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Reel African is a new video-streaming site showing licensed African productions,
films,
series and
documentaries, including
The XYZ Show, the African Spitting Image. Also some MTV.
Free to watch, with adverts inserted in the content.
Promo trailer. Variety write-up. Via.
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at 6:09 AM on September 19, 2011
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Who Cork The Dance is a treasure trove of sound tapes - recordings of reggae sound systems and MCs live in session in dancehalls across Jamaica, the UK and the US, going back to the 1970s.
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at 12:32 PM on September 19, 2010
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Brian Duffy, one of the 'Terrible Trio' photographers of the 1960s,
has died aged 76. Duffy, along with fellow working-class London boys David Bailey and Terence Donovan,
revolutionised fashion photography with a
brash, sexual, personal style and helped to
define the Swinging Sixties.
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at 4:22 AM on June 5, 2010
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Pentecostal minister Clovis Salmon, known in Brixton as
"Sam The Wheels" due to his wheel-making skills, came to Britain from Jamaica in the 1950s. From the 1960s to the 1980s he used his Super-8 camera to film
Brixton daily life and
church scenes, including the
aftermath of the 1981 riots.
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at 6:09 AM on April 28, 2010
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Amelia's Magazine: A sprawling and slightly garish collaborative London-based blog, which grew out of the now defunct
high-end print magazine of the same name. An eccentric mix of
art,
fashion,
photography, design,
illustration, underground
music and
eco-activism.
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at 6:21 PM on February 2, 2010
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A
preview version of a 20-minute film following Damon Albarn as he and other western musicians (including Franz Ferdinand and Fatboy Slim) travel to Mali, Nigeria and Congo as part of the
Africa Express, a
sprawling musical collective collaboration between Africans (including Toumani Diabate, Baaba Maal and Tony Allen) Americans and Europeans. The film includes a visit and concert at The Shrine for last year's Felabration.
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at 8:07 AM on June 19, 2009
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John Michell, who has
died aged 76,
was an old Etonian who became the
standard bearer for the
romantic hippy mysticism with his 1969 book
The View Over Atlantis, This posited the then original theory of a prehistorical global civilisation linked by leylines, and became extraordinarily
popular and influential.
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at 10:17 AM on May 12, 2009
(6 comments)
Your chance to say:
Thank you for throwing your shoe!
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at 2:07 AM on December 18, 2008
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Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip, an 11-minute animated film about climate change by
activist Leo Murray, complete with
script with references
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at 11:58 AM on September 12, 2008
(9 comments)
The Frontline club is a
media club in west London supporting international independent journalism. Started by
Vaughan Smith (prev) after the
Frontline TV agency closed, it has
a restaurant, cinema and
hosts talks by
leading journalists. The website has
blogs,
articles and
photography, and you can watch
full length videos of talks, with people like
Jeremy Paxman,
David Horovitz and
Robert Thomson
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at 5:42 AM on February 15, 2008
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Gentlemen Ranters, a "
brilliant compendium of
reminiscences of the
great days of
Fleet Street".
Via (check the comments for a more depressing viewpoint).
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at 1:27 PM on October 12, 2007
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It's a (Dressed-up) Single Link YouTube Post because you've already had the
13-minute long video of maths songs; you've already had the
long newspaper interviews; you've even had the
animated version (not to mention a few you shouldn't bother with); but have you, I ask, have you had
Tom Lehrer in his heyday, singing "Werner von Braun"?
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at 10:02 AM on July 11, 2007
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Philosophy (digested). Julian Baggini reads philosophy classics, so you don't have to.
Plato,
Aristotle,
Descartes,
Hume,
Ayer (“Sex is empirically verifiable, it’s only love that ain’t”). OK, its a rip-off of
John Crace (
prev) but at least these are books you should have read.
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at 2:29 AM on June 8, 2007
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Excellent
8,000 word essay on
waste disposal in the endlessly superlative
LRB.
Andrew O'Hagen goes bin-raiding with
Freegans, talks up
Zero Waste, rides with the
(contraversial) Harrow binmen, meets the
Community Recycling Network, tramps over the
Calvert Landfill Site and pays a visit to the
London Waste EcoPark Recycling and Energy Centre aka the
Edmonton Incinerator. Doesn’t meet any
mafia though. 8,000 words and none
wasted.
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at 7:02 AM on May 19, 2007
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Today is the 70th anniversary of
the battle of Cable Street. On Sunday October 4th 1936,
Oswald Moseley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, attempted to lead a march through Stepney, at that time a predominantly
Jewish area. As the fascists met at
Royal Mint Street, around
300,000 people barricaded the roads of the East End, chanting
"No Pasaran" and
"They Shall Not Pass". When the police attempted to
break through the corden at Cable Street a riot ensued.
The police were repelled and Moseley and his acolytes were forced to march in the opposite direction, into the
empty streets of the City. With the Spanish Civil War at its peak, Cable Street saw
communists,
anarchists,
Jews, dockers and many other ordinary
eastenders fighting
the fascists together and has a
mythological place in
East London folklore. Celebrations will be held
this Sunday.
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at 11:00 PM on October 3, 2006
(26 comments)
The world of folk music is often a rather dour place, as folkies try hard to fully express the miseries of a life pre-myspace. In the 1980s, however, the
Kipper Family, of St-Just-near-Trunch, Norfolk, bucked this trend. With such classics as "Arrest These Merry Gentlemen", "Wild Mounting Time" and "We're Norfolk and Good",
Sid and Henry Kipper managed to cheer up many a maudlin English folk club. Although
Henry was retired,
Sid Kipper still performs solo and has recently started doing
podcasts for Channel4 (reg req to download).
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at 1:13 PM on September 27, 2006
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Critical to Attend London Critical Mass this Friday. 11-year-old
London Critical Mass is
under threat thanks to the new SOCA laws - that's the Serious Organised Crime Act, which we all realise was drafted for precisely this kind of thing. The Metropolitan Police distributed
letters at last months ride and threaten to turn a peaceful, non-political non-demonstration into exactly the opposite. Inevitably
this month's ride is set to be the biggest yet.
It is reminscent of the
on-going Manhattan farce (
mefi) and also
Milwaukee.
posted to MetaFilter by criticalbill
at 2:20 AM on October 26, 2005
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Cult leader proves his divinity by being buried alive and resurrecting himself. Except for the resurrecting bit. Good show for trying though
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at 4:45 AM on December 16, 2004
(26 comments)
The Zoom Quilt (uses flash)
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at 3:28 PM on November 30, 2004
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