Oyez, Oyez! Reminder to Londoners…

Here’s a final reminder for all those who are able to get into London this evening:

Location map here. Everyone’s welcome, and it’s free, so please come along!

What my neighbours are up to…

YouTube’s new geolocation/videolocation mash-up is a bit scary in that it allows you to find out what your neighbours have posted on YouTube. Wait until the Daily Mail hears about this one.
Nevertheless, I checked it out and was delighted to find this video of Space Pirates in the Greenwich Foot Tunnel. It was opened in [...]

One Night Only – London Goes Feral

Readers of BLDGBLOG will have noticed that Geoff Manaugh, along with ‘chaoplexic warfare’ guru Antoine Bousquet, are appearing together on 26th November in central London. I’m pleased to say I’ve played a small part in getting the evening together, through my co-stewardship of the Complex Terrain Laboratory, who are hosting this first in a series [...]

Maunsell Forts

What’s not to love? Like marine AT-ATs standing sentinel over the sealanes approaching London, these are the WWII Red Sands Maunsell Forts:

Image from Subterrain. More on the Thames Maunsell Forts here, here, here, here, here and here. Spotted at Cyber Badger. Also, Geoff Manaugh on the forts.
For a taste of what it’s like to move [...]

Flying Cities and Mobile Micronations

A lazy post this, but also an experiment, for unspecified nefarious purposes: republishing an old post from a year ago, very lightly edited … (apologies to all those who’ve seen it before)

BLDGBLOG posted on the Helicopter Archipelago a couple of times, based on the work of Geoff Manaugh himself and Leah Beeferman at inkbox.org (who [...]