Weather as usual?

So, I know this will surprise all of you...but the weather here in London is rainy and gray. I know! Who would have thought?! : )

Ok, so we knew this was a great possibility, but we still have good hope for the weekend shooting scheduled for the Isle of White.

Since shooting in gray rainy weather is pure rubbish and produces crap photos I put my camera back in it's safe case and took myself out into the weather (which is warm, but yucky) to go grab a bit of culture.

Those of you who know me will be astonished to hear that I've actually managed to get my bearings here in London (it only took about a dozen visits) so today was all about walking. I believe I covered about 10 miles square worth of the city and including taking the tube to meet up with our great friend Mike for a really tasty Turkish dinner I didn't get lost or turned around once. Spooky eh?

So, I have a smattering of odd photos from the Victoria and Albert Museum and the city itself:


Ever wonder how those Tupperware containers your mom used were made? You can learn all about it at the Science Museum next to the Victoria and Albert. It's pretty kooky actually this is the same company that made gas masks in world war II... got to love chemical engineering.


So, going with the plastics theme (a whole section of the Science Museum was dedicated to it) this is a fairly large chandelier made out of Bic pens. I can't for the life of me explain why... I suppose this falls to the "because they could" category



At the Victoria and Albert Museum (a dizzingly laid out building meant to confuse your sense of direction at every turn) tucked in amongst the antiquities, the 16th century sculptures, the ancient china textiles and the art of the masters are strange and wonderful three dimensional displays hanging in the little nooks and corners and over the head of people on the floors below. This is a set of real instruments that have been crushed flat and hung from thin wires so that they move around with the air flow...it's much larger than it appears in this iPhone pic. I liked that people were walking below it being very serious as they "admired" really really hard to interpret paintings from many decades ago.