My Studio....
It's not at all surprising that i've chosen a seat that allows me to be able to see the window, it's wonderful when the sunlight shines on you, in London, the sunshine is simply magical, and not to be mentioned that I can be able to 欣赏the view of UCL's main building, I have to say that it's a fantastic piece of architecture. No wonder "Batman Begins" used it as the scene for "British Library" when they were unable to shoot at british lib.
My table and studio space, there aren't any separated spaces like what we used to have in njc, like individual cubicles, everyone works in this studio, but nobody really cares about what the rest are doing, slade is really a competitve place, people are frantically trying to find inspirations to start working. Hmmm....
London Walkabout ( with UCL spore society)
The rive Thames and LondonEye, it's in the late afternoon and the scene's really cool, cooler than it is on photo, it's a pity that I did not bring my D80, could have a better shot of it, but in future may be, very soon I'm gg to have a photo trip, it's just too fascinating.
Some Egyptian stone, I really don't know how many things did the British steal from countries all over the world, they have some of the most precious artefects and ancient collections from Egypt, India and China. I wonder why they feel so proud about having to exhibit things that don't belong to them, oh well, it's a shame that those things can't be exhibited in their motherland.
If you look carefully, there are actually some holes on the pedestal and the obelisk, as mentioned on that piece of metal board, these are caused by war, by the fragments of a bomb dropped in the roadway during WWI. War's never good, but guess what, UCL has just announced to detach itself away from University of London and is starting to give out its on independent degree, and to be able to do this, the university has to be RICH as it will stop receiving funds from University of London, and guess what, UCL gets most of its fundings from investing in munision/weapons/arms, it earned loads from Iraq war and it's the Uni that benefited from war the most...hmmmmm...
The same goes to British Museum and their National Gallery. Oh but, one simply can't deny that the view at Trafalgar Square is one of the most impressive scene in central London. I managed to get those amazing shots with just a compact camera, with perfect angles and perfect sunlight you getperfect photos, that's the case witht he fountain taken at trafalgar sq, i love it, simply love it!
This man, was drawing on the floor right in front of the British Gallery, with his soft pastels and everything lying on the floor, he just did his work freely, like nobody's business, i like this kind of freedom and courage, afterall, art can be done at anywhere, anytime, this guy really knows it well.
\His final work...
The Inland Revenue Building...all the gov. buldings are quite old and adopts the victorian architecture style, i mean, most of them.
River Thames again...
This is the "Senate House" now used as London University Union/Library. This building's architecture is unique and non-victorian style, it was adored by Adolf Hitler who ws fascinated by it's structure, thus the Nazi fascists loved this building, during the 1930s WW2, the British facist leader Sir Oswald Mosley almost wanted to use this buidling as his Nazi headquater. Also, if you have read George Owell's 'Animal Farm' you'd realise that the "Ministry of truth" was shaped or inspired of modeledafter this building, George Owell worked here for a period of time. Also, the torture room was modelled after the library headquater in this building as well.
A theatre, showing the musical "Queen", I'd like to catch a few nice musicals if they arent too expensive, haha, besides Phantom of the Opera, i've not watched any real musicals, but phantom is really good, hmm, it reminds me of the murder case that happened a few days ago, just in oxford street, a few minutes walk from my hall, a young lady was stabbed to death by this person who wore a phantom mask...hmmm, london street isnt very safe for now.
We had dinner together in this chinese restaurant in chinatown. I was really pleasantly surprised as I realised that this was the same place that mr low brought us to when we had our 2005 immersion trip to london, exactly the same place! For a moment I was overwhelmed by the memories which flooded my mind, the good old times once again. You know the fountain at trafalgar square? there's a lot of coins in it, people throw coins in it as there is a saying that if u throw a coin in it, you will definitely come back to this place in future, i forgot if i had thrown the coin in 2005, but here i am, back to the same place, it feels like dreams...
This man, was drawing on the floor right in front of the British Gallery, with his soft pastels and everything lying on the floor, he just did his work freely, like nobody's business, i like this kind of freedom and courage, afterall, art can be done at anywhere, anytime, this guy really knows it well.
\His final work...
The Inland Revenue Building...all the gov. buldings are quite old and adopts the victorian architecture style, i mean, most of them.
River Thames again...
This is the "Senate House" now used as London University Union/Library. This building's architecture is unique and non-victorian style, it was adored by Adolf Hitler who ws fascinated by it's structure, thus the Nazi fascists loved this building, during the 1930s WW2, the British facist leader Sir Oswald Mosley almost wanted to use this buidling as his Nazi headquater. Also, if you have read George Owell's 'Animal Farm' you'd realise that the "Ministry of truth" was shaped or inspired of modeledafter this building, George Owell worked here for a period of time. Also, the torture room was modelled after the library headquater in this building as well.
A theatre, showing the musical "Queen", I'd like to catch a few nice musicals if they arent too expensive, haha, besides Phantom of the Opera, i've not watched any real musicals, but phantom is really good, hmm, it reminds me of the murder case that happened a few days ago, just in oxford street, a few minutes walk from my hall, a young lady was stabbed to death by this person who wore a phantom mask...hmmm, london street isnt very safe for now.We had dinner together in this chinese restaurant in chinatown. I was really pleasantly surprised as I realised that this was the same place that mr low brought us to when we had our 2005 immersion trip to london, exactly the same place! For a moment I was overwhelmed by the memories which flooded my mind, the good old times once again. You know the fountain at trafalgar square? there's a lot of coins in it, people throw coins in it as there is a saying that if u throw a coin in it, you will definitely come back to this place in future, i forgot if i had thrown the coin in 2005, but here i am, back to the same place, it feels like dreams...
