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

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.

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

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?

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

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.

The most cringeworthy video of the day is sung by Hammersmith and Fulham council

Well, thanks right back to you, Hammersmith & Fulham council.

Source: Tory council cuts £60m but can still afford crap propaganda video

Iain Sinclair says that East London's wasteland has been ruined by the Olympics

Source: BBC

Video of London Olympics leaked

The Mirror has found a treasure trove of colour images from the 1948 Olympics.

Tin Tone Guitars of Stoke Newington

A featurette on John Free, proprietor of Tin Tone guitars in Stoke Newington.