Lift New Parliament = The Lift!

Nice film from the Lift website about what the Lift (formerly the 'new parliament') is to be about.

Olympic logos

Following today's launch of the new £400K Olympic logo following an extensive 'visioning' process by Wolff Olins,
I just had to laugh when I saw this alternative London 2012 logo sent in by someone to the BBC News website.

The Girl Chewing Gum

This superb little documentary from 1976 not only depicts a fascinating slice of London east end life but also raises some important questions about truth, fiction and representation in documentary film-making. Godardian in its ambitions, it uses the representation of a street corner in a Dalston neighbourhood to produce a hilarious montage of effects and questions. To begin with you might think that the narrator is adopting a Tati-esque micro-choreography but the perspective soon shifts...

Watch it for yourself and then you will see...

For a more thorough analysis of John Smith's work, see here.