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September 14th, 2009 No Comments

http://noticin.gs/ A friend and his friend invented a game when they were young. I never played the game but I remember it involving a tennis ball (or a number of tennis balls), an oversized rag doll, and a series of spaces. I think you had to somehow manoeuvre  one or all of the balls to [...]

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The best thing ever on the web?

May 18th, 2007 3 Comments

One of the first things I ever saw on the internet that utterly entranced me was a webcam from a yellow cab in New York. There I was, sat in my Brixton bedroom late in the evening, watching the sun set between blocks as the cab-driver zig-zagged across the upper west side (possibly) . With [...]

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World Press Photo Winners for 2006

February 19th, 2007 4 Comments

…have been announced (yes, I’m a  week late). As ever, stunning, inspirational and heart-wrenching in equal measure. Spencer Platt’s winning photo of 4 girls being driven through the devastation of South Beirut in a red open-topped sports car is beautiful, deep, and surreal. I also love this one which is possibly even more incongruous. Shame [...]

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