Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
by Fabulous Ruby
February 22nd, 2009 @ 9:53 AM

Oh man.. Le Corbusier @ the Barbican heavenly, dont miss it! 19 February 2009 – 24 May 2009
Map
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by padster
January 30th, 2009 @ 1:56 PM

Here’s a gallery of simply stunning aerial pictures of London at dusk and by night.
What an extraordinary place we live in!
The photographer is Jason Hawkes and here’s the link.
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by padster
January 25th, 2009 @ 10:52 PM

Love it.
I want a T shirt of it.
Would it be bad of me just to make one? I mean – they put the pic up in the street, so it’s kind of public domain, right?
Tags: CCTV, civil liberties, civlib, labour, surveillance
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by padster
January 6th, 2009 @ 9:40 PM
Saw this on the road near where I live:

Don’t ask me why I was examining the white lines on the road. I just notice odd things.
Isn’t it just the most perfect little road-paint-blob love heart?
I *heart* N16! Or does N16 *heart* me?
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by Fabulous Ruby
December 21st, 2008 @ 6:00 PM

Smithfield's Market by Peter Watts
Some one sent me this really cool link about a year and a half ago…(!!)
Cool Map, It’s like a Google map with load and loads of panoramic images stuck on it. The streetviews are awesome mostly taken by a guy called
Peter Watts.
Each time you click on a new photo you get a Photographers description and loads of cute stuff, like little facts and travel directions. Its a really cool little site, with a handful of cities available to look at like Singapore, Sydney and Vienna.
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by tulio
October 15th, 2008 @ 10:36 AM

Has anyone been to this exhibition yet? Anyone willing to come along? =)
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by Fabulous Ruby
October 10th, 2008 @ 7:20 PM

An easy one to start with…..
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by Daneeta Loretta
September 4th, 2008 @ 4:34 PM

Banksy Battles the Gray Ghost
I’ve been very remiss in my posting these days. That’s because I’ve been orchestrating an
international move from London to New Orleans. Come Monday, partner PJ and I will be back in the arms again of my family and childhood friends. Head Metblog Dude, Sean Bonner, has allowed me to carry on bitching on the
New Orleans Metblog, so yay!
And, speaking of New Orleans Metblog,
Richard has
posted that London’s own Banksy has been gracing the walls of The Big Easy and doing battle with the
Gray Ghost.
On his
website Banksy seems surprised at the city’s constant state of decay: “I looked out the window of the taxi on the drive into New Orleans and remarked ‘There’s still so much devastation – I can’t believe they haven’t cleaned this mess up.’ To which the driver stared at me and said ‘This part of the city wasn’t affected by the hurricane. It’s always looked like this.'”
Oh, how I cannot wait to be home again.
Tags: Banksy, Gray Ghost, Moving, New Orleans
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by padster
August 14th, 2008 @ 4:06 PM

I’m digging this subversive little sticker I spotted on a wall in Upper St, Islington last night
Makes me want to go and look up the facts about the information that TFL gathers about my movements. That’s TFL plus any government/council busybody or their mates. And, no doubt, the police.
If you can’t make out the URL on the sticker, it’s:
http://www.neoexternalism.co.uk
Intriguing!
Tags: Oyster Card, visual insurgence, voyeur
Posted in Art, City Life, Community, Crime, On the Streets, Politics, Rantings and Ravings, Technology | 1 Comment »
by tulio
August 7th, 2008 @ 11:21 PM
This film was released one year ago in Brazil and before going to the movies, half of Brazil had watched it because some guys from the company that put the subtitles in English, pirated it on the internet. [There was actually a big gaffe when the Brazilian Minister of Justice said he had watched it before the official release].
I was surprised to see the banners in the underground this week, because being Brazilian, everyone always used to comment about “City of God” to me and I always recommended this film, but no-one [except Brazilians – who have at least one geek friend who could download the movie from the internet] had ever heard of it.
If you liked “City of God” and you like blood and violence, this one is definitely a must-see. While “City of God” shows how life and crime in favela are from the favelado’s perspective, this film shows how is the favela from the police’s point of view.
This film will be officialy released in the UK this Friday.
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