Links tagged with “london”
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Harrow Technical - Pentax Repairs, Pentax Spares, Pentax Cameras, Pentax Service
In case I need to get my old camera fixed.
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 by Various - Project Gutenberg
Completely wonderful 17th century science. Fascinating subjects, beautiful titles (“A Relation of Persons killed with subterraneous Damps”) and gorgeous language.
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Photofusion, London, UK | Darkroom Hire Facilities
In SW9. A friend recommended them.
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The London Gazette - Munday Septemb 3, to Munday Septemp 10, 1666
Facsimiles of four pages of ‘The London Gazette’ reporting on the Great Fire of London. “Published by Authority”.
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YouTube - Unit Four Plus Two — Concrete and Clay
1965(?) video for the song, filmed on the building site that was to become the Barbican.
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Find and Advertise Desk Space to Rent - Desk Space Genie
What it says. Useful.
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Royal Academy of Arts Events
Podcast of Royal Academy talks, including all of this and last year’s ‘The Architects Who Made London’ lectures. Good stuff.
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London Underground Tube Diary - Going Underground’s Blog
Inside those tube carriages you can see on top of a viaduct in Shoreditch. Shame the video’s no longer available. (via Blech)
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LISPA - School - Information - Film
LISPA has a new website and a promotional film. The pictures at the top are people from my year, the film features people from the year above. Very strange, and lovely, to see and hear all this stuff again.
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Notes.husk.org. All Change On Oxford Street.
Paul Mison on planned improvements to the Oxford Street / Regent Street junction and the horror that is the junction by Centre Point. All looking good (but it’d be hard to be worse).
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G20 protest videos: Growing catalogue of evidence against police | UK news | guardian.co.uk
As Charlie Brooker said on Newswipe, how come all the press and TV crews failed to catch the real story at the time. And they wonder why many of them are doomed. (via Tom Taylor)
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Chipotle to Open London Restaurant Late in 2009, Names Co-CEO
Mexican food watch: Chipotle coming to Europe.
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Richard Nicholson Photography - ‘Last One Out, Please Turn On the Light’
Lovely and sad photos of disappearing darkrooms. A good accompaniment to those photos of Soho record shops that went round a while back. I miss darkrooms. (via Infovore)
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G20: Did police containment cause more trouble than it prevented? | World news | guardian.co.uk
“…people thinking about embarking on demonstrations in the future may have to decide whether they want to be effectively locked up for eight hours without food or water and, when leaving, to be photographed and identified.” I’m increasingly disliking this country. (via Preoccupations)
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Indymedia London | Videos | Show | film of police attack on G20 climate camp
There have been worse examples of police violence, but this still isn’t good. (via Boing Boing)
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Streetphoto :: View topic - G20 riot posed photo
A good description of how scenes like the two guys smashing the windows of a branch of RBS surrounded by photographers happen. (via Moleitau on Twitter)
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Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: the kids are alright
And while I’m at it, Chris’s post from a few weeks back. What kind of country are we living in now? We’ll need someone to invade the UK and “liberate” us soon.
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London cops reach new heights of anti-terror poster stupidity - Boing Boing
It’s hard to believe these posters aren’t some kind of parody. And it’s hard to react without using clichés (1984, Orwellian, etc).
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London CycleStreets: UK Cycle Journey Planner and Photomap
A new site for planning your cycle journeys, using OpenStreetMap maps. A great start.
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CR Blog » Blog Archive » Meet Mr Chicken
Fascinating stuff about the man who designs “90%” of all the signs for fried chicken places in London. (via Chris Heathcote)
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In Pictures: Secret Bits Of The Barbican - Londonist
Not that secret - only two or three photos are from inside the building that’s currently being turned into flats, but still interesting.
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The Architects Who Made London with Maxwell Hutchinson - Architecture Programme - Royal Academy of Arts
Series of six discussions about twentieth century architects who have done important stuff in London. On Mondays, first was last night, no online booking *rolls eyes*.
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The little page of TRANSPORT CHAOS
Great idea. Love the descriptions of chaos levels. Longer-term graphs would be nice.
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Reduced Circumstances - Current showcase
Run actors’ showcases at Soho Theatre twice a year.
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A Typographic Survey of the City of London on Vimeo
Lovely little video about the typography used in public throughout the City. Only criticism: sound recording is very poor quality. Otherwise, fab. (via Blech)
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Twee as Fuck
Fanzine, monthly London club night, record label. Looks great. (Warning: the naughty page plays music when it loads.)
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Home (Barbican restaurants)
Wiki for restaurants local to the Barbican.
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West End Whingers
I’m enjoying this blog’s theatre reviews. Intelligent but down to earth and nothing too obscure.
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How does it feel to be loved? - london club night playing indie pop, northern soul, tamla motown, girl groups, sixties heartbreak
Sounds like an awesome club. Not that I ever go to clubs.
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Remember to breathe: Catching up a bit
I’m loving Eric’s account of being at LISPA. Nicely written and very reflective. He’s the father of someone I was there with until July, and is now doing the course himself!
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Photographic collection homepage from London transport museum
More than 16,000 historical photos of London, nicely browsable. You can even add comments to each one. Would be nice if they enlarged bigger, but otherwise fab.
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Debut Productions - Homepage
London theatre showcases.
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The School Of Life - Homepage
“A new cultural enterprise based in central London offering intelligent instruction on how to lead a fulfilled life.” A religion without religion? Intriguing. (via Kottke)
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HS_LicensedVenueList.pdf (application/pdf Object)
City of London venues licensed for weddings.
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Venues in Islington
Wedding venues
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JPMorgan plans Europe HQ in Canary Wharf - International Herald Tribune
Yay, they’ve ditched plans for their massive HQ on London Wall, which would have destroyed some of the public highwalks. (Three weeks old.)
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BBC News | England | London | Smithfield market plans refused
A couple of weeks old. Phew. I’m not against redevelopment if it’s not going to be more glass offices and same-old shops.
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Last Call, Bohemia: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com
Christopher Hitchens on gentrification, New York’s West Village, London’s Soho, etc. (via Kottke, yes I’m catching up on a lot of Kottke)
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LRB · Iain Sinclair: The Olympics Scam
Very good long article on the 2012 London Olympics and its effect on East London. I was getting won over by the Olympics until this reminded me how I really feel.
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Frobisher Crescent : Coming Soon
Work has started on 69 new studio, 1, 2 and 3 bed flats in the Barbican. Pointless un-informative Flash site.
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285 - London’s Lost Rivers « Strange Maps
Idea for public art project: Brass markings on roads, pavements, buildings, etc. that mark the path of the rivers that are now hidden. (via Ted Mills)
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Drivers of Change
A thing from Arup that would be directly up the street of me eight years ago. And maybe sometime in the future. (via City of Sound)
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Corporation of London - Development & planning - Planning applications
Proposal to create a brand new flat at the bottom of one of the Barbican towers, in a “void space”. See the PLANNING REPORT for some pics.
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CR Blog » Blog Archive » The Disappearing World of Soho’s Independent Record Shops
I was on Berwick St the other day, but didn’t go down far enough to see the demolition opposite Somerfield. I so hope they hang on, but then I buy MP3s over CDs whenever I can, so… (via Alan Connor)
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Vote Match
Help to decide who to vote for in the London elections. For me it says: Paddick, Livingstone, Left List, Greens… Still hard to decide. (via Haddock)
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Your London - Living
“This website lets you search for food businesses across London to find out the hygiene rating they achieved from their last food hygiene inspection.” Am I Being Poisoned Or Not? (via Haddock)
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BSA Actor Training
Part-time courses in London from somewhere I haven’t heard of. (I keep meaning to collate such places in a post. One day.)
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We Are The Lambeth Boys
Really, really lovely 1959 documentary by Karel Reisz about young men and women at a London youth club. Fascinating for both similarities and differences to now. Do watch. 49 mins.
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Cityofsound: Robin Hood Gardens is not the same as a digital model of Robin Hood Gardens
Dan Hill’s excellent summary of the protest going on over plans to demolish the London housing estate. I hope they renovate rather than destroy.
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GeeKyoto2008 - 17 May 2008
Just booked my ticket. Clever people getting together at the Conway Hall “to discuss the future and how we’ll live in it.”