(Only taken me three years to publish this...) Teddy recently had the opportunity to do something that for me, was pretty amazing. He met Brian May. Brian was recently in Bristol, visiting the Royal West of England Academy to launch an exhibition of Victorian stereo photographs. Brian has revived a series of 59 Victorian stereoscopic photographs originally taken by victorian photographer Thomas Richard Williams (1825-1871). He also designed and produced a focusing stereoscope (called The Owl) that brings the images into 3D...
It wasn't an overly publicised event, so fortunately there were only a couple of hundred people there. At 4pm Brian emerged to a great reception. Teddy was one of the last to arrive in the room, in which we had all neatly shuffled ourselves into. When Brian entered the room it was from the back, so Teddy became a front row spectator! Cue some frantic (and pretty amateurish) photography on a crappy Blackberry smart phone!
Brian spoke for about 15 minutes about his book, why he chose to develop it and the journey that it led him on to hunt down the photographs and locations where they were taken. He also spoke about his support and passion for animal welfare. He then invited any questions from the audience, which were initially about the book, but then of course people couldn't resist a few questions about Queen! This was before Sonisphere with Adam Lambert had been announced, but Brian made a cryptic reference to "big things" happening later in the year...
