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This week is Design Week. Every year Earls Court holds 100% Design – which started as a contemporary interior design exhibition and has grown (since I’ve lived in the UK) into the “must go” industry destination…along with the handful of showrooms across the capital that open their doors at the same time.
Today is the opening night of Miss Van’s ‘Lovestain’ exhibition at the StolenSpace Galleries in Brick Lane. I’m a big fan of the sultry, doll-like girls that have characterised much of her artwork to date and regardless of whether or not this exhibition will contain more of them I’m sure it’s going to be well worth a visit. Her unique style oozes femininity without being overly girly and truly makes her work stand out from her (mostly male) urban art contemporaries. This is apparently both a retrospective as well as an exhibition of new work so it should be an excellent opportunity to see what she’s been up to over the past 10 or so years. You have until October 18 to check it out. Enjoy.
In the last year I have seen some of the best live music events I have ever witnessed. Each gig has used new refreshing techniques that I have never seen before: the combination of incredible musical performance talent, complemented by stunning new digital technologies. Continue reading ‘New Music Expression’
I know, I know, a literature-based piece from the book obsessed newbie… but I went to see ‘Dorian Gray’ last week on the feeble basis that The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of my most re-read and loved books, and also that Ben Barnes is a bit of a hottie!
Continue reading ‘The Sexing-Up of Dorian Gray (spoiler alert)’
Today sees the last issue of thelondonpaper, a free evening paper that’s circulated in London on weekday afternoons. After 3 years of purple-coated distributers bringing a small ray of joy to commuters’ journeys home, News International has decided to shut down its evening free newspaper. Continue reading ‘Bye Bye TLP *sniff*’
Crop circles are no longer fodder for terrible Mel Gibson movies and the stories of small town America…at least they won’t be if Google has anything to say about it. The mysterious crop circle logo showed up again on Tuesday of this week, the second alien reference this month, only this time Google employed Twitter.com to share a set of map co-ordinates leading internet users to: 51.327629, -0.5616088. According to Guardian News, the co-ordinates lead to a small town in Surrey, Horsell, made famous by H.G. Wells as the location of the first UFO landing in the classic 1898 novel “War of the Worlds”.
TED talks is a global movement that brings us together in the name of, “ideas worth spreading.”
Always inspirational the speaker has 18 minutes to give “the best talk of their life” -- which seems unfair considering the audience has infinitely longer to let the new idea grow and morph and become something more. Continue reading ‘TEDxTO…’
I was browsing through my University’s online Newsroom and came across an article that proposed a question we all ask at some stage in our educational life: “Is your degree teaching you anything useful?” Continue reading ‘School of Life’
I’m never surprised by the odd and somewhat colourful things I see in Toronto, it’s just a part of living in “the most multi-cultural city in the world”… I’ve accepted the crowded transit, the costumed fans (OK so that was extra visible this past weekend because of the FanExpo), the random protests, the loud and frequently wild Friday nights… but hugs from strangers outside the Eaton Centre: THAT made this somewhat jaded Torontonian look twice… Continue reading ‘Free Love…’
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