Tag: london
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The Anglo-Belgian Memorial, also known as Belgian Refugees Memorial, is a war memorial on Victoria Embankment in London, opposite Cleopatra’s Needle. It was a gift from Belgium, as a mark of thanks for assistance given by the UK during the First World War, and in particular for sheltering thousands of Belgian refugees who fled from…
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Aliens and brothers
ALIEN By David Breuer-Weil Height: 6m (19’ 8”) An extension of the ‘Visitor’ series, Alien is a vast 6m tall work depicting a humanoid figure crash landed in the earth. It’s circling legs suggest that this a more permanent development as the figure struggles to free itself from the ground. “I have always been fascinated…
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J.P. Guivier & Co.
J.P Guivier, England’s oldest stringed instrument shop, established in 1863, located on Mortimer Street, London. It was established by Joseph Prosper Guivier. The ground floor houses the shop which has violins (“from £6,000 to £60,000) are on sale. The 1st and 2nd floor houses the music rooms where prospective clientele are able to play the…
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These machines look like they belong in Gibson’s Neuromancer, or some post-apocalyptic world. But they’re just road resurfacing machines.
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Remember 1, look for a safe place
2, don’t hurry stop and wait, 3, look all and around and listen, before you cross the road, remember, 4, let all the traffic pass you, 5, then walking straight across you 6, keep watching, that’s the safe cross code. Know. The. Code, Know the code! The Irish road safety authority song to teach kids…
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Vhils work, Truman Brewery
Wonderful. Chiseled into the plaster and bricks. This is apparently the work of Vhils, a Portuguese graffiti/street artist Alexandre Farto. “He gained prominence when his work of a face carved into a wall appeared alongside a picture by street artist Banksy at the Cans Festival in London in 2008. A photograph of him creating the…