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Kosmograd: Olympics Brand Exclusion Zone
"Within this area, officially called an Advertising and Street Trade Restrictions venue restriction zone, no advertising for brands designated as competing with those of the official Olympic sponsors will be allowed. [...] This will be supported by preventing spectators from wearing clothing prominently displaying competing brands, or from entering the exclusion zone with unofficial snack and beverage choices."
london  advertising  maps 
yesterday by kevan
Official Protesters of the London 2012 Olympic Games
"Enter your details here to apply for tickets to the official London 2012 Olympic Protests. Non-ticket holders will not be allowed to voice dissent against the Olympics in London, so be sure to apply."
activism  london  sport 
2 days ago by kevan
Stephen Walter’s Map Of Subterranean London | Londonist
"Walter has painstakingly charted the buried rivers, Tube lines, bunkers, sewers, government tunnels and other hypogeal secrets of London."
london  maps  underground  secrets  history 
7 days ago by kevan
BBC News - Sonic device deployed in London during Olympics
"The American-made Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) can be used to send verbal warnings over a long distance or emit a beam of pain-inducing tones."
sound  london  police  technology  weapons 
11 days ago by kevan
A Week in the Life of London’s Public Transit System » Simulacra
"The poster shows every entry to each of London’s 330 Underground, Overground and Docklands Light Railway stations over the course of a week. Stations are coloured according to the lines that they serve."
tube  design  transport  london  via:blech 
18 days ago by kevan
Olympics 2012: A Bruce Schneier Moment - Charlie's Diary
"The Ministry of Defence is considering placing surface-to-air missiles on residential flats during the Olympics. [...] If one of those things is ever fired, either in anger or by accident, it'll shower white-hot supersonic shrapnel across the extremely crowded residential heart of a city."
weapons  architecture  london  terrorism 
25 days ago by kevan
Chelsea Fringe — a festival of flowers, gardens and gardening across London
"The first ever Chelsea Fringe will begin on Saturday 19th May and run for three weeks, at a host of different venues and settings across London."
plants  london 
9 weeks ago by kevan
London’s Longest Roads And Where They Lead To | Londonist
"A single road connects Lambeth North Tube station to Brighton Pier. The A23, as it’s now known, is another old Roman road, a fact that becomes readily apparent if you follow its largely straight course on a map."
travel  london  brighton  maps  history 
11 weeks ago by kevan
China Mieville on Apocalyptic London - NYTimes.com
"But London’s growing fake public space, corporate-owned stretches that pretend to be piazzas and streets but lock down and exclude citizens as Occupy movements and other irritations necessitate, abjures the backstreet-and-alleyway gestalt of the city."
london  cities  society  via:blech 
12 weeks ago by kevan
Pretty as a Thousand Postcards - Slide Show - NYTimes.com
"I looked at a lot of stock photography as well, and went to all the horrible tourist shops in London to get every postcard I could find."
london  photographs  emergence  via:blech 
12 weeks ago by kevan
Underground ghost station explorers spook the security services | UK news | The Guardian
"The expedition last year was supposed to be the second last stop in a tour of the capital's 18 'ghost' tube stations. Instead it has sparked a legal battle over the human rights of a community of photographers dedicated to visually documenting restricted areas across the world – and pointing out security loopholes."
london  underground  secrets  law  photography 
february 2012 by kevan
Tom Phillips: Sculpture & Mixed Media: 20 Sites n Years
"Every year on or around the same day (24th May - 2nd June) at the same time of day and from the same position a photograph is taken at each of the twenty locations on this map."
photography  history  london 
february 2012 by kevan
Benedikt Groß – Metrography – London Tube Map to large scale collective mental map
"The piece illustrates the topology of London reshaped according to the underground map."
london  maps  mutation 
february 2012 by kevan
How Far Can You Walk From Trafalgar Square Without Crossing A Road? | Londonist
"A couple of years ago, as a test of the walkability of London, I set out from Trafalgar Square — the official centre of the town — one Sunday morning to see how far I could get without crossing a road or going over the same place twice. It was almost 17 miles before I ended up going round in a circle."
walking  london 
january 2012 by kevan
London sound maps: ambient recordings during daytime | The London Sound Survey
"Recordings of background atmospheres and incidental noises from all over London. Many form part of a sound grid series recorded at evenly-spaced points across the city, each marking the centre of a square on the map below."
maps  sound  london 
december 2011 by kevan
A farewell to pavements | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
"This is the idea behind [Exhibition Road's] cross-hatching, which suggests diagonal paths across the road. It obviously has a strong subliminal effect, because you really do see people crossing diagonally."
london  transport  walking  design 
november 2011 by kevan
Bollards of London
"Bollards have a history richer than most objects placed upon the pavement and we can easily find some dating back to the earlier part of the 19th Century."
london  history 
october 2011 by kevan
DeLootLondon.co.uk
"De-Loot London’s mission is to make sure that not a single shop that was looted during the riots is forced to close. While a small number of people did the damage, we can all help our local, independent businesses recover by spending our money with them."
london  crime  money  business 
august 2011 by kevan
London Underground Tube Diary - Going Underground's Blog
"A press button route indicator was installed at Heathrow Central London Underground station 34 years ago. 'This nifty journey planner' incorporated TV screen displays and a diagrammatic route map. Only one was ever built."
tube  london  history  future  maps  transport 
august 2011 by kevan
Mind the map! The impact of transit maps on path choice in public transit - The Transportationist
"Moreover, the map effect is almost two times more influential than the actual travel time. In other words, underground passengers trust the tube map (two times) more than their own travel experience with the system."
transport  maps  london  psychology  via:blech 
may 2011 by kevan
Flowprint | URBAGRAM
"Each dot is a bus adhering to one of the 744 routes that make up [London's] transport network. [Victoria] glows the brightest, showing that the historical core remains the highest load-bearing area in the network, an intersection of 19 routes."
london  transport  simulation  maps 
january 2011 by kevan
That Gormandizer Man: How London buses are numbered - TfL come up trumps!
"When we introduce a new route - or make alterations to an existing route by splitting it - the last digit or digits of the historic 'parent' route are used wherever possible, so that passengers might associate the incoming route with its predecessor."
transport  london 
january 2011 by kevan
What's going on? - Google Maps
Live, timestamped Google map of police units around today's protests in central London. "Parliament Square party! Flares and fireworks. The party is so good, no one wants to leave! Not that they could..."
police  maps  london  via:bengoldacre 
december 2010 by kevan
Simon Parker's London Cycle Map
"The coloured lines depict a network of cycle routes connecting every significant location in the capital, providing a traceable route between any two points: a London Underground-style network and map for cycling."
transport  london  maps 
september 2010 by kevan
Zeppelin Airship Attacks On London: Mapped - Londonist
"The map above takes the rough routes of the attacking craft and plots only a selection of the impact sites."
london  maps  war 
july 2010 by kevan
Ronald Knox | Radio hoax | Paul Slade - Journalist
1926 BBC broadcast pre-dating Orson Welles' War of the Worlds. "All over the country, listeners switched off their sets in a stunned silence and tried to digest the information that the nation’s art treasures had been looted, Parliament flattened, the Savoy Hotel bombed and a Government minister lynched in the street."
hoaxes  radio  london  via:sixtostart 
may 2010 by kevan
Oyster Card Codes
"82 - Illogical use of ticket."
london  technology  secrets 
may 2010 by kevan
462 – Gridding London « Strange Maps
"This map, produced by Matthew Lancashire, shows central London as a relatively simple grid of main thoroughfares, connecting a few dozen central points, and demarcating some of London's better-known areas."
maps  london 
may 2010 by kevan
Badgers in Pimlico
"Type in any word to see which [London Underground] stations do not contain its letters." Proof that the St-Johns-Wood-Mackerel Conjecture still holds true in 2010.
london  tube  language  via:qwghlm 
march 2010 by kevan
Spillway: London in 2010
Observer article from 1990. "Bankside power station has been converted into a museum, although here it's the 'Thatcher Museum of Commerce'."
london  future  history  architecture 
december 2009 by kevan
London's Treasure Hunt Riots | Paul Slade - Journalist
The rise and fall of proto-ARGs from 1904, with clues hidden in detective fiction. "Before he could secure his prize, Randall had to narrow down the possible cities to Newcastle and Carlisle, [...] find a district of Newcastle that sounded a bit like 'Edward Green' and realise that the serial number Meggs had overheard must be attached to a lamp post."
games  args  pervasive  history  london  secrets  money  news  via:holly 
november 2009 by kevan
a project to transform London's Bus journeys | Bus-Tops
"The project intends to install a number of LED displays on the roof’s of Bus Shelters across London and providing the tools for the public and established artists to create content to be seen on them. [Its] core aim is to democratise public art."
transport  art  london 
october 2009 by kevan
Kosmograd: Branding the boroughs 2
"John Leighton suggested that the old borough boundaries should be altered to conform to a honeycomb pattern. Within a five-mile radius of the General Post Office all the sprawling, differently sized boroughs were to become hexagonal-shaped areas, 2-miles across"
cities  maps  london  bees  board  via:jones 
october 2009 by kevan
Time to follow Samuel Pepys (Phil Gyford’s website)
"If you’re ever going to follow Samuel Pepys on Twitter then you should start before tomorrow. That’s Wednesday 2nd September 2009. Or Sunday 2nd September 1666… the day the Great Fire of London began, and Pepys will be 'live tweeting' the event as it happened."
twitter  history  fire  london 
september 2009 by kevan
LVMF - 2009 - London Sight Line Map
"Map of primary areas where height is constrained through the definition of the Viewing Corridors, Lateral or Background assessment areas of protected vistas."
london  maps  architecture 
august 2009 by kevan
Integrated Bus Route Maps from WhatBus.com
"Bus route maps can quickly turn into spider diagrams and become hard to navigate, especially in large cities. We hope that our format is intuitive, helpful for identifying [London?] buses to catch if you find yourself in an unfamiliar location."
transport  london  maps  travel  via:secretlondon 
july 2009 by kevan
Dan Zambonini - London Tube Map, Points of Interest
"I thought it would be interesting to create a version of the London Tube Map [which] replaces the station names with the main point(s) of interest at each location." [...] "Deer. Tennis. MI6. Struggling Indie Bands."
maps  tube  london  via:quin 
july 2009 by kevan
One & Other
Live 24-hour video feed of Antony Gormley's fourth plinth.
art  london 
july 2009 by kevan
Soho Spy Squad, Playtest #4 on Vimeo
Timecode-style footage of the Playmakers pervasive game. "Three colour coded teams are armed with video cameras with which they are to capture footage of each other and pre-designated targets around the game area."
games  pervasive  video  london 
june 2009 by kevan
BBC NEWS | UK | Eco-activists prepare for protest
Street games as 'familiarisation games', prior to the G20 protests. "[Capture the flag] was an opportunity for people to familiarise themselves with the area - the geography - so they know what to expect when we have to act quickly."
games  pervasive  activism  cities  london  surveillance 
march 2009 by kevan
MATT STUART | PHOTOGRAPHER | SHOOTS PEOPLE
"I spend a great deal of time walking the streets trying to capture moments. The only photographs on my website that are staged or digitally manipulated are the photographs clearly labeled as ‘adverts’ in the commissioned section."
photos  coincidences  london  pigeons  via:richardwiseman 
january 2009 by kevan
Minor Delays
A new, ongoing writing project of Holly's: "A short story for every station on the London Underground and DLR, in alphabetical order by station name. Updated Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays."
writing  tube  london 
january 2009 by kevan
IanVisits » Abandoned London
Photos of empty London streets on Christmas morning.
photos  london  via:lmg 
january 2009 by kevan
Tate Intermedia Art: Under Scan
"As people walk around the area, their shadow is cast on the floor, revealing the video-portraits. As they appear within pedestrians' shadows, their bodies move and their heads turn to look straight at the pedestrian, giving rise to an interesting range of interactions."
art  light  videos  london 
september 2008 by kevan
London from above, at night - The Big Picture - Boston.com
"Shooting aerial photography during the daytime had its own difficulties, you are strapped tightly into a harness leaning out of the helicopter, shouting directions through the headsets to the pilot."
london  photos  air  via:mcios 
september 2008 by kevan
Serena Korda | Transport for London
"Working with groups and organisations, Korda has developed a series of crosswords that offer an alternative guide to Stanmore and reveal something of the knowledge, stories and specialisms of those encountered."
crosswords  history  london 
july 2008 by kevan
The Hide & Seek Festival: Social Gaming UK | Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Checkpoint Chair Rush: "a load of people would carry random non-contraband chairs downstairs, with one person with the actual chair in the midst. They'd overwhelm the guards with numbers, knowing they couldn't arrest them all as they'd lose their lives."
games  events  london 
june 2008 by kevan
The Fourth Plinth - Antony Gormley
"Antony Gormley proposes that the fourth plinth is occupied 24 hours a day by members of the public who have volunteered to stand on it for an hour at a time."
london  art 
june 2008 by kevan
SkeptoBot: Time-lapse Vid of Dissolving an Oyster Card in acetone (aka nail varnish)
"So tomorrow morning I'll attempt to use this naked oyster card to journey to work. If I'm successful (and not arrested for terrorism) I'll have to decide what my new oyster card will be."
technology  transport  hacking  science  london  via:lmg 
may 2008 by kevan
walkit.com - walking directions and maps
Generates walking routes within a few UK cities, optimising for low noise and air pollution.
cities  walking  maps  london  travel  pollution  via:diamond 
april 2008 by kevan
Cities for sale | Society | The Guardian
"[The Paradise Project] requires the first privatisation of a city centre anywhere in England. Liverpool city council has sanctioned the corporate enclosure of the 42-acre city-centre site, which encompasses 34 streets and a public park."
cities  business  shops  london  future 
march 2008 by kevan
Gilbert K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy
"If men loved Pimlico as mothers love children arbitrarily, because it is theirs, Pimlico in a year or two might be fairer than Florence. Some readers will say that this is a mere fantasy. I answer that this is the actual history of mankind."
cities  london  writing  future 
march 2008 by kevan
Civic Heraldry of England and Wales - Greater London
"The ancient ship with its dragon's head prow points to some notable expedition by sea which is credited with having sailed up the Thames as far as Putney."
london  design  history 
march 2008 by kevan
Hide and Seek Sandpit » Blog Archive » Sandpit #2 tonight
A quick plug for tonight's pervasive-game Sandpit, which has a theme of 'Listening'. Call-and-response animal noises, mind-reading pickpockets, synchronised MP3 dancing and feudal kazoo-playing.
games  events  sound  london 
march 2008 by kevan
Andy Beckett walks along the 11-mile blue fence that cordons of the 2012 Olympics site in London | Society | The Guardian
"There was a street of intact and handsome old industrial buildings, a billboard advertising the new Lexus, and roads and pavements eerily populated only by traffic cones, like a scene from a post-apocalyptic film."
london  walking  paint  cities  sport  future  via:diamond 
march 2008 by kevan
Walk London
"Funded by Transport for London Walk London has worked with the local authorities to develop an impressive network of quality walking routes."
london  walking  via:foe 
february 2008 by kevan
Hide and Seek Sandpit » Front page
"The Sandpit is a project of Hide and Seek: London’s first pervasive games festival. There are meetings for games in the actual physical world at least once a month."
games  london  design  events 
january 2008 by kevan
Switched On London
"A number of sites will be lit from February 7th - 14th in an energy efficient way to show the power of light in the city. [We] we will be highlighting the unnecessary lighting of office space at night in the area."
events  light  cities  london  pollution 
january 2008 by kevan
Legible London
"The Legible London project proposes to change the existing fragmented approach to walking information into a single reliable, consistent and authoritative system." [...] "Encourage 'mental mapping' by connecting areas, regions and transport systems."
london  walking  maps  design 
november 2007 by kevan
Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
The blindness of unrequited love and of psychopathic dissociative identity disorder, slouching sadly and heavily around the gin-soaked streets of pre-war Earls Court.
booklog  london  psychology  delusions  drinks  theatre  brighton 
november 2007 by kevan
Passport To Pimlico (1949)
The logistics of a sudden micronation, played out slowly and simply and full of Blitz spirit, but with a lot more logical consistency than I remembered. Apart from them forgetting about the Thames.
filmlog  3stars  london  politics  society  law  food 
october 2007 by kevan
Tens of thousands of CCTV cameras, yet 80% of crime unsolved | News | This is London
"A report by the criminal justice charity Nacro in 2002 concluded that the money spent on cameras would be better used on street lighting, which has been shown to cut crime by up to 20 per cent."
surveillance  crime  police  light  london  via:zarba 
september 2007 by kevan
Home - Randomness Guide to London
"It's a kind of database, kind of review site, used for documenting interesting places in London. Want to find a sushi restaurant near a cinema? Just use our category search."
london  maps  via:tim 
august 2007 by kevan
The Zombie Diaries (2006)
Overlapping camcorder threads of a British apocalypse, with a nice mess of different reactions, and aside from silly, sudden scare-chords, a good, slow-threat bunch of zombies. Roughly edited and hard to distinguish samey characters, but not bad.
filmlog  3stars  zombies  apocalypse  london 
august 2007 by kevan
28 Days Later (2002)
Better and worse than I remembered, mostly through knowing what was coming; less of a jangly sense of doom, but some good threads and patterns, and a coherently sketchy backplot. The zombies were disappointingly boring after the first half hour, though.
filmlog  4stars  zombies  apocalypse  viruses  london 
june 2007 by kevan
Welcome to The Shady Old Lady's Guide to London
An icon-scattered Google Map of minor-historical addresses and obscure features in London.
london  history  tourism  maps 
june 2007 by kevan
The Book of Dave - Will Self
Alternating between the life of a London cab driver, and the feudal, bucolic, post-apocalyptic culture built around a notebook he left behind. A lot of good idea mappings, and as strong as Great Apes for a near-visibly overlaid alternate London.
booklog  london  future  apocalypse  language  society  children  religion 
may 2007 by kevan
To The End Of The Line
"This is a hugely self-indulgent, yet also dangerously ambitious, undertaking. Namely, to document my visit to every single working station on the London Underground."
london  underground  tube  weblogs  via:lmg 
may 2007 by kevan
Will Self: PsychoGeography
Will Self on South London. "It goes without saying, that when Eliot observed that 'A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many / I had not thought death had undone, so many', the zombies he referred to are coming from the southern, commuter 'burbs."
london  cities  via:holly 
april 2007 by kevan
whitewing.co.uk - An Interactive Lighting Installation on Tower Bridge
"Bluetooth devices detected towards each end of London Bridge will appear as coloured pixels on [the] upper walkway, and if they are subsequently detected at the other end, the pixel will move across at a speed proportional to the speed of movement."
london  technology  light  transport 
march 2007 by kevan
fleshmob . co . uk
"Fleshmob is a zombie themed flash mob due to take place on the streets of London on the 7th April 2007. Participants will be alerted of the start time and locations through email."
zombies  london  walking 
march 2007 by kevan
Are you looking at my mate? | UK News | The Observer
A new gorilla enclosure at London Zoo, due to open at the end of the month. "There are heated [rocks], waterfalls under which to cool off, caves to hide in, hills to climb [and] herbs which the gorillas would find in the wild."
apes  london  tourism  design  architecture  todo 
march 2007 by kevan
London's 50 best unsung museums - Time Out London
Fifty obscure London museums, a lot of them cheap or free. "It occurred to me that if I saved the wrapper from every product I bought, collectively they'd represent a social history of daily life in Britain."
london  museums  todo  via:holly 
march 2007 by kevan
blog.co.uk - Media - London Walking Distance Map
A monochrome map of approximate walking distances between central London Underground stations.
travel  walking  london  tube  via:rodcorp 
march 2007 by kevan
Space Syntax - London Pedestrian Routemap
"The first aim of the London Pedestrian Routemap is to encourage walking in London. It does this by providing a simple, memorable picture of key walking routes in the Capital. At present there is no such map."
london  walking  maps  design  via:diamond 
february 2007 by kevan
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834
"A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court."
history  crime  law  london  via:qwghlm 
january 2007 by kevan
Met Office: The Great Smog of 1952
"In many parts of London, it was impossible at night for pedestrians to find their way, even in familiar districts. In the Isle of Dogs, the visibility was at times nil. The fog there was so thick that people could not see their own feet!"
weather  london  history  pollution 
december 2006 by kevan
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
A trivial bullion heist with some fun setup, a weird chase scene apparently parodying new-fangled in-car police radios, and perhaps the best ending a heist film can have.
filmlog  3stars  crime  money  metal  london  paris 
december 2006 by kevan
Flickr: Guess Where London?
"Post a photo of a London location and the other members will try to guess where it is. The idea is to provide entertainment to yourself and others, but to lose gracefully in the end, like a crossword setter."
games  photos  london 
november 2006 by kevan
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Mark Thomas on demonstrating near the Houses of Parliament
"Permission is given, and this Monday I set off with the aim of doing 21 demonstrations in the Socpa zone in five hours and 15 minutes. Each demonstration would be 10 minutes long, with five minutes travelling time between them."
london  politics  police 
october 2006 by kevan
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