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Vote Cameron, Get Murdoch
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Highlights from Creativity and Technology London - Emma Hall and Kunur Patel - Cat: Creativity and Technology - Creativity Online
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Networked urban spaces, the screen to real world crossover, why some creatives will be out of jobs very soon—check out the highlights from Creativity and Technology in London.
Perhaps the brainiest speaker in a day packed with intellect was Nokia's head of design direction, Adam Greenfield, who talked about networked urban spaces—imagining a city that could collect data and adapt to how its residents used public spaces and services, like traffic lights and buildings.
He said, "We need to stop thinking of the city as bricks that don't communicate. In the computer revolution, every constant in the world becomes a variable; everything around us is scriptable, which makes everything deeply interactive."
Mr. Greenfield described the experience of living in a modern city, and the tension between the advantages of a digital life and the "melancholy" that it can bring.
"The environment is deeply knowable," he said. "Urban savoir-faire is served back to us on a silver plate, which is good in one way, but it makes specialist knowledge profoundly less valuable. Big cities force people to live cheek-by-jowl with difference, and that friction makes us grow. When we wrap ourselves in online comfort and only seek out people like ourselves, we lose something important and real."
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Location: HydroHealing
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Sporting a clean white and blue exterior, it is all too easy to miss HydroHealing amongst the more glamorous boutiques and eateries lining the renowned Kensington Park Road. But forget aesthetic assumptions, because this establishment, which opened to the relief of many a stressed-out urbanite in 2005, offers a serene kind of health sanctuary unlike other typical city spas. More strictly speaking a self-confessed ‘wellness centre’, low mood lighting, recliners and plenty of holistic literature all work to slow guests’ breath upon entering. Yes, there are echoes of a doctor’s surgery about the interior, albeit one that boasts luxury pampering products and aromatherapy candles. But, unlike your average GP, individuals here enter treatment rooms smiling, not scared.
The treatment menu runs the entire gauntlet of upscale healing for the holistic lover. From facial acupuncture to reflexology, the entire offering takes a rounded approach to health and provides anything from a sensory, soporific Hydrosteam (incredible) to the surprisingly popular Hydrocolonic (interesting). Based on the idea that stress manifests in the skin, in the head and in the digestive system, each treatment takes a preventative approach to addressing related issues, whilst the friendly, expert therapists who administer them all possess the knack of making you (momentarily) forget why you visited in the first place.
216a Kensington Park Road, W11 1NR London, United Kingdom
Mon - Thur, 10:00 - 20:00 Fri - Sat 10:00 - 19:00 Sun 11:00 - 18:00
+4402077272570
http://www.hydrohealing.com
info@hydrohealing.com
[Hammersmith] on Ladbroke Grove or [Central] Notting Hill Gate
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Location: Other Criteria
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Fancy investing in some original contemporary art? Well, with the help of Mr Damian ‘formaldehyde’ Hirst and other similarly gifted artists, animators and design aficionados, Other Criteria is a shop that allows budding collectors to do just that.
With offices based in New York, Marylebone and most recently Mayfair, Other Criteria provides a different kind of space for established and emerging artists to showcase their creations; t-shirts, jewellery, photographs, posters and books being amongst the many coveted, limited edition gems that adorn the gallery-like space. It’s nothing less than eclectic, with originality scoring as the high as the quality of each exquisite bejeweled clasp, hand bound book or organic limited printed shirt. Hardly surprising though, when artists including Banksy, David Bailey or possibly Emma Bell have had a firsthand role it.
A true first for the UK, Other Criteria and its 11 strong team of contributing ‘artistes’ mark a refreshing departure away from regurgitated design aesthetics, instead dishing up a generous serving of authentic artistry that’s as affordable as it is acclaimed. It’s about art in the here and now, not designs that are here, there and replicated everywhere. Is the end for IKEA nigh?
14 Hinde Street, W1U 3BG London, United Kingdom
Mon - Sat 10:00-18:00 Sun - closed
+442079355550
http://www.othercriteria.com
hindest@othercriteria.com
[Central] Bond Street tube [Victoria] Oxford Circus tube
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Location: One Aldwych
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The One Aldwych may only be 10 years young, but it has already joined the top ranks of London’s luxury hotel set. Nestled between the Covent Garden theatre district and the Strand, and just short stroll across the Waterloo Bridge from the South Bank Centre, its distinctive triangular building (the home, until 1929, of The Morning Post) is an ideal haunt for arts lovers.
But One Aldwych offers something even rarer than an excellent location: after all, there aren’t many hotels where staying “home” actually feels like a feasible option. But this place combines class with cosy: it features the haute cuisine restaurant Axis, a health club, a pool with underwater music, an in-house cinema for private screenings, exquisite British-style breakfasts – even TVs in the bathrooms.
The hotel is the highly personal brainchild of Gordon Campbell Gray, who makes sure that One Aldwych is run with environmentally-friendly efficiency (right down to the vacuum-flushing lavatories) and with a polite, pleasant and highly refreshing lack of pretension. A real original on the five star hotel scene.
1 Aldwych, WC2B 4RH London, United Kingdom
'Round the clock reception
+442073001000
http://www.onealdwych.com/
reservations@onealdwych.com
[Picadilly] at Covent Garden; [Beakerloo] [Northern] at Charing Cross
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Those Brits still know how to party....
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The posh London eatery at the Ivy Club is accustomed to a boldfaced crowd. But there were more glam fashion types than usual packed in on Sunday night for the dinner that Sir Philip Green hosted to celebrate his Topshop Unique show: Natalia Vodianova, Naomi Campbell, and Dree Hemingway sat in one corner; Alexa Chung, Vivienne Westwood, and Henry Holland in another; and smack-dab in the middle was Vogue's Anna Wintour, flanked by Burberry's Christopher Bailey and Kate Moss. Even the notoriously hard-to-please Simon Cowell was impressed: "There are some pretty birds here," he was overheard telling a friend.
Dinner conversation stuck to the obvious: Topshop. At one point, Lily Donaldson, Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, and Jacquetta Wheeler were all comparing their high street duds: Donaldson in Kate Moss for Topshop, Restoin-Roitfeld in Christopher Kane for Topshop, and Wheeler in the main line. One person dared ask La Moss what she was wearing, and it didn't end well. "What do you think I'd be wearing?" she shot back, two packs of Marlboro Lights in hand. But Sir Philip was much more chatty, especially about the British Fashion Council's 25th anniversary. "The people in this room are why London fashion is so important," he said, noting that he was happy that the likes of Bailey and Matthew Williamson had returned. "Hopefully, this is a start for more designers to come back, to make London great again."
The night ended with a surprise concert on the top floor of the Ivy. "Don't worry, it's not Simon," Green jested at the start of dinner. In fact, it was Bryan Ferry, and his intimate set had practically everyone marching up the staircases. "Vivienne Westwood's hair whipped me in the face when she went for the dance floor," Leigh Lezark laughed. "Which was completely OK with me."— Derek Blasberg
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Kensington Roof Gardens London
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for food....
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for clubbing....
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LocationThe Roof Gardens is located at 99 Kensington High Street (London, W8 5SA). Access to the building is via Derry Street which branches off Kensington High Street.
They are only a short walk from Kensington Gardens, part of London's sprawling Hyde Park, as well as the exclusive Holland Park area of the city. High Street Kensington has great shopping, and you're only a 30 minute walk or two stops on the tube from the world-renowned museums in South Kensington.
Events Department:
T: +44 (0)207 368 3971 | events@roofgardens.virgin.comBabylon Restaurant:
T: +44 (0)207 368 3993 | babylon@roofgardens.virgin.comThe Club:
T: +44 (0)207 368 3992 | club@roofgardens.virgin.comThe Gardens:
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London Design Festival | Sep 19 - Sep 27, starts at 11:00 h at Victoria & Albert Museum | london.unlike
In the way that London summers usually mean an onslaught of music festivals descend upon the capital; similarly autumn sees the cultural equivalent happening. In amongst the art fairs, the architecture tours and the film festivals, the London Design Festival shines like a beacon, calling to all those harbouring interior decor intentions, cool college students and Wallpaper* subscribers, to be blinded by the incredible array of the design talent on show. This year the LDF is strengthening its partnership with the V&A to present exhibitions and talks that represent the mad, the sublime and all in between. At the V&A itself you’ll find ‘In Praise of Shadows’, where 20 European designers will showcase work which deals with low energy lighting, challenging the interplay between light and darkness. And renowned London designers Terence Conran and Sir John Sorrell will be leading tours around their favourite bits of the museum. Read more @ :
http://london.unlike.net/event_occurrences/106684-London-Design Festival#ixzz0QhFx6hSx
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Amazing Ciara - Work - Live at the O2 Arena London - Sunday 14th June 2009
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Anna Wintour, VOGUE interview with David Letterman......
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Is it just me or is US Vogue Editor in Chief Anna Wintour fast becoming the newest A-lister in town? Fresh from the news that she’ll be jetting in for London Fashion Week in September, she rocked up to the premiere of The September Issue in a Prada resort dress (setting tongues a’wagging with the tongue in cheek sartorial reference to The Devil Wears Prada), and last night appeared on US chat show David Letterman. Aside from her flirtatious glances at the camera and coquettish doe-eyed insouciance as she answered Letterman’s questions from under her bobbed fringe, we actually reckon la Wintour came off pretty well. Big tick for the Carolina Herrera Resort 2010 poppy print dress, big tick for the super-bitchy ‘sometimes people don’t like it when they get an answer they don’t want to hear’, and a huge gold star for finally picking up Letterman on those disastrous socks of his. Watch the interview.....
