Today was London day...
Categories: artwork, photos, general-stuff
Date: 26 July 2011 21:50:31
So I'm taking some students to London in September and I thought I'd walk the ground and see where we can go. Suggested venues were the Tate Modern (mixed feelings), the V and A (love it) and the British Library (ditto). As the BL has a sci fi exhibition - which fits right in with what I'm aiming to do in term 1 - I wanted to check it out prior to possibly taking the students there. I've come away with mixed feelings. The exhib is very good and there's a lot in the LIbrary to make a trip very much worthwhile but the inability to take photos for personal use is tricksome. Mulling it over now but that's not a tick on the positives list.
Anyhow: enjoyed the library and then walked to Camden, which is something I may do with the students, to enjoy some places I thoroughly love: the lock, the Stables and Chin Chin labs, purveyors of fine ice cream made using liquid nitrogen. My daughter and I had a tin of something on a moped at the lock and then yummed down some Mexican Caramel ice cream and probably both wished we had space for two :)
Once we had the energy to get up and move on we went to the Tate Modern (a lot of lovely stuff in there but some pieces which beggar belief in their inclusion. I don't think I'll take the students there, although it's a shared trip so depends on what the other teachers say. For a start it requires a lot of maturity to walk around and examine the contents and someone wishing to laugh it all off will find a lot to assist them). Personally I like more than I dislike in the galleries but, well, daughter was less impressed and she's closer to the target age group than I am.
Finished off, wearily by that point, in the V and A. I wish I'd had more time to be there and more energy to walk around it more fully, but it's an ace place and if we don't do the Library that'll be my second choice with no hesitations. The blue and green sculpture above the info point was screaming out to be photographed, so I did. For the most part I took very few pictures and drew pictures as it was a mix of a reccy and a day out with my daughter. That said: some pics here...
