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A Cultural Day
Sunday, May 30th, 2010 03:24 pmYesterday I went to London and did Culture with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ladymoonray (and later swisstone).
River Sounding at Somerset House. This is an excellent son et lumiere installation -- very much dependent on the site for its effect. Also, a fabulous opportunity to mooch around under Somerset House and peer at 17th-century memorial stones. And to check out the vibrations in the coal-holes.
Then we went on a boat to Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera at Tate Modern. As this has just opened it was rather crowded: I may have to go back when it's quieter, there was some stuff I didn't get to see.
( thoughts )
A rather good illustrated review here.
Then we had some Drink in preparation for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. A film that is either about freerunning or about Weapons of Mass Destruction: tosh, but enjoyable tosh, and ever so pretty. Alfred Molina especially fab as kohl-limned bandit chief. Gemma Arterton does Sassy Heroine better than Keira Knightley. Jake Gyllenhaal a surprisingly convincing action hero. "Wrong sort of Persians," saidswisstone, though I do not know what he was expecting from a movie based on a video game. (Anyway, it is set in The PastTM and not in any recognisable bit of History.)
Then we had pizza and more drink and then I took the slow (uncrowded) train home.
ladymoonray (and later swisstone).River Sounding at Somerset House. This is an excellent son et lumiere installation -- very much dependent on the site for its effect. Also, a fabulous opportunity to mooch around under Somerset House and peer at 17th-century memorial stones. And to check out the vibrations in the coal-holes.
Then we went on a boat to Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera at Tate Modern. As this has just opened it was rather crowded: I may have to go back when it's quieter, there was some stuff I didn't get to see.
( thoughts )
A rather good illustrated review here.
Then we had some Drink in preparation for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. A film that is either about freerunning or about Weapons of Mass Destruction: tosh, but enjoyable tosh, and ever so pretty. Alfred Molina especially fab as kohl-limned bandit chief. Gemma Arterton does Sassy Heroine better than Keira Knightley. Jake Gyllenhaal a surprisingly convincing action hero. "Wrong sort of Persians," said
swisstone, though I do not know what he was expecting from a movie based on a video game. (Anyway, it is set in The PastTM and not in any recognisable bit of History.)Then we had pizza and more drink and then I took the slow (uncrowded) train home.
