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Monday, July 26
pPod the chic way to spend a penny in London
Les Francais are waiting for le pissPod
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NYKRIS have launched pPod - the world's first >iPod based interactive audio service.
pPod combines text, spoken word audio, and music to deliver a guide to London's public loos - truly a convenience for iPod users on the move.
Go to the pPod page and download the 7mb file.
pPod is on the BBC
I found this - The Toilet Museum
If you spent all you money on an i-pod to have a nice pee, you will soon be able to stay at Stelios' new venture the easy Hotel. It should be opening soon. It is going to be very basic, quel
surprise! But it is in a nice area of London not far from Harrods (I remember thier loos used to be very nice. Back in the sixties Mum took off her emerald ring to wash her hands and forgot it on the wash basin. She telephoned the night watchman, who kindly went to look and miraculously it was still there).
The easy Hotel has kind of modular rooms, with at least, a double bed, shower and LOO from £5 a night...
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Thursday, July 15
Art Galleries, are they scaring away thier victims?
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This is a fascinating article from The Art Newspaper that I found on Forbes.
It dicusses how art can be sold outside the confines of galleries and all that they entail. Are Art Galleries Necessary?
"Contemporary art dealers are finding that art fairs and the Internet can replace the hassle and expense of maintaining a full-time gallery". more>>
I also came accross this spot on piece on Jason Calcanis Art Blog, Gallery Rudeness by Caryn Coleman citing an article by Paige West of Art Addict
"Intimidation is a well-known sales tactic, especially in some of the Blue Chip galleries. If you aren't "in the club" (they don't know you and/or you've never purchased anything at the gallery), many galleries won't offer any assistance, even if you ask"...more>>
Too true, the same can be said of some auction houses, estate agents, restaurants, hairdressers, hotels and chic shops. Manners...?
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Tuesday, July 13
Pokia....makes the Mayfair phone fun
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 This is the new Mayfair model
The retro accessory, now only a series of prototypes made in London by the British designer Nicolas Roope, was inspired by Roope's disdain for trends in cellphones, which seem to have reached a dead end, with metallic and miniature becoming moronic and minuscule...via IHT
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Monday, July 12
This is the ideal London Transport, neat site, check out thier links page
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"We are the designers and makers of the Brompton folding bike. The Brompton is a bike which rides well, is safe, and yet folds easily into a very compact and portable package: other folding bikes have their own character and purpose, but none we feel matches the Brompton's convenience or gives you the same freedom and independence". Brompton Bbicycle
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Saturday, July 10
August evening
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EDWARD SAID MEMORIAL CONCERT
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (conductor/piano)
Barbican Concert Hall, London EC2
Wednesday 4 August 2004, 7.30 p.m.
The London Review of Books is delighted to bring the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra under their conductor Daniel Barenboim to the Barbican on 4 August to celebrate the work of Edward Said, who died in September last year.
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Wednesday, July 7
The saga of the parrot and the fourposter bed
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Several years ago, whilst in Toulouse to collect a fourposter bed. My partner Alastair went to buy me a puppy as a present, the pet shop didn't have any, so he got 2 Canaries instead. On his way out he heard anguished shrieks coming from the back of the shop. There in the gloom was a red and grey African parrot in a tiny cage on the floor. This was the start of our parrot saga. There wasn't room in the van for the bed, the cages and us. So a friend drove and we took the train back to Provence. It was a night train, the parrot shrieked the whole time. We called him Corot, perhaps subconsciously because "the Corot" had caused much trouble over the years. Anyway, Corot was sad and lonely and needed better quarters; So Richard and Pierrot our friends who just happened to be master welders were commissioned to make a bird palace fit for Corot.
In the mean time we scoured the pet shops for a companion, near Avignon we found "Richard" another red and grey. He had a very poorly friend huddled up next to him, a black Madagascan...we called him "Pierrot". The aviary was splendid, customisable, demountable. Filled with trees and fallen branches, also a mist system. OK so I couldn't resist buying the tropical rainforest tape! (it was played about once, although I am sure I detected a flicker of appreciation from Corot).
They all got along fine, even the canaries. The fencing was of a smaller guage to stop the canaries escaping. Little by little we saw chewed bits, holes. They were repaired. Richard would sit on a tree and sing away to Pierrot as a diversionary tactic while Corot clipped through the wire.
I had a dream about them escaping, that morning I went downstairs and heard people shouting that the birds had gone! The canaries were still there as was poor Pierrot, but Richard and Corot were gone! We all rushed round the garden (the aviary was on the terrace outside the dining room) we caught sight of something red in one of the little pine trees. It was Richard, he didn't want to come down. Alastair finally managed to reach him, Richard grabbed the palm of his hand in his pincer beak, it hurt. So he was safe and sound and back with Pierrot. I am really glad that Corot flew to freedom and wish the others had gone too. A neighbor came to tell us she had seen a red and green parrot in her garden, was it ours. We saw parrots in Avignon, in the trees behind Credit Agricole.
When winter came the cage was dismantled and put up in the living room. This was fine for all, the 4 dogs never bothered the birds, the mice lived on the floor of the cage and ate seeds. One morning Pierrot was dead on the floor. He usually perched on an old wooden ladder. We took him to the vet, who said that we should be able to find out quite easily how he died. He took a big pair of scissors and literally cut him in half! I am very fond of the vet he is the dearest of friends, but he obviously didn't think that we might be feeling a bit sad or upset by poor Pierrots' demise, he was still warmish. He had always picked at his feathers and looked very ragged, his beak was white which made him seem somewhat anaemic too. So there he was, neatly sliced, mirrored, Pat said immediately that it was kidney failure. Well.
Richard was lonely. We could see all this happening again. When Corot arrived we had thought of flying to Africa and setting him free. One day Pat took us to see a client who kept all kinds of birds, including African Greys, so Richard was introduced into the bird place. I heard some time later that he had mated, had children and was happy. Isn't that super. So when I hear of all these news stories about Parrot infestations in England, on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco as Marc Canter wrote about and elsewhere, I am pleased they are free. Maybe one of them is someone's Corot.
P.S. The fourposter was too tall for the bedroom ceiling and so languished in the garage until flooded...which is another story.
I know that by rescuing Corot from the pet shop prison others were ordered to replace him. We must stop this pet trade and the breeding of animals for pets.
World Parrot Trust
THE CHARITY FUNDING PROJECTS AND PROMOTING
EXCELLENCE IN PARROT CONSERVATION AND WELFARE The WPT is campaigning to stop importation of wild caught birds into the European Union. Sign the petition
Please red this about the plight of Parrots.The African Grey Parrot, Psittacus erithacus, has a wide distribution, across the tropical belt of Africa, including the islands of Bioko and PrÃncipe in the Gulf of Guinea. This species is harvested intensively for the pet trade. More>>
Free Parrots.net News and views v.good site, you can join, help.
Harvard biologist Mike Schindlinger introduces you to the parrots he studies, as individuals, as they move through their daily lives - singing, cavorting and playing as they explore their environment; doing chores, like eating, roosting, and caring for young - with an intelligence not dissimilar, in ways, to our own. More>>
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Tuesday, July 6
The ultimate Wishlist
The girl with the pearl earing probably knew her...so delightfull, her story is too...
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Johannes Vermeer (1632-75) A Young Woman Seated at the Virginals
Seeing the light by Gregory Rubinstein
"When Baron Freddy Rolin walked into my office in the spring of 1993, carrying a small painting under his arm, I certainly did not expect it to be the beginning of a deeply engrossing research project, which would last more than a decade. Nor did I imagine that at the end of it all, the painting would be generally accepted as an authentic work by that most intriguing and mysterious of all the Dutch masters of the 17th century, Johannes Vermeer.....
.....This short account can only give a small taste of this picture's life story since the day more than 300 years ago when Vermeer first put his brush to the canvas. It has, however, been my great privilege to have accompanied this young woman on her way for the last eleven years, and steer her towards the fast-approaching moment when she will become the first Vermeer to be offered for sale at auction since 1921".
Read the whole story >>
Gregory Rubinstein is a senior director in the Old Master Paintings & Drawings department, Sotheby's London.
Old Master Paintings, Part 1
July 7, 2004 at 7:00 pm Sotheby's 34-35 New Bond Street, London
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Sunday, July 4
If you aren't going to the British Grand Prix next weekend , go to LA
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Swink invites you to celebrate the Lying, Cheating & Stealing online theme issue:
Sunday, July 11th
1644 Elevado Street
Los Angeles, CA 90026 (in Silverlake)
Reading starts at 7:00 pm
Celebration starts at 8:00 pm
Open bar
Please RSVP to laparty@swinkmag.com or at 310.861.5996
Swink is a new L.A. NY literary magazine.
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