Happy 10th birthday to… the remix to Ignition, still hot ‘n’ fresh out the kitchen
Ten years ago today, R Kreepy’s Ignition (Remix) reached #1 in the charts. Take a moment to appreciate its enduring, bouncy legacy… Read the full post…
London’s best Eurovision parties
On Saturday May 18, it’s the final of Eurovision. Given all the events that are happening around it, London appears to be pretty excited about making its mind up. So this week, London is loving… Read the full post…
Snack of the clones: scientists create first test tube burgers
After an ominous year in the wonderful world of meat manufacture, Netherlands scientists have beefed up their ideas. After the successful cloning of Dolly the Sheep and Arnold Schwarzenegger, an anonymously funded project (worth £250,000!) has moved on to another thing we always want more of: burgers! Read the full post…
Roofless fashion show in Walthamstow’s Wood Street Plaza
If you’ve found yourself cosily enveloped by the Overground’s orange arms for as long as you can remember, maybe it’s time to venture beyond the boundaries of Bethnal Green and discover the delights of the real east end. Read the full post…
VICE Magazine’s favourite illustrators
Good news for all pictures-on-walls fans, the cool kids over at VICE have trawled through their archives and picked out their fave impious illustrators from the past 10 years for a spanking new exhibition at Pure Evil Gallery. Read the full post…
London’s top ten propaganda locations
1. The lost billboard
To celebrate the British Library’s upcoming ‘Propaganda: Power and Persuasion‘ exhibition we picked ten London locations that feature in the long history of often unsuccessful attempts to control our thoughts. Appropriate then that the first location has gone missing, forgotten in the mists of time. All we know is that somewhere in London this smiling workman with a ladder (see above) has just pasted up the very first poster of the Conservatives’ 1987 ‘AIDS don’t die of ignorance’ campaign created by London agency TBWA. He should look happy – the put-on-a-condom campaign saved thousands of lives.
Discover the Tube’s secret shortcuts in this exposé of Underground untruths
Ever felt like you’re being manipulated? As if the powers that be are using you to further their sinister agenda? Well, on the Underground, it turns out you sometimes are – although admittedly, the agenda is usually ‘map legibility’ or’crowd flow control.’
Above, Tom Scott and Matt Parker bust some myths and discover how Evil Tube Chiefs Steal Three Minutes Of Your Life Daily.* You’ll never go the long way around again.
*if you travel via Kings’ Cross.
Head further down the rabbit hole with the radical tube map re-design based on circles or a guide to the tube journeys where it’s quicker to walk.
Canine capers: Peggy Lee Loves London
As Eurovision looms, you must be thinking ‘what’s Katrina Leskanich from the 1997 UK winners Katrina & The Waves up to?’ No? Oh well, let us tell you anyway. Aside from warding off an unfortunate association with Hurricane Katrina and banning the Republicans from using any of her songs, Katrina has been wandering London’s streets with her partner Sher Harper and toy poodle Peggy Lee. Now the three have collaborated to put out ‘Peggy Lee Loves London’, a selection of Katrina’s favourite food spots, pubs, parks, quirks and street art, as illustrated by amusing pictures of her pint-sized pooch. See London like you’ve never seen it before…from 10 inches above the ground. Read the full post…
Game changer: London’s first eSports bar to open
Have you recently suffered bouts of terrible small talk, and the culminating despair that follows it? Yawn no more, for now there are video games in bars, so you can legitimately ignore people. Socialising just got anti-social. The new bar craze ‘eSports’ (ie: competitive video gaming in bars) is coming to London’s Caledonian Road on June 1 courtesy of Meltdown. The trend is already raging up and down Europe, where you can indulge in playing your favourite video games against opponents whilst sipping on game-themed cocktails. Bar brawls have never been quite this legal.
Find out more on Meltdown’s Facebook page.
Strip for stripes: London Zoo tigers need your nakedness
Do you enjoy getting naked and saving tigers? If you said no, then this is all very embarrassing. But if you answered yes, you’re in luck! Either that, or you’re Tarzan. Either way, ZSL London Zoo needs your help.
Based on this fun little nugget of trivia that a group of tigers are called a ‘Streak’, on August 15, London Zoo is looking for 300 volunteers (this is the number of Sumatran tigers that are currently left in the wild) to strip off. The organisers promise the event will be ‘daring and unusual’ with all the proceedings of the sponsored stripping going towards funding more conservation work. This is all about showing your wild side, and probably an interesting way to meet people. If you’re a bit self-conscious and concerned this may tarnish your single status for the rest of time, remember: you are not doing this to get laid. You are doing this so the tigers will.
Sign up now at zsl.org/streakfortigers.
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