music and an amplified human voice.
We observe echoes of Poplar's dark past, when some of its children died from a bomb in World War I. Now an angel watches over their memorial against a blue and white sky.
Soon we discover the source of the voices and cheering: just south of the Park is the route for the 2010 London marathon, and we watch runners plying their way along Poplar High Street. But where are they running from?
The answer lies in the mighty financial towers - the marathon runners are making their way to Poplar from Canary Wharf. So we leave the low brick housing of Poplar and arrive, via Billingsgate Market, to the home of the gleaming towers at Canary Wharf itself....
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18:56:00 12/13/09
London Night from CentrePoint floor 31
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Enjoy some great night-time views of London from the 31st floor of the CenterPoint tower, located at the junction of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street. In order to get the brightest pictures of night-time London, the video camera was set to film both 25-frames per second footage, and a reduced rate of just 4 frames per second giving the opportunity for far better exposure and lift the light out of the darkness! The camera points west down Oxford Street and into Soho and Leicester Square, then north towards the BT Tower, east toward the city of London and Holborn, then south east towards St. Pauls cathedral and Canary Wharf. Finally the camera points south to take in the Millennium Wheel and Big Ben. Enjoy night-time London from the 31st floor - then come and experience it for real sometime!
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23:38:00 12/04/09
Christmas Lights!
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In this episode we take a look at the festive lights hanging above London's main shopping streets of Oxford Street and Regent Street, filmed on Wednesday December 2, 2009. London always likes to make a spectacle of these lights, and they really look great this year!
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23:59:00 10/25/09
The Heart Of The City
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If you've been wondering what on earth has been happening about the lack of London Landscape TV episodes recently, you're not alone. For all good work reasons, my job has been madly busy over the last few months and it's not about to let up anytime soon. Whilst I have been into central London as part of my work, I've never really been able to get out my big'n'gorgeous Sony HDV camera to do some proper filming. Fortunately my job as head of R%D at Tesco.com (the online arm of the UK's biggest food retailer) has involved amassing video evidence as I conduct projects and to help make this happen I've acquired a small Sony HDR-TG3 palm HD camcorder that takes stunning HD 1080 video footage, recorded straight onto memory-stick (no moving parts). Recently I was giving a speech in the heart of the old city of London close to the Bank of England, and I was determined to take the new camera on a field-trip on behalf of London Landscape TV viewers. I hope you enjoy the result and, as a result of using this new camcorder for work, I will be delighted to bring you great film of London whenever I am at its heart - which is regularly. Here is some great film of some of the most amazing buildings in London filmed on the Sony TG3 - and don't forget I was in a dapper suit and tie for the whole session!
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16:10:00 08/09/09
Borough Market
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It's been nearly three months since the last episode of LLTV - mainly caused by me need to focus on my day job as Head of R%D at the online service of UK supermarket Tesco. However August has arrived and the crescendo has passed (at least for now) so once again I have indulged my creative side and enjoyed lunchtime on Friday 7th August at Borough Market. The market is located on the South Bank of the Thames adjacent to Southwark Cathedral and London Bridge station, nestling under a large set of metal and brick railway arches with trains rolling above. All kinds of food from nearly every culture are served here, so its great to enjoy the market on an empty stomach and follow your nose to the best cooking scents. The market is a riot of colour too, and is completed with amusing written quotes printed on hanging signs attached to the underside of the railway girders. An unmissable experience!
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17:30:00 05/25/09
London Architecture seen from a River Thames Cruise
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There is no better way to see many of the landmarks of London than from the River Thames. And there's no better time to do this than in the evening as twilight descends over the city, and it lights into life. In this episode, travel with us on a river cruise and watch the night descend over some fascinating architecture from the Houses of Parliament and Millennium Wheel to Battersea Power Station and the MI5 Intelligence HQ building. Technical note: In order to maximize your viewing enjoyment (and to prevent 'motion-sickness') a great deal of image stabilization has been applied, both during recording and in post-production. The result is an amazingly smooth watching experience but you may find that the high definition pictures may a little 'soft' on detail in places. The video was shot at 1920x1080, allowing a 'stabilizing headroom' given that the finished images required 1280x720 resolution. However a couple of shots required extra work to stabilize, resulting in a few occasionally soft pictures.
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21:58:00 04/26/09
The Flora London Marathon 2009
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This episode brings a hectic spectator-eye view of one of London's most exciting annual events, the Flora London marathon. Join me at three major vantage points on the marathon route - Canary Wharf, Tower Bridge and the finishing post at Buckingham Palace - as I jostle with a friendly and enthusiastic crowd to bring you these high definition shots with the camera held mostly at arms length vertically above my head!
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06:58:00 03/30/09
Spring Awakening in Holland Park
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Spring has truly reached London, and the first flowers bloom as we join both people and wildlife enjoying the sunshine in beautiful Holland Park, near Kensington in west London on Sunday 29th March 2009.
In this episode I have dropped the music and boosted the 'bit-rate' quality of the audio so you can enjoy the birdsong and other background sounds of spring in the park. I used the camera's forward-pointing XLR condenser microphone to avoid 'motor-whirr' being heard from the camera itself.
I hope you enjoy this episode and get that sense of spring coming from your computer or TV!
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22:43:00 03/16/09
London St. Patrick's Day Festival 2009
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Sunday 15 March 2009 saw London presenting an excellent St. Patrick's Day Festival celebrating all things Irish. Trafalgar Square hosted a main stage with great traditional Irish music, and was opened by London's Major Boris Johnson. With perfect blue skies and glorious spring sunshine weather, as you will see the good humour flowed. That included people offering 'Free Hugs', an excellent way to get in a really good mood and a perfect start to this episode. So raise a Guinness and wish each other Happy St. Pats!
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22:22:00 03/03/09
London Olympic Village - Construction Update
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I have had many requests from viewers asking about how London's 2012 Olympic Village is getting on. I am pleased to say that, as this video shows, there has been a vast change since I visited the site last summer. I took the opportunity to start at the same place as I filmed from last year then cycled along the canals that surround the Olympic village site to give a full perspective on the building works as well as reveal a 'hidden' london of peaceful canals and waterways. This episode starts with a map of the Olympic Village but if you would like to cross-reference, head to http://maps.google.co.uk and search for "pudding mill lane". This is a Docklands Light Railway station which has existed for some time but now finds itself in the heart of the Olympic village site. Although the Google aerial photography has not yet caught up with the building works, you can still clearly see the main roads and canals surrounding the site. This episode was filmed on Monday 2nd March 2009 - about 1400 days to go...!
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18:27:00 02/14/09
Charing Cross station
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At last the snow has cleared (although the cold has not yet relented) so as London returned to normal operations, I took the camera to a work meeting and used the opportunity of my location at Charing Cross to film afterwards. Charing Cross is next to Trafalgar Square and the Strand, and just over the river from the Millennium Wheel. Wikipedia notes that Charing Cross is named after a long demolished monument religious cross. The name originates from the Eleanor cross erected between the former hamlet of Charing and the entrance to the Royal Mewsf the Palace of Whitehall in 1291-4 by King Edward I as a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile. The cross was the work of the medieval sculptor, Alexander of Abingdon. Originally built in wood, it was quickly replaced with a stone and marble monument. The name of the hamlet is derived from the old english word cierring , referring to the large bend in the River Thames nearby. When you view Charing Cross today it's impossible to think that this place was once a little village (or hamlet) in the countryside! Today Charing Cross is best known for its railway station terminus and underground station. At the front of the station is the Charing Cross hotel, an upmarket place to stay in this most busy part of central London. ALSO: This episode includes a 10-second promo for "Norway in HD" http://norwayinhd.com a very similarly-styled podcast to LLTV, showing off the very best of a very beautiful country.
03/16/08