Feb 25th, 2012 at 11:00AM:
The Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square has gotten its latest adornment--a giant bronze kid on a rocking horse.
Trafalgar Square is one of London's most visited spots. In fact, it's hard not to go there since it's right in front of the National Gallery and is a nexus of several important roads. Three plinths flanking Nelson's Column support statues of a king and two generals, and a fourth ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Child on rocking horse is the latest statue on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth
Feb 25th, 2012 at 11:00AM:
The Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square has gotten its latest adornment--a giant bronze kid on a rocking horse.
Trafalgar Square is one of London's most visited spots. In fact, it's hard not to go there since it's right in front of the National Gallery and is a nexus of several important roads. Three plinths flanking Nelson's Column support statues of a king and two generals, and a fourth ...Virgin Holidays gets 'cheeky' with burlesque show
Jan 5th, 2011 at 2:00PM:
Buttoned-up Brits in London's Trafalgar Square were loosening up their ties yesterday as Virgin Holidays launched a flash-mob style burlesque dance on the steps of the National Gallery as part of a play to break the world record for the world's largest burlesque dance.
More than 100 dancers, many of whom are Virgin Holiday employees, participated in the routine.
Virgin Holidays ...Three Days in London
Aug 3rd, 2010 at 3:00PM: The cliches of constant rain and gloom are quickly banished when you visit London in the summer. While all the tourist favorites – Big Ben, Tower of London, British Museum – are open and busy, there are other exciting exhibits, West End shows and areas of the city ripe for exploration. If you have three days to spend in the capital this summer, here are some suggestions to keep in ...Ghost Forest brings attention to rainforest threat
Jul 12th, 2010 at 4:30PM:
A Ghost Forest is stalking Europe.
Giant trees from Ghana have appeared in Copenhagen, Trafalgar Square in London, and now Oxford. It's called the Ghost Forest Art Project, and it's an innovative way to bring the plight of the world's rainforests to public attention.
Artist Angela Palmer wanted to share her concern with the public about tropical rainforests, which are disappearing fast. An ...13,500 people sing "Hey Jude" at Trafalgar Square
May 6th, 2009 at 2:30PM: If you thought 100 random people singing the Sound of Music in Antwerp was a bit wacky, picture 13,500 people singing Hey Jude in the heart of London. This was another stunt by T-Mobile in the UK who previously got 17,000 people to show up at Liverpool street station. None of the people there actually knew why they were there - it was all thanks to the "power" of social networks that everyone ...
Geotagging cameras create accidental maps
Apr 28th, 2009 at 11:00AM: One could easily spend hours browsing images on social photo-sharing sites like Flickr. From time to time I find myself on the site's "interestingness" page, endlessly hitting the reload button and marvelling at all the beautiful photography. But one unintended consequence of all these photos has nothing to do with what they look like - it's all the information like tags, camera type and location ...Picture London without the people
Jan 2nd, 2009 at 3:00PM: If you've ever had a chance to visit London, you know what a hive of activity the city can be. Huge red double decker buses rumble past your field of view, pedestrians stroll through Trafalgar Square and the pontificators mass at Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park. Perhaps it's a surprise then to see photos of these places, completely devoid of any human being. That's exactly what Flickr user ...Text messages on London's Trafalgar Square go up in smoke
Oct 16th, 2008 at 11:00AM: Are you bored with just plain text messaging? In London, it seems that plenty are. Recently an experimental architecture and design firm called Minimaforms unveiled a new communication model inspired by smoke signals, according to the blog PSFK. It's called Memory Cloud, and it is dubbing itself a "media art project." How it works is that you send an SMS to a certain number, which then somehow ...
