Friday Fun through a pinhole

Enough of the festive fun frivolity - it's a new year and time for some serious fun...

Firstly, something that's both beautiful and fascinatingly educational.

This is an image created after a pinhole camera was left in place opposite Toronto's skyline for a year. Utterly amazing - here's how it was done.

Something else that's arty, but manages to involve a regular Friday Fun feature - children, is this project from Australia. It begins with a bright white room, and ends in a cacophony of colour...

Combining art with some TfL geekery (because it's actually been a while since we had some of that on a Friday) and some awesome stats is a new exhibition that opens today at the London Transport Museum. [How up to date am I?? Is it somewhat ironic that this gem was given to me by someone in Brooklyn?] Here are some classic London Transport posters containing stats you never knew you needed to know:

Painting By Numbers is at the museum until March 18th and I think may finally prompt me to make a trip there. Did you know that once you've bought a ticket it's valid for an entire year? That's pretty awesome in my book - so who fancies a nerdy day out?

Finally, we're now in 2012 and in London, that means just one thing: it's Olympics year! I'm staying upbeat and excited about this fact, despite the fact that I still have zero Olympics tickets [but I do have a ticket to next week's pre-Olympics gymnastics, which kind of helps]. In fact, let me take this moment to quote a recent Sue Perkins tweet that I empathised with:
"Dear London 2012 Olympics: please don't take my life savings on the promise of a ticket, then deny me that ticket, then EMAIL ME EVERYDAY"

Anyway, this means that there's all sorts of Olympics fun around, and this week's particular recommendation is the Guardian's 50 Stunning Olympics Moments. Currently they've published eight of them and it was No.8 - Eric Liddell's 1924 victory - that drew it to my attention. I defy you not to be inspired... Plus, it will equip you with some excellent Olympics factoids that you'll be able to pluck out of thin air over the summer, enabling you to look terribly knowledgeable, which is always nice.