Olympic Art by Banksy
In cleaning up London’s graffiti for the Olympics city authorities threaten to squelch the work one of its biggest celebrities, the street artist Banksy, but on Monday the secretive graffiti artist showed he wouldn’t be deterred from creating Olympics-related art while the whole world is watching. The new pieces that appeared on Banksy’s websiteput police, who’ve threatened to remove any graffiti they find, in the position of having to power-wash valuable artwork.
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A guerilla gardener’s gardening efforts around potholes of East London.
source. Designer Daily
London Cafeterias 50’s - 60’s
Before Starbucks and Caffe Nero and all that cafeterias looking all the same, young Londoners of late 50’s and early 60’s met in places like these.
source. Swiss Miss
EF - Live the Language_ London
Commercial for EF International Language Centers.
London Bus Tour by Moritz Oberholzer
Who does not like to watch out of the window while being in a bus?
Everything is shot handheld with an hd camera and a DIY 35mm adapter while sitting in one of those red vehicles of London.
Dream World
This documentary is about Jason Paul, a free runner that tries to find new ways in his daily life to fulfill his inner needs. On his journey to London he discovers that friendship and companion are essential values in life.
CREDITS
WRITTEN, DIRECTED & EDITED Frank Sauer
Watch Listen Tell is the brainchild of Dave Tree, a director with a real passion for live music. He and partner Ben Axtell created a project takes artists out of their comfort zones and onto the streets, armed with nothing but their talent. The results are resonantly honest and arresting, making it clear that Dave knows what live music should be about.
Reblogged via It’s Nice That
The second phase of the original Container City Project at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London can be seen as an extension and evolution of the first building.
Built adjacent to Container City 1, with inter-connecting bridges, a new lift and full disabled access. Container City phase Two was built in 2002, providing a further 22 studios over five floors.
Street Art and Reality on Hanbury Street, London
From Shafiur Rahman:
“Joe Deane, Joseph Loughborough and Ben Slow paint on Hanbury Street, Brick Lane. Ben and Joe paint a piece called “Ma o Shishu” or mother and child from a photograph I found in a book about photography and its power to change in South Asia. Their piece changed the street. Everyone who passed - young and old, local or tourist - responded very warmly to it. As did the restaurant owner who owns the wall. But there was another hidden story just behind the painting…of destitution and homelessness in London. 21st century London.
Joseph painted with amazing speed and created two striking pieces one of which lasted only a few weeks before someone decided to make it their private property.
This video is part of a larger project on Brick Lane seen through art and artists.
Filmed March 2010. Music by Moka Only
Reblogged: Wooster Collective
‘I am not sure which came first, being nosey or an interest in ‘street photography’, but a fascination with people and the way they live their lives is why I enjoy the business so much.’ Matt Stuart
Dictaphone Parcel
Animated short film, Royal College of Art, London, 2009
Dictaphone Parcel is an animation based on a sound recorded with a dictaphone travelling secretly inside a parcel. As the hidden recorder travels through the global mail system, from London to Helsinki, it captures the unexpected. We hear a mixture of abstract sounds, various types of transport and even discussions between the mail workers. The animation visualizes this journey by creating an imaginary documentary.
Dictaphone Parcel was awarded the Passion Pictures Prize in London, in February 2010.
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You’ve Got to Love London by Alex Silver
A time lapse video tribute to London using 7,757 individual photos he took during his final days studying abroad.
Via Likecool.
David Shillinglaw
David illustrates a chaotic exchange between individuals and their tactile environment, exploring ideas of identity and the riddle of the human condition. Much of the work includes representation of the human form, whether a complex anatomical diagram, or naive stick man, the work revolves around Man Kind as a signifier. David’s work illustrates ideas rubbing against each other, drawing on references to ancient mythology along side popular culture; creating a dialogue and vocabulary that skips between the historic and the contemporary.
See more of David Shillinglaw’s work here.
