Balloon Animals on the Tube

To break up the gloom over Tube strikes, someone appears to be trying to brighten up the London Underground with an outbreak of balloon animals:


Aslefshrugged spotted these on the Central Line on Sunday "Are they deer or dogs? No idea but when I changed ends at WER today there was a whole car full of them. I love this city." There's more pictures on his blog.

It's not an isolated outbreak though. Lee Sankey said: "I was greeted by the following scene as I entered the last carriage on the Northern Line at Waterloo."


Like Aslefshrugged there's more pictures on Lee's post.

"How fantastic! Whoever you are, more please", Lee concluded.  Yep more please!

Update - They've also been spotted on the District Line last week by James Weaver aka @Liquid City




He said "No one seems to be amused by the balloon animals in the carriage. There is no pleasing some people." It pleases me & all the other people who RT'd the post on Twitter. If you've seen any more let me know. Cheers!

Creative Portraits by Joey Lawrence

Joey Lawrence is a young professional photographer who currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.



Joey Lawrence has been shooting commercial photography, photojournalism and music videos around the world since the age of 17. He has agents in London, New York and Toronto. Some of his clients include Warner Bros. Records, Summit Entertainment, Forbes, NBC, Kawasaki, the United Way, Salvation Army, and Atlantic Records. Joey's personal body of work has taken him to over 20 countries in 3 years while still maintaining a successful presence in the commercial photography world.

Lawrence is known as a pioneer of new aged digital hyper-realistic photography, lighting and manipulation. All of his techniques were self-taught or the result of trial and error with no formal educational training.

Tube Strikes could escalate in the New Year

Do you want the good news or the bad news? Thankfully unions RMT & TSSA will not be recommending further walkouts this side of Christmas. However, strikes in the New Year could be for two or three days.


Tube Strike -- The Roundel Caged by C. G. P. Grey
RMT leader Bob Crow told a news conference "I will not be recommending any action this side of January 2, but come 2011 we will have to consider escalating strikes to more than one day." He also accused London Underground for misleading the public on the impact of today's strike.


Xmas cards on sale from RMT's website 
"If you believe what is on the TfL website then you believe in Father Christmas" he said. "They are using propaganda to mislead the public. They said Liverpool Street was open when it was closed and they said the Waterloo and City line was running when it wasn't."

Crow claims that TfL are running empty "ghost trains" as part of a "PR stunt". He added "Once again RMT and TSSA members have stood rock solid in this dispute over Tube safety. TfL and LU have been reduced to their usual well-rehearsed lies over services that they claim are running but it is pure fantasy and simply misleads Londoners. The capital is locked down this morning across the board."

TfL say that "The Northern line is running a service across the full length of the line, and the majority of the Victoria, Jubilee, District lines are also being served". How did you manage to get into work today? Did you see any empty "ghost trains"?

Creative Photography by Brad Trent

Brad Trent grew up in a string of small towns in Western Canada. In contradiction to photographer who hides their lighting, and even remove the catch light from the subject’s eyes, Brad Trent shares his most amazing lighting setups in his portfolio.

Today Brad is Award-Winning Advertising & Editorial Portrait Photographer based in New York City. People he has photographed include Steven Spielberg, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Charlie Rose, Rush Limbaugh, Jon Bon Jovi, Hugh Jackman, Jim Cramer, Woody Harrelson, Bryant Gumbel, Ann Curry, Donald Trump, Johnnie Cochran, OutKast, Edie Falco, Eamonn Walker, Terry Kinney, Harold Perrineau, Brett Favre, Donovan McNabb, Jerome Bettis, Andre Agassi, Alonzo Mourning, Wayne Gretzky, Janet Jones, Peter Jennings, Eric Lindros, Dale Earnhardt jr., Cal Ripken Jr., Steve Nash, Dwyane Wade, Annika Sorenstam, Eli Manning, Peyton Manning, Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Evander Holyfield, Cornelia Guest, Kate Tucker, Kate Tucker and the Sons of Sweden, Audrye Sessions, Johanna Cranitch, Russell Simmons, Bruce Flatt, David Eun, Marty Sass, Daniel Vasella, TIm Armstrong, James Gellert, Bahman Mossavar-Rahmani, Don Corell, Mary Minnick, Maureen Chiquet, Andrea Jung, Jamie Dimon, Sheila Nevins, Ross Greenburg, Ron Burkle, FGX, Joe Rosenberg, Indra Nooyi, IndexIQ, Carl Weinberg, Bob Olstein, Dixon Boardman, James Cornelius, Peter Schiff, Jimmy Rogers, Lew Frankfort, Azim Premji, Gary Black, Julian Robertson, Marty Whitman, Rob Kindler, Purna Saggurti, Skip McGee, Doug Braunstein, Raj Danda, Trudy Sullivan, Salvina Sultana, Fred Hassan, James Dowd, Justin Brown, Adam Patti, Tony Davidow, Sal Bruno, Robert Whitelaw, Merck Dick Clark, Noël Forgeard, Barron's Roundtable, Meryl Witmer, Archie MacAllaster, Fred Hickey, Scott Black, Felix Zulauf, Bill Gross, Dr. Marc Faber, Abby Joseph Cohen, Oscar Schafer, Mario Gabelli, Nancy Lazar, Adrian DeLucca, Laura Breen, J. Craig Venter, Dave Wampler, David Rockwell, James Edward 'Doc' Counsilman, Gloria Steinem, Heathyr Lawrence, Jeff Gomez, Jonathan Schwartz, Josh Tyrangiel, Kalle Lasn, Alain Kaloyeros, Kipton Cronkite, Steven Peltzman, Naila Ruechel, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Neil Barofsky, Victor Niederhoffer, Paige Powell, Peter L. Bernstein, Dr. Peter Kim, Bill & Rebecca Goldsmith, Ian Hamilton, Maryam Seifi, Tomas Snoreck, Steve Tananbaum, Dr. Tedd Mitchell, Todd Oldham, Van Toffler, Victor Ozeri, William Rohr, Charles Busch, George Hamilton, André 'André 3000' Benjamin, Antwan 'Big Boi' Patton, Peter Jennings, Carlos Ghosn, Carson Kressley, Chris Ceraso, Howard Sontag, Itai Shoffman, Stuart Janney, John Hilton, Kathy McKeown, Michael Kearns, Michael Thiemann, Michael Wolf, Paul Galant, Peter Siris, Tom Mitchell, Rudolph-Riad Younes, Vasant Dhar, Alex Bogusky, Jeff Hicks, Chuck Porter, Jeff Steinhour, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Bill Priest, Bob Treue, Catherine Keating, Ed Finn, Gordon Fowler, John Hathaway, Mark Boyar, Michael Cahill, Silvio Tarca, Theresa Havell, Timothy Brog, Will Landers, Michael Van Biema, Candace Browning, Chris Cline, Jamie Forese, Keith Anderson, Robert Druskin, Tom Maheras, Jim Glickenhaus, Steve Wisdom, Brady Dougan, David Shaw, Diana Taylor, Jack & Suzy Welch, Jeff Zucker, Mike Marrone, Judy McGrath, Steven Peltzman, MOMA, Steve Adler, Christoper Reeve, Nacho Figueras, Michael Steinhardt, Debbye Turner, Gideon Yago, Andrew Peck, Buzz Zaino, Jack Rivkin, John Bader, Michael Farrell, Oliver Kratz, Peter Siris, Scott Amero ,Scott Blasdell, Amy Dorn Kopelan, Susan Price, Charles Johnston, Janice Taylor, Kathy Cloninger, Charlie Maxwell, Frances Aldrich, James Melcher, James O'Shaughnessy, John Strangfeld, Tom Evans, Marc Leder, Roger Krouse, Ken Chenault, Marshall Goldsmith, Jason Trennert, John Castle, Nick Galluccio, Roy Niederhoffer, Stephanie Pomboy, Tom O'Halloran, Arik Hesseldahl, Jerry Stritzke, Monica Mehta, Terry McGraw, Peter Sands, B B King, Bart Giamatti, Bob Shaye, Robert Shaye, Bud Greenspan, Carroll Petrie, Charles Barkley, Cobi Jones, Jerry Della Femina, Geraldo Rivera, Harold McMaster, Jacques Pepin, Jeff Immelt, Jenna Elfman, John Edward, Lisa Ling, Marla Maples, Matt Lauer, Ned Overend, Peter Benchley, Regina Jacobs, Richard Price, Rick Reilly, Sandy Weil, Tommy Lee Jones, Henry McVey, Robert Nardelli, David Epstein, Louis Chenevert, Tom Bradley, David Dorn



Lady Gaga by Aaron Fallon

Amazing shoots of Lady Gaga by Aaron Fallon, talented freelance photographer, based in Venice Beach, California.