If Daniel Craig can do it, so can we.

We've all practiced the gun pose with a water pistol, used our scientific calculators as walkie talkies and tried to sound cool by introducing ourselves with the surname, first name, surname lingo - but this is really the closest us mere muggles are going to get to tasting the mission filled life of James Bond. 

With the Skyfall premier last night, Coke Zero challenged unsuspecting train passengers to unlock the 007 in them by completing a challenge in 70 seconds in order to win tickets to the film.  Check.it.out.

Wok+Wine!

Most conversations with my family and friends generally always return to the same topic - food.  It's not that we're all pigs, it's just that...just that...ok, maybe we are.  This fodder nattering is the mantra behind Wok+Wine - 40 strangers, 40 pounds of jumbo prawns and 40 bottles of wine.  People eat, people drink but people also meet and talk with other like-minded prawn and wine loving individuals.  I mean really, what more do you need in common?!

Starting in November 2008, Wok+Wine has taken the world by storm, with over 3000 guests attending their events across the globe, from New York and London to Venezuela and Whangarei!  Everyone gets down and dirty by eating prawns with their hands from a huge communal table.  The relaxed environment (as well as at least a bottle of wine each) gets the conversation flowing and allows interesting people to meet others for just £35.  The locations are announced near the time of the event and luckily for us, the next London Wok+Wine is this Friday, 19th October!  Hurrah!  But hurry, with just 40 tickets on sale, they disappear in no time! Head to the website for more information and your daily dose of prawnography!

The World's Largest Rope Swing!

This is just awesome. Check.it.out.
 
 

Rain Room

In Britain, it never rains, it pours.  In celebration of this, Random International have created an installation of cascading water, which opened at The Barbican last week. 

This multisensory experience, allows visitors to hear, see and feel the splash of rain without getting wet.  Instead of emerging from the exhibition looking like a drowned rat, a la Thorpe Park’s Tidal Wave, this installation keeps you dry as a bone.  Visitors can feel Moses-esque by ‘parting’ the rain, as the installation tracks movements and stops the water as visitors walk towards it. 

A light at the far end of the rain room provides a dramatic backdrop for the water to glisten against.  So escape the outdoor weather and head to the rain room to keep dry.  It is open until 3^rd March and admission is free so there’s no excuse to miss it!

Colin O'Brien: Travellers' Children

With ‘My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding’, the Dale Farm eviction and the Stoke Newington Common fracas, travelers seem to be a relatively recent hot topic of discussion.  However, Colin O’Brien jumped on the gypsy wagon many years ago.  His new exhibition at the Genesis Cinema, ‘Travelers’ Children’ focuses on the children of an Irish traveling community 25 years ago, who settled in East London at a time when Hackney’s Victorian houses were being torn to the ground and its streets were poverty stricken and rubbish laden.  If the current spotlight around traveling communities has taught us anything about their lives, it is the insularity of their tight-knit communities and their attitudes towards outsiders.  Through gaining their trust and confidence, Colin O’Brien’s photographs give us unprecedented access to witness the highs and lows of traveling groups and their children against the backdrop of 80s Hackney.  The exhibition is on for the whole of October and is free - wahooo!