London Daily Photo: LiquorLand

London Daily Photo: LiquorLand
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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London Daily Photo: Commercial St

London Daily Photo: Commercial St
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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London Daily Photo: Seen Better Days

London Daily Photo: Seen Better Days
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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London Daily Photo: Winter Light

London Daily Photo: Winter Light
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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London Daily Photo: Exmouth Market Lights

London Daily Photo: Exmouth Market Lights
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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London Daily Photo: Christmas Clearance Store

London Daily Photo: Christmas Clearance Store
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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London Daily Photo: Whitecross Santa

London Daily Photo: Whitecross Santa
Photography by Emiana © 2007
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Best of Londonist's "What's for Lunch?" 2007

Here's a final 2007 What's for Lunch? post for Londonist. Stayed tuned for subsequent instalments in 2008 on Tuesdays around noon.

What was for Lunch in 2007
by Chris Osburn
Londonist
December 25, 2007










Overall, the 2007 London lunch scene provided us with an abundance of exceptionally good dining options. Indeed, the vast majority of our lunchtime destinations received a rating of 7 (out of 10) or higher and only two spots came in with a below 5 rating. Seven eateries tied for the year’s best, each with a rating of 9.5. Although not technically all East Enders, they are quite coincidentally all located east of center.

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London Daily Photo: The Stockings were Hung

London Daily Photo: The Stockings were Hung
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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London Daily Photo: Glad Tidings from Brick Lane

London Daily Photo: Glad Tidings from Brick Lane
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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London Daily Photo: Back Hill Santa

London Daily Photo: Back Hill Santa
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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London Daily Photo: Chestnuts Roasting

London Daily Photo: Chestnuts Roasting
Photography by Emiana © 2007
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London Slow Food Christmas Market at South Bank

A Good, Clean, Fair, and Slow Christmas Food Market
Chris Osburn
Londonist
December 21, 2007










With this season’s frenetic pace quickening with the passing of each day till the Twenty-fifth, Londonist genuinely appreciates Slow Food London’s mellowed and delicious approach to “good and clean and fair” Christmas shopping. Located immediately outside South Bank’s Royal Festival Hall (on the non-riverside Belvedere Road bit), the Slow Food London Christmas Market commenced yesterday and continues through Sunday, from 11am to 8pm each day.

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Qype enjoys some slow food
from Linus
(featuring photos by Chris Osburn)
Qype*Vibes
21.12.2007










The Slow Food organisation is an international movement that believes our food should taste good, be fair (i.e. the producers should not be exploited) and also be clean without any negative effects on the environment. The Christmas market was just one of the initiatives the organisation has organised to promote their message, and it was a great opportunity to see just how great ’slow food’ can be as well as pick up a few last minute presents.

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London Daily Photo: You Know Who Watchin' You

London Daily Photo: You Know Who Watchin' You
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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Strychnin Gallery Interview for Whitehot Magazine

Interview with Yasha Young of Strychnin Gallery
Chris Osburn
whitehot magazine of contemporary art
December 2007

















... once dreams come true they do not always turn out the way we hoped to - and how difficult it all can be and will be and the idea of what happens when parents leave the room and we are left alone with the monsters under out beds and the ghosts on the ceilings and the whispers in the closet?

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London Daily Photo: Tis the Season for Prick Piercing

London Daily Photo: Tis the Season for Prick Piercing
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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Herakut X 2 (and Some Luc Price)

Here are the links to a couple of lil diddies I did for Juxtapoz: one, photos from the opening of the Herakut/Luc Price exhibition at London's Leonard Street Gallery and two, an interview with Germany's dynamic graffiti duo, Herakut. Enjoy.

Photos: Herakut and Luc Price in London
by Chris Osburn
Juxtapoz
Tuesday, 18 December 2007










Photos from the December 15th opening of Permission to Paint at London's Leonard Street Gallery. The show features new works and installation by German graffiti duo Herakut as well as new works and installation by British artist Luc Price. Permission to Paint is on view until January 11th.

Click here for all the photos.

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Interview: Herakut - Mutual Appreciation
Words and photos by Chris Osburn
Juxtapoz
Tuesday, 18 December 2007










Herakut, the girl/boy German collaborative graffiti team of Hera and Akut, is as unlikely a "crew" as ever you're apt to meet. By the time he was fourteen, scruffy and self-taught Akut was already painting in the streets while graceful and tidy Hera was in the midst of her ten years of a stringent technical arts education, to which her work is more of a reaction than a reference.

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London Daily Photo: Restoration Completed

London Daily Photo: Restoration Completed
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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Londonist asks "What's for Lunch?" Betjeman’s

Here's another What's for Lunch? post for Londonist. Stayed tuned for subsequent instalments on Tuesdays around noon.

What's for Lunch? Betjeman’s
by Chris Osburn
Londonist
December 18, 2007









Across the street from celebrated Club Gascon (with a list of accolades out its coulis) and hardly more than a belly roll from “nose to tail” gastro-fiends St John Smithfield, wine bar and restaurant Betjeman’s holds its own. And what a relief. Unlike Gascon and St John, Betjeman’s takes it easy on the sumptuous as well as on the prices (although it still ain’t cheap). Named after Poet Laureate, Sir John Betjeman (the premises were once his home), Betjeman’s is simply good.

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London Daily Photo: Procedure

London Daily Photo: Procedure
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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Tumbleweeds Replace US Tourists at Covent Garden?

CNBC video report on absense of Americans in London ...


No Tourists in London

London Daily Photo: Hung

London Daily Photo: Hung
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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Photos from the "Notting Heaven" Group Exhibition at Sartorial Contemporary Art

Photos from the December 12th opening of the "Notting Heaven" group exhibition at London's Sartorial Contemporary Art in Notting Hill. Music provided by Mr Solo, dancing by Sparkle Motion.

Click here for more shots over at Flickr from the opening of "Notting Heaven."

Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007

London Daily Photo: Trinkets

London Daily Photo: Trinkets
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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London Daily Photo: Be Good for Goodness Sake

London Daily Photo: Be Good for Goodness Sake
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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London Daily Photo: Harrods Chocolate Santa

London Daily Photo: Harrods Chocolate Santa
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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Led Zeppelin London Gig YouTube Clip (Stairway to Heaven)

Nope. I didn't take this video. I sure wish I had. Anyway, this clip of "STAIRWAY" (!!!) was posted on YouTube by HugoDeLeonMorais. Lucky (black) dog.

London Daily Photo: Harrods Balls

London Daily Photo: Harrods Balls
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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Londonist asks "What's for Lunch?" Queen Boadicea

Here's another What's for Lunch? post for Londonist. Stayed tuned for subsequent instalments on Tuesdays around noon.

What's for Lunch? Queen Boadicea
by Chris Osburn
Londonist
December 11, 2007












Think Victorian big game hunter meets Post Modern interior designer. Yet, the space is miraculously not cluttered or terribly busy, just sort of grungy-chic.

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London Daily Photo: Harrods Bear

London Daily Photo: Harrods Bear
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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London Daily Photo: Welcome to Harrods

London Daily Photo: Welcome to Harrods
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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London Daily Photo: ... a Lot like Christmas

London Daily Photo: ... a Lot like Christmas
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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Notting Heaven at Sartorial Contemporary Art in Notting Hill

Notting Heaven
"Heaven is living in a nice house with a garden in West London"
Dec 13 - Dec 22 and Jan 8 - Jan 19
























23 artists transplanted from East to West have made new work for an extraordinary show about class, place, and social mobility: Maxwell Attenborough, Andrew Bannister, Julie Bennett, Gemma Cumming, Tomas Downes, Sarah Dwyer, Stephen Harwood, Mikey Georgeson, Takayuki Hara, Martin Lea Brown, Peter Lamb, Ursula Llewellyn , Martin McGinn, Nathan 80, Stephen Peirce, Linda Persson, Fran Richardson, Gretta Sarfaty Marchant, Martin Sexton, Terry Smith, Ruth Uglow, James Unsworth, Stephen Walter.

Sartorial Contemporary Art
101A Kensington Church St
London W8 7LN
Tues to Sat 1:30 - 6:30pm
www.sartorialart.com
art@sartorialart.com

London Daily Photo: It's Beginning to Look ...

London Daily Photo: It's Beginning to Look ...
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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London Daily Photo: Office Winter Wonderland

London Daily Photo: Office Winter Wonderland
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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Christmas Pie and Gingerbread Lattes at Eat

Eat. Christmas Pie. Drink. Gingerbread Latte.
by Chris Osburn
Londonist

December 6, 2007











Eat’s roast turkey, cranberry sauce, chestnuts and juniper berries pie is tasty and substantial and a little ‘home for the holidays’ in a box. It’s also an excuse to say you ate juniper berries at lunch. Couple your pie with a gingerbread latte (aka a little ‘home for the holidays’ in a cup) and you’ve got a Yuletide choir singing “Good King Wenceslas” in your mouth.

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London Daily Photo: XMAS STRIPTEASE

London Daily Photo: XMAS STRIPTEASE
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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Permission to Paint - Heracut/Luc Price at Leonard Street Gallery

Permission to Paint
New Works and Installation by Herakut, featuring a collaboration and new works by Luc Price
December 14 - January 11, 2008
























Leonard Street Gallery
73 A Leonard Street
London
EC2A 4QS
Tel: +44 (0)207 033 99 77
Fax: +44 (0) 207 613 0591
http://www.tlsg.co.uk/
info@tlsg.co.uk

London Daily Photo: Star of Wonder

London Daily Photo: Star of Wonder
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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Londonist asks "What's for Lunch?" Pret a Manger

Here's another What's for Lunch? post for Londonist. Stayed tuned for subsequent instalments on Tuesdays around noon.

What's for Lunch? Pret a Manger
by Chris Osburn
Londonist
December 4, 2007

Yeah, we eat here too. Usually when there’s no other option or not enough time for more than a quick, mandatory refuelling.

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London Daily Photo: Winter Window

London Daily Photo: Winter Window
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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Steer Clear of Streetcar!!!

Streetcar has made my life miserable on two distinct occasions. The first time, they cancelled my booking for no apparent reason at midnight (with no one for me to contact) the night before I was to need one of their cars early in the morning. That morning, they gave me a total run around and I got the very strong sense the person I talked to was either completely incompetent or lying (his story kept changing and changing). Basically, they wasted several hours of my Saturday morning and almost ruined my plans that had been set for weeks. I ended up hiring a car from another service and, although it was much more expensive than Streetcar’s advertised prices, everything went smoothly and I will use them again (instead of Streetcar).

The second time they screwed up was today. I was sitting in my study doing some work when I got a text that my Streetcar booking for tomorrow had been confirmed. What? Huh? I had not even contacted them at all for months. So I texted, emailed and called them to cancel and to explain that I had not booked a car in the first place. That process of correcting their mistake wasted about a half hour of my time. Then, I get a text message that said my booking was changed to a different day. Eventually, they worked out whatever error they’d made. Messing up on something that I booked is bad enough but when they start randomly confirming bookings that I hadn’t even made and wasting my time without me initiating contact … well, that’s when it’s time to cancel my membership, which I’m doing right after I post this review. Waste of time! Glitch central! And seemingly a logistics nightmare!

London Daily Photo: Sleigh Bells

London Daily Photo: Sleigh Bells
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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Invisible Art Club Interview for Whitehot Magazine

Chris Osburn Interviews the Invisible Art Club

Chris Osburn
whitehot magazine of contemporary art
December 2007













The Invisible Art Club is a group of individuals with a shared love of art. Our common link is a connection to graffiti and street art. From graf writers who started 20 years ago and are still going strong, to artists who have hung up their spray cans and moved on to other mediums to artists from a more traditional background who simply happen to hang out with a lot of street artists. With our wide range of influences and experience, we bring fresh styles and perspectives to the print world.

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London Daily Photo: Xmas Woolen Hat + Scarf

London Daily Photo: Xmas Woolen Hat + Scarf
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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London Daily Photo: Book Now for Christmas

London Daily Photo: Book Now for Christmas
Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007
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London Daily Photo: Untitled

London Daily Photo: Untitled
Photography by Anna Krsikova © 2007
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London Daily Photo: Blue

London Daily Photo: Blue
Photography by Anna Krsikova © 2007
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Text-a-Toilet in Westminster

Find A Toilet By Text
By Jemimah Steinfeld
Londonist
November 29, 2007

... using the latest mobile technology, people who wish to subscribe to this service pay a mere 25p ... and voila, info on the nearest and available toilets sent to your phone. In addition, due to certain Oxford Street and Victoria superstores registering their own facilities through the scheme, even those with delicate rear-ends can appreciate the service.

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London Daily Photo: Thisplay

London Daily Photo: Thisplay
Photography by Anna Krsikova © 2007
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