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London: The Year From Space

Satellite montage shows just how many cloudy days we Londoners tolerate.

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Newly Launched Artangel Collection to Bring Arty Film and Video to the Masses

No, that’s not a photo from Londonist’s last pub crawl. It’s a scene from Jeremy Deller and Mike Figgis’s “Battle of Orgreave”, just one of several film and video works commissioned and produced by Artangel over the past two decades set to be added to …

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Unfinished London: Ring Roads

The funniest video we’ve seen all year.

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Make A Funny Phone Call With BT Chat For Change Tomorrow

Make a funny phone call from your BT landline tomorrow and raise money for Comic Relief.

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Video: What Happens When You Invade Personal Space?

Don’t you just hate it when this happens?

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Building Tower Bridge, One Lego Brick At A Time

4,200 bricks and 11 hours later, a scale model of London’s most recognisable river crossing.

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Smile For London Launches On Monday

With the most depressing Monday approaching there’s hardly a flicker of cheer to be had on the tube. Yet as of Monday, watch out for Smile for London cheering up January with artistic interventions on those London Underground video screens, injecting a dash of creativity …

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Preview: London Ice Sculpting Festival 13-15 Jan at Canary Wharf

Earlier in the week, we told you about Ice Music. Today: Ice Sculpting. For those of you who watched Channel 4′s Kirsty and Phil hacking away at blocks of ice for their perfect New Year’s Eve party with a twinge of envy, here’s your chance to have a go!

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Music Preview: Terry Edwards @ The Victoria

A sad and slightly sinister sepia toned rendering of everyone’s favourite Cockney knees up tune.

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Smile For London: Call For Submissions

It’s only just got dark and proper wintry so forgive us for looking prematurely ahead to the January blues but there is light at the end of the tunnel. Smile For London is a campaign to bring positive, thought provoking, grin encouraging silent short films …

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Blogger Sings His Way Through The East End

The Londonist inbox swells to Jupiter-like proportions each day with inane requests for coverage. Much of it is guff of the most guffsome guffishness. And then, every once in a while, we get beautiful non-guff like this: Over the course of a year I’m writing …