"The best thing about living in Britain is that you're never more than 500 miles away from Stephen Fry."

The Crossing - Abbey Road Studios

link to the live camera at the famous zebra crossing in front of the studio:
The Crossing - Abbey Road Studios

Amazing Jesus

Today, whilst leaving college, an old man came up to me, and with a broken voice said "Jesus loves you, you know that?" It was almost heartbreaking, even for me (shun) the non-believer

some lovely phrases I learned today

"I think we can make an educated guess"
"get stuffed"
"the humor of this escapes me"
"the crowd went bananas"
&
"pardon my french" (to wich you add something like "fuck you")

link to:

101 things to do before you leave London

We Can Dance Again (demo) by Pulp

one of their best songs, in my oppinion.
and a BBC treat:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ptsjd

Love Letters

I am trying to keep the tradition of letter writting in life,
so if anyone would like to send me a letter, any silly thing, and make me happy,
send me an e-mail at antipoetry@yahoo.com and I'll give you my adres. and I promice to write back.

Pope and Michaelangelo

The Culture Club: Special Report from The Natural History Museum!

The Culture Club: Special Report from The Natural History Museum!: "Yesterday Scott took us on an amazing trip to the Natural History museum to go on the Spirit tour and look at the Images of Nature exhibiti..."


see more at http://cultureclubhouse.blogspot.com/2011/02/special-report-from-natural-history.html?spref=bl

Giant Squid, Natural History Museum, London

RAAAWR! Means I Love You in Dinosaur

Tape your thumbs to your hands to see what it would be like to be a dinosaur.




Dinosaur (a real, live one!) at the Natural History Museum in London, with the song With a Girl Like You by the Troggs.

Dodo and Alice

illustration by Sir James Tenniel



from the Natural History Museum

The Power of Water at the Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum

Birds by Jeffrey Fisher

more of Jeffrey Fisher's work on rileyillustration

In all fairness to London, it did take me, without exaggerating, three hours to get from Camberwell to my hall today.

The Biscuit Factory

http://www.biscuit-factory.co.uk/








photos of the biscuit factory where I'm taking part of an exhibition that will open here on 2/5/2011

Listening Post by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin

link: LISTENING POST at THE SCIENCE MUSEUM

Space Oddity

science museum

short night walk

Jack the Ripper ghostwalk

Friday I went on a walk following the steps of Jack the Ripper, and it was scaaaaarrrry, mhm.

here is the list of the victims and pictures of them if internet didn't deceive me

Mary Ann (Polly) Nichols, murdered Friday, August 31, 1888.
Annie Chapman, murdered Saturday, September 8, 1888.
Elizabeth Stride, murdered Sunday, September 30, 1888.
Catharine Eddowes, also murdered that same date.
Mary Jane (Marie Jeanette) Kelly, murdered Friday, November 9, 1888.




This is a map of the tour:



and this are some photos:






and more: http://www.casebook.org/

Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey...Stuff

Tea, anyone?

Anne-Marie Creamer

http://amcreamer.net/




British artist Anne-Marie Creamer’s videos, drawings and paintings have often centred on the existence of artefacts or chance encounters.....

check out the site, and check out the video "Meeting the Pied Piper in Brasov"

"Nearly everyone knows the story of the Pied Piper. The children, who in a state of mesmerism followed the Pied Piper of Hamlin, and were said to have disappeared into a cave within a hill just outside the town. In total one hundred thirty children were lost. The mountain near Hamelin where the children disappeared really exists and is called Poppenberg. Local legend in Transylvania has it that the children emerged near the site of the old town square town of Brasov.
In September 2005 on my way to the city of Czikzederea in Transylvania to do an artist residency, I found I had to pass an hour in the small city of Brasov between changing trains, and so I made my way to this same town square only to find it full of dancing children. Struck by the strange parallel between these dancing children and the lost children of Hamlin, who were also said to have ended their days here in a sort of fantastic terrible exile, I recorded the dance to make this film." AMCreamer

This is London by Miroslav Sasek

London illustrated by this great Czechoslovakian artist.





More about Miroslav Sasek:
http://www.miroslavsasek.com/