Month: January 2010
Matthew Lindop paints cityscapes, mostly of London where he lives. This picture is The City At Night and is typical of his work. He spends his time looking…
This is the first of an occasional series of descriptions of London or its constituent parts from books. “And I must say that, in its way, I rather…
I took a turn around the 2010 London Art Fair a week or so ago. This piece amused me once I’d worked out what was going on. Its an…
Morrissey was the lead singer with The Smiths. They were a tremendously Northern, as in North of England, band their faces set stern against the soft South and suspicious of…
I’ve just come across this superb analysis of Disney’s original animated version of 101 Dalmations. Its written by Oswald Iten in his Colourful Animation Expressions blog. Oswald explores the…
What a good picture. In it, London experiences one of those occasional and strange moments of calm. The traffic has been stopped at a junction, nobody is…
The London Nobody Sings is a website that is dedicated to, and collects together, songs about London. It is put together by Yr Heart Out who also produces…
London exploded in size in the nineteenth century. In 1801 it had just over 1 million inhabitants. By 1901 the population had reached 6.5 million with the rate…
Twitter gives you a great perspective. Here are some examples of how some London people that I follow are feeling about the world this morning…. Still cant get…