November 27th, 2007 · Comments Off
MeFi: The Voice of the Underground is silenced :
“Emma Clarke the voice of the London Underground has just been fired for recording and posting some spoofs on her own website . “Mind the gap” no more.”
“We’d like to remind our American tourist friends that you are almost certainly talking too loud.” (Listen )
Tags: emma clarke ,london ,london underground
November 16th, 2007 · Comments Off
The Daily Telegraph :
“The handsome house in the corner of St James’s Square, which now has 8,000 members and one million books, has for the past 160 years been the best ‘place on the civilised earth’, but it no longer caters for those who are ‘not rich’. Carlyle’s insistence that readers pay only a ’small annual sum’ has seemingly been forgotten, and the annual fee is to rise by nearly 80 per cent to £375.”
The London Library
Tags: books ,library ,literature ,london ,london library ,reading
July 14th, 2007 · Comments Off
Train Drivers view Paddington-Hammersmith (YouTube)
“Tube drivers caught video-recording their journey and posting them on the internet could face disciplinary action, London Underground has warned.”
BBC: YouTube shows Tube driver journey
Tags: london ,train ,tube ,uk ,underground ,video
April 18th, 2007 · Comments Off
City of Sound : ‘Alvar Aalto through the eyes of Shigeru Ban, Barbican, London’
Zie ook: Barbican en Alvar Aalto Foundation .
Tags: alvar aalto ,architecture ,barbican ,design ,london ,shigeru ban
February 6th, 2006 · Comments Off
Boeren met hun dieren.
Overzicht van het wedstrijdprogramma.
“Marc Quinn is to immortalise the supermodel Kate Moss as the Aphrodite of our age through five bronze sculptures.”
” de Flyer van Hizb Ut Tahrir.”
“Freedom go to hell”
Tags: animals ,art ,farmers ,islam ,kate moss ,london ,marc quinn ,olympics ,photography ,religion ,tv