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Yeah maybe he just googled long skinny white and got suggested Federation Coffee. Shoulda gone to Starbucks.
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Yeah maybe he just googled long skinny white and got suggested Federation Coffee. Shoulda gone to Starbucks.
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Won't someone think of the power sockets?!
Private Storm
Smell The Glove
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
There's another random new but of "artwork" in Electric Avenue, on the side of Iceland. It's a massive grey slab with what looks like phrases that have been heard in the market carved into it. I note that "skunkweed?" does not appear to have made the cut 
I couldn't get a photo cos I only had my cameraphone and couldn't get far enough back cos of the market stalls. I'll ask roving reporter Editor to take a photo when I see him later.
I couldn't get a photo cos I only had my cameraphone and couldn't get far enough back cos of the market stalls. I'll ask roving reporter Editor to take a photo when I see him later.
So what's with the Chinook that was flying over Brixton and the rest of London today? Chinooks don't normally circle around for that long. Had the MOD run out of parking space?
The Chinook landed on the cricket field at Alleyn's school for their open day. Suppose the army wants to try and get some of the kids to go in at officer level!
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
gaijingirl
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I think it was a comment on the demographic Alleyn's pupils.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
gaijingirl
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ah right, was thinking of Camberwell.That's Dulwich innit
As you were
Fee paying Dulwich... say no more...
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Dadaa! http://www.urban75.org/blog/wordy-art-piece-appears-on-electric-avenue-brixton/There's another random new but of "artwork" in Electric Avenue, on the side of Iceland. It's a massive grey slab with what looks like phrases that have been heard in the market carved into it. I note that "skunkweed?" does not appear to have made the cut
I couldn't get a photo cos I only had my cameraphone and couldn't get far enough back cos of the market stalls. I'll ask roving reporter Editor to take a photo when I see him later.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Love it! Lovely contrasting between the formal written and informal spoken. Very atmospheric of the market area.
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
Art's subjective and all that but I think it's pretty crap and I'm a fan of Will Self normally. I live in immediate vicinity and it doesn't resonate to me in the slightest about the atmosphere of the market. Also pisses me off that a massive new artwork can go in but yet no one seems to have even taken a bit of brasso to the plaque commemorating the victims of the bomb about a metre away.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Oh, I didn't get to the Will Self part: It's rubbish!!
As you say... subjective.
As you say... subjective.
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
I'm seriously thinking about going to give it a polish myself. But then I become part of the Big Society
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I can see human traffic jams building up outside Iceland as people try to figure out what it's all about
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hiraethified
My piece on the 'singular beauty of Southwyck House' got linked to from the Guardian today 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jul/08/constructive-criticism-week-architecture
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jul/08/constructive-criticism-week-architecture
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Looks a bit rubbish to me too... seems like pretty standard, been done a million times before, tick-the-box-public-art stuff - note down bits of speech and then write them down and stick them on the wall. Hardly groundbreaking is it - would have expected better from Will Self. I guess being a good writer's different to being a good artist though...
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
My piece on the 'singular beauty of Southwyck House' got linked to from the Guardian today
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jul/08/constructive-criticism-week-architecture
You know, as often as I hear Southwyck House (which isn't very often), I have to think about where it is. It might as well just be renamed the Barrier Block as that's what most people know it as. Southwyck House does sound posher though
gaijingirl
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I'm seriously thinking about going to give it a polish myself. But then I become part of the Big Society
I'll help you.
Was at the Feds yesterday around 4pm for a coffee. The entire arcade was crawling with babies. A play area would make that Village complete
gaijingirl
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We went for dinner there Thursday night... not a table to be had anywhere - it was sooooooo busy... eventually we got one at Brick Box but basically everywhere else was reserved. Saw a few urbanites up there.
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
Was at the Feds yesterday around 4pm for a coffee. The entire arcade was crawling with babies. A play area would make that Village complete
A toilet would be better.
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They might have to introduce pram parking bays, traffic lanes and one way systems soon.Was at the Feds yesterday around 4pm for a coffee. The entire arcade was crawling with babies. A play area would make that Village complete
Mind you, for parents it's a great place to go with kids: there's no traffic to worry about and toddlers can run around the arcades.
Definitely. My little one loves to run around there. Today he stopped for ages outside one of the Colombian butchers to dance to their music.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
No-one missing their kid from Granville Arcade then?
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/threads/351932-Missing-toddler-Central-Brixton
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/threads/351932-Missing-toddler-Central-Brixton
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Probably too busy drinking coffee to notice (or charging their laptops in order to hunt them down)
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Most likely watching gay porn in Federation.Probably too busy drinking coffee to notice (or charging their laptops in order to hunt them down)
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