Bike courier set

Lately Ive been taking a bunch of photos of Bike Couriers and the their very cool fixed gear bikes. 
Every time I see one of them on their hyper-modified bikes, darting through the mad London traffic or idly balancing at the traffic lights, i think of Hiro Protagonist in Neil Stephhenson’s Snowcrash.
Ok, I know that that [...]

Pest Control v Vermin

 

Seems like the art-graffiti showdown is upon us as Pest Control, the Banksy-backed authentication body set up by Steve Lazarides of Lazarides gallery is attempting to get Vermin’s street art Banksy’s removed from the Lyon & Turnbull Contemporary artauction, set to start viewings on Thursday this week in Marlebone.
The Telegraph has a update on the controversial auction: 
“The [...]

10k Profit off short selling

Get into work, hung-over, and this guy who sits opposite me tells me he’s made a 6k loss on the markets this morning.  I’m staggered, he punts his own money here and there makes a 100 quid, 2 if he’s lucky.
Turns out though he’s moaning that he closed off half his bet last night, and if [...]

Large Hadron Rap

Turn the geek factor up to max and you still might pull up short on this LHC rap-tour

(Thanks Deb)

Gonzo: The movie

I can confirm that the first UK viewing of the Hunter S Thompson documentary Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr Hunter S Thompson by Alex Gibney will be at this years London Film Festival.
Other films that will be on include Oliver Stone’s biopic of Bush, simply called W and Steve McQueen’s Hunger, a biopic [...]

Stockmood

Just come across Stockmood.com on the Techcruch50 site which is hosting a 2 day startup conference in San Francisco.
Stockmood apparently use artificial intelligence to fish through the national press (US, that is) and gather sentiment about particular shares:

Banksy authentication

Artnet have a very interesting article on the companies formed around providing some credibility (note, not authenticity) around street art and more specifically Banksy’s work.
The first is Pest Control, which is loosely based around Lazarides gallery.
This in itself isn’t very surprising as it is the largest distributor of Banksy artwork and prints and [...]

Stuff white people like

I just found this site Stuff White People Like through Coolhunters.com. Luckily I was just looking for an excuse to toss out my Phillip Glass Pocahontas cd, or whatever it was called.
Very amusing

Broken wrist

On Sunday i slipped on my bike going round a wet corner. The back slid out from under me on the wet tarmac but i braked and corrected and not a second later the back wheel slid out again and i went down. I fell on the right wrist. Lying [...]