Archive for category: Video

• Mayor Johnson on the Letterman Show

  Our Mayor has been touting London’s wares in the US. Part of this involved appearing on Letterman, which is about as embarrassing as you might expect – no more, no less. I have no idea what they must think of us.

   

• Interview: Tom Moggach, urban kitchen gardener

  We spoke to Tom Moggach, author of The Urban Kitchen Gardener, about his new book and the idea of following your food from seed right through to wolfing it down. We pledge to you, here at Big Smoke, never to interview anyone with a chicken on their lap again. Hens […]

   

• Video: Stop Croydon Incinerator

  This Stop the Croydon Incinerator March took place on Sunday 13 May 2012. A number of Croydon and Sutton organisations joined together to protest the building of a waste incinerator in Croydon – one of the most densely populated areas in the UK. The March started at Croydon University Hospital […]

   

• The altruism of cyclists

  When one cyclist saw a man rummaging through bins he decided he couldn’t just watch him go hungry. All caught on his cycle helmet cam.

   

• Documentary: The London Perambulator

  John Rogers’ film looks at the city we deny and the future city that awaits us. Leading London writers and cultural commentators Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Russell Brand explore the importance of the liminal spaces at the city’s fringe, its Edgelands, through the work of enigmatic and downright eccentric […]

   

• Tube Tube: short soaps underground?

  I quite like this two minute vignette underground;

   

• Video: sleeping pods for Olympic staff

  It appears that Olympic staff will be grown in pods. No! Sleep in pods – forget I said anything about them being grown!

   

• Video: Friendly London

  One man’s mission to prove that Londoners are friendly really. Nice. Or crazed.

   

• Fox cubs in London car park

  Nice little video of fox cubs in a London car park… awwwww.

   

• Big Smoke interview: Daniel Lambert, Socialist Party Great Britain

  Daniel Lambert is running for the London Assembly in the Lambeth and Southwark constituency. Unlike other candidates this gregarious and lively socialist is not running on a platform of improving cycle lanes or making things better, but on the simple policy of abolishing capitalism in its entirety. Filmed in the Socialist […]