{"id":38,"date":"2007-09-05T23:26:24","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T21:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/2007\/09\/05\/london-still-rules\/"},"modified":"2007-09-06T21:45:36","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T19:45:36","slug":"london-still-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/2007\/09\/05\/london-still-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"London still rules!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-content\/thames.jpg\" alt=\"The Thames\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The German news-magazine <em>Der Spiegel <\/em>wrote in its last issue on the titelpage<br \/>\n&#8220;Forget about London and Paris!&#8221; and was claiming that the new trendy cities are<br \/>\nBarcelona, Dublin, Copenhagen, Tallinn and Hamburg. They might be right about<br \/>\nthat. I&#8217;m myself sure about, that Copenhagen is going to be a big place for culture<br \/>\nand creativity. At least in the Summer. Because I&#8217;ve just spent a weekend there<br \/>\nlately and the atmosphere was splendid. But how so ever&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; don&#8217;t forget about London!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-content\/parksteet.jpg\" alt=\"Invader\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space-invaders.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Check the Spaceinvaders<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just had the pleasure spending a week there. And believe me, it still is one of the<br \/>\nmost vital places in Europe. Many things did change since I lived there ten years ago.<br \/>\nFor example Soho is not the ultimate district anymore. Most of the cool record- and<br \/>\nclothing-stores are gone, but the old flair it is still there.  The beautiful old italianstyle<br \/>\ncafe-houses are still opened and you got nice, weird and dodgy people running around,<br \/>\njust like in the old days.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-content\/soho11.jpg\" alt=\"In Soho\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just chilling in Soho<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-content\/soho2.jpg\" alt=\"Aha!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aha! The birthplace of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_blake\" target=\"_blank\">William Blake<\/a>, which appears not to be there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-content\/bricklane6.jpg\" alt=\"Brick Lane\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sclater Street corner Brick Lane<\/p>\n<p>But the new stylee quarter of London is of course, Brick Lane, a street in the East End<br \/>\nof London, although called Banglatown, because of the Bangladeshi community witch has<br \/>\nlocated itself there. But it was as well used to be the heart of the Jewish an the Huguenot<br \/>\ncommunities. And since the 1990s it is a good area for clubbing, shopping and watching<br \/>\nstreet-art. Artists like Banksy and Dface are supposed to have a lot of work done there lately.<br \/>\nUnfortunately I did not find much of it. Anyway artists like Gilbert &amp; George even live there.<br \/>\nMost of the Clubs and Galleries are located in and around the Old Truman Brewery. Over all<br \/>\nI like Brick Lane, because of its fucked up and completely graffiti bombed sights. Great!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-content\/bricklane121.jpg\" alt=\"Trashy doors\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-content\/bricklane2.jpg\" alt=\"All about me me me me\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A funny stencil in Brick Lane<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-content\/bricklane4.jpg\" alt=\"Galerie\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clickforart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">clickforart.com gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-content\/bricklane5.jpg\" alt=\"Brewery\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Old Truman Brewery<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-content\/bricklane10.jpg\" alt=\"Dface\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A smashed car by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dface.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dface<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-content\/bricklane7.jpg\" alt=\"Invaders\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Spaceinvader (well, somebody has drawn a penis on to)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-content\/bricklane11.jpg\" alt=\"Invader\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More of that stuff<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-content\/bricklane1.jpg\" alt=\"Brick Lane\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More street-art in Brick Lane. Maybe a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.banksy.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Banksy?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-content\/bricklane8.jpg\" alt=\"graffiti\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More graffs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-content\/greed.jpg\" alt=\"Greed\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A stencil at Shepherd Bush Market<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-content\/bricklane9.jpg\" alt=\"Cam\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But you&#8217;re always being watched&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-content\/bricklane3.jpg\" alt=\"police\" \/><\/p>\n<p>at least they got new beamers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German news-magazine Der Spiegel wrote in its last issue on the titelpage &#8220;Forget about London and Paris!&#8221; and was claiming that the new trendy cities are Barcelona, Dublin, Copenhagen, Tallinn and Hamburg. They might be right about that. I&#8217;m myself sure about, that Copenhagen is going to be a big place for culture and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever-happens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fluctibus.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}