Dead fish in London's river Lea caused by pollution after a storm

Artists impression of a fatberg on the 4th plinth

London home owners, private renters and social renters 1961-2011

Lilo Evans and Tristan Stocks in the Mikado

Chart showing how Londoners get to work across inner and outer London

Chart showing how Londoners get to work by mode, 2011 data

Chart showing how the way Londoners get to work is changing over time

Map of empty homes or second homes in London

London borough population changes 2011-2012

Map of red kite sightings in London, May 2014

Artists impression of the "Teardrop", as seen from Ridley Rd, Dalston

Poster against Chatsworth Rd market in London

Tim Cresswell's poetry collection Soil, published by Penned in the Margins

Poke around Vincent van Gogh's house, for sale in Brixton

For the first time in 65 years, Vincent van Gogh’s Brixton love nest is up for sale. It’s a real fixer-upper £400,000

28 Mar 2012

Timelapse video of London after dark December 2011 - March 2012

London // Night // 2012 from Theycallmejan on Vimeo.

Created by Theycallmejan and filmed from Paramount in Centrepoint.

27 Mar 2012

London in the year 2000 as seen by the 1960 film, Beat Girl

Islingtongue has found this vid of the 1960 film, Beat Girl. Press play to see an architect tell his wife about the fantastic world of tomorrow, a London, where “Grime, filth, poverty, noise, hustle and bustle, these things will be unknown.”

The whole film is there – it’s actually a cracking good exploitation flick.

From YouTube

Paul, a divorced architect, marries Nichole, a woman from Paris. His teen daughter Jenny has fallen in with the English beatnik scene and likes to hang out in cave-like clubs to listen to jazz and rudimentary rock’n‘roll. Jenny takes an immediate dislike to her mother-in-law, who is not that much older than she, and goes out of her way to make life miserable for Nichole. When Jenny discovers that Nichole is a friend of one of the strippers from the dance hall across the street, she investigates and uses Nichole’s sordid past to embarrass her father. Meanwhile Jenny attracts the lecherous eye of Kenny, the owner of the dance hall.

Hat tip to The Great Wen

24 Mar 2012

Austerity Isn't Working

The rapscallions at UK Uncut took over an empty billboard in Brockley to update Maggie’s old election ad.

Also – remember the Squirrel Nut Zippers?

19 Mar 2012

Londoners on bikes tour the city's bike shops

Tour des Bikeshops from martinib.eu on Vimeo.

Londoners on Bikes have created this video put cycling on the Mayoral Election agenda.

H/T Patrick Riot

12 Mar 2012

Animated characters are running out of room at Bond Street station

This TFL produced video illustrates how tight it’s going to get over the next four years, presumably so you don’t complain about all the construction now.

08 Mar 2012