Touch Up London #100: London In Space – Londonist
'The image is all to scale and shows just how enormous the near-complete International Space Station really is. A traditional Routemaster bus, at a little over 8 metres long is dwarfed by the ISS, which has a wingspan of 108 metres. Even the good ship HMS Nelson's [...]
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23 February 2010 – 11:00 pm
Harry’s advent calendar of birds, day 1: Red-breasted Goose
1 December 2009 – 3:17 pm
The first bird for the calendar is… Red-breasted Goose, Branta ruficollis. Because I saw some in St. James’s Park today and they are just gorgeous little birds.
I’ve never seen them in the wild, sadly. How’s this for an obscure neurosis: whenever I’m somewhere with an ornamental wildfowl collection, there’s a niggling worry at the back of [...]
Lovely Richmond
25 April 2009 – 10:44 am
I said in my last Thames Path post that, if you wanted to go a for a walk in that part of west London, you’d be better off going to Kew Gardens. Well, I can now add: you’d be better off going to Richmond Park, as well. I can’t quite believe I’ve never been there [...]
The Thames Path, Kew to Teddington
23 April 2009 – 12:38 am
The latest installment of my walk along the Thames Path takes me from Kew Bridge to Teddington Lock.
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20 April 2009 – 11:00 pm
43,000 people and 2,000 vehicles an hour: why Oxford Circus is being re-built | Design details | Architects Journal
This looks like a brilliant plan. Can't wait.
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Another iPhone application I would pay good money for
6 March 2009 – 9:32 am
I want Time Out on my iPhone.
from The Spectator
10 February 2009 – 6:01 pm
The original Addison and Steele version of The Spectator from 1711, that is, which I downloaded from Project Gutenberg to read on my phone. I thought this was amusing:
As I was walking [in] the Streets about a Fortnight ago, I saw an ordinary Fellow carrying a Cage full of little Birds upon his Shoulder; and as I [...]
for reverence of his Sabot day
24 January 2009 – 5:04 pm
I downloaded a reader app for my iPhone and, browsing around Project Gutenberg for something public domain to read, I came across A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483, as transcribed and published by a couple of C19th antiquarians. There’s an awful lot of bureaucratic stuff about the mayor and sheriffs of London, and who’s in the [...]
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25 October 2008 – 11:00 pm
Multicolr Search Lab – Idée Inc.
Fun tool: 'We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour.'
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BBC NEWS | UK | England | London | Council orders Banksy art removal
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30 August 2008 – 11:01 pm
Billys and Charleys | MetaFilter
Great post at Metafilter: 'In 1857, hundreds of strange objects suddenly started appearing in London antique shops: coins and medals, vases and statues, all made out of soft metal with weird designs and cryptic lettering. They were the work of two illiterate London mudlarks, William Smith and Charles Eaton, who managed [...]
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
27 May 2008 – 1:55 pm
This is one of the great novelistic portraits of London: a London full of smoke and fog, seedy backstreet pubs, horse-drawn cabs, and gaslights. That’s what I like best about it, really, the London it creates and the grotesque characters that inhabit it: Verloc himself, the secret agent and seller of pornography, his coterie of seedy, ageing [...]
Peter Doig & the Camden Town Group at the Tate
21 April 2008 – 2:13 pm
I went to Tate Britain today, mainly to see the Peter Doig, but while I was there I also had a quick look round the Camden Town Group exhibition.
Doig is a contemporary painter, born in Edinburgh in 1959 but brought up in Trinidad and Canada, who went to art school in London and now lives [...]
China hoist by their own petard
6 April 2008 – 5:10 pm
BBC News:
“Thirty-five arrests have been made after clashes between pro-Tibet protesters and police as the Olympic torch made its way through London.
Of course, in the parallel world of the Chinese official news machine, the only thing interfering with the movement of the torch was a sprinkling of snow. Actually, to be fair, there is an [...]
Herba Parietis or the Wall Flower
24 March 2008 – 1:29 pm
The text reads:
Herba Parietis or the Wall Flower
As it Grew out of the Stone Chamber
Belonging to the
Metropolitan
Priſon of London Called
NEW GATE.
Being A History
Wch is Partly True
Partly Romantick
Morrally Devine
Wherby A Marriag
Betweene Reallity &
fancie is Solemnised
By Devinity
Written By: I: B: whilst he was A Prisoner therr.
Every time I start browsing the British Library collections online, I find [...]
A London particular
10 March 2008 – 1:30 pm
And a peculiarly London sun – against which nothing could be said except that it looked bloodshot – glorified all this by its stare. It hung at a moderate elevation above Hyde Park Corner with an air of punctual and benign vigilance. The very pavement under Mr Verloc’s feet had an old-gold tinge in that [...]
The Thames path, Westminster to Putney
9 March 2008 – 3:31 pm
I talked about the juxtaposition of the C19th Gothic of Tower Bridge and the genuine medievalness of the Tower of London: not, in my opinion, one of the great planning decisions in the history of London. Well, at Westminster, you meet with a similar case. The Palace of Westminster (i.e. the Houses of Parliament), started [...]
More medievalish London
2 March 2008 – 5:52 pm
In my last Thames Path post, I commented that London’s medieval history is rarely visible except in the shape of a few street names. Which reminded me of something. When the Queen Mother (gbh) died in 2002, her coffin was laid in state in Westminster Hall for people to go and pay their respects. I [...]
Boy jumping
27 February 2008 – 11:43 am
A crop out of the centre of a photo I shot on the South Bank the other day when I went to see the Rodchenko at the Hayward.
See also Phillippe Halsman and Jacques-Henri Lartigue. And of course Flickr.
The Thames path, London Bridge to Westminster
26 February 2008 – 4:25 pm
A fairly short chunk of the path; I was intending to go a bit further, but the sun went in and I wasn’t really enjoying it much so I hopped on the tube at Westminster. Still, if you use one of the traditional definitions of a city—a town with a cathedral—this section includes the three [...]
The Thames path, Isle of Dogs to London Bridge
12 February 2008 – 2:54 pm
I picked up the Thames path where I left off, in Greenwich, and crossed straight under the river to the Isle of Dogs. The Greenwich foot tunnel itself is kind of freaky; I’m not normally susceptible to claustrophobia, but I got a definite twinge here. I took the stairs down, which made me conscious of [...]