Nostalgia for ages that never existed.
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hirezThe last time we went to London, the 900 tried to reject its exhaust system.
This time, the exhaust is the only bit sans tinworm. Oh well, fun while it lasted and let's hope the 9000 is recoverable, otherwise there's going to be more cycling than usual in my future.
On the positive side, the Modernism ("I didn't know they were playing." "No, not the shit band. The thing at the V&A...") exhibition was really quite something. 'Still life with ball-bearings', constructivist theatre designed for collective farms, futurist clothing (a futurist suit), a combined X-Ray machine and acceleration-couch, Einstein's expressionist observatory, a Tatra, a zig-zag chair... (and the Skylon and some mad Japanese library that looks like it's going to turn into a rocket-firing turtle any second and Highpoint and and...)
All the good and interesting design and architecture of the last century in one place. (And some unfortunately utopian ideas about social housingm but there we are)
Marvellous. Perhaps this is the Grim Meathook Future we're warned about.
Anyway. Y'all have a week to go view it.
After that, there was B-Movie. A right old laugh and no mistake. Was half-deaf, tired and dealing with a mob of unruly personal daemons, so not match-fit by any stretch, but still managed to ramble and arm-wave in a hopefully entertaining style.
This time, the exhaust is the only bit sans tinworm. Oh well, fun while it lasted and let's hope the 9000 is recoverable, otherwise there's going to be more cycling than usual in my future.
On the positive side, the Modernism ("I didn't know they were playing." "No, not the shit band. The thing at the V&A...") exhibition was really quite something. 'Still life with ball-bearings', constructivist theatre designed for collective farms, futurist clothing (a futurist suit), a combined X-Ray machine and acceleration-couch, Einstein's expressionist observatory, a Tatra, a zig-zag chair... (and the Skylon and some mad Japanese library that looks like it's going to turn into a rocket-firing turtle any second and Highpoint and and...)
All the good and interesting design and architecture of the last century in one place. (And some unfortunately utopian ideas about social housingm but there we are)
Marvellous. Perhaps this is the Grim Meathook Future we're warned about.
Anyway. Y'all have a week to go view it.
After that, there was B-Movie. A right old laugh and no mistake. Was half-deaf, tired and dealing with a mob of unruly personal daemons, so not match-fit by any stretch, but still managed to ramble and arm-wave in a hopefully entertaining style.
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Date: 2006-07-16 10:46 pm (UTC)Were you chasing up recordings of the Museum of Everything?
After that, there was B-Movie
Date: 2006-07-16 04:35 pm (UTC)Re: After that, there was B-Movie
Date: 2006-07-16 04:54 pm (UTC)