Brixton news, rumours and general chat - October 2012

[cuppa tee]

Just remembered that I saw two pony-and-traps pelting south down a clear patch of Brixton Road on Saturday afternoon.

Looked very but I can't believe they raced down Brixton High Street, so I wonder where they turned off or where they were going.

These are real pony and traps not of the rhyming slang variety ......i saw them as well but on Sunday morning, I've seen one on its own quite often but double bubble was a new one for me

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Travellers?

 

[cuppa tee]

Travellers?

Don't know they were going too quick to ask

 

[Manter]

Something to so with irony, I guess.
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I thinthe whole hipster thing was orig. supposed to be a rejection of conventional standards of beauty and fashion- but has morphed into a whole ugly-pretty thing of its own (as in, I'm so pretty I can wear ugly things and still look pretty....)

 

[fortyplus]

I thinthe whole hipster thing was orig. supposed to be a rejection of conventional standards of beauty and fashion- but has morphed into a whole ugly-pretty thing of its own (as in, I'm so pretty I can wear ugly things and still look pretty....)

bit like punk / grunge in fact pretty much every young fashion trend since time began, including the bit about annoying the generation that went before.

 

[cuppa tee]

I thinthe whole hipster thing was orig. supposed to be a rejection of conventional standards of beauty and fashion- but has morphed into a whole ugly-pretty thing of its own (as in, I'm so pretty I can wear ugly things and still look pretty....)

Hmm I think it's more likely based on a hipper than thou form of aspirational elitism which may have been something fulfilling back when you had to make an effort to buy hard to find records or styles in the real world and save your pocket money or paper round earnings but now it's all on the Internet and available to anybody with enough bandwidth, a herd mentality and plenty of disposable lucre

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I thinthe whole hipster thing was orig. supposed to be a rejection of conventional standards of beauty and fashion- but has morphed into a whole ugly-pretty thing of its own (as in, I'm so pretty I can wear ugly things and still look pretty....)

They should all start wearing potato sacks like Marily Monroe then

 

[Manter]

been sent this for the third time today, so am now sharing the love

 

[cuppa tee]

Nice bright moon lighting up the clouds tonight

 

[editor]

been sent this for the third time today, so am now sharing the love

Nice to see some friends in there but it's all a bit WTF.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

been sent this for the third time today, so am now sharing the love

I watched that without the volume so have absolutely no idea wtf it's about, but I was expecting the guy to start dancing Gangnam

 

[lefteri]

been sent this for the third time today, so am now sharing the love

looks like brixton market, but with most of the colour drained out

 

[RaverDrew]

been sent this for the third time today, so am now sharing the love

That's not the Brixton I know.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

been sent this for the third time today, so am now sharing the love

Bloody hell. What a turd of thing.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I've now watched it with sound. I have no idea what it's meant to be

 

[fortyplus]

been sent this for the third time today, so am now sharing the love

the market with its people but no punters. An average weekday morning, then.
Relay seem to have top billing. Must've been filmed at the start of the year.

 

[Manter]

I watched that without the volume so have absolutely no idea wtf it's about, but I was expecting the guy to start dancing Gangnam

That would have been a vast improvement....

 

[boohoo]

I really like this... quite like the tracks and the different market places. Like it or not, the Brixton Village and market row aren't going to return to what they were.

 

[Manter]

I've now watched it with sound. I have no idea what it's meant to be

Me neither. I have had it sent again this morning again. So it must be in the charts or something- it's all the youngsters at work who are sending it to me. Not sure....

 

[Manter]

I really like this... quite like the tracks and the different market places. Like it or not, the Brixton Village and market row aren't going to return to what they were.

I just couldn't work out what was going on. I must admit I like a music video with a story...

 

[boohoo]

There is an explanation somewhere to what it's about.

 

[boohoo]

I just couldn't work out what was going on. I must admit I like a music video with a story...

This video by Yu Sato for his track ‘The Ride’ is inspired by the 1975 Antonioni movie The Passenger in which a man exchanges his identity with that of another who died only to end up sharing the same fate. The camera POV switches every time two individuals make eye contact…

 

[Manter]

Ahha, thx. I may watch the movie on my conference call starting at 10pm tonight (just thought I'd drop that in in the hope of getting some sympathy)

 

[Onket]

Dude, any Christmas decorations before Bonfire Night (let alone Halloween) are too bloody early, end of.

Eeyore.

 

[Onket]

I dunno. Get Onket to ask

I'm not getting into some 'my mate fancies you' situation. This isn't school.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

been sent this for the third time today, so am now sharing the love

I thought the vid was taking a slightly sneering attitude towards the hipsters in the film....maybe not the 'correct' interpretation though.

 

[Greebo]

Eeyore.

Takes one to know one.

 

[Badgers]

Are there any free tennis courts in Brockers Park?
I can book them for £5 an hour on the GLL website but thought there were some public courts?

 

[Crispy]

Brockers

 

[Kanda]

Brockers

Fuksake!