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That is a representation of an actual car I saw last week. Well, that one was... "anatomically" correct.
Anyways, we owned England on Sunday, so everyone can put their flags away and shut up now.
And now I will go play some Katamari. And maybe later I will scan the rest of my sketchbook and write about France. Or maybe I'll just play Katamari all night
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Tags:comics; football
I finished rereading Cloud Atlas today, and it's proved itself to be as good as I remember. Always slightly risky to read books you really loved as a teenager. I don't think I was as aware of the depth and the overarching themes of the various section the first time around, but the things I did remember — the way it moves through different times and styles and how the language changes to fit each story — are still just as great. When do you get two different flavours of speculative futuristic sci-fi, historical fiction from different periods, and contemporary stories (one of them a detective story/thriller) in the same novel? It's almost everything I love in one delicious bundle.
I'd also forgotten most of the stories' endings, which was nice. (Oh man, the end of the Orison of Sonmi. ;_; I don't even know why that surprised me, it was pretty obvious.)
I really need to read more of David Mtchell's work.
Next I'm reading Geschichte einer Liebe, a non-fiction book about the love affair between Adele Schopenhauer (who was the sister of an apparently famous philosopher who I have never heard of, because I am poorly read XD) and Sibylle Mertens (who according to wiki was an archaeologist! Awesome.) And neither of them have English wiki pages; sorry guys.
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On Sunday my dad and I went to see The Surreal House at the Barbican. I recommend it! I didn't necessarily like or relate to all the pieces, but it was interesting and thought-provoking and taught me a bit about the surrealist movement. My favourite was a piano suspended from the ceiling. I don't really want to describe it further because that would probably be spoilers in case anyone who reads this does go see the exhibition.
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We made an offer for Flat 2 from my last entry, by the way! Maybe possibly hopefully finally a place to live!
Train to Paris tomorrow evening. Shall I pack now or tomorrow? Maybe I'll just make a pile of clothes now.
PS: Just some links to myself so I remember to have a look at them later/when I get back from Paris
http://singularityhub.com/2010/06/19/robotics-industries-association-were-creating-jobs-helping-the-economy/
http://www.youtube.com/abbrobotics
http://www.societyofrobots.com/robot_arm_tutorial.shtml
I'd also forgotten most of the stories' endings, which was nice. (Oh man, the end of the Orison of Sonmi. ;_; I don't even know why that surprised me, it was pretty obvious.)
I really need to read more of David Mtchell's work.
Next I'm reading Geschichte einer Liebe, a non-fiction book about the love affair between Adele Schopenhauer (who was the sister of an apparently famous philosopher who I have never heard of, because I am poorly read XD) and Sibylle Mertens (who according to wiki was an archaeologist! Awesome.) And neither of them have English wiki pages; sorry guys.
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On Sunday my dad and I went to see The Surreal House at the Barbican. I recommend it! I didn't necessarily like or relate to all the pieces, but it was interesting and thought-provoking and taught me a bit about the surrealist movement. My favourite was a piano suspended from the ceiling. I don't really want to describe it further because that would probably be spoilers in case anyone who reads this does go see the exhibition.
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We made an offer for Flat 2 from my last entry, by the way! Maybe possibly hopefully finally a place to live!
Train to Paris tomorrow evening. Shall I pack now or tomorrow? Maybe I'll just make a pile of clothes now.
PS: Just some links to myself so I remember to have a look at them later/when I get back from Paris
http://singularityhub.com/2010/06/19/robotics-industries-association-were-creating-jobs-helping-the-economy/
http://www.youtube.com/abbrobotics
http://www.societyofrobots.com/robot_arm_tutorial.shtml
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Tags:Art; I like books they are my friends; museums full of pretty things; the batcave
Today Tim and I met the nicest, most friendly and helpful estate agent ever. Actually, the only nice and friendly estate agent so far. (Maybe it was because he was Canadian /stereotypes) He showed us two flats which we both really liked, so I'm going to write down the main differences for each to help me choose.
Flat 1
Bigger
Historic site so there's lots of green space
Two floors! (I like stairs)
Travel time to uni: ~20mins + walking
More expensive
Flat 2
Smaller
Less expensive
On the water ♥
Close to supermarket
Travel time to uni: ~22mins + walking
In conclusion, it's impossible to decide. I'm kind of leaning towards the second one, even though it's smaller, because it's on a dock and I really like being near the water.
Flat 1
Flat 2
In conclusion, it's impossible to decide. I'm kind of leaning towards the second one, even though it's smaller, because it's on a dock and I really like being near the water.
I wear contact lenses half the time these days, actually, but I never remember not to draw my glasses.
Felt like drawing something Katamari-related & remembered it was on Gratuitous Picture Of Yourself Wednesday on Tumblr. I'd like to propose a new definition of "gratuitous" roughly synonymous to "as silly as possible". Think of all the things that could be improved by this definition! Gratuitous violence, gratuitous sex scenes...
In other news, I don't have tonsillitis! I just had some food stuck in my tonsil. Apparently that happens fairly commonly. o____o
Someone on the radio just started talking about their experiences of war. This entire entry feels even more frivolous now. Read on for frivolity.
I am re-reading Cloud Atlas. It's possibly even a little better than I remembered! :D
Also I am super late to the party, but I actually listened to some Lady Gaga songs the other day, and they are pretty good!
Thus concludes the not-quite-as-geeky section of the entry. ONWARDS~
So Saturday Tim and I went to Forbidden Planet and bought POKEMON CARDS. 8D A deck each and some boosters. And now I am really into it again, and I may make an excursion into the attic to see if I can find my old cards. Are they even legal anymore? I really want to build a Ghost/Psychic deck. In some way this is porbably Tumblr's fault for enabling me to look at so much fanart.
Some teenagers on the train on the way back made fun of us. XD Man, teenagers are ridiculous. I am pretty glad I'm not one and can enjoy Pokemon cards with impunity.
I also bought this pretty rockin' t-shirt:
Too bad Uniqlo doesn't have any Gundam t-shirts that look that cool. Don't worry, I still love you Gandamuuu~ ♥I will love you even more when more Unicorn comes out. >_>
And and and I finally found a pre-owned copy of Beautiful Katamari at Game, so that's what I've been doing all weekend. No, really. All weekend. Except I forgot to save yesterday so I had to do everything again. >_> But I got more points and actually managed to do the Mars level without wanting to strangle someone, so woo!
I'm pretty sure Katamari is the best thing the games industry has ever brought forth. Pff, Half Life 2 or WoW or whatever. KATAMARI WINS ALL.
Over all it's been a pretty great weekend.
Only a week and two days until Paris! Paris Paris Paris! I am super excited. Gonna buy so many comic books and do lots of sketching and look at lots of beautiful architecture!
Speaking of architecture, I haven't done much drawing in the last few days, apart from a commission for my mother*, but here is a brush-pen doodle of some houses.
LOL WHAT PERSPECTIVE
There were some really great urban scenes in the exhibition of 20th century Chinese prints at the British Museum, and they've inspired me to try to get better at buildings and so on. Architecture and cities are one of my very favourite things.
Thus concludes the rest of this entry. Do come again.
*I think I'm going to start advertising my services for commissions sometime soon. :O Don't know how that will go, but one or two people — apart form my mother — have asked me, so it's worth a try!
I am re-reading Cloud Atlas. It's possibly even a little better than I remembered! :D
Also I am super late to the party, but I actually listened to some Lady Gaga songs the other day, and they are pretty good!
Thus concludes the not-quite-as-geeky section of the entry. ONWARDS~
So Saturday Tim and I went to Forbidden Planet and bought POKEMON CARDS. 8D A deck each and some boosters. And now I am really into it again, and I may make an excursion into the attic to see if I can find my old cards. Are they even legal anymore? I really want to build a Ghost/Psychic deck. In some way this is porbably Tumblr's fault for enabling me to look at so much fanart.
Some teenagers on the train on the way back made fun of us. XD Man, teenagers are ridiculous. I am pretty glad I'm not one and can enjoy Pokemon cards with impunity.
I also bought this pretty rockin' t-shirt:
Too bad Uniqlo doesn't have any Gundam t-shirts that look that cool. Don't worry, I still love you Gandamuuu~ ♥
And and and I finally found a pre-owned copy of Beautiful Katamari at Game, so that's what I've been doing all weekend. No, really. All weekend. Except I forgot to save yesterday so I had to do everything again. >_> But I got more points and actually managed to do the Mars level without wanting to strangle someone, so woo!
I'm pretty sure Katamari is the best thing the games industry has ever brought forth. Pff, Half Life 2 or WoW or whatever. KATAMARI WINS ALL.
Over all it's been a pretty great weekend.
Only a week and two days until Paris! Paris Paris Paris! I am super excited. Gonna buy so many comic books and do lots of sketching and look at lots of beautiful architecture!
Speaking of architecture, I haven't done much drawing in the last few days, apart from a commission for my mother*, but here is a brush-pen doodle of some houses.
LOL WHAT PERSPECTIVE
There were some really great urban scenes in the exhibition of 20th century Chinese prints at the British Museum, and they've inspired me to try to get better at buildings and so on. Architecture and cities are one of my very favourite things.
Thus concludes the rest of this entry. Do come again.
*I think I'm going to start advertising my services for commissions sometime soon. :O Don't know how that will go, but one or two people — apart form my mother — have asked me, so it's worth a try!
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Tags:Evangelion; games; geeking out; Katamari; loot; Pokemon
I fell asleep just as the children's programming was starting on Radio 7, which is around... 5 am? Wow, later than I thought. And I still woke up at 8:30, feeling perfectly awake. Idek.
I'm trying out a self-motivating tactic where you stop doing something when you're having fun and are still really motivated to keep going, so you'll be quicker to start the next day. It's working so far, but it's really hard! XD I can't stop in the middle of a math problem, it's just not right.
News bulletins:
The Evolution of Palaeolithic and Neolithic Societies in the Near East option at UCL isn't cancelled after all! ♥ You guys can't even believe how thrilled I am about this. It's the perfect module.
Oh, speaking of Archaeology stuff, look, an entire free volume of Human Biology! Which is not what it sounds like but actually (in this case) material form a Center for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity conference on demographics and dispersal and cultural evolution and incredibly sexy things like that. I've only read one article so far, though — I don't really like reading long PDFs on screens where I can't underline stuff and take notes in the margins, but whenever I've been at ACS to make use of their abundance in printer ink and paper the computers have been uncooperative.
I went to see Agora with my parents and Tim last week. It was good! Even better than I expected it to be! A lot deeper than your average period drama, with its depictions of religious conflict and doubt vs. certainty and so on. I really want to see it again to form a more detailed opinion (and because I just want to see it again), but it's only showing in the small cinema at Leicester Square, and the tickets are crazy expensive. Maybe I'll rent the DVD when it comes out.
I think the moral of the story was "science is totally hawt", but that might just have been me.
(You will also notice I am using an APPROPRIATE ASTRONOMY ICON.)
We put in an offer on a flat, but then we decided we couldn't really afford it after all so we had to take the offer back. Still lookin'.
Lastly, there's only 3 episodes of Durarara!! left now, and while I don't want it to end, I am so excited for the last few episodes. There is some kind of epic climax building. Seriously, you guys. Watch it. It's free! Legitimately!
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Tags:Archaeology; Durarararararararararararara; geeking out; life; movies; ucl; uni