2 to the power of 10 at The Orange Dot Gallery
London Life
Actionettes Go-Go dance class at Girl Jam
A few of The Actionettes were teaching a Go-Go taster class in Brick Lane at the weekend.
Brixton’s Nuclear Dawn mural celebrates 30th anniversary
This lunchtime the London Mural Preservation Society put on a birthday party – complete with ‘nuclear’ crackers and fairy cakes! – for the mural know locally as ‘the one with the skeleton in’
Arctic mosaic on Red Lion Street, London
The diamond shapes in ‘The Enterprise’ are actually pieces of mirror so it sparkles very nicely in the sunshine. The Enterprise (as well as being a nice pub) was “19th century sailing ship that travelled to the Arctic in search of the missing explorer Sir John Franklin in 1852″ (From the artist, Tessa Hunkin’s, website). [...]
Handmade & Bound 2010
Some great stuff on show at the St Aloysius social club today… Cool to see Helen & Isobel who is up with her college showing things too… Right, time to make stuff!
Toy food carts
I’ve seen plastic representations of Chinese meals in restaurant windows before, but not little toy food carts…
Dawn in SW9
Been awake since 5 – still, at least I get to see the pretty dawn…
Book lust; New Naturalist series, Wildwood & Twigs Way
You can’t beat a grown up book with pictures, and the covers are ace too. The New Naturalist series published by Collins is: “the longest-running and arguably the most influential natural history series in the world with over 100 volumes published in over 60 years” On my wish list – London’s Natural History, Britain’s Structure & [...]
Mr Thwaite’s Doll – pt II
“The old man took a tin from his pocket and opened it to show to his friends. I had been reading an exhibition catalogue studiously trying to not to appear interested in their conversation so far, but now I was intrigued and put the book down. Inside was a tiny clay figure, no bigger than [...]