Canalside Grafetti and Stuff

...a mate and I walked from Bethnal Green to Dalston along regents canal the other day....

 

 

East Reservoir

I went back to East Reservoir, as beautiful as ever though it was a shame the community garden wasn't open! Being in Manor House brought back a lot memories...from travelling around in a van to different housing estates and community centres....to bird watching from the hide....cups of sugary tea.... and an old Turkish man who worked at the local greasy spoon cafe....he always had ketchup on his face...

Sadly many of the local greasy spoons, cafes and newsagents have been demolished for the Woodberry Park luxury housing project... the places I used to hang out had vanished--- where they ever really there?  I wonder what will become of our city with all this destruction and reconstruction... generations displaced for regeneration...to make----room for who exactly?

I just hope that old Turkish man is still smiling some place (maybe without ketchup on his face).

find out more about east reservoir here.

 ....woodberry park, where the cafes and newsagents used to be....

  

east res in summer, east res this winter

  

Stone Cave Cafe

..cool place in Hackney, nice around 4ish when it's completely empty... 

http://www.stonecave.net/

 

Bronze Men of St Pancras

  

idleness and truth

Picture This: Children's Illustrated Classics

I went to see this exhibition on at the British Library, it was pretty cool (more info below)... if you're interested in children's book illustration I would def recommend checking out The Illustration Cupboard in Picadilly (a small and very beautiful gallery dedicated to childrens illustration) http://www.illustrationcupboard.com/default_flash.aspx

Discover how illustrators over the years have interpreted – and reinterpreted – our favourite tales in beautiful and imaginative ways. Through original artwork, rare editions and personal correspondence, be reunited with much-loved characters, including Paddington Bear, Peter Pan and Willy Wonka and classic works such as Just So Stories, The Wind in the Willows and The Hobbit. For more info click here

Aziziye Mosque

...most beautiful mosque in London...

 

 

City Arts Peace Wall

 

St Pancras International

Victoria Park

Hair today, Gone tomorrow

thread and shine

Lighthouse Girl

----sunrise

London Tube Map

....love the new london tube map cover designed by lahori artist imran qureshi...

read more about imran and his work here

Springfield Psychiatric Hospital

...to wander after dark, in places you shouldn't wander after dark...

to be alone

Fat Boy's Diner and a Giant Lightbulb

  

Trinity Buoy Wharf: Lighthouse & Longplayer

I took a trip to London's one and only lighthouse the other day, it was really eerie to hear longplayer whilst looking out from the empty and desolate lighthouse across the docklands, knowing that the music would still be playing long after I leave this world- (a very humbling experience)... def worth a visit...! more info below

What is Longplayer?

'Longplayer is a one thousand year long musical composition. It began playing at midnight on the 31st of December 1999, and will continue to play without repetition until the last moment of 2999, at which point it will complete its cycle and begin again. Conceived and composed by Jem Finer, it was originally produced as an Artangel commission, and is now in the care of the Longplayer Trust.

Longplayer can be heard in the lighthouse at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, where it has been playing since it began. It can also be heard at several other listening posts around the world, and globally via a live stream on the Internet.

Longplayer is composed for singing bowls – an ancient type of standing bell – which can be played by both humans and machines, and whose resonances can be very accurately reproduced in recorded form. It is designed to be adaptable to unforeseeable changes in its technological and social environments, and to endure in the long-term as a self-sustaining institution.'

  

  

Bare Bones

Alunatime

...London’s First Public Moon and Tide Clock...

'‘ALUNATIME’ is a graphical notation of time in light designed by artist Laura Williams.  It shows the lunar phase (wax & wane, the lunar day (rise & set) and tide cycles (ebb & flow).  Governed by the relative position of the Earth, Moon and Sun, these fundamental rhythms have shaped our past and will continue to determine our future.  The Moon creates our tides and 70% of the Earth’s surface is water; with the rising tides of climate change, understanding these natural rhythms of our blue planet is now more important than ever.

Launched on the Full Moon of October 22nd 2010, this first ever, live ‘real time’ version of ALUNATIME provides vital ongoing research and development for the 38m diameter tidal powered clock known as ALUNA, planned for the Greenwich Peninsula'

Find out more at www.alunatime.org

Trinity Buoy Wharf