Had quite a fun night yesterday evening walking around the southbank playing around with the manual settings on my camera. Here are some of the better ones, more can be found on flickr
Archive for the ‘london’ Category
Messing around with long exposure photography
Friday, January 9th, 2009KIN gallery, soho
Monday, December 8th, 2008A new temporary gallery has opened up in Soho “full of affordable graphic art, sculpture, clothing, homewares and assorted ephemera, created by a host of illustrators, designers and printmakers such as Swifty, Rose Stallard of Print Club, Si Scott, Steven Wilson, RYCA, PhlAsh (Phil Ashcroft) and many more…”
Anyway you can find it at Unit 1.12, First Floor, Kingly Court, Carnaby Street, London W1 I’m going to try and head down there at lunchtime … More info on the Creative Review blog
One Dot Zero
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008One of my favourite events in London (though I feel I’ve missed it the last couple of years) is One Dot Zero. It’s basically a big motion graphics festival which this year is taking place at the BFI between the 14th and 16th of November. I’m a bit gutted as I’m away that weekend, but I would definitely recommend seeing it if you have an interest in these type of things - particularly try and see the Wow+Flutter and J-Star showings also the AV Departures event along with This Happened are sure to be excellent!
New Installation at the Tate …
Thursday, October 16th, 2008I can’t decide if ‘T.2058′ - the new installation at the Turbine hall in the Tate Modern looks quite interesting or a bit bland? I guess you can’t tell these things till you see them in person?
More info on the Guardian, also an interview with the artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster on the BBC News site.
frickin’ lazerrrrr … bridge
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008Wow, this looks incredible - laser bridge installation over Blackfriars bridge! Made by Keith Bowler, it will be up over the next few weeks. More info on the Creative Review blog
London to become ‘wi-fi city’?
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008I may have to eat my words about ol’ BoJo if this comes to pass:
Designersblock 2008
Thursday, September 18th, 2008Today the Designersblock exhibition starts in Covent Garden “Sixty UK and international designers present new works, spread over more than 10,000 square feet at Number One The Piazza” … it’s five quid to get in and is on till Sunday, I’m gonna try and head down this weekend: www.designersblock.org.uk
Incidentally I think it’s funny how these sorts of things often seem to use not-particularly-nice design work in it’s branding and promoting?!
Current exhibitions in London …
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008I’ve had a bit of time off work over the last couple of weeks, and so have been moseying around in London and actually going to a few exhibitions including …
The Listening Post installation at the Science Museum, which was quite a cool piece of artwork by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin (though apparently it has been around for a few years now) which pulls in thousands of posts from internet chatrooms and displays them in hundreds of LED boxes with different scenes rather like different movements in a symphony.
The Street & Studio exhibit at the Tate Modern which looks at the history of street photography alongside studio photography and how they’ve both developed over the years - this was kinda interesting though I did find some of the work wasn’t always all that, though I did like the ‘Hyena’s and Other Men’ photos by Pieter Hugo.
Finally I saw the Viktor & Rolfe exhibit at the Barbican - I have to confess I know very little about couture fashion design, but nevertheless it was really interesting, these guys come up with some pretty mad ideas!
Anyway am off to Paris tomorrow for the day, then on Sunday I’m flying of to NYC for 10 days which I’m REALLY looking forward to!
Bug number 8
Friday, August 1st, 2008Last night’s Bug at the British Film Institute was yet again very good, Mr. Buxton was on good form again with a guest appearance from comedy nerd and film director Richard Ayoade (that guy from the IT crowd).
My favourite video of the night was the slide-projector masterpiece ‘Knickerbocker’ by Fujiya Miyagi whic was directed by Wade Shotter (to view click on this link and select the video in the top left)
Prize for strangest film of the night easily goes to Efterklang’s song ‘Illuminant’ directed by Tobias Stretch … very strange!
Street Art Exhibition at the Tate
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Went down to see the Street Art exhibition at the Tate Modern the other day, as expected the main giant artwork painted on to the building were very very impressive, I’d love to know how long it took to get them all up there (+ how long it’s going to take to remove them!)
Though I have to say I found some of the other bits which were planted on streets around the gallery a bit mediocre, it was a cool concept to exhibit street art in the street, but I wonder if people might consider it more if it was placed in the context of a gallery?
Photo by fycgallery
Monkey Journey to the West
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008An interesting programme on the other night about ‘Monkey Journey to the West’ the chinese opera by musician Damon Albarn and graphic artist Jamie Hewitt (the guys behind the Gorillaz)
You can watch the programme again on iPlayer also the opera will be showing over the next few days at the Royal Opera House in London.
Thanks to Mr. Sanvicens for telling me about this!
Final year shows
Saturday, June 14th, 2008It’s that time of the year again for art college students to be showing cool stuff around London - I went down to the Central Saint Martins post graduate show today down by trafalgar square, some really great stuff going on in communication design, digital media, illustration and typography. I particularly liked the work by Rob Porter and Iria Lopez Gonzalez (pictured below)
Some brilliant stuff by Robert Corish too!:
I think the next big exhibit on is the
Royal College of Art show part 2 in a couple of weeks - looking forward to it!
Down and Out Around Smithfield Meat Market!
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008On Saturday I was involved in a cycling event called the Smithfield Nocturne. The idea for the day was to have all types of cycling events round Smithfield Meat Market – the race I was involved in was the ‘folding bike race’ in which everyone gets dressed up in work wear then runs to their collapsed bike on the start line, unfolds it then does 4 laps round the market.
Unfortunately although I had a great start and was 2nd out of 30 cycling off the start line, I ended up going too fast down the hill and ended up crashing on the first corner on the first lap!
So it ended up being a very short race, but I managed to find myself in a few photos from other people’s flickr accounts which was pretty cool (I’m the top result under the flickr search “smithfield crash”!)
Bug this Thursday at the BFI
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008The excellent ‘Bug’ featuring the even excellent-er Adam Buxton is on this Thursday at the British Film Institute, showcasing some of the wickedest contemporary music videos. I think the event is sold out now - though if you’re really desperate to get in you can sometimes turn up on the night and see if there’s any spaces. I’ll try and do a post on some of the best ones on friday …
London Mayoral Elections
Thursday, May 1st, 2008Time to vote for who’s gonna be the big boss round London. Why anyone would vote for this man is beyond my understanding?!:
Biggin up my mum’s mad art skillz
Thursday, April 10th, 2008So 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
Dalston Oxfam Shop
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008This is a great little blog by a guy called Todd Hart who basically buys up old cassette tapes from the Oxfam shop in Dalston then digitizes them and shares them on his site. Having a quick flick through I’ve found some pretty cool tracks by Gill Scott-Heron, Groove Train and a nice James Brown mix by Matt Black (right-click and select “Save Target As” on the links). www.dalstonoxfamshop.blogspot.com
Thanks for the link Chris
C215
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Really 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.
The Great Trafalgar Square Freeze
Sunday, February 17th, 2008I 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 …
Future of Web Design Conference
Friday, January 18th, 2008Although I missed it last year I’m gonna try and get work to pay for me to go on this, it’s in London on April the 17th and 18th. Looks like there’s gonna be some good speakers, also alot about usability/user centered design - rather than just how to make shiny buttons!:
http://www.futureofwebdesign.com/
