The Tate Modern and My First Paper
Twelve hours, three cups of tea, lunch, dinner, and a few snacks later, I've finally completed my first assignment for my MA course- a paper on the arguments for and against TBL (Task-based Learning). If you have any questions, it's all very clear in my head right now, so ask away.
On to the weekend...
Rich and I found out that you don't have to pay to get into central London on the weekends, so we decided to drive in instead of taking the bus. We packed a picnic lunch which ended up being eaten in our car- in the rain- instead of on a bench near the River Thames- in the sunshine. You can't have everything.
We took a tour of a school Rich is looking at for next year. The tour included introductions to all the recording equipment in the studios and if I had an ounce of talent in that area, I think I would be tempted to apply, as well. Very cool.
After the tour, we went to the Tate. There's currently a collection of giant slides, called the Unilever Series, by Carsten Holler (with an umlaut over the o). Let me see if I can find a picture...
The slides are not made to just look at, they're there for you to slide down as well- and you can do it for free! According to the Tate, what interests Höller, is "both the visual spectacle of watching people sliding and the ‘inner spectacle’ experienced by the sliders themselves, the state of simultaneous delight and anxiety that you enter as you descend." Cool, huh? Unfortunately, you have to be there before 10am to get a ticket. We might go back in a few weeks- at which point we'll get our tickets, run other errands, and then go down the slide. Yippeee!!
It's supposed to be there until April 9th, by the way. Just so you know. In case you want to visit, or whatever...
As you might know, I love Salvador Dali paintings, as well as the interpretation of dreams, which is quite apt considering that "For the poets and artists of the Surrealist movement, dreams stood for all aspects of the world repressed by rationalism and convention." I wasn't aware of that before I looked it up. Here's a picture of one of Dali's paintings, called Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937):
Here's another one I liked. It's called "Women and Bird in Moonlight," by Joan Miro (1949).
Here's "The three dancers" by Pablo Picasso (1925).
Here's Rich's favorite- Night Vision, by Fiona Rae (1998).
If you want to see what else is on display, you can go to http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/CollectionDisplays?venueid=2
Unfortunately, we missed the opening of the Scientology church in London on Sunday. If only we had known... just kidding. It's aparently only steps away from the Tate- that might explain the lack of parking. In case you're wondering, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes did not attend. Here's the story about the opening:
http://www.scientologytoday.org/press/610222259261_scn-int.html
No, I still don't understand what scientologists actually believe in... but yes, I do now know that London is the home of Scientology.
OK, I'm off to bed.
On to the weekend...
Rich and I found out that you don't have to pay to get into central London on the weekends, so we decided to drive in instead of taking the bus. We packed a picnic lunch which ended up being eaten in our car- in the rain- instead of on a bench near the River Thames- in the sunshine. You can't have everything.
We took a tour of a school Rich is looking at for next year. The tour included introductions to all the recording equipment in the studios and if I had an ounce of talent in that area, I think I would be tempted to apply, as well. Very cool.
After the tour, we went to the Tate. There's currently a collection of giant slides, called the Unilever Series, by Carsten Holler (with an umlaut over the o). Let me see if I can find a picture...
The slides are not made to just look at, they're there for you to slide down as well- and you can do it for free! According to the Tate, what interests Höller, is "both the visual spectacle of watching people sliding and the ‘inner spectacle’ experienced by the sliders themselves, the state of simultaneous delight and anxiety that you enter as you descend." Cool, huh? Unfortunately, you have to be there before 10am to get a ticket. We might go back in a few weeks- at which point we'll get our tickets, run other errands, and then go down the slide. Yippeee!!
It's supposed to be there until April 9th, by the way. Just so you know. In case you want to visit, or whatever...
As you might know, I love Salvador Dali paintings, as well as the interpretation of dreams, which is quite apt considering that "For the poets and artists of the Surrealist movement, dreams stood for all aspects of the world repressed by rationalism and convention." I wasn't aware of that before I looked it up. Here's a picture of one of Dali's paintings, called Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937):
Here's another one I liked. It's called "Women and Bird in Moonlight," by Joan Miro (1949).
Here's "The three dancers" by Pablo Picasso (1925).
Here's Rich's favorite- Night Vision, by Fiona Rae (1998).
If you want to see what else is on display, you can go to http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/CollectionDisplays?venueid=2
Unfortunately, we missed the opening of the Scientology church in London on Sunday. If only we had known... just kidding. It's aparently only steps away from the Tate- that might explain the lack of parking. In case you're wondering, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes did not attend. Here's the story about the opening:
http://www.scientologytoday.org/press/610222259261_scn-int.html
No, I still don't understand what scientologists actually believe in... but yes, I do now know that London is the home of Scientology.
OK, I'm off to bed.
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