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| Much the same view (via) |
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The Advanced Style blog, launched by Ari Seth Cohen in 2008, is much loved for celebrating the fashion flair of ladies of a certain age. Its influence has, at least in part, led to brands ranging from Lanvin to American Apparel using older models. This spring sees a documentary film to accompany the site, following several AS favourites as they pull together their outfits. [The film premiers in the UK at the Curzon Mayfair on 6 May.] One woman makes eyelashes out of her own hair; another designs trousers to put over her leg brace. They are united in their determined pursuit of personal style – something that is to be admired at any age.
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Daily painting - a 64-day project by Christopher Baker -
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See some of the results via youtube or on his website. The exhibition is at the Kevis House Gallery, Petworth, 3-17 May and at the nearby Moncrief-Bray gallery, 4-24 May.
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30 years since the Aids virus was discovered, the public seems not to know much about the disease, especially men aged 16-24, finds a survey by the National Aids Trust. People's understanding hasn't kept pace with medical advances, for instance emergency treatment PEP. If a sufferer is doing well on treatment, the chance of passing on HIV through unprotected sex is virtually zero. Nearly 100,000 people in Britain are living with HIV, more than a fifth of whom are unaware that they are infected; in 2012, there were 6360 new HIV diagnoses in Britain - and of the 35 million people worldwide living with HIV/Aids, 69% are in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Cheap food - what's the real cost? 90% of the world's soya and a third of cereal is fed to factory-farmed animals - whereas these crops could feed millions of starving people. Cows and sheep release more than a third of the world's methane, which is 23 times as warming as CO2 ... industrial farming is causing ecological meltdown. In May, Friends of the Earth is running a Meat-Free May campaign - information and fundraising packs will be available soon from their website. As the saying goes, "every little helps", including just cutting down on meat consumption - a quarter of adults in the UK say they eat less meat now than a year ago, and one in six young people doesn't eat any meat at all. The internet is stuffed full of vegetarian recipes - here, for instance -
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| "This was believed to be a sheep grown on a plant from a melon-like seed. Introduced to England by Sir John Mandeville in the fourteenth century, an example of this legendary zoophyte can be found at Lambeth Palace." |
Adam Dant's "Vegetable Lamb of Tartary" is part of his set of chiaroscuro woodcuts, "Ten Creatures of London Legend".
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| The phantom chicken has been seen as recently as 1970 in Pond Square, Highgate. |
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Beginner's guide to north london cultural gems - here - useful for residents who haven't been out of doors for some years, too. (There's a south london guide as well.)
For instance ... the Zabludovicz Collection has been within walking distance since 2007, and has a cafe, and this is the first I've heard of it?
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| (via The Londonist) |
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