We bumped into the mys­te­ri­ous world of London’s Secret Cin­ema some time ago. Although it is not the lat­est news, we decided to share this imag­i­na­tive con­cept with you in the hope of see­ing and engag­ing in some­thing alike here in Helsinki in the future… Some­thing to def­i­nitely look for­ward to for film enthu­si­asts like ourselves!

Secret Cin­ema is a monthly series of secret film events in undis­closed loca­tions. Hints about the upcom­ing event, usu­ally the date, time and loca­tion but scarcely any­thing else, are sent out to Secret Cinema’s newslet­ter sub­scribers and social media fol­low­ers a few days prior to the show time. In most cases the par­tic­i­pants are also encour­aged to dress up along the theme, which is intro­duced with vague, mind-boggling word­plays and quotes.

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The pop­u­lar­ity of bicy­cling as a way of com­mut­ing and also the whole cul­ture around the sport has been ris­ing enor­mously dur­ing the last five years or so. It seems, sadly, that pub­lic decision-makers and city boards in many cities (with some excep­tions like Copen­hagen and Paris) are not respond­ing to this change as rapidly as they should, and the grow­ing need of essen­tial improve­ments like addi­tional cycle lanes and park­ing spaces is not taken seri­ously enough. Quite on the con­trary, pri­vate busi­nesses and inde­pen­dent entre­pre­neurs around Europe have stepped up on many lev­els to offer new ser­vices and prod­ucts for the urban riders.

Look mum no hands!, a com­bi­na­tion space of theme cafe, bar and bike work­shop in Lon­don, is a great exam­ple of the kind of new ser­vice not prob­a­bly fea­si­ble until recently. This nicely reshaped ex garage space offers a con­ve­nient pit stop for the city’s cyclists where it’s really easy to take your bike inside, relax and have a Square Mile espresso while get­ting flat tires fixed. You can also enjoy locally pro­duced sal­ads, pies and cakes and pop some Bel­gian micro­brews as the Tour and other cycle races play on the big screen.

We had a quick chat with Lewin Chalk­ley of Look mum no hands! to find out a bit more about this beloved new space.

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In a lot of cases per­fumes are auto­mat­i­cally con­nected to mass pro­duced scents in glossy bot­tles pro­duced by high fash­ion brands and endorsed by big name celebri­ties. These prod­ucts are mar­keted as unique and out­stand­ing to every sin­gle one of the bunch of mil­lions of buy­ers who fall into the cheap decep­tion with­out fur­ther knowl­edge or care.
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Food­Mar­keto is a joint project between Aparta­mento inte­ri­ors mag­a­zine and Design­Mar­keto, an online plat­form boost­ing up-and-coming inter­na­tional design­ers. Held at the Milan Design Fair 2010 in April, Food­Mar­keto was an exclu­sive series of work­shops where par­tic­i­pants came together to enjoy the dif­fu­sion of cook­ing and design. The work­shops turned out to be very pro­lific draw­ing a lot of atten­tion and good pub­lic­ity. In addi­tion, Food­Mar­keto hosts an online store with designer com­mis­sioned items around the food theme, partly based on the prod­ucts, recipes and ideas resulted in the Milan event.
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“Come in and refill your dry goods, oils and house­hold products.”

Unpack­aged is a store in Lon­don sell­ing food with­out pack­ag­ing. This very sim­ple and hon­est approach “makes it easy for cus­tomers to do the right thing – the right thing for them­selves and for the envi­ron­ment.” The prod­uct selec­tion com­prises mostly of organic and envi­ron­men­tally friendly prod­ucts, mostly from local pro­duc­ers and suppliers.

Aside from the obvi­ous, the store serves the sur­round­ing neigh­bor­hood by pro­vid­ing an easy-going place for social gath­er­ing where the return­ing cus­tomers from around the block  bump into each other while pur­chas­ing their daily oat­meal and fruit. A kind of vibrant pos­i­tive buzz that might be sur­pris­ingly rare to find these days.

Here’s the idea as it is:

1. Remem­ber to bring your con­tain­ers* from home
2. Come to Unpack­aged and say hello
3. Weigh your con­tain­ers, then choose the prod­uct and amount you want
4. Take your goods home in your own con­tain­ers (if you for­get, you can buy reusable con­tain­ers here)
5. When you’ve run out, come back for a refill, sim­ple as that!

http://beunpackaged.com/

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A met­ro­pol­i­tan bicy­cle ride with a lot of style. Check out the pho­tos and read more from tweedrun.com.