{ 21 02 2005 }

feb snow in london

ParallaxThis morning it’s snowing in perfect symmetric parallax outside my window. The buildings guide the air into a huge swirl. Closest flakes drift 45 degrees down-left; farthest flakes 45 degrees down-right.

Back last night from a weekend trip to London with partner. The culture/booze dilemma definitely resolved on the liver-friendly side, despite some valiant late-Saturday wine pummelling. I’m still incredulous at the 11pm drinking-up time, and remain irritatingly vocal about it.

So Saturday kicked off at the Imperial War Museum for the wry exhibition chuckles of Crimes Against Humanity, The Trenches and Holocaust. Then quite excitedly to the IMAX cinema to strap on the joey goggles for James Cameron’s Aliens of the Deep. The IMAX is definitely recommended, though I think we’re still waiting for the killer film. Computer-generated sequences are the most effective in 3D; notably in the initial demo film, where the illusion of objects hovering 6 inches in front of your face is astonishingly convincing.

Disappointment that the The Producers stage show was sold out, so feasted in Chinatown and wandered Soho’s Land of Pr0n for a bit.

Then a strokey-beardy Sunday afternoon in the National Portrait Gallery to check out the photos and paintings. Extra fun here is to eavesdrop on the impossibly earnest artists bombarding catatonic girlfriends with their ‘interpretations’.

Posted by air on Monday, February 21st, 2005, at 10:32 am, and filed under Uncategorized.

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