Book signings are not one of our favourite things. Queue for half an hour – bored – considering what you’ll say to the author; panic, say something platitudinous, receive a banal reply, gratefully accept a misspelled dedication in an illegible hand; go home and gloat …
A tribute to the capital’s alleys, ginnels and snickleways 25. Meard Street Where? Part-pedestrianised route in the heart of Soho, linking Wardour and Dean Streets. Sounds like a sack of French excrement. Isn’t. What? Meard Street is a street of two halves, with a western …
They’re not on New Oxford Street, that’s for sure.
If only it was. Image courtesy of mondoagogo’s Flickr stream.
As the world holds it’s breath, teetering precariously on the cusp of the Super Bowl (well, at least in America), the wheels of the -ists keep on turning. Austinist was in a musical frame of mind as they listened to the new Shins album, updated …
If you take the slightest bit of interest in your surroundings while walking around the streets of London, you will have noticed those strange, mosaic space invaders that hug the corners of buildings. The aliens are everywhere. All over the world. There are perhaps 75 …
Amen to that! Found in various locations in the Covent Garden area.
While the line between vandalism and art continues to be trampled brazenly by the likes of SheOne and Banksy, unwanted spraypaint artworks and broken, pissed upon station furniture are still just unwelcome and unpleasant to some. The Conservatives have released figures that show vandalism has …
Spotted (striped?) on Blake Gardens, near Fulham. This stencil has been around before, only this time the artist has corrected his/her rather embarrassing spelling error. Keep an eye out for other stencils by ‘Focus’; there are some corkers around this part of town. The New …
This Christmas, DO forget to add your name tag. That’s the seasonal advice (reworded into the cheesy patter of a local newspaper) from the British Transport Police to graffiti fiends. London’s railways are regularly spammed with spray paint. And it all gets much worse over …
…so we did. For two hours. And nothing happened. It was our biggest disappointment since the time we lingered patiently for triffds at a Heavy plant crossing sign. Bastards. This poster can be found in Old Street (what poster can’t?) and bears a similarity in …
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