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We love Lomo...new Lomography Gallery Store open in London

Finally, our fave camera brand Lomo have opened their very first London store just a stones throw away from knomo HQ, in Soho! For those who are up to speed, Lomography put the fun back into photography with their motto 'Dont think, Just shoot' using various designs of retro camera based on the Lomo Kompakt Automat 35mm camera. This camera is analogue (no digital screen to check pictures here!) which, by the way, was was originally designed by a top-secret military optics factory in the Soviet Union - super-cool!

Always a turn-up for the books...the Turner Prize is back

The most controversial art competition is back at the Tate Britian. Now in its 25th year, the Turner Prize never fails to highlight some of Britains brightest (if not maddest!) contemporary artists living and working in Britain.

You may remember Damien Hursts shark (who could forget?!) floating in formadehyde with a suitably pretentious name, or Tracey Emins bed; imaginatively entitled My Bed; which left most of us walking away aching to take a bath. This years nominess - Lucy Skaer, Enrico David, Rodger Hiorns and Richard Wright - are just as intriguing.

Tis the season to go on holiday...(Fa La La La La...La La La Laaaa...)

The Christmas season is rapidly approaching: presents to buy, turkey to weigh, different size chairs to source for the inevitable Christmas chair shortage ... wouldn't it be nice to leave all that behind and jet off into the sunset for once?! Well, as busy as we are in the office we can't help but dream about our escape to paradise for the winter months, and if you are stuck for some ideas, here are our top three destinations: 

Riviera Maya, Mexico - Caribbean weather without the Caribbean cost

Chirp off the old block

It’s the latest craze… Ashton Kutcher and P Diddy have a million people watching them doing it. Jennifer Anniston dumped John Mayer for doing it. And it seems you’re no one if you’re not doing it too. It’s the site that needs no introduction – but I did one anyway – twitter.com.

 

knomo decided to ‘join the conversation’ and have since racked up a not-too-shabby 45 tweets including exclusive discounts, details on our weekends and evenings (because we’re sure you’re desperate to know) and latest press coverage. It’s become a daily obsession – checking how many followers we’ve accumulated over night and making sure we’re tweeting interesting enough things, but after all the definition of ‘twitter' is to ‘chatter or giggle in an overexcited or nervous way’. Aside from all the fun, we’ve found that Twitter does actually have a lot more to offer. It’s a chance to find out what different brands are doing, get an insight into stars like Kutcher and Diddy and follow randomly hilarious twitter trending topics. Here are some highlights from one we found particularly amusing:

Spring has well and truly sprung...

knomo's resident amateur photographer Eva has taken some fab snaps of London in the springtime...Richmond Park is the place to be for getting back to nature!

App-solutely fabulous!

I'm sure you’ve all heard that Apple has now had 1 billion apps downloaded for the iPhone (we are responsible for a fair few!). And in the face of this veritable smorgasbord of silly gimmicks and party tricks alongside genuinely useful applications, it’s easy to get a tad bit overwhelmed. So we thought we’d share our favourites...

*Banner Free – perfect for boring meetings

Scroll a message of choice across your screen

*Shazam – perfect for music lovers

Find out the name of any song just by playing a clip of it

 

Now here's a real sense of adventure....

Happy St Georges Day from knomo...

To celebrate St Georges Day we looked to the one & only Boris Johnson for inspiration on how to celebrate..

“Living in such a vibrant, cosmopolitan city you end up celebrating all manner of national and religious days. Some you celebrate as heartily as those to whom they apply. St Patrick’s Day is an obvious one, where every pub in the land is decked out in green.

But St George’s Day is still without fanfare, either forgotten or tucked away in a cupboard somewhere. This year, I want London to wholeheartedly celebrate. That is why the flag of St George will fly above City Hall. I will be getting on a Routemaster bus and going across the river to the famous Leadenhall Market to join traders and Londoners in celebration.” Boris Johnson, Mayor of London

All aboard the Bagalore Express..

After a few drinks at the Young Vic the other night, the obligatory curry followed, but not for us the oily ‘burn-your-face-off’ mush normally associated with a late-night curry dash; we headed away from the crowds to the delightfully less-known Bangalore Express, right opposite Waterloo station. Delicious, wholesome and cheap, the food impressed just as much as the décor – we grabbed a booth on the upper ‘decks’, which meant climbing a ladder to get up there! Those afraid of heights, beware…

Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts club band…

It’s been excessively girly in the office lately, what with all the fashion weeks going on etc, so we thought we would report on something a little less effeminate (but no less fun!). Check the coolest, most addictive game to spice up your console since Street Fighter or Sims; Rock Band is the ultimate game for living out your Rock Star fantasies...