The Tumblelog of Levent Ali: Archive

Winter Portraits 09/10 →

Jan 10th

Dec 23rd

3 tags

Dec 22nd

Dec 21st

Hashtags are annoying

Dear @pravvyprav and @quentinhapsburg On the theme of #songsyoudontwannahearinjail Take this list and top it, if you can: “You’re a Cop”, “My Woman, My Lover, My Friend”, “Sorry I’m Not That Kind of Boy”, “I Wanna Grow Old with You”, “Saving Ourselves for Marriage”, “Trapped”, “Gloves of Metal”,...

Nov 25th

Garden Project: Half way

All of the major structures are now in place, except for the sixteen foot marble statues of me of course. Over the next week they’ll finish the pergola, paving the steps and the lower seating area. Then lay the gravel paths and start painting. Once that’s all complete Andy will have three days of planting; trees and shrubs arrive next Wednesday.

Oct 22nd

Oct 17th

Airs and Graces interview Foreign Beggars →

Oct 16th

5 tags

Garden Project: Day Four

I’ve known Andy Henderson for some years now. His younger brother, Keith, one of my closest friends and heroes tragically passed away six years ago. Since then I’ve spent many an evening in Andy’s old restaurant, Boys Cafe, and on his sofa. Many of my friends wish they were more like Andy. Andy has turned those clichés we all hear into reality; just want it, go for it and...

Oct 16th

7 tags

Oct 15th

Oct 5th

Wired's Photography Pet Peeves →

Oct 5th

“His players include Craig Bellamy, Stephen Ireland, Shawn Wright-Phillips,...”

– Myles Palmer

Oct 2nd

6 tags

Lofoten, Norway (Arctic Circle)

I really should get back to shooting film again after stumbling across these old slides These photos aren’t special but the feel of film just is!

Oct 1st

1 tag

Oct 1st

6 tags

The brokers with hands on their faces blog

This blog made me smile which is no mean feat See more here (thanks Miyo Wada)

Sep 30th

4 tags

“Real talk, it’s not that bullshit from The Wire. It’s them disco...”

– Ghostface

Sep 23rd

Sep 21st

Kaffeine

It’s official www.kaffeine.co.uk make the best coffee in London. Located at 66 Great Titchfield Street, London, W1W 7QJ, Peter opened around 3 weeks ago and seems to be the Gary V of coffee in London. Anyone who gets their daily dose from Lantana nearby should take the extra minute to walk up to Kaffeine. The Kaffeine baristas seem to do a much better job than the guys at Monmouth even.

Sep 3rd

“I have nothing to say”

Sep 2nd

Watch

gary: Why is everyone waiting for IT to HAPPEN I am just tired of brands and companies waiting for it to happen because by the time they react the ship will sail and this is the biggest ship we have ever seen. Having trouble viewing this video? Try the Quicktime version.

Sep 1st

28 notes

Aug 9th

“It’s difficult to find people as motivated as they come across verbally...”

Aug 8th

1 tag

I've given up on soup.io

Aug 8th

Jun 18th

SMS from China

Me: How are you dude?

Matthew Rudy Jacobs: I'm crazy. Don't have a shower at the mo. Have to go to the public baths and listen to old men spitting. Tomorrow I go to the north korean border. I just turned round and about 30 people have started doing tai chi. Meanwhile someone's taking a photo of me. Maybe they have a 'caucasian of the day blog' or maybe not. Now everyone seems to be doing poi. So yeah. It's good. Everything is happening, but so is nothing. See you soon.

May 25th

MoodMapr is live →

May 17th

ESP guiding 3M through recession

Since Eben Halford started helping us hone our processes (a couple of weeks ago), we’ve seen a drastic change across the company. Taskboards are springing up all over the place. Each team is doing their own daily standup followed by a short cross-team scrum of scrums. From the business team, through the community team, over to us scumbags in development. Annabel updating the...

May 14th

May 13th

My first sexy beer*

I’ve been trying to summarise this past weekend at EuRuKo in Barcelona but can’t get beyond awesome. A special thanks to all the organisers; you raised the bar ten-fold. To everyone else, I said it all on The Optimist Conspectus (you know who you all are) * Sexy beer sellers plague Las Ramblas in Barcelona. Cans of Estrella are €1. I’m trying to understand what exactly makes...

May 13th

Since engineyard started preparing our new slice

I have… attended 2 gigs 1 champions league semi-final had 3 bbq’s changed my sheets once spent 5 hours in the gym nearly vomited once tried my first nicotine patch moved onto my second pack of nicotine patches cursed over a thousand times bought 5 albums begun to assist with improving section E of Monocle magazine bought flights to Dubai changed brake pads on my car ...

May 7th

Mar 21st

Mar 10th

“It is always done quicker in the newspapers than on the football pitch”

– Arsene Wenger

Mar 3rd

Picomarks

The guys at Contrast have recently been doing things the way I see as the right way. Recently they had Ben McRedmond spend a week with them to gain some work experience. Instead of the usual, “let’s give him some papers, a photocopier and a filing cabinet and oh go on then we’ll even let him come to lunch with us…… maybe” experience which many places tend to...

Mar 3rd

Watch

Gian is like Cher

Mar 3rd