Theme: Silver Surfers

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1. Chitra Banerjee : Indian Classical, Folk and Rabindra Dancer.
   

   http://achweb.pairsite.com/chitra.banerjee/
   Chitra is a Hackney Silver Surfer.
2. Geriatric1927's Videos.
   

   http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=geriatric1927
   Peter is 80, lives in Leicester, and is a hugely successful video blogger -- which means he records his own videos (of himself, chatting), and puts them on the web. He now has his own Wikipedia entry.
3. hackneyed.
   

   http://my.opera.com/hackneyed/albums/
   A Hackney photo album -- created entirely by mobile phone.
4. John Topping : Cellophane Lane.
   

   http://www.lulu.com/jbtopping
   A book available from the online publisher Lulu: "a story of the world's most powerful business family. A stolen fortune; the collapse of a banking empire; the dream of revenge; all are in this strange saga of the von Wessenburgs and their history". The author is a Hackney Silver Surfer.
5. Searching for William Dickensen.
   

   http://dickensen.org/
   William Dickensen (United States Air Force, World War Two) is the father of a Hackney Silver Surfer.
6. The Zimmers.
   

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqfFrCUrEbY
   The Zimmers (lead singer is 90-year-old Alf Carretta) have recorded a unique version of The Who's My Generation. The 40-strong band, which includes some centenarians, recorded at the legendary studio two at Abbey Road. Alf is old enough to be Pete Townsend's dad, so the sense of generational incongruity is even greater than you expect. Like all aspirational new bands, the Zimmers have a presence on MySpace. The BBC website also has a report on the Zimmers.