More new anti-ISIS graffiti spotted in Wood Green. (As also seen in yesterday’s photo.)
The balloon image is a separate, older work of graffiti that appeared a month or two ago; I’d photographed it, and it was in my queue of photos to post.
New York to London
London photo: “STOP ISIS”
This graffiti appeared in Wood Green the other day.
Wood Green is, perhaps not coincidental to this, heavily immigrant, with many residents from the Middle East. There has been lots of public pushback — like from, say, imams and spokespeople from Muslim organizations — in the U.K. against Islamic radical fundamentalism, including ISIS/ISIL, and the radicalization of young British Muslims. So this could be part of that.
London photo: Simon Pegg at London Film Festival
Simon Pegg on the red carpet at the London Film Festival on Saturday night for his new film Kill Me Three Times.
London photo: Viggo Mortensen at London Film Festival
I swear that dude in the middle really is Viggo Mortensen, at a public screening tonight of his film Jauja at the London Film Festival.
London photo: everyone wants to see Rosewater at LFF
I wasn’t sure what sort of a draw Jon Stewart would be at the London Film Festival, but there was a huge mob at the press screening of his film.
London photo: pub tip jar hates Justin Bieber
Disclaimer: I do not condone physical violence. (Spotted in a pub in Greenwich.)
London photo: cures wounds & sores
Whatever this remarkable tonic was is now, alas, lost to history. (In Regent Square.)
London photo: clowns to watch you drink in the pub
At The Queens Larder, on Queen Square near Russell Square: Clowns. Looking down on you as you imbibe. Or perhaps to drive you to drink.
London photos: Ian Fleming’s James Bond book bench
Charity venture Books about Town placed 50 benches in the shape of giant books and painted to commemorate all sorts of great British writers around London this summer. The benches were auctioned off this evening. See Books about Town for more info.
I’ve saved my favorite bench for last: the one dedicated to Ian Fleming’s books about James Bond. (Click here for a larger version of the front.)
A closeup of one section of the front:
(Click here for a larger version.)
And another section of the front:
The back:
Side view:
London photos: Michael Bond’s Paddington Bear book bench
Charity venture Books about Town placed 50 benches in the shape of giant books and painted to commemorate all sorts of great British writers around London this summer. They’ve just come off display, and will be auctioned off on October 7th. See Books about Town for more info.
This is the bench dedicated to Michael Bond’s books about Paddington Bear. (Click here for a larger version of the front.)
And the back, which reveals that this bench (alone among those I saw, though I didn’t see all 50 of them) actually uses the bench motif in a sort of trompe l’oeil way:
(Click here for a larger version.)
This bench was, oddly, nowhere near Paddington Station.
