graffiti

Remember that doctored image of a cowering Argentinian football team clutching handbags? It’s probably fair to say that we’re all fans of viral emails – those humorous pics and clips that spread around the Internet faster than you can say ‘Adobe Photoshop Elements’. Well, over …

Breaking up is so very hard to do, especially in the romcom land of Notting Hill. This plaintive message was spotted high above street level on Pembridge Road. But who loved whom, what went wrong, and why did they feel the need to daub their …

Banksy seems to have put away his stencil set for a while and penned an interesting article in today’s Guardian about the whitewashing of street art in Melbourne to make way for the Commonwealth games. This makes for an excellent preamble to his worries about …

It wasn’t that long ago when the issue of what to do with the millions of sticks of chewing gum that end up being trodden into our nation’s streets raised it’s ugly head. Well, if you’re in Wimbledon, you just stick it on a board …

This just popped up on Metafilter: One of the great Radiohead tracks and drummer Phil Selway’s favourite song on “The Bends”, “Just” combines self-loathing lyrics, a particular viscous guitar riff and middle-eight to die for. For his cover Mark Ronson not only enlisted the help …

We’ve been kept up to date on the Jean Charles de Menezes memorial debacle thanks to the Onionbagblog. First there was a mural and then there wasn’t. Then there was a flag, but now that’s gone too. After the story was picked up by the …

Not quite what you think. Just saw this post by onionbag blogger and words failed us. We expect people to be insensitive, but how stupid do you have to be to not realise what a mistake this was: We held the Remembrance Service in the …

Seven days to go until the London Film Festival opens its doors. Here’s another two of the films on offer. It turned a few heads when it was announced that Bent Hamer (Kitchen Stories) was going to direct the film adaptation of Charles Bukowski’s Factotum, …

London is now the home of the “UK’s tallest outdoor advertising structure”. Yeak, we thought that this was a pretty boring story when we first heard it, but wait until you hear how big this thing really is: seven stories. That’s pretty big right? We’re …

If they ever create a graffiti Hall of Fame, one of the first inductees will surely be the mysterious figure known as Tox. He’s been spamming the London rail infrastructure with his tag for years. That was until last year, when he seems to have …