SLAB Magazine

All of a sudden, the apocalypse is good entertainment again. The recent film release of I am Legend, based on Richard Metheson’s novel of the same name, provides us with a morbid opportunity to delve into the fantasy of what a ferral urban environment might look like when humans are long gone.

One man and his [...]

Cycling back home from work this evening I found myself singing the words to Goldie’s Inner City Life, as sung by Diane Charlemagne, a track which blew me away when I first heard it in 1996. I still have the 12″ and played it this evening and tried to remember a few images from the [...]

Visit this place before it’s too late
Whilst in London recently I paid what will probably be my last visit to New Piccadilly Café in Soho. New Piccadilly is an old-style Italian-run London caff unchanged since sometime in the 1950s. It’s one of a dying breed, and is due to close some time soon because of [...]

Have just returned from a short visit to England where I spent an obligatory day in London. The next couple of postings cover a few things I saw there, and in my home town of Windsor.

Slime in the subterranean passage-way connecting South Kensington tube station to the V&A and the Science Museum

Lloyds of London: experimental
Currently doing the rounds on the net is this intriguing photo of part of the Lloyds Building in London, taken by Esthr Dyson. It’s been cited at This is Broken and refered to today at Boing Boing.
The original can be seen at Dyson’s Flickr stream here.