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Whilst walking to the local Tesco today (like Woolworths) i found this amazing graveyard right on the main road. Basically it's an old cemetery dating back more than 1000 years which is now owned and maintained as a public chill area by the City of £ondon. This quiet little land has seen more than 125 000 bodies buried in its soils over the past 10 centuries and at night, if you listen carefully, you can here the spirits calling out tomorrows specials for the Tesco across the street.
The likes of William Blake, Daniel Defoe and Thomas Bayes all rest peacefully opposite the grocery store in Old Street - Long live the dream
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In a city of over 8 million people rubbish is taken veeeeeery seriously. It takes a very well designed system to 'keep the streets clean' and allow everyone to feel good about the waste that they consume.
We really need to hook some of this kinda thinking up in South Africa. I mean an old clothes bin.....genius. Come on.
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Was hoping to pop down to Hackney tomorrow to have a look at this little wonder but unfortunately i have to go see a horse about a man - but to give you an idea, this is the type of innovation and aesthetic jizz a city like £ondon allows....all hail to the power of the pound.
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For those of you who haven't exxxperienced £ondon for long enough to become familiar with its public transport system, here is a brief little overview to how things seem to work around here - If this becomes boring i will stop.
There are five ways to travel around £ondon: underground tube / bus / cab / bicycle / walk - most adventures require a combination of at least two of these categories. The tube is easy. You look at a tube map and find where you are or what station you are closest to. You then find a tube line that joins you to your destination. If there is not a direct route you will have to hop off somewhere along the way and change trains.
Imagine the tube is a male - then the bus would be a female. This form of transport is a little more complexxx and to be honest i don't think there is anyone in £ondon who can honestly say they understand exxxactly how it works.
The point of this post was to get to this. The Oyster card, Your Oyster card.
This piece of plastic allows you to use the bus or the tube as long as it is filled with digital money. This can be done at any station using the Oyster top up machines (they accept notes, coins and debit/credit cards but they also do that thing sometimes when you have to rub the coin - veeeeeery irritating)
a weekly pass will cost you £25.80 (R350) and allows you to travel as much as you like within reasonable parameters.
You can remove the RFID chip from the card by placing it in a bottle of thinners until the two layers peel apart and then stick the chip in your watch or under your iPod skin.
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On the subject of digital money - this guy is my new favourite artist (for the day) Chris Woebken attempts to bring back the magic of the purchase in a world where the exxxperience of buying a car or a pack of ciggies is exxxactly the same.
You need to see this - www.
http://woebken.net/future_of_money.html
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Notice the line on the ground in the pic above, not really? That's because you aren't really supposed to. The only people that even know it exists for the purpose of dividing the station from the city are buskers, flyer-guys and newspaper men. (and the servants to the Underground) This is a line of responsibility - One half is run by the city (transport for £ondon) and the other is public domain. If anything happens to you while you are on government property they can be held responsible whereas if you are on the other side of the line - you're on your own.*
So for instance - if girl 'A' was suddenly attacked by a savage locust plague no one would be too bothered about it but if girl 'B' had to be hurt in a similar way - the City would be held responsible and have to pay for all the damages. They also have the right to ask you to get off 'their' side and move back onto 'your' side if they don't approve of what you are doing....selling stuff/begging etc....
All in all, our turf wins. It may come with the burden of self responsibility but at least you can smoke.
*God save the dream
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Again, the public use this rare opportunity to go mad with their feelings and illegally compose harmless messages to a dead king all over the walls of Trafalgar Square - beautiful.
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The Southbank is the strip that runs all the way along the river Thames. It is filled with theatres, exhibition halls, cinema's, bars and restaurants - even an amazing skate park.
To advertise the new show at The Hayward Gallery all the trees along the promenade have been wrapped from top to bottom in red and white polka dot material. What they didn't exxxpect was for for the happy white dots to be utilised by the public as writing space...strange how ordinary people jump at the opportunity to publicly exxxpress themselves.
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So in the late 70's, the keen minds of £ondons' city planners developed a wonderful little material to replace all the grass in the entire country. The men believed that although the rough plastic would not be as comfortable to sit on or as refreshing to look at it would save the country and the taxxx payer so much money that it was definitely a plan worth considering. Once the Queen turned down this proposal the men, feeling ashamed and hard done by, decided to re-propose the idea of using the sharp rubbery substance as a sticker repellent. The Queen loved this new idea and so, within weeks, every poll and electricity box in £ondon was coated in a rough, defensive suit of armour to forever protect these precious objects from street vandals and free-thinking children..
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In hackney, the East part of £ondon where all the cool shit happens, the Columbia Rd. flower market takes place every Saturday and Sunday morning (same street as Nelly Duff).
All the flower merchants come down with massive amounts of plants and hustle them off to the people, using the traditional way of shouting and coaxing. Veeery chilled spot for a little coffee and a smoke in the morning, and perhaps a new Orchird for the window sill.
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Chanel is a Parisian fashion house founded by the late couturier Coco Chanel Specializing in luxury goods (haute couture, ready-to-wear handbags, perfumery, and cosmetics among others), the Chanel label has become one of the most recognized names in luxury and haute couture fashion industry. According to Forbes .the privately held House of Chanel is jointly owned by Alain Wertheimer and Gerard Wertheimer who are the grandsons of the early (1924) Chanel partner Pierre Wertheimer , of whom the Queen of England was a very close friend.
In the early 50's when the Chanel brand was starting to blossom, and so was the Queen, she became quite obsessed with the new brand of designer wear.
To publicly show her love for the brand, and support for her friend Sir Wertheimer, Mum decided to brand all the lamp posts along the high streets of London with the unmistakable symbol.
God save the dream...
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Welcome to BEHINDTHESCENE. These are a few things that have caught my eye in £ondon since I have been here.
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‘Nelly Duff’ is cockney rhyming slang for LIFE. No really.
Duff rhymes with puff, puff meaning breath, as in ‘breath of life’. Which is where the phrase ‘...not on yer nelly!’ originates.
As far as we know Miss Duff was fictitious, although we reckon she was a tattooed, arm wrestling pin-up girl, who walked the streets at night in a hoodie. We, however, would never be found wearing a hoodie. You can find us in our dusty old gallery on the very lovely Columbia Road in East London. Come and say hi on a Sunday morning (bring your hangover - we don’t mind) and enjoy a bagel and a bunch of daffs too.
So thats Nelly Duff, a really well known street art gallery/shop on Columbia Rd. This is the street where the biggest flower market in London takes place every Saturday and Sunday. They mainly specialise in selling editioned prints from the most famous/successful street artists in London (Banksy, Shepard fairey, Toaster, Eine, Pure Evil etc).
Have a look at their site to see more work.
www.nellyduff.com
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The skateboard graveyard lies on top of a concrete support column for one of the bridges that crosses over the river Thames. When skaters break their decks at the park nearby trying to become the next ryan sheckler they throw them off the bridge on the way home...every few weeks the council clears them away....would be amazing if they just left them to pile up. God save the dream.
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The underground in £ondon is full of lies - this is what lies beneath them.
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