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 [...]
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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 [...]
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
21Apr06A 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
15Mar06VEXER 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
19Feb06Last 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 [...]
