The humble Christmas is the tree - during the festive period families unite around it, giving and receiving gifts. It's role is significant, but come the new year...

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Great quote for the day...

Chaos does this amazing thing that order can’t: it engages you. It gets right in your face and with freakish breath issues a challenge. It asks stuff of you, order never will. And it shows you stuff, all the weird shit, that order tries to hide. Chaos is the only thing that honestly wants you to grow. The only friend who really helps you be creative. Demands that you be creative.
Dan Wieden

These little tiled space invaders have been around for ages, however I never grow tired of discovering one! I found this little one just on the corner of Bishopsgate and Artillery Street.

I love the way that they actually blend into the architecture of the city's surface - they're much less imposing than traditional spray painted graffiti. These little pixelated icons actually enhance the urban experience rather than degrade it like the usual mindless tagging that goes on. I would imagine that many municipal cleaners probably pass these things everyday and wouldn't even think to clean them off, so integrated are they into their surroundings.

To me they represent the retro, (those atari games systems were the coolest of the cool about 25 years back - I was never allowed one - bollox!), and they demonstrate how far we've actually come over those years -think X-box, Wii etc. But there's also something really modern about them as well... this one here has mirrored eyes!...They are indeed little invaders, sneaking up on us, watching us until the alien uprising!! Ha, Ha

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It's a new year, and we're in a new office... here's to 2008!