Ben Hanbury

So I have to say a massive congratulations to the artist Rydal Hanbury (my mum) for winning a competition at the Tower of London, which essentially meant that one of her drawings got blown up to over 90ft high to cover the central tower while it’s being refurbished for the next three years!

We all went down to the unveiling this morning, and there was a surprising amount of press coverage there, in fact you can watch the lunchtime report from BBC London news here. I was also very interested to find out that apparently getting a picture blown up and printed to that size costs £35,000! (good job it wasn’t in colour?!)

More info on the BBC news site + check out my photo’s on Flickr

Really like this video by the artist C215 workin his magic across London. To find more stuff check his flickr account or myspace page.

UPDATE: I got my info a bit wrong here - It’s C215 made by Romanywg (aka Jeremy Gibbs) - see comments.

I took part in an interesting event on Saturday, the ‘Great Trafalgar Square Freeze’. The basic idea is you get loads of people to gather in one place (I heard about it through the magic of facebook), a trumpet then sounds and everyone freezes into a position leaving others wondering what’s going on.

Anyway it was quite a spectacle, and really interesting to gauge people’s reactions - someone has put together a video of the event here, also check out the New York video which for some reason seemed more effective …

Genius! Also notice the stamp on the bottom! More info on bbc news

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