Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

I apologize, but this will have to be the first post in a while where i do not have pictures of the days events. aghh...i know, the post won't be so visually compelling, so you'll just have to fall to the way of my fantastic writing! 

i know...you're like "What fantastic writing? you write horribly, mark". anyways...

We traveled to South Kensington area, walking past a very famous part of london with a particularly infamous building. The Old Michelin building (made in 1911) was built to face a very busy street in london. As well, it was built with a style that meets a very heavy front with Art Deco extreme. As well, Michelin's main mascot Bibendum is featured all over the building in very particular tile-mosaic work. The inside even featured a brilliant mosaic floor tole piece featuring bibendum with the glass full of nuts and bolts, so that it seems like the job is just as easy to take care of as a drink.

After the Bibendim Building (not to mention it’s funky designer furniture and homewares store), we headed to the national history museum.  Here we ventured in to see a collected exhibition on Dinosaurs, as well as a natural history section and human biology section. the museum, though riddled with kids, was quite worth the Visit. after this we were instructed to head over to the V&A museum for a visit to seethe cast courts to draw from once again. 

Next up was a new show at the southbank centre for us to check out. it was a group show called “Walking in my Mind” and it featured many different artists of different mediums and perspectives, all with the intention of showing how their inner workings of their respective minds looked in their own vision. The artist roster included Charles Avery, Thomas Hirschhorn, Yayoi Kusama, Bo Christian Larsson, Mark Manders, Yoshitomo Nara, Jason Rhoades, Pipilotti Rist, Chiharu Shiota and Keith Tyson.

Yayoi was my favorite, not simply because her work was flourishing the promotional material for the show but because her work was so extremely expansive and fantasical. if it were up to me, i’d use more mirrors to a greater effect in the room, but the installation was great overall.

After that show, we were free to go explore some of london. This is where me, jillo, kylo and martenbenboo went to try out some italian in Soho on Old Compton St. Man, for 7 GBP, you could get a really mean pizza or pasta there.