Archive for the 'Arts' Category



Chiho Aoshima at Gloucester Road station

23Jul06

Gloucester Road tube station has been the focal point of Transport for London’s “Platform for Art” scheme for years suited, as it is, by having a spare platform which passengers never use as well as a large series of arches which artists seem to be very successful at fitting their material into. The new exhibition [...]

A Swarm of Angels: A new approach to movie-making

09May06

I had been meaning to write something about this weekend’s trip to see David Icke in all his mad glory. Instead, I’ve been sidetracked by a post I read about a cinematic project called A Swarm of Angels. The idea is fairly simple, to make a one million pound film funded by a swarm of [...]

“But I don’t even like Jazz”: Soil and “Pimp” Sessions in Camden

24Apr06

On a bit of a gig-a-thon at the moment. Having spent most of Sunday dashing round a desperately soggy London dodging marathon runners trying to find good photos to take amidst the awful weather, I met up with a nice bunch of people to go and see Soil & Pimp Sessions at the Jazz Cafe [...]

Afrirampo live in London

21Apr06

A few of us went to see Afrirampo at Cargo last week. I talked about them before on LJ; they’re a rocking noisy thrashy punky pair from Japan: Oni and Pika. The gig was fantastic and the two of them have a really childish fun vibe. I had a hunt through YouTube for some video [...]

VEXER, MS Paint for the insane

15Mar06

VEXER is a graphics editing tool unlike any you’ve ever used. Far from being the product of a carefully thought out plan, VEXER has come into being through a bizarre process of evolution directed by the utterly broken-down brain of Kelbv. Whilst he will almost certainly spend the later years of his life wandering through [...]

Eating the City

19Feb06

Last week I had an opportunity to see the early stages of Sung Dong’s art installation in Selfridges department store. From last week, he’s been building a city out of biscuits on the lower ground floor. When I went last week, it had barely begun to take shape but today I went back to see [...]