Surprise, surprise London’s not different to other cities when it comes to having it’s own distinct dialect. But how come that THE London dialect hasn’t got it’s roots in the city or in one of the posh areas in and near the centre?
Read the full blog on http://www.fm1721.com/2011/02/16/cockney-in-kilburn/
Who said that Austria is an island (of bliss) in the centre of Europe, a tiny system on it’s own? Nowadays Austrian companies and brands are going out for taking over the world. Doing that they’re applying high sophisticated marketing and branding strategies, ain’t they?
Read the full blog on http://www.fm1721.com/2011/01/01/worldwide-austria/
Recently I’ve been moaning about street art in London. A couple of weeks passed by though and I have to admit now that I was wrong. To some extent. I discovered street artists making the invisible visible.
Read the full article on http://www.fm1721.com/2010/12/19/in-visible-street-art/
What’s wrong with you guys, for fuck’s sake? It can’t be that difficult sending your two Overground trains per hour on time, can it? I mean it’s only two trains… Why can you guys not just offer a proper service?
Read the full letter on http://www.fm1721.com/2010/12/16/letter-to-the-tfl/
Art could be defined quite narrow: paintings, sculptures, literature, music; all these classic ways of artists expressing their view on certain things. But nowadays art is more than that. Street art for instance became quite popular. Looking for the street art community in London might disappoint though.
Read the full article on http://www.fm1721.com/2010/10/17/street-art-here-and-there/
Coming from countries like Austria or Germany I was used to postcodes describing whole districts, villages and even smaller towns. That’s different in the UK where postcodes have been introduced to locate single streets or even houses. That’s grand when spinning this thought out!
Read the full article on http://www.fm1721.com/2010/09/28/what-a-postcode-can-tell/
Creative industries have largely been transitioning from offline to online in the last couple of years. That’s good in many respects. Fortunately the offline world doesn’t entirely die off – there are still brilliant creative minds out there, offline. Blobitects for instance.
Read the full article on http://www.fm1721.com/2010/08/17/blobitecture/
The other day I learned that certain things are not happening because they are stupid, no there’s another reason: It’s because they have special needs. In my defence I have to say that I wouldn’t have thought that they are stupid, not all of them.
Read the full article on http://www.fm1721.com/2010/07/30/it-s-not-because-they-are-stupid/
When thinking of the English language then we inevitably think of internationality. When walking through London we hear loads of different languages and might tend to presume that the British are open minded for other cultures and consequently other languages. However I do believe that they’re mainly not.
Read the full article on http://www.fm1721.com/2010/07/20/weltanschauung-or-zeitgeist/
