Posts Tagged ‘reviews’

Managed to catch the final day of the poster exhibition at the London Transport Museum last week. Pretty good exhibition, but it felt a bit on the small side, given the extent of what they claim to have in their archives. I would have liked to have seen some of the actual posters alongside the [...]

I managed to spend almost three hours at the Cold War Modern exhibition last week. It finished yesterday, though, so it's probably pointless for me to write about the exhibition itself. However, I can always do a few posts about some of the things in the exhibition that interested me. By something of a coincidence, I've also been reading and watching a bit of cold war fiction lately, so I thought I'd kick off a "cold war" season on my blog by writing about The Sandbaggers, "the best damned television show you never saw." >>

Although I don't make resolutions, one thing I do tend to do in the new year is make a concerted effort to go to more exhibitions (which often peters out later in the year). I think one of the reasons is because lots of exhibitions seem to end at the start of the year. I've seen three exhibitions already…

It was okay. I don't really have much to say about it. Except, the following points: The venue. There really wasn't enough space in the Match Bar to comfortably mingle, causing everyone to either bottleneck uncomfortably in the middle of one long section, or else to get stuck 'round tables in The Bridge area (that's [...]

And then it was Friday, and I was late for Tuttle, but Lloyd said it was the best excuse he'd heard (so that's all right), and I got to experience what is fast becoming one of my favourite weekly rituals, a really good natter about random shit over coffee with my mate Guy (who has [...]

On Wednesday evening, I went to the Prince Charles to a free screening of

Not a huge haul from Comiket. I would be linking to more things I at least liked the look of, even if I didn't buy them, except that nobody had any business cards for me to remember who they all were. So you only get recommendations of things I actually paid for. this year's issue [...]

Abram Games (1914-1996) may not be a household name these days, but in his time he was one of the UK's premier graphic designers, with his imagery known and seen by thousands of people. Whether it was posters for London Transport, the emblem for the Festival of Britain, or the covers he designed for Penguin [...]

I've been really rubbish at seeing anything at the London Film Festival this year, but then again, I always am a bit rubbish at seeing anything at the LFF every year. The only thing I've managed to see is something I didn't need to have pre-booked tickets for: London Loves, which was screened in Trafalgar [...]

After visiting the Steiner House, I wandered off to church, All Saints Margaret Street. Having been disappointed by the lack of expected craziness at St Martin's Gospel Oak the day before, All Saints proved to be exactly what I was after in a "crazy" Victorian church. Even starting from the gothic exterior, with its dramatic [...]