Anthony McCall @ The Serpentine

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This is a must see!! From the first point of walking into the dark room the light looks quite fun, but when you stand in the beam of light it gives the illusion of being in a tunnel. You almost can't see outside the beam of light, which gives an odd experience because people seem to float in and out of the "tunnel".
The first room shows some of the concept ideas behind the lighting effects which gives a good insight about what is trying to be achieved.

For more about Anthony McCall click here, for info about The Serpentine exhibit click here.

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FAT @ BCL

6.30pm Wednesday 30 January 2008
Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL
Gower Street
London WC1

SEAN GRIFFITHS (FAT)

Ruining Architecture
Sean Griffiths is a director of Fat. He studied architecture at Manchester Polytechnic and the Polytechnic of Central London, before forming Fat in 1993. Fat is renowned as one of the most innovative architectural practices in the UK and recently completed the acclaimed Islington Square affordable housing project in Manchester The practice is currently working on major housing projects in London, a rural masterplan in Dorset, and a Park in Rotterdam. Sean also writes about architecture and urbansim and is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Westminster. He is presently the Louis I Kahn Visiting Professor at Yale School of Architecture.

The above info is taken from the BCL website, for more info click here.

The talk was interesting but in some places a little boring because the main focus was with architecture. A floor plan is just a floor plan. The work that was shown was FAT's most well known work and it was good to learn about the inspiration behind the projects. I found from the talk, the concepts for the ideas were great and pushing the boundaries, but the reality had to be calmed down and didn't really do the work justice.

To see the FAT website click here.

Being Seduced @ The Barbican

Seduced at the Barbican


Before looking around the exhibition the guests were offered a "Quickie". A short talk given by Dr Petra Boynton. She gave some background information about the research into pornography and why and how its done. Details of this can be seen in the image below. For more information about her and the work she does click here.

For more information the website listed in the picture can be found here;
Men's Online Magazine
Condom Essential Wear Campaign
The Kinsey Institute
Wikipedia Sexology Information Critical Sexology Group
Sexual Dysfunction Association
British Association of Sex and Relationship Therapy
World Sex News
Below is a leaflet from the exhibition with poems with the theme of Seducted: Art & Sex From Antiquity to Now, by Carol Ann Duffy...

... and Tobias Hill

A windy day in Weymouth

Its not very often that Weymouth is subject to waves like this!!

This is mainly because of the land form surrouding Weymouth shelters it from the severe weather coming in from the Atlantic. The land form and waves in Weymouth can be seen in the Google Earth images below.

This is a short video of the waves. As you can tell from the sound it was a little windy.