16 June 2012

Telephone Boxes Invade London

The UK has just had the Queen’s Jubilee which was a great success (albeit a rather soggy one) and the celebrations continue. The London Olympics are just around the corner and to anticipate that and simply to keep the flag flying (as it were) British Telecom have launched an art project the aim of which is to revitalize that most British of icons, the telephone box. And, of course, to raise an awful lot of money for charity!

Known as the ArtBox Project, replicas of the famous Gilbert Scott box have been placed all over London.  There is something of a throng of them (we’re not sure what the collective noun is for telephone boxes!) at the moment at Trafalgar Square in the heart of the city’s West End.

After the Olympics these telephone boxes will then be auctioned off for charity. The organisation which will benefit is ChildLine, a service for young people which helps them get help and advice about a wide range of issues.  The charity is celebrating its own silver jubilee (twenty five years) this year and is a very worthy recipient of the monies which will be raised.

You certainly don't see this sort of thing often. Here we have Big Ben in the shadow of, well, Big Ben!

So here is a selection of the ArtBox boxes. We’ll be bringing you more as we seem them! If you would like to see all of them or register your interest in participating in the auction for one of them, click here.



First Image Credit Flickr User CTRL-F5

9 June 2012

Zombi U Trailer


This is quite spectacular but before you watch this can I make clear that I am not including this either as an advert or because I am a fan of gaming (I think the last shoot ‘em up game was probably Space Invaders and I'm not sure that counts anyway).

I am including this on Kuriositas simply because I found the animation quite extraordinary.  From the soundtrack used it looks as if it is set in and around the recent Jubilee celebrations. I have to say I have never heard God Save the Queen used for the soundtrack to a zombie apocalypse before but it works!

This is a debut trailer for Zombi U from a certain u-biquitous gaming company. It shows that the action will take place in Great Britain, after a zombie virus has devastated the country. Seemingly the game will be for those over a certain age only. You’re not kidding!