Category: Art&Exhibitions

Art&Exhibitions, Travel

Portugal Day2

Portugal, Day2. (yes, it’s confusing but switch your brain!) It was the first day of the event, OFFF. There was a long queue in the morning! After waiting a lot, finally we went inside the place. There were some interactive installation, and, Microsoft was showing their interactive campus and “Surface”. Opening talk was by Neville Brody. (I didn’t know he was alumni of LCC…) But actually I don’t remember what he talked… Well, how things were organised was not so good, the sound was not so good… The first day was a bit disappointing. But the dinner we had at […]

Art&Exhibitions, Life in London

Kinetica Art Fair

went to Kinetica art fair on the other day. It was really interesting to see interactive arts, or dynamic arts. This is the place. It’s difficult to explain with words, so pictures…. There are some interactive arts, like getting information from real world and convert it into graphics etc… Or something which moves reacting human’s move. Or something….unknown, but just getting closer to you. And collaboration with other arts. And robots. And…moving stuff. …So, anyway, I enjoyed it so much!

Art&Exhibitions, Diary, Foods, Life in London

Ikebana (Japanese flower arrangement)

My friend invited me to Ikebana (Japanese flower arrangement) exhibition! It was in Hamstead. …Before that, we went to eat crape which is really popular in Hamstead. Wow, there was a long queue… I was in two minds of eating sweet one or savory one…but decided to have mushroom tarragon cream one as I was so hungry!Wow…outside is crispy, and inside is hot mushroom with nice salty taste, this is soooo happy~~~. I’m gonna try sweet one next time. So, ikebata exhibition was in a church. The combination of Japanese and Western was really nice. All flowers were so unique […]

Art&Exhibitions, Life in London, Music

Alan Aldridge at Design Museum

The event has closed already, but I went to see Alan Aldridge at Design Museum. So the image of Alan Aldridge is basically the Beatles..but I hadn’t looked at his art works in detail. It was amazing, the more you looked at, the more you find detailed elements. You can find a lot of things inside such a small painting. By the way, he is an art director for the band called “Incubus” and designed their jacket, and it looks there was “i dig incubus” contest…I don’t know much about the contest, but there was an artwork for that displayed […]

Art&Exhibitions, Digital products & Design, Life in London

Francis Bacon at Tate Britain

So, now it’s about Francis Bacon。 As I got a strong impression from the poster at the tube, I was so interested in this exhibition, and found this web content. Well, it looked a bit complicated to look into the detail, so I went to the museum anyway… I hadn’t been to Tate Britain. It is located along the Thames, and the building looks so “museum”. The inside is much bigger than you can imagine from the outside, and they have lots of exhibition other than special ones. Many of them are admission free. It’s so kind for poor students… […]

Art&Exhibitions

TED TALK

The website TED TALK, contents on this site are sometimes introduced as learning resource in the course. I even hadn’t known about the conference, but it’s so interesting…. Of course sometimes it’s a bit too difficult to catch English…but it’s good practice for me anyway! I also like the design of the site. On the top page, you can choose the layout from visualization (pictures in a block layout), or list, and sort by release date, popularity, rate by users (such as most inspiring) etc. It looks the size of the picture represents the order. The quality of video playback […]