Sunday, June 08, 2008
You think of a title
Ack. Not much crafting is going on here. Well, there is, but I haven't got any pictures of it. That is a combination of the camera batteries needing charging and me being to lazy to put them in the charger. So in stead here's a picture from last year. English peeps can probably guess what shops those bags are from. ;-)
Yesterday we tried watching two films: Blood Diamond and Michael Clayton. About 25 minutes into Blood Diamond I had to ask Tony to turn it off; it was just too much. The scene where they are 'training' the kids to be soldiers had me in tears. I do not cope well with cruelty. Michael Clayton was just boring. Maybe I would have turned out okay, but if you're almost nodding off, it doesn't bode well, now, does it?
So I had this crazy idea: how about a meet-up? With very short notice: on Tuesday! I'm going to London (if it's not too swelteringly hot!) to see this Street Art exhibition at Tate Modern, do a bit of drawing somewhere and finishing off with a visit to the opening of the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef at the Hayward. You may know that Helle of Gooseflesh has made part of this - from plastic bags (among them, those in the picture up there!) - and she will be there for the opening.
Whaddya say? Email me if you're up for it. :-)
Ack. Not much crafting is going on here. Well, there is, but I haven't got any pictures of it. That is a combination of the camera batteries needing charging and me being to lazy to put them in the charger. So in stead here's a picture from last year. English peeps can probably guess what shops those bags are from. ;-)Yesterday we tried watching two films: Blood Diamond and Michael Clayton. About 25 minutes into Blood Diamond I had to ask Tony to turn it off; it was just too much. The scene where they are 'training' the kids to be soldiers had me in tears. I do not cope well with cruelty. Michael Clayton was just boring. Maybe I would have turned out okay, but if you're almost nodding off, it doesn't bode well, now, does it?
So I had this crazy idea: how about a meet-up? With very short notice: on Tuesday! I'm going to London (if it's not too swelteringly hot!) to see this Street Art exhibition at Tate Modern, do a bit of drawing somewhere and finishing off with a visit to the opening of the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef at the Hayward. You may know that Helle of Gooseflesh has made part of this - from plastic bags (among them, those in the picture up there!) - and she will be there for the opening.
Whaddya say? Email me if you're up for it. :-)
scribbled by Carina 6/08/2008 08:26:00 PM
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Quite Interesting
Ok, here's the short version of our outing to be in the QI audience yesterday: we stood in line for ages, but it was totally worth, because it was fricking amazingly funny! Stephen Fry wore a lovely green suit with a pink shirt (I think) shirt and tie. The panel was: Allan Davies (duh), Sean Lock (*swoon*), Ben Miller and Rob Brydon. This is for the F series so the topic was the future.
Here's the longer version:
As if standing in line for ages wasn't enough, at some point they separated the queue into two and the second queue was mostly people who got there later than us, they were let in before us. It seemed pretty arbitrary and was pretty annoying as well! But in we got, after having our bags searched for sharp objects etc. The security guy was trying to be Mr Funny. He wasn't so much...
I found it quite interesting (snort) that there were people of all ages and all walks of life in the audience. There was some rather posh looking people right in front of us in the queue, expensive handbags, shades and jeans - you know the type. Strangely, most people were white. I think I saw one Asian looking woman, but that's it. I wonder why that is. Is QI "white" humour?
While waiting for the 'show' to go on, we were looking at the crew (or whatever they are called on a tv set) preparing. There were also some telly screens which showed quite interesting facts about a 16 foot long carrot and how the hippo's sweat works as a sunblock. Then the warm-up guy came on and made people laugh. He asked if there was anyone from overseas in the audience and he then spoke to a few of those and most of his 'material' was stereotypes about their particular countries. Which I found not so cool. But maybe that's just me. And if you happen to watch this particular episode of QI and you see shots of the audience laughing, that is filmed during this warm up, not during the actual taping. I know this, because there were no cameras pointed at the audience while the chaps were on stage.
So Stephen Fry comes out, sits down and chats a bit to the audience and then he introduces the others one at a time: Sean Lock *swoon*, Rob Brydon, Ben Miller and Alan Davies. It was Ben Miller's first time on QI, but he seemed to fit straight in. And he's REALLY smart, he was explaining all these things about physics and whether 'nothing' can actually be.
Oh, I almost forgot! Just before Stephen Fry came on stage, they showed an extra that will be on the DVD for series 4. It has got something to do with the song about Peter Cushing that Alan Davies talked about in one of those episodes. REALLY funny stuff!
They were talking about how Rob gets mistaken for Ben and that sort of became the running joke though out the thing. There was a hilarious moment when they put their heads together like they were Siamese twins and then they looked at each other straight in the eye and kissed. To much whooping from the audience as you can imagine!
Oh jeez, I knew I should have written this all down last night, I feel like I'm already forgetting a lot of funny moments. Maybe I'll come back to it and add stuff!
Anyway, more that I still remember: Fry compared a 'sports' bottle to 'your mummy's teat', it transpired that Fry's cousin (a woman) used to date David Furnish (!), Sean Lock stopped the whole thing because he needed the loo! Fry showed Alan Davies some of the answers and he also spoke in Klingon and esperanto. Although those two incidents were not related. One thing he said in Esperanto was 'my hover craft is full of eels' to which Sean Lock *swoon* said, 'hey, I can say that in Danish'. Which he did! But it sounded like he said 'my hover craft is full of beer'*.
Ok, my brain is dying, must be the heat... But this was really great, if you get the chance you should definitely go. We just requested tickets for another episode!!
*Danish for eel = ål, beer = øl.Labels: days out, geeky, telly
Ok, here's the short version of our outing to be in the QI audience yesterday: we stood in line for ages, but it was totally worth, because it was fricking amazingly funny! Stephen Fry wore a lovely green suit with a pink shirt (I think) shirt and tie. The panel was: Allan Davies (duh), Sean Lock (*swoon*), Ben Miller and Rob Brydon. This is for the F series so the topic was the future.
Here's the longer version:
As if standing in line for ages wasn't enough, at some point they separated the queue into two and the second queue was mostly people who got there later than us, they were let in before us. It seemed pretty arbitrary and was pretty annoying as well! But in we got, after having our bags searched for sharp objects etc. The security guy was trying to be Mr Funny. He wasn't so much...
I found it quite interesting (snort) that there were people of all ages and all walks of life in the audience. There was some rather posh looking people right in front of us in the queue, expensive handbags, shades and jeans - you know the type. Strangely, most people were white. I think I saw one Asian looking woman, but that's it. I wonder why that is. Is QI "white" humour?
While waiting for the 'show' to go on, we were looking at the crew (or whatever they are called on a tv set) preparing. There were also some telly screens which showed quite interesting facts about a 16 foot long carrot and how the hippo's sweat works as a sunblock. Then the warm-up guy came on and made people laugh. He asked if there was anyone from overseas in the audience and he then spoke to a few of those and most of his 'material' was stereotypes about their particular countries. Which I found not so cool. But maybe that's just me. And if you happen to watch this particular episode of QI and you see shots of the audience laughing, that is filmed during this warm up, not during the actual taping. I know this, because there were no cameras pointed at the audience while the chaps were on stage.
So Stephen Fry comes out, sits down and chats a bit to the audience and then he introduces the others one at a time: Sean Lock *swoon*, Rob Brydon, Ben Miller and Alan Davies. It was Ben Miller's first time on QI, but he seemed to fit straight in. And he's REALLY smart, he was explaining all these things about physics and whether 'nothing' can actually be.
Oh, I almost forgot! Just before Stephen Fry came on stage, they showed an extra that will be on the DVD for series 4. It has got something to do with the song about Peter Cushing that Alan Davies talked about in one of those episodes. REALLY funny stuff!
They were talking about how Rob gets mistaken for Ben and that sort of became the running joke though out the thing. There was a hilarious moment when they put their heads together like they were Siamese twins and then they looked at each other straight in the eye and kissed. To much whooping from the audience as you can imagine!
Oh jeez, I knew I should have written this all down last night, I feel like I'm already forgetting a lot of funny moments. Maybe I'll come back to it and add stuff!
Anyway, more that I still remember: Fry compared a 'sports' bottle to 'your mummy's teat', it transpired that Fry's cousin (a woman) used to date David Furnish (!), Sean Lock stopped the whole thing because he needed the loo! Fry showed Alan Davies some of the answers and he also spoke in Klingon and esperanto. Although those two incidents were not related. One thing he said in Esperanto was 'my hover craft is full of eels' to which Sean Lock *swoon* said, 'hey, I can say that in Danish'. Which he did! But it sounded like he said 'my hover craft is full of beer'*.
Ok, my brain is dying, must be the heat... But this was really great, if you get the chance you should definitely go. We just requested tickets for another episode!!
*Danish for eel = ål, beer = øl.
Labels: days out, geeky, telly
scribbled by Carina 5/07/2008 06:56:00 PM
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
The Pharaohs let us down
So, this afternoon we went to see the Tutankhamun exhibition at the O2. A bit underwhelming, to be honest. Not sure what we were expecting exactly, but it didn't quite live up to it. Photography wasn't allowed, so you'll have to make do with this sketch I made. I could have spent a lot more time sketching, of course, but someone was impatient. ;-) There were some interesting artefacts there. And, something I often find, the humblest things are usually the most interesting.
It's just a real shame that the exhibition didn't have more of a WOW factor. I think unless you're a major Egypt buff, or someone gives you the ticket to see it, it's not worth a day trip to go see.
Anyway, it did give us a chance to have a closer look at the O2, previously known as the Millennium Dome. It's not really what I'd call a beauty, but it does have its charm. The sheer size is certainly impressive. It took us 5-10 minutes to walk from the main entrance to the entrance of the exhibit. More photos from the O2 in this Flickr set.
So, this afternoon we went to see the Tutankhamun exhibition at the O2. A bit underwhelming, to be honest. Not sure what we were expecting exactly, but it didn't quite live up to it. Photography wasn't allowed, so you'll have to make do with this sketch I made. I could have spent a lot more time sketching, of course, but someone was impatient. ;-) There were some interesting artefacts there. And, something I often find, the humblest things are usually the most interesting.It's just a real shame that the exhibition didn't have more of a WOW factor. I think unless you're a major Egypt buff, or someone gives you the ticket to see it, it's not worth a day trip to go see.
Anyway, it did give us a chance to have a closer look at the O2, previously known as the Millennium Dome. It's not really what I'd call a beauty, but it does have its charm. The sheer size is certainly impressive. It took us 5-10 minutes to walk from the main entrance to the entrance of the exhibit. More photos from the O2 in this Flickr set.
scribbled by Carina 4/22/2008 08:29:00 PM
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Monday, April 21, 2008
Aviator + Tutankhamun
Last night we watched The Aviator. You know, it's REALLY good! It was a bit weird-boring at first, but I got better and better. No wonder it had Oscars thrown at it. For many years I've avoided films with Leonardo DiCaprio, but he's actually starting to grow on me. If you haven't seen The Aviator already, you REALLY should! Other than the story itself, the decor and costume is really great.
Tomorrow we are going to see the Tutankhamun exhibition at The O2. Tony is the mummy Ancient Egypt buff, but I must admit I'm pretty excited about it too. It's not something you get to see everyday. This stuff is old, man! I hope there will be something sort of craft related, but we shall see.
There was something else on my mind when I started this post, but now I can't remember what it was. Probably wasn't that important, then, eh? ;-)
Last night we watched The Aviator. You know, it's REALLY good! It was a bit weird-boring at first, but I got better and better. No wonder it had Oscars thrown at it. For many years I've avoided films with Leonardo DiCaprio, but he's actually starting to grow on me. If you haven't seen The Aviator already, you REALLY should! Other than the story itself, the decor and costume is really great.
Tomorrow we are going to see the Tutankhamun exhibition at The O2. Tony is the
There was something else on my mind when I started this post, but now I can't remember what it was. Probably wasn't that important, then, eh? ;-)
scribbled by Carina 4/21/2008 07:34:00 PM
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
A question and pictures
First, the question (for the English readers): do you know of a supermarket where I would be able to find star aniseed? And cloves like you stick in oranges for Christmas?
Below are some pictures from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the oldest museum in Great Britain and one of the oldest in the world. They had loads of Egyptian stuff... I wish I could have stayed longer to draw some of it! But at least you are allowed to take pictures in that part of the museum, so I can look at those. More pictures in this Flickr set.
Aren't these Eyes of Horus gorgeous?? I really like how they had exhibited the smaller things; same kind of thing together in neat rows and columns.
That colander is just amazing - I wouldn't mind having one like that. It's so intricate.
Parts of the museum had some lovely green marble floors. Which went very nicely with the red walls!
There was quite a lot of jewellery, most of it beads. Sometimes mixed with shells, like here.Labels: days out, inspiration
First, the question (for the English readers): do you know of a supermarket where I would be able to find star aniseed? And cloves like you stick in oranges for Christmas?
Below are some pictures from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the oldest museum in Great Britain and one of the oldest in the world. They had loads of Egyptian stuff... I wish I could have stayed longer to draw some of it! But at least you are allowed to take pictures in that part of the museum, so I can look at those. More pictures in this Flickr set.
Aren't these Eyes of Horus gorgeous?? I really like how they had exhibited the smaller things; same kind of thing together in neat rows and columns.
That colander is just amazing - I wouldn't mind having one like that. It's so intricate.
Parts of the museum had some lovely green marble floors. Which went very nicely with the red walls!
There was quite a lot of jewellery, most of it beads. Sometimes mixed with shells, like here.Labels: days out, inspiration
scribbled by Carina 11/13/2007 08:38:00 PM
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Fuzzy Logic
I'm sorting through my photos from Oxford (that's where we went on Saturday) and I came across this one. What other title could it possibly have?! ;-)Labels: days out
I'm sorting through my photos from Oxford (that's where we went on Saturday) and I came across this one. What other title could it possibly have?! ;-)Labels: days out
scribbled by Carina 11/13/2007 10:24:00 AM
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Saturday, November 10, 2007
In the foot steps of Endeavour*
We went on an adventure today with my friend Sara. We saw interesting fabric on bus seats.
We saw someone's sandwiches on a street sign.
And saw some very big foot prints. Which do not belong to Endeavour - unless the unknown Megalosaurus was called Endeavour... Can you guess where we went? (without going near the link below..!) More pictures later.
*Did you know that was his first name? ;-)Labels: days out
We went on an adventure today with my friend Sara. We saw interesting fabric on bus seats.
We saw someone's sandwiches on a street sign.
And saw some very big foot prints. Which do not belong to Endeavour - unless the unknown Megalosaurus was called Endeavour... Can you guess where we went? (without going near the link below..!) More pictures later.*Did you know that was his first name? ;-)
Labels: days out
scribbled by Carina 11/10/2007 09:16:00 PM
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