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December 2009

VIDEO: Festival du striptease

by Noel Basile
Le London Burlesque Festival, une compétition qui rassemble les meilleures stripteaseuses du genre, se tient chaque année dans la capitale britannique mêlant les femmes venues s'amuser à celles qui en ont fait un métier. Le burlesque, pour ceux qui ne le sauraient pas encore, n'est pas que du striptease, au sens d'une femme qui se déshabille sur scène en faisant monter la température à 37,2°. En fait, cette forme d'art charnel a été popularisée à travers l'Europe et l'Amérique du Nord dès le début des années 1850 dans un seul but de divertir le grand public sans grande prétention. « Le Burlesque devait s'adresser aux plus humbles. C'est pour cela qu'il n'y avait pas d'histoire, mais des scénarios simplissimes! » expliquait Dixie Evans qui, à son époque, était considérée comme la Marilyn Monroe du burlesque. Mieux encore, toute femme peut prétendre pouvoir faire un striptease burlesque et non seulement les déesses aguicheuses ou les bimbos allumeuses. Le striptease burlesque, populaire au sens noble du terme, ne s'arrête pas en effet à des questions de taille ou aux courbes du corps des danseuses, mais plutôt à la diversité des désirs et la beauté du corps humain, peu importe ses formes. Le burlesque est redevenu à la mode grâce aux performances de la strip-teaseuse effeuilleuse burlesque Dita Von Teese. Merci pour elle.

Immanent in the Manifold City: A Newspaper for Time-Travellers | booktwo.org

by karlcow

One of the odd qualities attributed to Stewart was his ubiquity: a perceived ability to be in more than one place at a time. Following a lifetime of walking across the known world, his final years in London were spent in seemingly unending peregrinations across the city, and more than one commentator recorded encountering him in impossible positions: sat steadfast upon Westminster Bridge, and minutes later, as steadfast upon a bench in St James’ Park. De Quincey himself records passing him at Somerset House, and then overtaking him again on Tottenham Court Road – despite having taken the shortest route through Covent Garden.

BBC - Digital Revolution Blog: Rushes Sequences - AC Grayling interview - London (Video)

by karlcow

And if other people know what's going on in our thoughts and in our personal records and communications, they've invaded that margin and they've made it less easy for us to control our own lives.

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November 2009

the CLOUD

by karlcow

The CLOUD proposes an entirely new form of observation deck,connecting visitors to both the whole of London and the whole of the world, immersing them in euphoric gusts of weather and digital data. Each individual footstep on the ascent to the CLOUD participates in a vast collective energy-harvesting effort. Everyone around the world can contribute to the Cloud - whether by visiting or by sponsoring an LED, helping to keep the London lamp aflame.

scraplab — Using Geoplanet Data in Ruby on Rails

by karlcow

Geoplanet is a database of 5.4 million places in a hierarchy. Each entry has a unique, permanent ID (WOEID), a name and a place type. For example, Homerton (20089379) is a Suburb in the London Borough of Hackney (12695808), which is a LocalAdmin in London (44418), which is a Town in Greater London (23416974), and so on.

Wolfram|Alpha

by rmaltete & 13 others (via)
Making the World's Knowledge Computable Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. Enter your question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer. Based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing. essayer avec "london paris" ou "mortar cement", "07/03/1963", "x2+x", etc.

October 2009

Archigram / - Design/Designer Information

by Neewok

ARCHIGRAM dominated the architectural avant garde in the 1960s and early 1970s with its playful, pop-inspired visions of a technocratic future after its formation in 1961 by a group of young London architects – Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb.

“A new generation of architecture must arise with forms and spaces which seems to reject the precepts of ‘Modern’ yet in fact retains those precepts. We have chosen to by pass the decaying Bauhaus image which is an insult to functionalism. You can roll out steel – any length. You can blow up a balloon – any size. You can mould plastic – any shape. Blokes that built the Forth Bridge – they didn’t worry.”

So wrote David Greene in a poem published in the first issue of Archigram magazine or, as Greene’s co-editor, Peter Cook, called it “a message, or abstract communication”. It was published in 1961 on a large sheet of the cheapest available paper. Filled with Greene’s poems and sketches of architectural projects designed by Cook, Michael ‘Spider’ Webb and other friends, the magazine voiced their frustration with the intellectual conservatism of the British architectural establishment.

MP3: Helicentrics Live in Paris | Stones Throw Records

by Neewok

After Madlib was forced to cancel a show in Paris late last year, Malcolm Catto came from London to Paris on a moment’s notice with fellow Heliocentrics Jake Ferguson (bass) and Adey Owasu (guitar) of The Heliocentrics, and stole the show in front of 650 rather frenzied Stones Throw fans. This less-than-ten-minute section of their one hour jam session doesn’t come close to capturing the vibe in the cramped quarters of La Bellevilloise that Saturday, 6th of December 2008.

Chris O'Shea

by oqdbpo & 1 other
Chris O'Shea is an artist and designer based in London. He is the author of Pixelsumo and co-founder of the event series This happened.

My first Twitter app - KungFuPeople.com - Peterbe.com (Peter Bengtsson on Python, Zope, Kung Fu, London and photos)

by karlcow

I simply took the oauth.py module by Leah Culver and wrapped it with some useful functions taken from a similar Twitter app we've done at work.

Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: the informational city

by karlcow

44.5% of people use the Tube map to walk round London.

De nombreuses choses ne sont pas utilisées pour quoi elles ont été prévues.

FKDL Metro Monde opening « Since - Upian - Artspace

by sbrothier & 1 other
Self taught artist, Frank Duval, aka FKDL, is an adept of collage in all its forms since 1997 : art scotch, paintings, murals, street art… In 2006, he creates a family of 20 black voluptuous silhouettes on the walls of Paris, before taking them to New-York, Berlin, London, Barcelona, Turin… Once they’re adorned with bits from vintage magazines, his figures, with their characteristic colored backgrounds and their happy body language, make FKDL a unique signature in the universe of street art.

September 2009

Pope Benedict to Visit London: Is the Rebirth of a Christian Europe Underway?

by alamat (via)
May this visit to England hasten the recovery a dynamically orthodox Christian witness in that Nation; one which opens up the path to the recovery of a genuinely Christian Europe.

Latest busks | BANDSTAND BUSKING

by gregg
There are loads of bandstands in parks across London, and most of them are looking fairly tattered from lack of use. When did you last see/hear one surrounded by hordes excited by the sounds? ...well we hadn't so we decided to do what we could to change that, to fill the parks once more (at least for a wee while every couple of weeks) with some talented people capable of carrying a tune or two.

Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: loca london

by karlcow

This meant I could go from idea to implementation in about 3 hours. Nice.

London Artists Turn Empty Commercial Space Into Galleries - NYTimes.com

by paulantoinem
Now independent curators and entrepreneurial artists like Mr. Tarrant are stepping into the breach, persuading landlords and municipal councils to turn vacant spaces over to them temporarily. ...

August 2009

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