Diaspora Dialogs [.com]

Here I am in London outside the TATE where I had planned to teach a class from the cafe. I made it into the virtual classroom, but who would have known that the service provider, British Telecom could block access for other servers like skype and acrobat? I was really excited at the prospect of broadcasting from the TATE (yes, the same sugar/slavery/museum TATE) and I had set up in the cafe with a cup of Earl Grey tea and my mike and camera ready to go. I paid £6 for the connection. I wanted to prove to my students that I was actually in London...Anyway, to compensate here are some pictures as evidence. The big bonus came as I was leaving, I bumped into Joy Gregory. She was really pleased to hear that we had been talking about her work. So I asked her about the meaning of two photographs on our wiki and she told me they had nothing to do with ethnography, slavery etc. but rather they relate to fashion photographs in the 1990s when cropping images was really stylish...so much for our theorizing!