photo-mojo-album snapshots of life in Londo-ville taken by me and my mate,
I put some of these pics up a couple of years ago on another thread - thanks to www.imageshack.us
1.good graffiti, crap graffiti u decide which is which
2.one of the famous Berwick st record shops, this one specialises in Drum n Bass, UK Garage and now UK Hiphop
3.well trained pigeons?
4. Divali ceremony at the office
5.poster wall off Brick Lane
6. the new 'ideas factory' (read: library) in Whitechapel, designed to perforate the barrier between the traditional building interior and the street by making the street pass through it
7.coming clouds above the Cathedral
8.faster than you think
9. brand new street in Paternoster square
10.art?
11.the best views of the streetlife on the crossroads - people FIGHT over these seats
12. Eros statue @ Piccadilly circus, a great meeting point for lost tourists
13.summer crowds spill outside
14.Millennium Bridge to the Tate Modern - 5-6 million visitors winding this route
15.Village London - Hampstead
16.Chinatown, this was the conversion of the local's pub into a new breed of swanky restaurant, much disapproved of by the Save Chinatown campaign, but the scaffolding just seemed so Chinese
17.the smallest cinema I ever saw
18.journeys end
19.Award winning open layout in the Laban Dance Centre - the office transparent to the mess hall (dig those lamps)
20.the exterior, set in depressed but gentrifying part of the city - bleak and surreal, and reflections of empty spaces
21.Soho, part of the motorbike brigade and one of the local tribes, in summer Hells Angels take over
22.the cyclos are part of a nonprofit initiative to give newcomers without qualifications a chance in the city - theyve recently started up in NYC too
23.Berwick St fruit n veg market, looks cheap and dirty, but the quality is surprisingly superb
24.Wardour St, the gay ground zero
25.but hardly exclusively- where every strata of society rubs shoulders
26.the sex district -life like everywhere else in the capital, just to a backdrop of sleaze
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28.the beach n bars that claimed a disused carpark in Brick Lane
29.an increasing rarity nowadays - alleyways that used to network the main streets, this one off super posh Regents Street (you could have eaten off that pavement)
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31.ethereal and wobbly
32.Line of red buses conspire to takeover the traffic
33.All Souls, surprisingly the tallest church spire in the city (out of 3000)
34.sunset glints off one of the new Hungerford Bridges, on either side of the original Victorian rail line
35.the Summer exhibition at the Royal Academy where anyone can enter their work from bigshot artists to the average bloke on the street- this one was by bigwig Damien Hirst, a huge and severely freaky anatomical of a pregnant woman and child
36.the sun starts to set
37.night falls
38. The City financial district - a converted alleyway, the screen to the right of the moons surface constantly changed colours, i was waiting for purple but it never reappeared
39.sculpture by 92 year old Louise Bourgeoise in the vast turbine Hall of Tate Modern
40.World Cup fever sees people sticking flags EVERYWHERE, this one on the griffins that mark the boundaries of every road into The City
41.At weekends the fiancial centre's Square Mile falls dead, a ghost town where the 87 churches here are the only ones in the world to close on Sundays but operate a thriving business every weekday lunch hour.
42.Chris Ofili and his luminous elephant dung paintings
43.more foxes than you can shake a discarded kfc chicken leg at
44.Chinatown stall selling dayglo piercings
45.Underneath London Bridge theres a slightly tacky nineties DJ bar built underground, inside the bartender is a robot called Cynthia ( I kid ye not)
46.
47.final view from the top of the tower block
48.the river and Canary wharf in the distance
installation at Tate Modern - (look at the cloth screen, which changes colours luminously) and you go properly snow blind so intense are the hues, it feels like floating
byeee kid...>
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