Picked up this nice little snapper today. The ZENIT-E was made in the USSR around the 1970's. Looks like a nice little thing but the proof is in the pictures...stay posted.

My Bedside Books

When i say bedside, its more accurately the living room and when i say my, i mean i'll take the chance to blame my live-in girlfriend for the slightly questionable 'why!?' books, not that you'll believe me. Anyway this project all stemmed from a Flickr group, initiated by Mike, a friend of Dan Germain, blogged about by Lucy & Jade. They've all uploaded their bedrooms...you should too.

Only In Latvia...?

A bizarre hospital-themed restaurant in Latvia is serving food resembling body parts.

Decked out in a sterile, modern medical environment and boasting scantily clad nurses, the Hospitalis in Riga serves hearty Latvian dishes and a macabre cake topped with realistic-looking body parts such as fingers, noses and tongues. Served on gurneys and operating tables, the restaurant provides diners with cutlery such as syringes, tweezers and scalpels to devour their meals. Owned by a group of local doctors, Hospitalis also has a trendy cocktail bar where bartenders in white lab coats mix drinks into beakers and test tubes. Guests are treated to disturbing dinner entertainment including morbid tunes on violins, while deranged patients are escorted through the restaurant in straightjackets and wheelchairs. Sounds like fun we thinks.

Bookcrit awards.

Could this be the future of the book crit?

Sing it loud and proud

A bit Tracy Chapman-esq in sound, but who doesn't love a bit of the Chapmeister?! A cool new British lass with a guitar and weird hair. Karima Francis have a geg.

On the Spotify

Spotify allows you to legally access every single music track (or just about) and stream them without paying a penny. A good tool to try before you buy or download from Limewire.

Also great for house parties now that music vids are no longer on youtube. It also suggests other music artists of similar genre. Endless inspiration and all that jazz.

Kutiman Rocks

Have a look.

The Forth Plinth

This summer, sculptor Antony Gormley invites you to help create an astonishing living monument. He is asking the people of the UK to occupy the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, a space normally reserved for statues of Kings and Generals, in an image of themselves, and a representation of the whole of humanity.

Every hour, 24 hours a day, for 100 days without a break beginning on 6^th July, a different person will make the Plinth their own – an uninterrupted succession of 2400 volunteers creating a unique portrait of the UK in the 21^st century.

You can play your part in making this idea a reality – either by volunteering yourself, by telling others about it, or experiencing it online or on the square itself. Register your interest, we’ll see you on the ‘Forth Plinth’.