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  • Architectural optical illusion building with peculiar angles M By Montcalm London Shoreditch Tech City hotel near Old Street on 12th August 2020 in London, United Kingdom. East London Tech City, also known as Tech City and Silicon Roundabout, is the term for a technology cluster of high-tech companies located in Shoreditch and St Luke’s in East London. A cluster of web businesses initially developed around the Old Street Roundabout in 2008. The area had historically been relatively run down compared to the nearby City. The 2008–09 recession further suppressed rents through the closure of numerous firms, making it affordable to technology start-ups, while redundancies from financial services companies, such as investment banks, released a pool of experienced talent interested in entrepreneurship.
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  • Architectural optical illusion building with peculiar angles M By Montcalm London Shoreditch Tech City hotel near Old Street on 12th August 2020 in London, United Kingdom. East London Tech City, also known as Tech City and Silicon Roundabout, is the term for a technology cluster of high-tech companies located in Shoreditch and St Luke’s in East London. A cluster of web businesses initially developed around the Old Street Roundabout in 2008. The area had historically been relatively run down compared to the nearby City. The 2008–09 recession further suppressed rents through the closure of numerous firms, making it affordable to technology start-ups, while redundancies from financial services companies, such as investment banks, released a pool of experienced talent interested in entrepreneurship.
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  • Architectural optical illusion building with peculiar angles M By Montcalm London Shoreditch Tech City hotel near Old Street on 12th August 2020 in London, United Kingdom. East London Tech City, also known as Tech City and Silicon Roundabout, is the term for a technology cluster of high-tech companies located in Shoreditch and St Luke’s in East London. A cluster of web businesses initially developed around the Old Street Roundabout in 2008. The area had historically been relatively run down compared to the nearby City. The 2008–09 recession further suppressed rents through the closure of numerous firms, making it affordable to technology start-ups, while redundancies from financial services companies, such as investment banks, released a pool of experienced talent interested in entrepreneurship.
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  • Architectural optical illusion building with peculiar angles M By Montcalm London Shoreditch Tech City hotel near Old Street on 12th August 2020 in London, United Kingdom. East London Tech City, also known as Tech City and Silicon Roundabout, is the term for a technology cluster of high-tech companies located in Shoreditch and St Luke’s in East London. A cluster of web businesses initially developed around the Old Street Roundabout in 2008. The area had historically been relatively run down compared to the nearby City. The 2008–09 recession further suppressed rents through the closure of numerous firms, making it affordable to technology start-ups, while redundancies from financial services companies, such as investment banks, released a pool of experienced talent interested in entrepreneurship.
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  • Architectural optical illusion building with peculiar angles M By Montcalm London Shoreditch Tech City hotel near Old Street on 12th August 2020 in London, United Kingdom. East London Tech City, also known as Tech City and Silicon Roundabout, is the term for a technology cluster of high-tech companies located in Shoreditch and St Luke’s in East London. A cluster of web businesses initially developed around the Old Street Roundabout in 2008. The area had historically been relatively run down compared to the nearby City. The 2008–09 recession further suppressed rents through the closure of numerous firms, making it affordable to technology start-ups, while redundancies from financial services companies, such as investment banks, released a pool of experienced talent interested in entrepreneurship.
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  • Architectural optical illusion building with peculiar angles M By Montcalm London Shoreditch Tech City hotel near Old Street in London, England, United Kingdom. East London Tech City, also known as Tech City and Silicon Roundabout, is the term for a technology cluster of high-tech companies located in Shoreditch and St Luke’s in East London. A cluster of web businesses initially developed around the Old Street Roundabout in 2008. The area had historically been relatively run down compared to the nearby City. The 2008–09 recession further suppressed rents through the closure of numerous firms, making it affordable to technology start-ups, while redundancies from financial services companies, such as investment banks, released a pool of experienced talent interested in entrepreneurship.
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  • Architectural optical illusion building with peculiar angles M By Montcalm London Shoreditch Tech City hotel near Old Street in London, England, United Kingdom. East London Tech City, also known as Tech City and Silicon Roundabout, is the term for a technology cluster of high-tech companies located in Shoreditch and St Luke’s in East London. A cluster of web businesses initially developed around the Old Street Roundabout in 2008. The area had historically been relatively run down compared to the nearby City. The 2008–09 recession further suppressed rents through the closure of numerous firms, making it affordable to technology start-ups, while redundancies from financial services companies, such as investment banks, released a pool of experienced talent interested in entrepreneurship.
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  • Architectural optical illusion building with peculiar angles M By Montcalm London Shoreditch Tech City hotel near Old Street in London, England, United Kingdom. East London Tech City, also known as Tech City and Silicon Roundabout, is the term for a technology cluster of high-tech companies located in Shoreditch and St Luke’s in East London. A cluster of web businesses initially developed around the Old Street Roundabout in 2008. The area had historically been relatively run down compared to the nearby City. The 2008–09 recession further suppressed rents through the closure of numerous firms, making it affordable to technology start-ups, while redundancies from financial services companies, such as investment banks, released a pool of experienced talent interested in entrepreneurship.
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  • Architectural optical illusion building with peculiar angles M By Montcalm London Shoreditch Tech City hotel near Old Street in London, England, United Kingdom. East London Tech City, also known as Tech City and Silicon Roundabout, is the term for a technology cluster of high-tech companies located in Shoreditch and St Luke’s in East London. A cluster of web businesses initially developed around the Old Street Roundabout in 2008. The area had historically been relatively run down compared to the nearby City. The 2008–09 recession further suppressed rents through the closure of numerous firms, making it affordable to technology start-ups, while redundancies from financial services companies, such as investment banks, released a pool of experienced talent interested in entrepreneurship.
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  • Architectural optical illusion building with peculiar angles M By Montcalm London Shoreditch Tech City hotel near Old Street in London, England, United Kingdom. East London Tech City, also known as Tech City and Silicon Roundabout, is the term for a technology cluster of high-tech companies located in Shoreditch and St Luke’s in East London. A cluster of web businesses initially developed around the Old Street Roundabout in 2008. The area had historically been relatively run down compared to the nearby City. The 2008–09 recession further suppressed rents through the closure of numerous firms, making it affordable to technology start-ups, while redundancies from financial services companies, such as investment banks, released a pool of experienced talent interested in entrepreneurship.
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  • Architectural optical illusion building with peculiar angles M By Montcalm London Shoreditch Tech City hotel near Old Street in London, England, United Kingdom. East London Tech City, also known as Tech City and Silicon Roundabout, is the term for a technology cluster of high-tech companies located in Shoreditch and St Luke’s in East London. A cluster of web businesses initially developed around the Old Street Roundabout in 2008. The area had historically been relatively run down compared to the nearby City. The 2008–09 recession further suppressed rents through the closure of numerous firms, making it affordable to technology start-ups, while redundancies from financial services companies, such as investment banks, released a pool of experienced talent interested in entrepreneurship.
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  • Architectural optical illusion building with peculiar angles M By Montcalm London Shoreditch Tech City hotel near Old Street in London, England, United Kingdom. East London Tech City, also known as Tech City and Silicon Roundabout, is the term for a technology cluster of high-tech companies located in Shoreditch and St Luke’s in East London. A cluster of web businesses initially developed around the Old Street Roundabout in 2008. The area had historically been relatively run down compared to the nearby City. The 2008–09 recession further suppressed rents through the closure of numerous firms, making it affordable to technology start-ups, while redundancies from financial services companies, such as investment banks, released a pool of experienced talent interested in entrepreneurship.
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  • Woman walks past a wall within a wall in Spitalfields, East London. A building being renovated / preserved proves a weird optical illusion. UK.
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  • Conduit Court light installation infinity chamber of reflected lightbulbs on 25th February 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Here tourists and local people alink stop to take pictures and enjoy the optical illusion.
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  • Nike advertising runner runs along a barrier near unsuspecting people. The video advert with the slogan 'Just Do It" with a woman running across the screen makes for an optical illusion of sorts and a strange urban scene. London, UK.
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  • Nike advertising runner runs along a barrier near unsuspecting people. The video advert with the slogan 'Just Do It" with a woman running across the screen makes for an optical illusion of sorts and a strange urban scene. London, UK.
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  • Nike advertising runner runs along a barrier near unsuspecting people. The video advert with the slogan 'Just Do It" with a woman running across the screen makes for an optical illusion of sorts and a strange urban scene. London, UK.
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  • Nike advertising runner runs along a barrier near unsuspecting people. The video advert with the slogan 'Just Do It" with a woman running across the screen makes for an optical illusion of sorts and a strange urban scene. London, UK.
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  • Nike advertising runner runs along a barrier near unsuspecting people. The video advert with the slogan 'Just Do It" with a woman running across the screen makes for an optical illusion of sorts and a strange urban scene. London, UK.
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  • An adult business window displays the naughty underwear worn by five mannequin models of a Soho sex shop on Old Compton Street in London's West End. Tilted slightly to the left, we see the 5 models posing in various positions of suggestive stances, all demonstrating the shop's array of erotic clothing for the Good Time Girl! On the far right is the artwork of a topless woman, wearing only knee-length stockings. See from behind, the line-drawing of the female suggests a dancer on a Parisian stage act such as the Folies Bergere or Paradis Latin - variety performances for the male admirer. She looks over her left shoulder as if to wink in our direction, all part of the illusion of coquettish desire and greedy eroticism. Old Compton Street is known for cafes, bars and especially the gay, trans-gender scene and for sellers of erotic toy 'accessories'!
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  • Conduit Court light installation infinity chamber of reflected lightbulbs on 25th February 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Here tourists and local people alink stop to take pictures and enjoy the optical illusion.
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  • Half-way across the thin taut wire of a tightrope, an tightwire walker acrobat riding a monocycle pauses and wobbles to compensate his balance before continuing his journey across to safety at the other end of two supporting poles The act forms part of the Canadian circus troupe Cirque de Soleil during a show in Battersea, London. Blue and red spotlights illuminate this daredevil and we see his tights, his wide-sleeved theatrical shirt and the concentration and grim determination on his face - the look of a professional trickster at work. He may be showing a seemingly dangerous and unpredictable stunt though in truth, he will have rehearsed this simple balancing act for many years but must still keep up the illusion of danger for the sake of a gasping, gullible audience.
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  • Conduit Court light installation infinity chamber of reflected lightbulbs on 25th February 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Here tourists and local people alink stop to take pictures and enjoy the optical illusion.
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  • Conduit Court light installation infinity chamber of reflected lightbulbs on 25th February 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Here tourists and local people alink stop to take pictures and enjoy the optical illusion.
    20200225_light installation_004.jpg
  • Nike advertising runner runs along a barrier near unsuspecting people. The video advert with the slogan 'Just Do It" with a woman running across the screen makes for an optical illusion of sorts and a strange urban scene. London, UK.
    20150109_running woman covent garden...jpg
  • A fence protecting the Kings Cross development is painted with ivy leaves as an illusion of nature in London, United Kingdom.
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  • Nike advertising runner runs along a barrier near unsuspecting people. The video advert with the slogan 'Just Do It" with a woman running across the screen makes for an optical illusion of sorts and a strange urban scene. London, UK.
    20150109_running woman covent garden...jpg
  • Two Hawk jets from the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, almost touch in mid-air at an altitude of approximately 4,100 feet in the Mediterranean skies above Cyprus. The texture of mottled cirrus cloud provides a soft background for the  aircraft which approach each other at a combined air speed of approximately 800 miles per hour (1,200 kph). The Opposition Loop is flown by the two pilot partners known as the Synchro Pair who fly independently of the other seven in the second-half of their 25-minute show. The two jets have vegetable dye and derv (diesel fuel) smoke mixture coloured red, blue or white. Here it traces the paths of both airplanes which curve from the edges of the frame to the centre (center). To the crowds far below, both look as if they are on collision course but will safely pass within feet of each other.
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  • Street busker dressed as Star Wars character Yoda with tourists in Trafalgar Suare. A woman tourist holds Yoda's hand and other pedestrians in the background experience the madness of characters dressed as fantasy characters in this central London loaction. In the background is the statue of James II as a Roman emperor, wearing Roman armour and a laurel wreath – traditionally awarded to a victorious Roman commander.
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  • Decorated house with trompe doeil in doorway 17th September 2016 in Romorantin-Lanthenay, France. The tiled building is a gatehouse for the large estate in the Loire valley.
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  • M by Montcalm is a 23-storey boutique hotel, built in 2015 near Old Streets Silicon Roundabout in Shoreditch, United Kingdom. The buildings signature is that its whole exterior, including cladding and windows, is sloped at an angle to give false perpectives.
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  • Half-way across the Gulf of Mexico, between Miami and Cancun in Mexico, Carnival Cruise's Fun Ship Ecstasy's passengers are on the Sun deck to enjoy the first few days sailing on the tropical seas. One of the ship's photographers has passed around a ship's circular life ring buoy through which one busty blonde lady has posed for a photograph and is about to pass it on to her nearest neighbour. She is wearing a garish pink and yellow bikini and is holding the life-saving device so that only her breasts are showing, obscuring her face. We see the name of the ship, Ecstasy, around the ring and the plastic ropes are falling on the lady's cleavage, forming circles around her bosoms. In the background, another cruise traveller (traveler) wears a straw sun hat and is also sitting on a blue sun lounger. We see exposed, tanned skin and it looks baking hot with the tropical sun at its zenith, directly overhead at mid-day. Carnival was a pioneer in the concept of cheaper and shorter cruises. Its ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment. The line calls its ships The Fun Ships. The MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping. After Hurricane Katrina, she spent six months in New Orleans serving as quarters for refugees and relief workers. She suffered heavy damage in 1998 after the laundry room in the ship's stern caught fire damaging much of her stern and aft section.
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  • Construction workers wearing hard hats hook up a pile of concrete beams on to a waiting crane hook. One man bends down to help loop a chain beneath one of the girders and attached to the dangling hook while another secures the chain and another man is in radio contact with the crane driver out of sight. Importantly, behind their low-loader truck is a Smirnoff advertising billboard with a famous ad campaign for the Vodka distillery. It depicts three carved Polynesian statues of Easter Island but seen through a botttle of the alcoholic beverage, is a representation of a face wearing a head band and MP3 headphones. Seen juxtaposed with the construction men and their building technology this scene describes a visual pun between an ancient lost civilization and the modern age of technology. Smirnoff is a vodka distillery founded in Moscow, by Piotr Arsenieyevich Smirnov. The <br />
brand is now distributed in 130 countries and includes flavored vodka and malt beverages. The Sminoff advertising campaign is said to be based on the Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte whose paradoxical images stretched our ideas of what was reality and the fantastic.
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  • Distorted faces of a couple seen through Petroc Sesti's art instillation called Time Fold in Great Helen's Square, in the City of London. Passers-by stop to take pictures with their smartphones as the magnified heads of others are seen through the giant prism's optics. Petroc Sesti is a London based British artist and Time Fold bends light like a prism, hypnotising the viewer by reflecting on its ever-changing spiral motion.
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  • Distorted faces of a couple seen through Petroc Sesti's art instillation called Time Fold in Great Helen's Square, in the City of London. Tall buildings on the far right are being constructed and the Lloyds of London building has rounded corner architecture, its modernity rising high above the capital's cityscape. On the left is the church of St Katharine Cree, known as the Guild Church to Finance, Commerce and Industry, the present building dates from 1630, although the tower dates from 1504. Petroc Sesti is a London based British artist and Time Fold bends light like a prism, hypnotising the viewer by reflecting on its ever-changing spiral motion.
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  • Distortion seen through Petroc Sesti's art instillation called Time Fold in Great Helen's Square, in the City of London. With strong sunlight refracted on the ground, the light bounces up into the face of a passing businessman as he takes photos with a smartphone. Petroc Sesti is a London based British artist and Time Fold bends light like a prism, hypnotising the viewer by reflecting on its ever-changing spiral motion.
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  • Man sunning himself during lockdown in Thurloe Square, Kensington, deserted during the Coronavirus pandemic on 23th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The government clampdown includes the closure of most shops, bars and theatres throughout the country. <br />
No.5 Thurloe Square, nicknamed ‘the Thin House’, is thought to be one of the narrowest homes in the capital.  At its narrowest point, the building is said to be 6ft wide, spanning to 34ft at its largest. The large north-facing windows are perfect for letting in lots of light for the artists to work in.
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  • Building under refurbishment, is wrapped in a fake classical facade to make it look tidy during the process, London, United Kingdom.
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  • Building under refurbishment, is wrapped in a fake classical facade to make it look tidy during the process, London, United Kingdom.
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  • M by Montcalm is a 23-storey boutique hotel, built in 2015 near Old Streets Silicon Roundabout in Shoreditch, United Kingdom. The buildings signature is that its whole exterior, including cladding and windows, is sloped at an angle to give false perpectives.
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  • M by Montcalm is a 23-storey boutique hotel, built in 2015 near Old Streets Silicon Roundabout in Shoreditch, United Kingdom. The buildings signature is that its whole exterior, including cladding and windows, is sloped at an angle to give false perpectives.
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  • M by Montcalm is a 23-storey boutique hotel, built in 2015 near Old Streets Silicon Roundabout in Shoreditch, United Kingdom. The buildings signature is that its whole exterior, including cladding and windows, is sloped at an angle to give false perpectives.
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  • A young magician performs a levitation trick using a lady assistant, in front of a crowd in Covent Garden's Piazza, London. Saying abracadabra or a similar explanation to wow his surrounding audience, the man stands beneath the raised woman, lying horizontally in mid-air. Levitation (from Latin levitas "lightness") is the process by which an object is suspended by a physical force against gravity, in a stable position without solid physical contact.
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  • A man hangs from the hat of Prince Henry, Duke of Viseu, at the Monument of the Discoveries at Belem, Lisbon. The man has found a way to scale part of the 177 foot (54 metre) high celebration to Henry, otherwise known as Henry the Navigator, or Seafarer. The trespasser is dwarfed by the giant, oversized effigies and the man hangs by his fingers and rests his foot on Henry's ship's sail which points out to sea. It is a clear day with blue skies and the slightly yellow stone is side-lit to show each feature of the carvings in fine detail. It is a classic scene of Portguese history depicted during the 1960s fascist Portuguese President Salazar's regime. Henry remains one of ocean-conquering Portugal's most famous of cartographers, whose explorers discovered new routes around Africa and the Atlantic. Although he was called Prince Henry the Navigator by the English, Prince Henry never actually sailed on any of the voyages of discovery he sponsored. Instead, Prince Henry established a school for the study of the arts of navigation, mapmaking, and shipbuilding. This would allow sailors to better guide their ships and to come up with new ship designs. Immediately behind Henry is King Manuel I then poet Luis de Camōes. The eight figures are carved by sculptor Leopoldo Almeida and along with the monument, were commissioned for the 1960 world exhibition to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Henry's death in 1460.
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  • Distorted faces of a couple seen through Petroc Sesti's art instillation called Time Fold in Great Helen's Square, in the City of London. Tall buildings on the right are being constructed and the Lloyds of London building is on the left, its modernity rising high above the capital's cityscape. Petroc Sesti is a London based British artist and Time Fold bends light like a prism, hypnotising the viewer by reflecting on its ever-changing spiral motion.
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  • Distortion seen through Petroc Sesti's art instillation called Time Fold in Great Helen's Square, in the City of London. A coupe look at each other's magnified heads and outstretched arms through the optics of this art prism. Petroc Sesti is a London based British artist and Time Fold bends light like a prism, hypnotising the viewer by reflecting on its ever-changing spiral motion.
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  • At first glance, we see an angry male holding the severed head of another man in his right hand. But this is a circus act from the Archaos troupe, a french company of oerformers who tour the world with their anarchic version of big top entertainment. With a dark background and with the apparent  murderer wearing black, it is an image of raw, homocidal thuggery: A massacre and attack on another human being. Despite it being a pretence, an act for the sake of an audience with a thirst for the macabre, it is still very disturbing.
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  • 2012 Olympic wasteland and PR fantasy on a hoarding near the sports arenas in Stratford, East London. A landscape of utopian harmony and nature is viewed on the construction site board that surrounds a vacant plot a kilometre south of the Olympic Park and stadium site. In the background is a new housing tower block by design and build contractor, Ardmore for Genesis Housing Association, 150 High Street, Stratford, 704 homes, in five new residential blocks, one of which, at over 132 metres, will be one of the highest residential towers in London. This landscape is more dystopian however as the reality of the empty lot is not what is promised by the imagery on the hoarding.
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  • Two young women pass a hoarding showing aspiration and consumerism of nearby Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • A dystopian view of a Londoner passing a hoarding showing aspiration and consumerism of nearby Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • M by Montcalm is a 23-storey boutique hotel, built in 2015 near Old Streets Silicon Roundabout in Shoreditch, United Kingdom. The buildings signature is that its whole exterior, including cladding and windows, is sloped at an angle to give false perpectives.
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  • Street entertainer in Piazza del Polpolo, Rome, Italy.
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  • Street busker dressed as Star Wars character Yoda with tourists in Trafalgar Suare. With a raised hand to attract tourists, Yoda awaits business while other pedestrians in the background experience the madness of characters dressed as fantasy characters in this central London loaction. In the background is the statue of James II as a Roman emperor, wearing Roman armour and a laurel wreath – traditionally awarded to a victorious Roman commander.
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  • Flight Lieutenant Dave Slow of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, is seated in a BAE Systems Hawk jet aircraft simulator at the fast-jet flying training centre, RAF Valley, Anglesey, Wales. Like all fast-jet pilots, Flight Lieutenant Slow is required to complete this emergency drill every six months. The pilot is seated in his ejector seat as if in a real jet using back-projected computer graphics representing a generic landscape below. Each aviator proves they can cope with a series of failures that operators select: Engine, hydraulic failure or bird strike.  Apart from the aircraft fuselage, the high-tech facility loads malfunctions on a pilot that he could experience in reality. The version of Hawk that the Red Arrows fly is actually a primitive piece of equipment, without computers or fly-by-wire technology.
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  • Flight Lieutenant Dave Slow of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, is seated in a BAE Systems Hawk jet aircraft simulator at the fast-jet flying training centre, RAF Valley, Anglesey, Wales. Like all fast-jet pilots, Flight Lieutenant Slow is required to complete this emergency drill every six months. The pilot is seated in his ejector seat as if in a real jet using back-projected computer graphics representing a generic landscape below. Each aviator proves they can cope with a series of failures that operators select: Engine, hydraulic failure or bird strike.  Apart from the aircraft fuselage, the high-tech facility loads malfunctions on a pilot that he could experience in reality. The version of Hawk that the Red Arrows fly is actually a primitive piece of equipment, without computers or fly-by-wire technology.
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  • We see six office workers silhouetted against the large orange wall of the Credit Lyonnais Bank. They rush to work while one figure stands and talks into his mobile phone, at Broadgate in the City of London, UK. Several figures who are also reduced to black shapes and without detail that may identify them or their clothes, are hurrying in different directions, carrying a bag or briefcase but the feeling of rushing business is seen and their scale is ambiguous becase we don't know how close or far away they are from each other. This is due to telephoto lens forshortening. Some therefore look giants and some appear tiny. Broadgate Estate is a large, 32 acre (129,000 m²) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and managed by Broadgate Estates. It was originally built by Rosehaugh and was the largest office development in London until the arrival of Canary Wharf in the early 1990s.
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  • Soon after setting sail from Miami, en-route to Cancun in Mexico, passengers of Carnival Cruise's Fun Ship Ecstasy liner are told to report on the top sun deck for the obligatory safety drill. Told to fetch their life vests from their respective cabins and suites, they have gathered at various muster points around the vessel to hear the crews' instructions about abandoning ship or the precuations needed to enter the water. We look down from a higher deck to see several dozen tourists on red vests, milling around awaiting the signal to return to their previous activities and entertainment. Operators like US-owned Carnival take these drills very seriously. Carnival was a pioneer in the concept of cheaper and shorter cruises. Its ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment. The cruise line calls its ships The Fun Ships and the MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping. After Hurricane Katrina, she spent six months in New Orleans serving as quarters for refugees and relief workers. She suffered heavy damage in 1998 after the laundry room in the ship's stern caught fire damaging much of her stern and aft section.
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  • We see two office workers silhouetted against the large orange wall  of the Credit Lyonnais Bank, rushing to work through Broadgate in the City of London, UK. The figures are reduced to black shapes and without detail that may identify them or their clothes, are hurrying in different directions, one is a lady carrying a bag  but the feeling of rushing business is seen and their scale is ambiguous because  we don't know how close or far away they are from each other. The female therefore looks a  giant and the man, tiny. Broadgate Estate is a large, 32 acre (129,000 m²) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and managed by Broadgate Estates. It was originally built by Rosehaugh and was the largest office development in London until the arrival of Canary Wharf in the early 1990s.
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  • From inside a large cube, we see Italian artist Michaelangelo Pistoletto's "Metrocubo d’Infinito" mirror installation at Palazzo Strozzi in the Medici Renaissance city of Florence. While the exterior of the cube looks like a gigantic rusty rubix-cube, inside is really a kind of infinity of self-reflection, covered entirely, floor to ceiling, in mirrors. And in the centre of the cube is another smaller cube made of grey stone. Young female visitors engage with the artwork and peer down to the floor where, just like all four walls and the ceiling, the repeating image stretches as far as the eye can focus.
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  • Children amazed at a distorted face through Petroc Sesti's art instillation called Time Fold in Great Helen's Square, in the City of London. The kids look at the optics with amazement, marvelling at its bending of light and optical experience. Petroc Sesti is a London based British artist and Time Fold bends light like a prism, hypnotising the viewer by reflecting on its ever-changing spiral motion.
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  • Visitors interacting with artworks at the Space Shifters exhibition at the Hayward Gallery on 16th December 2018 in London, United Kingdom. The exhibit was a major group show of sculptures and installations that explored perception and space, featuring 20 artists. 360° Illusion V 2018 by Jeppe Hein.
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