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Culture Buzz To mark the opening of next month's Star Wars Miniland at Legoland Windsor, some UK Legomasters created these intergalactic miniatures as promotional pieces. (via metro.co.uk).
Culture Buzz Moving, tragic, awe-inspiring photos and the tales of how they came to be. Reuters released a year-end round up of their best photographs and had the photographers provide a sort of director's commentary. Compelling stuff.
Culture Buzz The best awkward Santa photo of 2011. That baby, and by extension Santa, will need some new pants.
Culture Buzz All of your childhood dreams just came true.
Celebrity Buzz He's handling it the same way I would. Nothing's wrong. Everything's cool. I just finished a wonderful dinner and feel like whistling. (via theblemish.com)
Sports Buzz The ArcelorMittal Orbit was commissioned for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Standing 377 feet tall, the double decker observation tower will give visitors an astounding, unobstructed view of London.
Don't get me wrong. Michelle Williams looks pretty damn good as the buxom blonde, but this doesn't seem like the kind of flick that Mr. Skin is going to stand in line for.
Celebrity Buzz But let me ask you this: which is cuter? (Turns and walks away as the internet tears itself apart in a cataclysmic, cannibalistic debate.) (via celebuzz.com)
Culture Buzz This collection of beautiful photos were taken by Jason Hawkes while in a helicopter flying over the city. A night photographer, he captured unique, glowing pictures of all the main sights of London—from Big Ben to Piccadilly Circus—and much more.
At least that's what it looks like. But they could be fighting over a piece of candy. Ask Bill the next time he's got you in a headlock. (Photo taken in London's Euston Railway Station.)
Darcus Howe, a writer and broadcaster who has lived in London for 50 years, gets into it with a BBC reporter over the rioting that's engulfed England. Howe calls the riots an “insurrection” and is repeatedly interrupted by the reporter (who keeps calling him “Marcus Dowe”) when talking about the abuse of young black men by British police. In exasperation he eventually exclaims, “Show some respect for an old West Indian negro.” (via theatlanticwire.com)
Culture Buzz Rioting continued unabated for a third night in London neighborhoods. With arrests reaching over 500 and one death reported, police are considering distribution of rubber bullets to the 16,000 officers that will be out trying to quell the riots tonight. First round of photos here.
Keep calm and clean up. Londoners clean up their ravaged city after another night of riots. (via)
I weep for humanity. At first you think the rioters are gonna help the injured guy, but then…. This video has been shared a lot on Facebook this morning, let's hope these guys get recognized and pay for their crimes.
The Sky News Helicopter brings you this message from a London rioter. Breaking news, indeed.
Culture Buzz Thirty-five officers were injured and over one-hundred and sixty people arrested over the weekend. The violence broke out in the gritty north London suburb of Tottenham on Saturday night amid community anger over a fatal police shooting of a 29-year-old father of four. Police said “copycat criminal” violence spread to other parts of the city Sunday night and early Monday, including, briefly, London's busy shopping and tourist district at Oxford Circus.
Amy Winehouse performing “Mama Said” with Dionne Bromfield at iTunes Festival London, July 20th, 2011.
In 1939, a boxing match took place London’s Wembley Empire Swimming Pool. The cameraman actually looks like he’s suffering more than the fighters.
And you thought these reactions were bad. A million face palms is not…
