Real-life heroes and short film showings, badass coffee drinkers and enormous elephants. Here’s our Friday Round-Up for the second week of January.
Listen
Watch
Cat videos, filmmaker retrospectives and award-winning dramas at the London Short Film Festival. You’ve got until 17th January to catch the cutting-edge collection of some of the freshest newcomers in the industry, as well as panel discussions and events during the UK’s leading platform for short films. See the full event schedule here.
Laugh
Visit
30 dazzling light installations over 4 days. Lumiere London will illuminate the city from 14th to 17th January, including a floating goldfish above Piccadilly, neon dogs near Trafalgar Square and an enormous projected elephant stomping down Regent Street. Don’t miss a thing.
Read
The New York Times’ 52 Places to Go in 2016. Biting wind and intermittent, miserable rain have got us yearning for climes less grey – this multimedia travel feature covers everything from temple mini-cities in Tamil Nadu to the stunningly scenic Road of the Seven Lakes. Your 2016 wanderlust list starts here.
Create
Anything you like. The New York Public Library has announced the release of more than 180,000 digitisations of public domain works, all available in high resolution downloads and totally free from usage restrictions. You can search through the awe-inspiring collection of items by genre, time period, colour… Discover everything from ancient illustrations to bizarre photographs in one huge database and reuse, reshape and remix them as you wish.
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