Amazing photos from Allen Jones’ Waitress (1972) featuring his then-wife Janet. Courtesy IDEA Books. You can buy it (email [email protected]), if someone hasn’t already, but it’ll cost you -- there are only 375 copies in the whole wide world.
From a new book by photographer Mark Draisey, Thirty Years On!: A Private View of Public Schools.
A comprehensive guide to help the unwitting visitor avoid falling victim to the various and nefarious crimes abound in early 19th-century London. Written by “a gentleman who has made the police of the metropolis an object of enquiry twenty-two years”, the book is split into six main chapters: “Out Door Delinquencies”, “Inn Door Tricks”, “Miscellaneous Offences”, “House-Breakers”, “Minor Cheats”, and “Of Conspirators and Informers”, containing within them a multitude of sub-chapters including the rather wonderfully titled offences of “Smashing”, “Greeks and Legs”, “Private Stills”, “Bon Ton”, “Box Lobby”, and “Pretenders to Literature”. [x]
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The Imitation Game - UK teaser trailer
Of course I will watch any movie that in any way has to do with Enigma, but Benedict playing Turing makes it very exciting indeed.
There were times when Rik and I were writing together when we almost died laughing. They were some of the most carefree, stupid days I ever had, and I feel privileged to have shared them with him. And now he's died for real. Without me. Selfish bastard.
Ade Edmondson, in a statement regarding the passing of Rik Mayall
This is branded content, and it's pretty damn watchable. I wanted it to be a bit more tongue-in-cheek, but overall, I'm down with it.
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Girlgang
Fangirling over The Tuts right now.
Yep. Well. This is adorable. Sorry.
“Weaving has never changed, the principle of weaving had never changed. All that happened was that we got better and faster,” Harris says. “Nostalgia? With this machine there does come a certain degree of nostalgia, but if you were to look at the modern equivalent, it is the same. It's just Daft Punk: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger....”
This is mass production, albeit on an antique scale. And while using old machines plays into a sense of British authenticity and lends his company some historical novelty—a word he hates, by the way—it is not what defines the company.
“It’s the difference between careless mass production and considered mass production,” Harris says.
Type store with fonts being made up in packets by women and boys working by candlelight, 1902. (via At The Caslon Letter Foundry | Spitalfields Life)
Source: spitalfieldslife.com
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Alan Partridge on Kraftwerk’s ‘The Model’: “A classic piece of ‘techno’, in the days before techno featured rappers shouting about how much their watch cost. Once danced to this until my knees gave way."
Photograph: John Rahim/Rex Features
Kommen Sie bitte...und listen to Kraftwerk.
(Kind of can't believe there's no ABBA on here, but maybe it was just too obvious -- even for Alan Partridge.)
Source: theguardian.com
