London Shop Fronts

Does exactly what it says on the tin. Now celebrates its first anniversary, a lovely collection of photographs by Emily Webber. Just goes to show, that personal obsessions and observations can lead into a surprisingly beautiful collection/project.

London Shop Fronts
Emily Webber's Flickr

Colour film of 1927 London

Ready, set, GOAT!

East London went all countrified on Sunday in the inaugural Oxford Vs Cambridge Goat Race. It was timed to coincide with the boat race, so while the reporters were giving pre-race coverage of the teams on the river bank, we were treated to pre-race feeds and bleats inside the city farm's enclosure. 

It was a wonderfully surreal afternoon, with the feisty and somewhat vertically challenged Cambridge working the crowds and the serene and remarkably clean Oxford patiently eating with a sock puppet sat on his back. I told you it was surreal. 

The event's logo was designed by Cookie, and I presume the sock puppet jockeys were the handicraft of his girlfriend, Nicky Gibson. 

More photos and the winner revealed on my Flickr.

An ordinary life

Do you ever see something that just makes you reflect for a moment or makes the world seem to pause?

These two birds were swooping along the road and caught my eye, I followed their path upward and saw this scene. Welcome to my filmic life. My filmic, ordinary life.

EDIT: Now available in a Poladroid version

Well as much as the country is aware there was a little dusting of snow on Sunday night. London got a fair dumping and it fell on it's knees Bambi-Style. The buses were all cancelled for the first time since the Blitz! Wowsers. Anyway, we're very busy at work so I diligently walked the 5 km, what a hero, thought I'd share those titbits.

Photos from my trek in, on my Flickr.

Playful

Tomorrow I'm off to This is Playful, it's a days events based around gaming, I'm not sure what to expect, but I'll soon find out I suppose...

"Playful examines game design as both a discipline and craft, offering different perspectives on its current and future possibilities."

This year the event goes outreach. The conference will feature key practitioners from other areas of the creative arts, and ‘collide’ them with practitioners from within. "

This is London

I've just had a delivery from Amazon, which always makes me smile, BOOKS! Among which I received This is London, illustrated and written by Miroslav Sasek, he was inspired to create this series (18 different countries in all) after a visit to Paris.

What is beautiful, aside from the gorgeous illustrations is the snapshot of 1960's life they capture, from attitudes, dress sense and even colour.

My version is a reprint but has footnotes about modern day London. The tone of voice is just wonderful, I imagine it could enthrall adult and child alike.

"Queuing is for a Londoner a kind of sport" and "This is a street-cleaner. At the end of all things comes the broom".

Just wonderful, I want to go off exploring London town.