This is a view from the vintage De Havilland Dragon Rapide which I was fortunate enough to enjoy a brief flight on today at the Duxford Imperial War Museum.
I took lots more photographs while I was there …
This is a picture of me in a very strange place:
It is actually a part of Ernesto Neto’s The Edges Of The World exhibition at the Hayward Gallery. If you follow my blog you’ll know that I like the Hayward Gallery and have featured it here before. (here, here and here)
I took plenty more pictures of weird and wonderful artworks …
I took these pictures today of Fiona Banner’s Harrier and Jaguar at Tate Britain.
This is the car I’d always wanted. It is a Ferrari F40. I liked it so much growing up that I had a dusty Airfix model of it on my bookshelf.
I took this picture at the start of the Gumball 3000 rally in London. The original picture was a little messy, so I used a photo-editing package (The GIMP - an excellent free tool) to remove the background and rotate the car to level it up a little.
There were all sorts of weird and wonderful vehicles to see at the event …
I’ve been to a couple of the recent late night openings at the Science Museum. Definitely one of my favourite London museums, and their late night openings are really good fun. There are little events, demonstrations, music a bar, and best of all, it’s adults-only, so there are no hordes of kiddies running around fiddling with the hands-on exhibits.
This fellow may not actually be a real space man (space suit, actually - nobody’s inside) but I think it makes a great blog picture.
This weekend, thanks to a tip-off from a friend I visited Kinetica Art Fair. Having been to last year’s event, I knew what to expect and so I came prepared with my camera.
Immediately, the art afficionados amongst you will have noted “camera” - Kinetica is a very informal event. Photography is allowed as long as it isn’t disruptive and many of the exhibits are interactive.
The artists are usually on hand to discuss their work and are typically very keen to do so. Professor Frederic Fol Leymarie gave me a very interesting walk-through the art/research project on computation models of creativity that he is involved with, for example. I also chatted briefly with Giles Walker who I met at last year’s event when he was exhibiting his pole dancing robots.
So, what did the art look like?
Snow seems to be a bit of a recurring theme in my blog. Here’s some more, this time from a walk with my parents and brother in Black Hambleton, near Osmotherly.
These pictures are from 2009 but I was a bit slow putting them up.
When this was taken the idea of making a snowman seemed like a bit of a novelty. Now, three weeks later the novelty has started to wear off.
Here’s a couple more pictures so you can admire my handywork …
This Friday I attended the Fashion In Motion catwalk show of clothing designed by Erdem at The Victoria and Albert Museum.
As you can see, I’m no fashion photographer! Unlike my friend Titus Powell, to whom thanks are due for obtaining the tickets to this event.
More pictures after the break.
