a lot of stuff and nonsense from eclectech

I rather enjoyed myself and found many things to make me grin.

• The drawing of St Paul's Cathedral on St Paul's Cathedral. More buildings should contain idealistic self portraits.


• Unexpectedly ending up at the Technology 2.0 post-Emerging Tech gubbins and viewing the splendour of British geekdom with a glass of wine and some pistachio nuts.


• Stumbling across a British branded sex shop in Soho and imagining all the men in bowler hats, drinking tea, discussing the weather and awkwardly twiddling with their moustaches.*


• People laughing and playing hide and seek around Rachel Whiteread's Embankment in Tate Modern.


• Giggling to myself on the tube to Camden after being hit with a blast of my past from across the carriage.


• The Millenium Bridge. Aesthetically pleasing and practical. A thoroughly nice thing.


• The British Museum. Colonial guilt aside it's stuffed so full of splendid STUFF; a wonderful place to wander around.

Inevitably there were a couple of things I wasn't so keen on.

• Corporate tagging. Everywhere. It kept shouting at me; everything seemed to have a corporate link. Unilever explaining how it's like the installation at the Tate was verging on comedy gold mind you.


• Rushing about just a little too much and feeling like I had to leave everywhere, everything and everyone earlier than I would have liked.

Apropos of nothing, this is beautiful and gives me goosebumps.

* I like this image and am steadfastly refusing to imagine an alternative picture of the interior.

Update: Heh, a vaguely related article, even though I was in London for business and just crammed in some fun. I didn't get an Oyster card either.

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