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The Immigrants of Spitalfields
Look Up London started with spotting interesting sights then trying to cram their entire history into one hundred and fifty characters – Not easy. It’s since grown into an award-winning…
Nice shoes! Wanna f***?
Here I go again! It’s been a while since I’ve written about my favourite topic… The French, English battle. And today it is going to be about… SEX! “OH MY!…
Labels: Joe Sellman-Leava will leave you questioning how you may be judging people
Growing up in a small beach town just a few hours north of Sydney Australia I never felt much prejudice about anything. At least not anything I really felt comfortable…
Closet Vinyl: Dan Magill brings back that almost forgotten plastic disk
What you know and how you feel about vinyl is pretty much dictated by your age. Like the picture of a cassette tape that does the rounds on Facebook with the…
Drift Shop: Emma and Jess’ Scratch Nights
It’s a typical cold winter’s night in London. The kind of night when all you’d like to do is eat a ready meal in frot of the tele in your Pj’s.…
Foof Records: An independent label with a difference
It’s a crisp and sunny morning when I meet Hannah Warburton in the creative hub of London- an area at the epicentre of the artistic world and one that is…
Shakespeare did Shoreditch: Meet the architects
Principal of firm Pringle Brandon Drew Perkins+Will, John Drew, and architect, Therese Bak, are the calm, composed and cool figures behind the project that the East End arts and culture…
An alternative guide to half term
For many East London parents, the quest of filling up half term with excitement for your little sleep thieves is frankly quite exhausting. We find ourselves trekking across London, only…
Picfair: A new standard for images
Photography as we know it has been around since the late 1830s and over the years it has continued to adapt and evolve with the rapidly changing world. From the…
Ghost signs: Sam Roberts opens the gateway into our commercial past
Walls are full of hand painted portals into the past – slogans and branding promoting vintage businesses gone bust or still booming, in the personal typographic styles of craftsmen lost. In…