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A groundbreakingly dark 1973 public information film narrated by the late, great Donald Pleasence which – depending on your vintage – will either amuse you, chill you or occasion a powerful wave of nostalgia for Saturday morning children’s programmes on BBC.

‘I’ll be back, back, back….’

*shudder*

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An ongoing attempt to see how fast a bike can go by bike maker Tom Donhou, filmed by Spindle Productions what sez:

Experiments in speed. Inspired by those great men of the salt flats, those men that in the 60s pushed the Land Speed Record from the 300s up towards the 600mph mark in jet-propelled cars built in their sheds. We decided to do what we do: build a bicycle, but this time, in the spirit of those pioneers of speed, build it to see how fast we could go…

Now that…is a chainring.

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Oh dear oh dear..

Rational debate needed on the impact of excessive use of game consoles (Fidelma Healy Eames, August 2011)

Via Hugh Rawlinson

Fidelma Healy Eames (twitter)

Previously: Fauxdelma Healy Eames

Fidelma: The Frape Tape

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Every year since 2000, London’s Sepentine Gallery has invited a leading architect or artist to create a temporary structure on its front lawn. Last year, it was Ai Weiwei. In 2008, Frank Gehry had a go.

This year, it’s the turn of Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, who created a 350 square meter lattice of steel poles, illuminated by LED lights installed by London-based United Visual Artists, which are designed (along with suitable sound effects) to mimic an electrical storm.

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