6 posts tagged “london”
Gorgeous video series from Crush + Lovely, who visited Brooklyn and asked fifty people the same question - where would you like to wake up tomorrow?
They've also carried out the project in London.
Well sacré bleu and pantalons, I only went and missed it again. Last year, when I was living in Birmingham, I read about Open Garden Squares weekend, and wished I lived a bit closer and could just go and visit without lots of advance planning. I bookmarked the page, thought 'must go next year' and then kind of forgot about it.
Then this year, at 4.30pm on Sunday afternoon, I stumble across this Londonist story about how this weekend is the 2007 Open Garden Squares weekend. Well. I am in no small measure annoyed with myself. It is a beautifully sunny weekend, I now live a mere 30 minutes train journey outside London; why, if I was even MILDLY organised I could have spent this beautifully sunny weekend wandering around places like this:
After all, who wouldn't want to spend the day in a garden that was
"set up by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in 1673, to train their apprentices in the study of medicinal plants."
Although some of the gardens are open at other times, many are private gardens and are only open to the public one weekend a year. Ah well. Perhaps next year?
Photo from Chelsea Physic Garden page at the Open Garden Squares site
I saw this amazing photo by Tanya Nagar on Londonist, and had to find out more.
I'm not sure why but I can't stop looking at this photo. I will certainly be watching out for more of Tanya's work.
If you're going to graffiti things, make it good.
Delays on the Circle and District lines? You might want to try using your feet instead...
Great project from a group of St. Martin's Design Studies postgrads, illustrating how short the walking distances between Zone 1 Tube stations are.
Yesterday we had great fun playing out in London. Bri's brother Gary came to stay for the weekend, and they had enormous and geekish fun going to the Game On exhibition at the Science Museum.
However, I had far MORE fun trying out the slides at the Carsten Holler 'Test Site' exhibition at Tate Modern. I went on the slides from levels 4 and 5 of the turbine hall, and although the visitor information had a section sternly headed Precautions, warning...
The slides on Levels 4 and 5 are fast and the experience is physical. Take particular care and follow the Gallery Assistants' instructions.
...I still wasn't quite prepared for having all the breath knocked out of me as I whooshed and whumped my way down the slides. Even if I'd been feeling articulate, rather than a bit shaky, I don't think I could have described the experience as well as Carsten Holler does when he talks about
The state of mind that you enter when sliding, of simultaneous delight, madness and ‘voluptuous panic’
It was a fantastic experience, and I noticed that as everyone came flying out of the bottom of the tubes they were either shrieking wildly or grinning fit to burst.
