London photo of the day: skyline pileup

Thu, Jan 17, 2013

skyline pileup
Though this looks like some little kid’s idea of a city skyline, this is a real view from Thameside near London Bridge station.

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Paul Wartenberg

Thu, Jan 17, 2013 12:22am

The mish-mash of architectural styles is a tad jarring.

MaryAnn Johanson

reply to Paul Wartenberg

Thu, Jan 17, 2013 12:30am

I can’t help but expect Godzilla to pop up in the middle of that…

Paul Wartenberg

reply to MaryAnn Johanson

Thu, Jan 17, 2013 2:31am

You mean Gorgo! Pfft, and you call yourself a movie reviewer…

lescarr

reply to Paul Wartenberg

Thu, Jan 17, 2013 1:24am

That’s not “jarring” that you’re feeling, that’s “inspiration” :-)

RogerBW

reply to Paul Wartenberg

Thu, Jan 17, 2013 12:35pm

Take a look at the house at Bletchley Park some time!

lescarr

Thu, Jan 17, 2013 1:23am

I walked over Waterloo Bridge tonight, from the Strand back to, err, Waterloo. The view looks as if aliens have stolen all the world’s most iconic buildings and replanted them in impossible proximity in some ginormous galactic museum display. I’m sure Philip K Dick wrote a story about this!

In particular, St Paul’s Cathedral is illuminated such that it looks as if it is a really, really bad CGI fake building (probably because the aliens accidentally broke the original, real cathedral).

Paul Wartenberg

reply to lescarr

Thu, Jan 17, 2013 2:32am

Didn’t that happen at the end of Lifeforce?

the rook

Thu, Jan 17, 2013 2:03am

the scene is on coney island beach. a few years back we elected a supervillain as mayor of new york and he stole all those buldings and brought them to brooklyn.