Osmosis - Phyiscal Theatre

Okay I always get a little worried about doing posts about some of my less than mainstream interests. In another life (post 16 was another life to me) I studied contemporary dance; I lacked what some would call talent at dancing but I did really love the more analytical side of it and I still really love dance and physical theatre.

This summer Hannah and I went to visit my brother who lives in Stockholm, although he turned out to have to be in London for the same week (go figure - that's right I wish I were an American Cheerleader from the 90s), and we managed to catch some of the Culture Festival they ran. One of the items that we caught completely accidentally turned out to be some of the finest physical theatre I have ever seen. It's from a French Company called Osmosis and the piece is called Alhambra Container. Please see the clip below for a bit of it (note: this clip was not filmed by me, I just found it on YouTube)

http://www.osmosiscie.com/osmosis%20gb/

Lomography/Newburgh Quarter

So a month ago Hannah and I took a trip to the Newburgh Quarter they were doing a Lower East Side swap - So some shops from the boutique shops in the Newburgh quarter sold their wares over on the LES and vice versa, all sounds pretty interesting right? it was a little underwhelming on the day we went but we did manage to get our first glimpse inside the Lomography store, which we actually took another visit to yesterday, I believe the visit had something to do with my Birthday and of course Christmas being next month but I don't want to kill the surprise by speculating.

Anyway here are some Photos from the Lomography store.

Pop Life @ Tate Modern

Jeff Koons' Rabbit

Quick photo-update with photos from the new (at least it was new when I actually went) Pop Life exhib at the Tate Modern.

These photos had to be taken sneakily as with many exhibitions these days they don't allow photographs. It seems a little odd that at an exhibition of art created for popular consumption you can't take pictures.

Murakami x Kanye

Keith Haring's Pop Shop

Better to say nothing than to say something wanky

Daniel Johnston @ Union Chapel

For some reason I have never been very good at talking or indeed writing about music - this is probably why I let my last blog, a music blog, die. Part of my problem is I think people sound like dicks when they try to talk about music, I was at a Daniel Johnston gig last week when I heard some guy in the toilets discussing the opening band who he seemed to like and then he said;

" The guitar didn't dominate the song the guitar just laid the foundation"

There was more wanky things he said about the band but this is all I can accurately remember. At that point I decided that I really didn't want to be at risk of saying things like that, so instead I am not going to talk about the music I am going to put some photos up and direct you to Last.fm pages. Lazy? Definitely but if that's how I avoid saying something wanky.

Kings of Convenience @ Hoxton Bar and Kitchen

Final Fantasy @ Field Day

Santigold @ Field Day

Flickr!

My Flcikr account will only hold 200 photos! I am currently unemployed and as cheap as it is I can't really justify any extra expense like a pro account, so if photographs from my earlier posts start disappearing that is the reason. Argh, hopefully won't be too long until I have a job now though and I will be posting about the wonderous things there are to do in London on a weekly basis as well as obtaining a Pro Flickr account.

I genuinely contemplated blogging about my weekly TV schedule earlier just because I really had nothing else to write about. Then I realised that I do actually have quite a few photographs that I haven't blogged yet, so please excuse the lack of text in the next few posts.

Oh my TV schedule by the way:

Monday - University Challange and Flashforward
Tuesday - Breaking Bad
Wednesday - True Blood and Generation Kill
Thursday - Curb Your Enthusiasm and Misfits (this one only starts this week but I'm sure I'll love it - superheroes for the ASBO generation)
Saturday - The Thick of It
oh and Ace of Cakes whenever I manage to find it on!

Also if I lived in the US or had some way of seeing programmes that are not yet shown in the UK I would be watching - Californication Season 3; Bored to Death; Glee.