Via ThisisLondon, Spencer Tunick, assembles massed groups of people naked, they usually lie or crouch on the ground. See SpencerTunick.com for an idea of what it looks like.
The event is happening on the 27th April, at Selfridges, you get a copy of the print sent to you for participating. Send an email to beconsumed at selfridges.co.uk to register.
Update: I've registered...
A few weeks ago , I wrote about losing my penknife in response to an article from boing-boing about what you have in your pockets. Well this week I've been trying to decide on what to buy to replace it, I'm still not sure (leatherman juice are expensive, the others too big, don't want a plastic-sided swiss army knife...) Metal things gain personality, plastic things feel disposable.
Today I found a cool exhibition called "Pockets" covering all sorts of things that people carried from 17th century pipes to the possessions of dead people, like Elvis, Kurt Cobain and Virginia Woolf. There is also a fashion industry perspective on pockets from Wayne Hemmingway. It is on in London at 51 Poland St, from 11am to 7pm, except Sunday (5pm) until the 4th of April. I think it sounds really quite interesting.
via Haddock
UK.D-I-Y FAQ Contents - you just so need to read this
Gaping Void, cartoons drawn on the back of business cards. New Yorker, Hugh Macleod, draws these as a reaction to life in the city. fun stuff, kind of not Sex and the City
Reminds me a bit of the Pink slip parties from 2001. At one of these events the bar collected old business cards and stapled them to the wall, I think they collected thousands, certainly I've got at least 4 or 5.
Via BoingBoing the Edward Gorey book the Gashlycrumb Tinies is available on line. Delightful stuff, drawn in ink, showing the sad ends of the tinies. I particularly like b, k, x and z.
b3ta mentioned the circle line party which is being run by the space hijackers, who seem a fun group dedicated to reclaiming some space back from the likes of starbucks. I particularly like the not cricket buy nothing day and the starbucks musical chairs game.
Lots of fun games and an odd pastime, letterboxing, which they have taken to the streets of london. Originally a game played on Dartmoor, you hide a box with a particular stamp in it and give some clues to find it. The London version has about 21 boxes and quite a few are near where I work, some investigation this week maybe ?
Nice to be able to do this, even if he will never see it I guess, Lucy's grandfather, Sir David Serpell, was a key figure in the Beeching report in the early 60s and there was a recent radio 4 programme, entitled Back to Beeching all about the events of the time and the feeling that the car was a wonderful creation. He is interviewed in the programme, about 10 minutes in, here is the real audio link to the programme. There is also a nice photo of him on the website for the programme.
Delightful fun at yournotme.com via b3ta, people really are called yellow, green, blue, red and silly, geek, tk, cat, moon, black, death, lump and finally anus
Last May there was a story on Yahoo about a public toilet becoming a flat in London. The flat is now under construction and is at the end of my road, here are some pictures of the building. The main building is being extended to the rear and they have gutted the inside, still it is going to be tiny. It is right on the corner of two roads on the busy south circular, but it is almost opposite Forest Hill train station.
Picture of building
Closeup of the lavatories engraving.
