Something delightfully daft for a Friday afternoon: the boys at Going Going Bike unleashed a talking bike on the people of Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove in a novel attempt to promote their second hand bike auction website. Filling the basket full of sweets was …
This neat little film was shot and edited in just 12 hours by Matt Gosden and Rob Rackstraw. It shows London in all its beauty from various vantage points and different speeds. They make heavy use of that currently trendy technique of sharply focussing on …
britishrailways.tv As King’s Cross station undergoes major transformations, preparing to open a new western concourse and sweeping away the green canopy building at the front, now’s a good time to step back into its past and see how the area used to look. This oddly …
Tried the cycle superhighways yet? One chap, known only as gaz545, has traversed the length of both CS3 and CS7 with a video camera. Here are the results, speeded up into a more watchable length. Given the widespread criticism over certain sections of the lanes, …
Elephant Parade, the London-wide art installation to raise awareness of the plight of Asian elephants, is all but over. The herds have now migrated to two locations. A group of 18 are currently browsing the Westfield shopping centre (until Wednesday). Their hardier brethren – all …
Wow, is all we can say. Wow! (Cheers to Mike King for the tip-off.)
London’s temporary herd of 260 painted elephants continues to entertain. A couple of days ago, Mike Reeve spotted the nebulous pachyderm ‘Cloudia’ boarding the London Eye for a quick spin above the capital. Following her nephelauxetic adventure, Cloudia continued a tour of the capital to …
Or so it seems watching this four minute montage of exploding buildings, slithering monsters and flashing ray guns. The clip forms part of the campaign to bring the World Science Fiction Convention to London in 2014. Trying to identify the films and TV programmes is …
This plucky buccaneer is hoping to stand as an Independent for the Cities of London and Westminster. His policies include tax breaks on rum, training in swordsmanship and gunnery, and the renaming of the iPad to the iPatch. He runs the UK chapter of the …
Following on from our recent photo tour of the East London Line, here are a couple of short videos taken onboard the Class 378 trains (or bendy-trains as we may soon be calling them). This clip shows the train pulling out of New Cross Gate …
Ever wondered about that little spur on the Northern Line out to Mill Hill? What’s it playing at? Who put it there? This enchanting and hilarious video by Jay Foreman reveals all. Give that man a TV show. Warning: contains scenes of dangerous trespass, semi-subliminal …
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