Thursday, 28 May 2009

Newgrange Passage Tomb


Today, I learned there are many many more stone circles than just Stonehenge and Avebury. Including this one, in Ireland. I badly want to see it and go inside! Going inside something cave-like is much more exciting than just a circle....and there are carvings! I never thought about stuff like this existing before. Fascinating.

Beware, beware, be very wary Bear.


I discovered this fun song. Good but not as good as its predecessor :D

Pink elephants on parade!!



Mmm trippy.

Thursday, 21 May 2009

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Ok so if this isn't genius, what is? P&P spliced with zombie action! With illustrations!? Extreme joy! I need it.

Wednesday, 20 May 2009

Interiors @ Lyric Hammersmith

A few weeks ago I went to Lyric Hammersmith and saw Interiors. It was eggs. It was set up like you were watching through the windows into a house, and you couldn't hear what the characters were saying, just hints and observations from the narrator, who was another secret watcher. And there were lights/projection over the outside the house to look look like wind and snow and stars :)

Here's the official blurb:

Behind a window, in a cosy room, a group of friends
sit down for a meal. The food is being cooked;
the lamps are on, everyone is happy. Talk begins
and soon stories unfold around the table, stories
about the living and the dead, about missing
necklaces and what happens when people get hungry.

Outside someone is watching.

Vanishing Point return to the Lyric with this major
international collaboration following their sell-out hit
Subway. Utterly hypnotic, Interiors is about sounds,
silence, and the darkness outside the window. This production is inspired by the Nobel prize-winner
Maurice Maeterlinck’s astonishing play, Interior.

Tuesday, 19 May 2009

Robinsons Bird House



I have slacked posting lately...been so hectic finishing my masters and working in the bookshop...but, i think i'll be posting again now :) Yay to this ad of a bird house. Obvious highlight being the man clock saying hello. Also, the guardian posters on the way, tweet magazine, worm sausages and bird claw boots :D Attention to detail! Oh yes.

Sunday, 19 April 2009

Cheek to Cheek



My friend Frances who dances has done this lovely lovely dance film :) I love the use of shadow and reflection and the blend of happiness with melancholy. It's about loneliness and memories but it feels uplifting to me :) Good times.

Sunday, 8 March 2009

My favourite bit of Bug Bazaar @ Millenium Gallery


Visited my gran in Sheffield for her birthday this weekend and saw the Bug Bazaar exhibition at the Millenium gallery...this video was my highlight - While Darwin Sleeps by Paul Bush. This is a section of his film showing 3000 species of insect at one frame each...it's stunning. I marvel at how beautiful insects are and how MANY there are! And amazing variation. Yet I find them so repulsive at the same time. The film goes on and makes it seem as though insects are trying to escape from being pinned in collections...