Rubik's 25th Anniversary Celebrations, London, Tue 26th July 2005 - Pictures


Dave Hedley Jones, Duncan Dicks, Dan Harris, Chrisi Trussell, and Jasmine Lee pose for a photograph in Hamleys (LQ picture)

Dave Hedley Jones, Duncan Dicks, Dan Harris, Chrisi Trussell, and Jasmine Lee pose for a photograph in Hamleys (HQ picture)

Lisa (my girlfriend) waits with our luggage at Norwich train station

Me restickering my cubes, they have to look good for TV!

I think I must be unstickering at this point...

Picture of the Ipswich bridge (the largest in Europe? so my Dad says...)

Lisa preparing for dinner with Dave and Chrisi

The day of the celebrations. Here we are, waiting in the Green Room before mine and Jasmine's appearance on ITV's This Morning.

Cool sign!

The crowd begins to gather for the cutting of the cake... guess what shape it was :)

Dan Harris practicing on the specially set-up timer display.

Jasmine Lee's turn to have a practice.

Here, the professional photographer shows off his equipment :-S

Jasmine cubing, while people watch

Over the day, hundreds of pictures were taken of Jasmine and Dan

Yet again, I'm solving a cube!

People continually flow through, past the timer and the table where the cake and champagne stood.

Here, I was challenged to solve in under 20 seconds. I solved in 19.87!

Jasmine and I talk to the crowd about how to solve the Cube

Here I am, demonstrating how to solve, step by step.

Then, some of the people in the crowd wanted to play!

Now I am supervising the kids with the cubes, it would be a tragedy to lose my best speedcube...

The wonderful cube shaped cake, ala Jon & Jean Morris.

Looks like the cake makers got the colour scheme correct!

All the party food was quickly eaten up by the crowd...

Jasmine shows how she solves the cube, whilst in the foreground the photographer sets up his camera

Jack with the cake. Jack won a competition run in a newspaper, which meant he was given the chance to come down and cut the cake with us.

The beginning of the photocall. By the end, my mouth hurt from smiling so much!

More photocall... OK I'm looking more like Lars Vandenbergh here...

Yet more photgraphs.

Now my legs were starting to hurt from bending in this awkward position... :-S

But the photographer insisted that I stay there for at least another 5 painful minute...

Now we're posing with two important people in the world of Rubik's Cube, Ross and Dave from Drumond Park.

Here I did a really fun interview for Capital Radio. 19.06 was a result of the distracting commentary by the interviewer, honestly ;)

Here is the cake, and the party food seems to have reappeared...

Hmm, 16 seconds and I'm doing PLL, not too bad. I had plenty of 14's also, which I was pleased with, and a 1:19 on the 4x4x4!

The day after, Jasmine and I went to Regent's Park, and there was a squirrel!

More squirrel...

...and yet more squirrel! Isn't he cute!