Up that London
We've fondued, coffeed, steamed and griddled our way through nearly all of the wedding presents, but we still had one gift we'd not got around to using, a "getaway" break in the form of a voucher from my new siblings-in-law.
We decided the best way to use the voucher was to book into a 5-star hotel in London for the weekend and just go with the flow.
The flow took us to the South Bank and the Tate Modern to see Shibboleth, which is stunning in a "how the hell did they do that?" kind of way, but really didn't make me (or anyone else in the crowd, as far as I could tell) think about the history of slavery and racism. Does a work that completely fails to impart it's artist's intended message make it a failure as a piece of art, no matter how impressive it is otherwise?
The future is digital, as we all know, but I'd always had my reservations about "digital cinema". Put it down to years of PowerPoint presentations, I half-expected that a digitally projected image would be pixellated and blurry, and over-use the "Duck Hitting Computer With Hammer" clip art.
My fears were unfounded, the digitally produced image at the Odeon Leicester Square is outstanding, pin-sharp and with a fantastically detailed contrast range that really did justice to Tim Burton's deliciously dark vision of Sweeney Todd's London.
Back in the real non-CGI London, we spent Sunday doing touristy things like riding a ferry up the Thames and taking pictures of underground stations...
Which actually came out quite well.
We decided the best way to use the voucher was to book into a 5-star hotel in London for the weekend and just go with the flow.
The flow took us to the South Bank and the Tate Modern to see Shibboleth, which is stunning in a "how the hell did they do that?" kind of way, but really didn't make me (or anyone else in the crowd, as far as I could tell) think about the history of slavery and racism. Does a work that completely fails to impart it's artist's intended message make it a failure as a piece of art, no matter how impressive it is otherwise?
The future is digital, as we all know, but I'd always had my reservations about "digital cinema". Put it down to years of PowerPoint presentations, I half-expected that a digitally projected image would be pixellated and blurry, and over-use the "Duck Hitting Computer With Hammer" clip art.
My fears were unfounded, the digitally produced image at the Odeon Leicester Square is outstanding, pin-sharp and with a fantastically detailed contrast range that really did justice to Tim Burton's deliciously dark vision of Sweeney Todd's London.
Back in the real non-CGI London, we spent Sunday doing touristy things like riding a ferry up the Thames and taking pictures of underground stations...
Which actually came out quite well.
An under-world concrete cathedral that seems to make a lot of hard work connecting between Jubilee Line, Circle/District and the surface.
Unless of course it's somewhere else ;) [I've been wrong before]
xx
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