Category: London
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Evening Standard free for all
Today the evening standard relaunches after its “Sorry” campaign. Obviously, there’s quite a lot of talk about it, but not as much as I thought there might be. To set the scene, the guardian has an interview with Veronica Wadley. Saying ‘Sorry’ for the past smacks of a Soviet courtroom ‘confession’. ‘Sorry’ has all the…
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Name that tube and flag that city.
Today I found a new way to challenge my London knowledge, which was a map of Zone One of the London Underground without any of the station names. You have 10 minutes to type as many of the station names as you can remember and watch as your answers get added to the map. I…
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3328 photos, 2 minutes of video, 1 song.
This is a great video, i know I take a lot of pictures but the work that went into this is astonishing. London (harder, better, faster, stronger) from David Hubert on Vimeo.
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Mapping out the Olympic site and beyond
The Mapperz blog has highlighted a great interactive map of the activity around the country in preparation for the 2012 Olympics. Street level details shows the latest ariel photos of the site as well as altering the map to show activities over a particular time period. An excellent example of how mapping and other media can be…
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Today I feel like London
I like reading guides to London, it’s such a huge and varied city you can always find something new about an area you’ve lived or worked in for years. Today I found a new site thanks to Read/WriteWeb which offers a different apporach to city guides. The IFeel series lets you browse maps of London,…
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Unusual politeness
This morning something strange happened. On a crowded Northern Line train a seat was left empty. the three men standing over it were all too polite to even acknowledge the seat which was left vacant at Angel and it was still empty when I left at Old Street. How peculiar.
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What does Epping Forest, Cows and the North Circular have in common?
I read a post by Ham on London Daily Photo called How Now Brown Cow. He writes about the south of Epping Forest and talks of memories which match my own so well I feel as if I could have writen his words.
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Top ten places to wonder around in London
I often read lists of top ten things to do, books to read, films to see. A London focused list of Top Ten Summer Outings on TheOldWorld made me think that my most reliable favorite outing is walking around the city with my camera and photographing whatever takes my interest. So here’s my Ten places…
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A captive audience
Following that post on HD sunglasses here’s one on some new advertising to hit London’s tube. Last October TFL started trailing some new video projection adverts on the tube on the platforms. Large projectors were set up at Euston which would project silent videos onto the wall across from where people stand waiting for the…
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Open air icecream
Haagen-Dazs have set up an open air ice ream parlor by Liverpool street tube in Broadgate circle, where the ice rink is during the winter. They’ve laid down some astroturf, put up an airy marque and laid out a few dozen cushions and a few sun loungers. Considering the decent weather we’re having the place…