Tracey Emin mug
When I went to the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition recently there was a selection of Tracey Emin crockery in the gift shop! So, I bought a mug.
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Photosynth of Roman Baths, Bath, UK
Paul took lots of photos at the Roman Baths in Bath to put into Photosynth. See results below (you may need to download the plugin).
To Bath…
Paul and I are going to Bath this weekend - we go there today, Friday and are coming back Sunday. It’s a long weekend so we also have Monday off. I will be seeing Lucy on Monday as she is in town on her way to Australia! It’s her first trip back since she left a few years ago and she’s very excited about catching up with friends (oh, and she’s also giving a paper at a conference).
fun and relaxing weekend
On Saturday I saw the film Black, White and Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe at the ICA. The film is about the curator and art collector Sam Wagstaff and his partner, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. It was really interesting. If you’re familiar with Mapplethorpe’s art but don’t know about Wagstaff, I’d highly recommend this film. It featured Patti Smith quite a bit as she was very close to both of them and spent a lot of time with them.
I went to the film by myself and Paul met me afterwards and we went clothes shopping.
On Sunday we had bookclub at Alletta and Ryan’s house. We discussed the first four volumes of Y: The Last Man. Paul and I have gotten hold of copies of the last 6 volumes (which Paul has already finished) so I can find out what happens. Bookclub was lots of fun and there were six people there. Haven’t decided on the next book yet. My feminist bookclub was last night (discussing Woman: An Intimate Geography) but I didn’t go because I couldn’t be bothered (and they’re anti-sex feminists, so I don’t know if I could be bothered with it.
After bookclub on Sunday we went to Dave and Zoe’s farewell. They are leaving London soon to travel around Europe for three months and then probably go back to Australia but they will actually be coming back to London before they go back home.
Paul and I have been talking about going to see the Dark Knight at the Imax cinema which would be a lot of fun. You have to book weeks in advance though because it’s so popular.
Last Wednesday night I went to a film by myself at the ICA: Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame. It was the story of a little Afghani girl’s journey to be able to go to school. And it was set in Bamyan where the Taliban blew up the ancient Buddhas.
Butterflies and art
I had Friday off work and I went and looked at lovely butterflies at the Natural History Museum and at a lot of art at the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition.
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Too many books?
The Book Collection That Devoured My Life By LUC SANTE from the Wall Street Journal. I love owning books. I probably only read a quarter of the books I buy (I mean to read them all) and I really want to own a library one day (ok, technically you could say I have a library of books already, but I want to own a house that has a room dedicated primarily to books, books that I will own).
London Literature Festival
I just realised that I didn’t blog about the London Literature Festival.
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Shakespeare on film and other things
Last night, Paul and I watched Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V.
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I’m bald and on Nerdling!
Wanna see a picture of me from years ago when I was bald? Well head over to the fabulous Nerdling site - and you really should check out these oh-so-nerdy-and-fabulous zines - to see some photos from the zine fair at the This Is Not Art festival in Newcastle (Australia) and see me and Lucy at our zine distro table (actually, it was Lucy’s zine distro, I was selling my zines and helping her out!).
