Yesterday I spent the first half of the day wandering around the British Museum. Plenty of stuff to see. Lots of old mummies and pottery. Becca and Sara you would have loved it.
Then I walked down to the hayward gallery on the bank of the Thames. This month they were having a special “Hide and Seek” which consisted mostly of large scale social experiments and games. I couldn’t get all the details since it was so crowded, but one of them was you signed up and got a sticker to put on your back with a number on it. Then when someone saw your number around London, or you saw someone elses number you would text it back to the people at the festival and they would track you. There also seemed to be some huge version of Assassins going on downstairs, but it wasn’t just killing people with socks, you had to go on other missions too. And they were tracking everyone’s location with little figurines on a huge map of London on the floor.
Above that there was another great exhibition going on, “Psycho Buildings”. It was a bunch of modern art focusing on architecture. But all the exhibits were huge and you were meant to walk around inside of them. One guy had built up this huge tent out of transparent nylon and inside it were huge hanging sacks of different spices like Cinnamon and nutmeg. A bunch of dutch artists had flooded the roof and put paddle boats up there so you could row around on top of the building overlooking london. Unfortunately they didn’t let you take pictures anywhere, but I snuck one while I was in the boat.
Last night I went wandering around London with my roommate Nick from New Zealand. We stopped in a pub to watch the Eurocup finals (Congrats to Spain, 1-0 over Germany) and afterward Nick said he knew this relaxed bar down the street from the hostel where we could get a beer. So we walked over there and just as we got there people were flooding out of the bar because there was live music there and it had just ended. We decided to get a beer anyway and after we walked in it turned out it was “Why?”, the band I’m going to see tonight.
But now for some pictures. I saw this sign on the side of a trendy shop in Munich.
Nymphenburg Palace, the summer home for German Royalty.
Surfing on the river.
More surfing on the river.
View from the paddle boat installation on top of the Hayward.
Me in the Paddleboat.
Some kid doing a backflip at Festival Pier.
London Skyline.
