Watch a timelapse video of the ArcelorMittal Orbit being built.
I can’t warm to this structure. Not tall enough to be awesome, and not ugly enough to compel.
It’s been likened to a rollercoaster gone wrong, but watching this video I think it most evokes the cranes which built it.
It probably looks better when you’re at the top.
08 May 2012
Break dancers fail to impress commuters at St Pancras station
It would appear that break dancing is still very much a thing. Here St Pancras station gets the treatment, to promote the Breakin’ Convention at Sadler’s Wells, from 5-7 May.
I do enjoy the middle aged man with an umbrella who walks briskly past with a look of cold disdain. And all the other people who were so tightly focussed on their objective (commuting) that they failed to give this spectacle the time of day.
What have we become? Can the glory days of railway station advertising dance stunts really be over?
Only time will tell.
24 Apr 2012
UCL's blind mice, see how they swim
Professor Robin Ali explains how his UCL team have been transplanting cells into the retina of night blind mice, enabling them to see in semi-darkness and swim towards a visual cue.
Here’s the abstract.
20 Apr 2012
Why run for London assembly or Mayor when you can be a lord?
The fun-loving, envelope stuffers at Don’t Panic have crafted this video testing the rights and privileges that come with being a Lord. Huzzah huzzah.
19 Apr 2012
Video: Someone's made GTA Streatham
Not that new, but new to me. Like!
Creator Anthony Staines’ website
Via @Streathampulse
18 Apr 2012
100 years of London fashion in 100 seconds
This is from last year but at least it’s not about the election.
13 Apr 2012
The House Party's Terence McGrenera video platform
One of the more mysterious candidates for the London Election has been Terence McGrenera, the sole candidate for the House Party, a party devoted, we can only assume, to housing issues.
Winkball.com found McGrenera in the queue at last night’s Evening Standard mayoral debate.
Terence McGrenera
12 Apr 2012
The Truth about Stanley
A short film about a man, his stories and the boy who listened, directed by Lucy Tcherniak.
The film tells the story of an unlikely friendship between an old Congolese man and a young runaway, living rough on the streets. The Truth About Stanley is a story about friendship, loss, and the way in which we choose to deal with personal trauma. For Stanley, what he lacks in material possessions, he makes up for with his vivid imagination and an insatiable desire to tell stories.
For more information, visit their site.
11 Apr 2012
Moving pictures of London in 1927 - in colour!
Pioneering filmmaker Claude Friese-Greene brought these picture-postcard scenes to life with a specially-devised colour film process.
10 Apr 2012
05 Apr 2012
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- Hope and despair in Woolwich town centre
- The best church names in London, and where they come from
- 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
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