Quiet Day In January!

This morning I started reading a Thomas Mann book that Vincent gave me last summer. After discovering how poor my German got after 6 months without speaking, I decided that now is the time to start brushing it up.
At noon I went for a walk to enjoy the weather and saw snowdrops as a quite early sign of spring. Then I went to the Museum of Childhood in a old beautiful building in Bethnal Green, and looked at old toys trying to find something inspiring.

White Village In The City!

Yesterday we went to Deutsche Guggenheim where we saw the Artist Pawel Althamer, who had made a large amount of white sculptures of humans. The place was almost overcrowded by the sculptures which only left a little space for the visitors to walk round among them. They were really impressive with the faces full of expression and the abstract bodies. Almost looking like a graveyard for embalmed people, who still contained their soul

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The Sound of Bore and Grief!

Now it is really getting cold, and today all I really wanted was to stay inside and hide in my bed. Vincent and I desided to defy the weather and go to south London to see an exhibition.
First we went to Happy Kitchen, a nice little cafe right underneath London Fields station. We got some soup to get heated up before continuing.

After that we went to Danille Arnaud Gallery, which is in a private home. Here we saw installations by artist Louisa Fairclough. First was different 16 mm film machines, one portraying a woman, the other emptiness and we heard the song of Bore and Grief

On the first floor was a room with drawings, a record player and two speakers. A note told us to lay down on the carpet while listening. So we put the pickup to the record, lay down, hand in hand and swam away tho the sound of church bells and waves. Definitely worth going out for.

A small bite of All Tomorrow Parties!

Saturday night there was a concert in the great 70's Barbican center building. It was arranged by ATB. The first half was curated by Josh T. Pearson. It was 4 small bands that I didn't know before. In the other half he played himself. 

I think he is the only musician i know who can fill out 1 1/2 hour by only playing 6 songs. Oh, but he also told some jokes, and I think he is the singer with the best posture I have ever seen.

Country and Anolog Photographs!

These past days I have been reading Moyra Davey's "Long Life Cool White", with essays and photographs, while listening to Moriaty. Somehow the two goes really well together.

 

Photographs by Moyra Davey

Vernissage Cruising

Last night we went to two openings. First The White Cube and after ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art). In ICA the exhibition was with only new graduates and it was interesting to see what people had come up with. There was some bad and some good. There were a lot of people, talk and as usual beer.
I just bought a members card to ICA and I can feel that even though it is quite far from where I live this is a place I will be going to pretty often.

First Weekend Of Summer, Or Was It The Last?

After a long night at "Malmö" we had to get up very early to catch the train to "Fyn" to visit my Aunt. But with an early arrival we had the entire day to do a lot of different things.

Among others we went to my favorite museum "Tidens Samling" in Odense, where we had fun dressing up and reading the old book etc.

 Later we went home and picked "blueberries" and later black current. 

The weather was the sunny and warm and we went for a walk on the beach....

 ate outside...

 and took a nap under the peartree with a blue sky and sunshine hanging above.

Evening on The Ground!

Friday this years "Malmöfestival" began, and true to tradition we went there to enjoy free concerts, good food, light alcoholic beer and each others company.
Sweden was windy and grey, and the concert which took place at the harbor was less than warm, so between "Cocorosie" and "Iron & Wine" we wend inside the station for a cup of hot cacao to get heated. And despite the rain and wind, we enjoyed the night and the few sunny moments.