Author: OrchardKing
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Short Film: Londoners And Their Alone Time
Future Shorts is a wonderful short-film collective that you’re probably already aware of. This particular delight is the work of Marc Isaacs, who’s produced a range of documentaries for Channel Four and the BBC.
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A Splendid Day Out With The Bulls
A sweeper arrives on the scene of the matador’s latest conquest at the Málaga bullring in August 2011. The bull’s trail leaves an undignified smear across the arena.
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Occupy Wall Street: Leadership Vacancy
‘Inchoate’ was a word often used to describe the Occupy Wall Street gatherings. It’s unclear whether those watching from their armchairs would make the best candidates to lend some greater coherency to the movement. (Photo credit: Hana Seligman)
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Photos: The World of London Boxing & Cage-Fighting
The trials and tribulations of Rocky and his life may tell a heart-warming story on the silver screen, but fight nights in London are less about the fortunes of a chosen few and more about a gamble on a cast of many; it is not uncommon to have around 24 fighters passing in and out of the ropes on a single saturday night.
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Video: Qatari Investment in Marbella Includes Epic Orchestral Soundtrack
From Nasir Bin Abdullah and Sons comes a €400 million mega-plan to attract wealthy visitors to Spain’s famously over-developed Costa Del Sol. The Al Thani Port appears to contain luxury residential property as well as commercial space. Once opened, it is unclear whether there will be a tax to inhibit or prevent poor people from marking up the new floors or asking how much things cost.
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‘Manhatta’ – a Short Film About a Place in New York
In 1920 two chaps called Charles Sheeler (an artist/photographer from Philly) and Paul Strand (a filmaker from New York) made this film, which apparently took inspiration from Walt Whitman’s lifelong work The Leaves of Grass. The track comes from The Cinematic Orchestra (Ninjatune).
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Hackney Council Puts a Friendly Face on ‘Luxury Apartment’ Invasion
I’m trialing this to see what happens if I try to make a main category image scale to one of the ‘Top 3’, too.
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WordPress Gets an Embedded YouTube Clip
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Suddenly There Are Faces Looking Out of Every Window
It’s interesting to observe the distance between the HEADLINE and the first line of text. We could do with having them separated a bit more, I feel.
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Squirrel Makes Sparkling Impression on X-Factor
I want to test the spacing between the headers of content and the first body line. It’s interesting that you can’t have the best of both worlds: if you want an image to appear big in the post and…wait… you just have to use a different image size IN the body of the post… Lorem ipsum […]