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Walking with the Snowman

Posted on Wednesday 29 November 2023 by Oliver O’Brien

We’ve long liked temporary “parade” sculpture trails in London – they make exploring a neighbourhood even more interesting, if around the corner is one of

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TrainTrackr Individual Lines

Posted on Friday 18 March 2022 by Oliver O’Brien

We featured TrainTracker, a live circuit board map of where the trains are on the London Underground – with lights representing the train locations – back in 2020. Now, the organisation has taken the concept onwards and produced individual …

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Tube Circuit Board with Live Train Locations

Posted on Friday 5 June 2020 by Oliver O’Brien

Missing travelling on the London Underground? Now, you can see the trains running, live, on this custom-made circuit board showing thetube network. An array of lights, one for each tube and DLR station, uses open data from Transport for London to show …

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Winter Lights

Posted on Monday 22 January 2018 by Oliver O’Brien

If Lumiere London, which finished yesterday, has whet your appetite for seeing artistic displays of light after dark, then there is another festival of lights which runs until Saturday. It’s at Canary Wharf and called Winter Lights. Think Lumiere London, in a smaller area and without the huge crowds. And, like the King’s Cross, it’s […]

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Lumiere London

Posted on Thursday 18 January 2018 by Oliver O’Brien

The Lumiere London, a free show of more than 50 light-based artworks, scattered throughout central London, starts today and the lights are switched on for the next four evenings, until Sunday 21st. It’s the second running of the event, after the inaugural in January 2016 which led to huge crowds of onlookers on the streets […]

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Christmas Map

Posted on Tuesday 6 December 2016 by Oliver O’Brien

Here’s a rather nice map combining the famously colourful and diagrammatic tube map with Christmas tree lights, to create an infographic, “The London Christmas Map”, showing the Christmassy events happening in London. You can see a full version of the map, including a key and listings for each event and how far it is from […]

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Lumiere London

Posted on Friday 15 January 2016 by Oliver O’Brien

Lumiere London is a festival of light and art taking place every evening until this Sunday. From 6:30-10pm, nearly 30 temporary artworks in central London will come alive with lights. From a holographic elephant to neon sausage-dogs and a strange organic-looking structure suspended over London’s principal crossroads (Oxford Circus), it’s a great excuse to brave […]

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