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• #10652
Nice pictures oat44 esp the second one
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• #10653
I think it is obvious, but then they always are when you know them.
Too far for me to get to at the moment though.
i'll get it tomorrow if it's not gone by then obvs
I'm riding across London tomorrow, so will get it if no one else has...
I have a bicycle and live in London so if this is not done by the new year I'll get it
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• #10654
i'll get it tomorrow if it's not gone by then obvs
Less than 3 hours left malandro...
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• #10655
Sorry Nick - sheer laziness is stopping me from getting this one. Tomorrow, tomorrow
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• #10656
Dibs.
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• #10657
I've never come across the building this tag is on before, how have I missed it?
Interesting stories/clues to this tag :) -
• #10658
Old: 55 Broadway. the old London Electric Railway Headquarters
New: ?
sorry for the darkness i may tweak it in potatochop demain.
fuck my hat it's cold out there.
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• #10659
rep for blitz tag
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• #10660
It's going to be freezing and/or snowing in the next few days so a decent clue might help to keep things moving before then.
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• #10661
It's in the City of London
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• #10662
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• #10663
I can see the pixels
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• #10664
It's going to be freezing and/or snowing in the next few days so a decent clue might help to keep things moving before then.
Will do.
It's in the City of London
correcto
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cheers hombre.
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• #10665
Well done, malandro. I knew where it was but couldn't get down there.
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• #10666
Yay! Thanks malandro. For those who didn't get it, it was Jacob Epstein's controversial 'Day' sculpture, 1928, carved directly into the Portland Stone of the new HQ of what became London Underground. Newspapers were outraged at the time by the graphic nudity of the boy and set up a campaign for London Underground to remove it. Frank Pick, the man behind so much of London Underground's bold and distinctive design we still see today, threatened to resign if the newspapers had their way. At the last moment, Epstein climbed a ladder and chiseled 1.5 inches off the offending protrusion and the sculpture was saved.
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• #10667
There are also carvings there by Eric Gill and Henry Moore of the north and east winds IIRC. Appropriate for the weather. I was going to go yesterday but had too much on.
Epstein's Rock drill was the first modern sculpture I loved as a boy - still got a soft spot for a bit or Vorticist English modernism
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• #10668
Me too. Rock drill is like something out of Star Wars. If Tate had their head on they'd sell Rock Drill action figures!
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• #10669
i took another photo of the new tag this morning. is it bad form to stick it up as an additional clue?
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• #10670
Nope.
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• #10671
another view of the new tag:
these guys might know where it is:
(if someone with the dark arts could make that appear smaller...)
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• #10672
Hmm. so i think I cycle past that twice a day. I still don't recognise it though...
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• #10673
If you don't recognise it hoe do you know you ride past it twice a day?
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• #10674
Based on the clue...
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• #10675
Streetview says no.. hmm
Ok, I can't work out if it's my rubbish clues or the freezing temperatures, (or both) so try this.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8441/7759645274_d5f8277ba7_d.jpg
http://www.nyhabitat.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/times-square-broadway-famous-musicals-new-york-manhattan-nyc.jpg