Sherry

Last night I stumbled upon a TV show that was worth putting up with the irritating, gurning faces of Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins for… The Great British Bake-Off.

This week the amateur bakers competed in beautiful pastel-coloured pop-up kitchens at Scone Palace near Perth, and tasks included creating towers of meringues, macaroons and choux pastry buns. A true feast for the eyes in every way.

I felt Mary Berry’s pain as she had to sample 24 baked items, as memories of the sugar-overloaded-bake-off we had last year came screaming back, pounding heart and all – oh who am i kidding, she has the best job – the pounding heart must have been the food-envy as I sat eating my low-fat yoghurt. To watch last night’s episode, click here.

We’re all still miserable about the Ironmonger Row Baths being closed for renovation… for 2 years! For the swimmers among us this was a devastating blow to our morning routine. I’ve turned to running to try and keep fit and to be honest it’s been a very slow transition. To motivate myself and raise money for a good cause I’ve signed up for Cancer Research UK ‘Run 10K’. Click here for my sponsorship page if anyone feels charitable the money goes to the Bobby Moore fund.

At Sherry HQ we are still ploughing on with our alphabetical music experiment. The rules are still the same* - one letter per day where all the bands and artists must begin with with that letter. We thought it would be nice for you to hear and download some the next batch of playlists. Let us know what you think of them… Do you have a favorite?

Sherry alphabetical music experiment - H

Sherry alphabetical music experiment - I

Sherry alphabetical music experiment - J

Sherry alphabetical music experiment - K

Sherry alphabetical music experiment - L

Sherry alphabetical music experiment - M

Sherry alphabetical music experiment - N

Sherry alphabetical music experiment - O

Sherry alphabetical music experiment - P

*We did have to introduce a small amend to the rules which was to limit the playlist to five tracks by the same artist/band (this was an emergency rule change due to the amount of Lady Gaga that was going to be played!)

We were reminiscing in the studio this morning about what fun the MITs Award dinner is each year, and found some photos we thought we’d share. Check out the rest of the design work for 2009 here and 2008 here. Most importantly, all that fun, food and music is all in the name of a two great causes too – The Brit Trust and Nordoff Robbins. We’re currently working away on the designs for 2010’s recipient Tom Jones, we’ll keep you posted on the progress!

There is a place in London, only until 12th of September, where things aren’t what you expect. This place is the Barbican, the perfect labyrinth to host ‘The Surreal House‘. The exhibition shows the work of many surreal artists, like Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte and Louise Bourgeois. This is a don’t miss show if you are a fan of surrealisms.

I’ve just returned from Australia where I attended some of the events at Sydney Design 2010. Some really innovative and challenging stuff which successfully showcased the wealth of design talent on the other side of the planet. Highlights for me included the PechaKucha Night and the Australian International Design Awards at the Powerhouse Museum. The latter showcasing the fabulous speed bump that wasn’t a speed bump (if you’re driving at the right speed) and the amazing Pulse Heart Transportation System. Designed by a student from the University of New South Wales, this is a machine designed to preserve a heart for longer periods of transportation by maintaining a flow of the donor’s blood through it. Check out the website and links at www.sydneydesign.com.au

There’s also a chance to get your design onto the streets of Sydney by entering their Bike Rack as Art design competition. Very topical in London right now, so get on there and show them what you’ve got.

Designing the opening credits for a TV show is clearly no easy task. You have a short defined period of time in which to communicate the essence of a series that will have many different story lines, characters and tones. While some shows go topped and tailed with credits that simply pass you by unaffected there are others which really capture you. My favorite is the credits for Dexter (which you can view here) which uses all the subtlety and visual metaphor that you may expect to see in a Jean Cocteau film from the 1930’s, but is shot with the polished, over saturated styling that we have become accustomed to. I have always had a fascination with moving image as a medium to communicate the subtleties of parallel lives/worlds and these credits demonstrate exactly how that can come to fruition in an original and striking way. The art of designing and producing credits is loaded with potential, and when it is got right it becomes as magical as short film in itself.

The website Art of the Title is a fantastic collection of the most innovative and exciting title sequences, where the artists and designers who create them get the recognition they deserve. Well worth a look if you ask me.

The Signature Art Awards 2010 is currently showing at DegreeArt.com Gallery. The exhibition presents an invaluable opportunity to get unique creative visions out of the studio and onto gallery walls, and this year has proved particularly successful with some excellent work showcased from several young emerging artists. Claire Jackson’s winning entry in the sculpture class, ‘Biomorphic Polymorph’ lives up to it’s fantastically twisted appellation with wondrously intricate tendrils. In the photography class Moses Powers’ beautifully poignant symmetry in ‘Worship’ justifiably won the judges vote (see image above), whilst Chris Golle’s hauntingly vacant netherworld depiction ‘Between Worlds’ was the pick in the painting category. But it’s not just the winners displaying the talent in this exhibition, this small space is crammed full of brilliantly executed imaginations. Have a look for yourself, you might even think that my piece ‘Everafter‘ in the show to be worthy of that description

The exhibition runs until this Sunday 15th August, open 12-6pm daily. The DegreeArt.com Gallery, 12a Vyner Street, E2 9DG

When I heard that Neville Brody was appearing on Newsnight last night, I just had to watch. The ‘debate’ centred around data visualisation – boring or hard-to-understand information and stats in our ever-expanding intricate world, portrayed in interesting and artistic ways – and the negatives in treating data this way. While I enjoyed watching Mr Brody on his high-horse about design (taking the ‘anti’ side of the debate), what I enjoyed most was seeing the examples and fascinating ideas behind some of the examples they gave.

One of my favourite pieces was David McCandless’ Colours in Culture chart. While exploring it further today, I admit – yes, it took me a few moments to understand that in Native American Cultures, the colour purple means ‘gratitude’, but understand it I did – along side being visually stimulated while interacting with the information. Working it out in this way also means I am more likely to remember what I have learnt… ask me in a year’s time what purple means to a Navajo and we’ll see how valid this way of portraying data really is. And so what if its pretty enough to put on my wall? All the better, I say. www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/colours-in-cultures/

With such an awesome prize on offer (A sherry hot mug and keyring) it was no surprise we had such a great response to the sherry hot photography competition. The rules were simple, take a photo inspired by the word hot and send them to us. The winner, and our top 5, are shown below. Congratulations to Alex Markham on winning. Your prize will be with you shortly.

Winner - Alex Markham

Runners Up

To keep our brains active and ears happy we decided to set ourselves a musical challenge. Inspired by impressions of Brian Badonde from Facejacker we started a playlist where all bands/singers had to begin with the letter B. Ba bo bu biddly boo bah. The playlist went so well we continued onto C the following day and so on… We now find ourselves up to letter H (which we are finding a slight struggle to be honest). If you are interested then you can download the B-G playlists below. We will be continuing to do a different letter every day until we get to the end of the alphabet (when we will then have to do A as, for reasons stated above, we started at B). If you have any suggestions comment here, or tell us on twitter here!

Sherry alphabetical music experiment - B

Sherry alphabetical music experiment - C

Sherry alphabetical music experiment - D

Sherry alphabetical music experiment - E

Sherry alphabetical music experiment - F

Sherry alphabetical music experiment - G

Unfortunately if this is the first you’ve heard of this beautifully friendly little festival then I’m afraid you’ve missed out! The bargain of the festival season came and went in a blur of luscious green, a shimmer of sunrays and only a hint of the wet stuff last weekend. With some blinding performances, a lovely crowd, and with Sherry members in attendance, this was surely the best FarmFestival yet. Held on an organic farm in Somerset this gathering does more than just provide sumptuous music for your ears and glorious surroundings in which to enjoy it, it’s all for a good cause. All profit made goes to charity with Practical Action being the main beneficiary; a charity that provides renewable, locally sourced sustainable energy in an attempt to lift people out of poverty around the world. With donations also being made to Somerset Air Ambulance and other local good causes, we can’t think of a better way to do your bit.

http://farmfestival.co.uk/ http://practicalaction.org

Last Friday saw the launch of the Barclays Hire Scheme in London and, like fledgling birds taking to the skies for the first time, we excitedly sprinted off to our local docking station for a pre-9am cycle. At sherry we are a very cycle-friendly bunch and we were hoping this was a mentality that was going to be adopted by every four-wheeled road user. The idea of having thousands of novice cyclists roaming around on the somewhat heavy and slow bikes while buses, taxies and cars zoom by, seemed to be a topic for hot debate throughout the city. Three of us took our bikes for a few laps of EC1’s quiet streets and quickly noticed that everyone we passed wanted us to stop and chat about how the bikes were to ride and quizzing us on numerous features of the scheme and bikes. It seemed if you were on one of the bikes on Friday you were deemed some sort of celebrity whom people instantly wanted to talk to. Overall we are all pretty impressed with the cycle rental scheme (as long as you ignore the fact you have become a two-wheeled moving advert for Barclays) and will be continuing to use it. The interesting thing will be to see how it stands up to the wear and tear that London will throw at it over the next few months and into winter.

Carousel is an award-winning short film advertising a Philips cinematic sized television set. One frame is frozen in time with a tracking shot that lasts 2 minutes 19 seconds. Click here to see how this effect was created – Clever stuff.

Sherry events don’t need to be just about us sherry staff. To spread the sherry love we are going to have an exciting photography competition. Simply take a photo inspired by the word ‘HOT’ and either tweet it to us (twitter.com/sherrylondon) or email it to us (info@sherrydesign.co.uk). The prize is a lovely sherry hot mug and keyring set.

The deadline for entries will be the 6th August 2010 and that afternoon the winning entry, as well as our top 5, will be posted to our blog. Happy snapping everyone…

Volkswagen has come back with another brilliant idea, after their Fun Theory they are now launching a wonderful ambient media campaign called Fast Lane. This time they are using social media platforms to get their message further, it’s worth having a look at the videos and if you have a great idea on how you speed life up a little you can submit it in their contest and win a brand new Polo GTI.

Fast Lane - The Slide

Fast Lane - The Elevator

Fast Lane - The Shopping Carts

When I saw giant knitting, birds of prey and food stalls together on a flyer I new the Whitecross Street Party was going to be an unmissable event… Needless to say there were some really brilliant workshops (screenprinting, stencil painting, live art etc) but what was really lovely was the way the street was turned into a giant canvas where artists and locals came together. There were musicians providing an interesting spectrum of audio accompaniment plus there was stall after stall of incredible food. For those of you who missed it you will be pleased to know that Whitecross Street food stalls are open 5 days a week (Friday being the best day as it is taster day) - and if you do go down why not pop over to us for a biscuit after!

Athletics, Boxing, Rowing. These are not the true sports of Olympians. Building a tower of marshmallows, blowing a ping pong ball through a cardboard tube and eating a picnic (whilst sporting orange sweat bands), on the other hand… now we’re talking. We had an amazing time in Shoreditch Park yesterday evening displaying our skills in these ‘sports’ and winning medals and trophies to boot. Roll on London 2012, we can’t wait to see if our events have been included in the line up…

Continuing the theme of spinning wheels, check out this excellent video by Clemens Kogler. Produced using two turntables, a bit of cardboard and some rather adept handiwork, the visual performance has been created entirely sans computer. It is a stunning example of what can be achieved with simple animation techniques and a bit of nouse. Can I get a rewiiiiiind! http://www.vimeo.com/11078489

Despite half the sherry team being fully fledged veterans in the art of cycling to work, we are all planning on making the most of the new cycle hire scheme and the wondrously convenient nearby docking stations.

My one concern however, is that all the new cyclists that are soon to adorn our busy roads are not being encouraged to wear safety helmets. Admittedly a contentious issue, I for one am a massive fan of the noggin protector. Not for how awesome you look the instant you don one, nor for it’s indispensable bulk when you have to carry one around with you. No, the reason for my helmet adoration is because the thought of my bare head hitting a London road or pavement is really not pleasant.

Top tip one: wear a safety helmet. Top tip two: this might seem obvious but some cyclists don’t seem to know - don’t run red lights. Let’s hope everyone rides safely…. Now bring on the bicycles!

The BBC News website recently had a re-design. The new look has divided opinion and to date there are around 2000 comments on the BBC Editors’ Blog, a large majority of which seem to be negative.

I personally think its an improvement (although a tad similar to the CNN website). But what would the website look like if it had been designed by a 13 year old in 1996? (Click image below to view).

Steve Jobs has been bad-mouthing Adobe Flash for a while now, it was well reported that the Apple CEO posted an open letter stating reasons why Apple no longer supports Flash on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. With this in mind it’s extremely refreshing to see this Flash animation for the music video ‘The Music Scene’ by Blockhead. The animation is by Anthony F. Schepperd, the entire project was completed in Flash and took around 5 months.

It’s not that we don’t enjoy Christmas here at Sherry, but when London’s yellowest department store announces it will start it’s Christmas trading on August 2nd it does make us wonder just a little. Especially when one of the wares it is flogging is a £500 life-size donkey! But with figures of 1,000 baubles sold in the second week of August last year, you have to think why don’t we just go the whole turkey and rename the Uk ‘Christmas Island’ and have done with it. I for one am embracing this Yule tide extension and will be down there painting my baubles before you can say Christmas pudding.

I bought my girlfriend a wooden leg for Christmas one year. It wasn’t her main present, just a stocking filler…

After years of overly harsh judging, internal politics and failed bribery attempts I finally won a trophy for a Sherry competition! Admittedly it was an event based on picking football teams out of a hat so my ability to paint an egg, cook a pizza-dog, paint a portrait or play cards were not being scrutinised. This is almost certainly the reason I triumphed. But I don’t care. I won. Me.

Winning the World Cup sherry sweep wasn’t exactly the highlight of my year so far, but the proud (and oddly enough, Spanish) winner Narcis treating us all to a traditional Spanish lunch with his winnings, most certainly was. Yesterday lunchtime we feasted on tortilla de patatas, ensaladilla rusa, croquetas de pollo, pan con tomate, tabla de embutidos and tabla de quesos all washed down with ice cold sangria. Heaven.

Muchas gracias Narcis (and perhaps just as importantly, thanks to the Spanish football team for winning)!

As part of the Barbican Centre’s bite10 festival I went to see a fantastic performance of Nevermore - The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe. As a bit of an Edgar Allan Poe enthusiast I was really excited to see what this musical fable would have in store for us, especially given the rich canvas Poe created within his work. Poe, who was known as the master of the macabre, lived a life of infinite challenges all of which were beautifully dramatised for this production.

‘All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream’ seemed to be a key notion translated not only into the narrative, but into every facet of the experience the audience were witness to. The costumes were incredible, and when combined with the lighting and set design it made for an unmissable visual feast. Well worth checking out if you can.

You may or may not be aware that at sherry we are very fond of an event or two. This unrivaled eagerness is driven by the fact that at nearly all the sherry events end up with a competition or quiz resulting in an amazing handcrafted trophy being up for grabs! Given the number of sporting trophies that have been awarded over the last few weeks we thought we would share with you our trophy cupboard - showcasing a selection of our most triumphant works of art. See any trophies you would like to get your hands on?

It has been an intense month and we’ve ended as tired as the footballers. It has been a great World Cup and it couldn’t have finished better than with the victory of the team we have been supporting since England went home. We’ve chosen tomorrow to celebrate the end of this event by having a Spanish lunch (meanwhile we are waiting 1424 more days before starts again). Thanks South Africa for the fantastic hosting and thanks octopus Paul. I wonder what he’ll be doing until then?

It is jaw-dropping that £4,388,000 was spent on the design and development for businesslink.gov.uk. One look at the website suggests someone has mistakenly added three zeros to this price. But the total cost including planning, hosting and content provision tally-up to £35 million which doesn’t even take into account staff costs!

So, whilst we don’t know the stories behind these figures we are delighted that clients will now be looking for more effective, economically sensible digital solutions. You know where we are!

Who will it be? We are very excited to announce an amazing competition. We are giving you the chance to win your very own sherry mug and keyring, simply by becoming our 75th follower on twitter.

It is super easy to win - just follow the link here and follow us. If you are the 75th follower we will send you a Direct Message to let you know, and then you will have the excitement of receiving a wonderful sherry parcel through the post. It could be you.

Note: Squirrel not included.

It is no secret that we are fond of an event at Sherry. So we decided it would only be right to seek inspiration from our nations sporting heroes and compete in a sport of our very own - one that requires precision, strength, tactics and most importantly nachos and pimms.

Bowling is right down our alley. To say that some of the Sherry-ites are natural King Pins would be very accurate. Strikes were being made at a rate that would make British Airways bosses quake in their boots. With our two teams competing for the prestigious title of  ’Sherry’s Best Bowling Team Ever 2010′ the adrenalin was flowing. While some team members were bowling us over with their skills, others clearly had been taking tips from Wayne Rooney and Co.

Needless to say much fun was had by all - especially those crowned winners.

Google recently released a open source font directory for use on the web. Not having to choose between Arial, Georgia or Verdana is a very exciting prospect for web designers.

No doubt the Google Font Directory will grow over time, and there will be many shocking examples of implementation, but generally this is great news for designers who want to create unique and visually appealing websites.

A quick word from Sherry’s new Office Manager. I have my new sculpture in the closing event of Lost Object World at Parlour Project Space, sadly this means i’ll miss the match tomorrow but if you’re not watching the match and have some time on your  hands come along and check out the art from 6pm til 9pm at Parlour Project Space Gallery, 181-187 Queen’s Crescent, Kentish Town, NW5 4DS.

If you can’t make the exhibition, check out my art some other time at  www.marielouisejones.com

We currently have a campaign underway for an aerial to be installed at Sherry towers, so we don’t miss any of the World Cup. With just one day to go, and with the widescreen still staring blankly back at us, we’re sensing we’ve failed. Thank goodness for the internet. You see, due to a very competitive sweep in the studio we now all have more than a vested interest in the competition. To ensure we can really rub each other’s faces in it, we’ve made a wall chart. Download it below if you want – it’s better than The Sun’s. And while my heart will always lie with England, during office hours I have become Serbia’s No.1 fan.

Download:

SherryWallChart.pdf

SherryWallChart_TiledForYourConvenience.pdf

The latest Sherry outing took us to the preview of the Nancyboy Decade retrospective exhibition - a collection of over 100 works spanning the 90’s to the naughties. Curated and organised entirely by collectors and fans from around the world, this is a unique opportunity to experience their personal tribute to the self proclaimed cultural heretic.

A pioneer of social networking, Nancyboy (pseudonym for Stuart Semple, revealed in 2004), was one of the first to instigate the selling of original artworks on eBay, consequently breaking down the barriers of the conventional art platforms and becoming one of the first artists to talk directly to his public.

A thanks to Alan for donating his latest studio win to the bar bill, and to Gary who kept climbing out of the window to catch our straying ping pong balls!

The exhibition will run from 9th June - 29th July at The Book Club, 100 Leonard Street, EC2A 4RH

Amazingly, the final of Eurovision 2010 is only a few days away. International popstars get their moment in the spotlight to fight for first place in a contest that will probably take them no further than a one-off gig at G-A-Y. But (some of us) are not ashamed to be part of the 100 million viewers who will be watching on Saturday night.

In a pre-celebration, each of us has cooked a food item and have a costume from a country we picked out of a hat. Bring on the feast - and my Albanian outfit!

Din wins. A great little time wasting App for typography obsessed nutters.

We’ve all voted for our top Election Day tunes and made it available as a shared Spotify playlist, click this link to listen.

Personally, I think the Common People (Pulp) need to Fight the Power (Public Enemy) and carry on Rockin’ in the Free World (Neil Young).

For those of you who haven’t seen it, take a couple minutes to watch this amazing short film Pixels.

This 16 minute animated short features over 3000 corporate logo designs. The film is about the adventures of two Michelin Men cops who are in pursuit of a dangerous criminal - Ronald McDonald. The film recently won Best Animated Short at 82nd Academy Awards.

Last Friday Sherry stopped being a design studio for the evening and morphed into the most peculiar casino in town.

As usual, events at Sherry are never quite what they seem. No sitting down for poker - ours was a blind-folded, stick-the-tail-on-the-donkey, Lady GaGa twist. Blackjack became ‘Blackjack Piñata’ which sent everyone scrambling around the floor for chips. The bingo and the fruit machine were also left field takes on the Monte Carlo norm. Nobody won any money (since when do you win any money in a casino anyway!?) but Sharon Stone turned up and we had a fantastic time.

So far, three people at sherry have signed up to take part in the 2010 Swimathon, the world’s biggest fundraising swim. The money that we raise will help Marie Curie Cancer Care. Now we know it’s no marathon, but it is still for charity, so if you feel like sponsoring one or all of us, click a name.

Alan

Ellie

Celeste

Sherry clients received a cracking Christmas carol this morning… but there are more cracking surprises on their way. If you’d like to experience what our clients have seen click here.

To help get into the Christmas spirit I have, along with some friends, spent November and December enjoying ‘craft days’. All our crafty efforts were aimed at filling our stall at the Truman Brewery Christmas Market with lovely hand made gifts, cards, prints, t-shirts and much more. The stall is open Friday 12pm – 6pm, Saturday 10am – 6pm, Sunday 10am – 6pm and is located within the Truman Brewery: F Block 1st floor entrances from Ely’s Yard, 15 Hanbury Street and 81 Brick Lane. So why not come down and enjoy some mulled wine and buy some lovely Christmas items!

This is a good example of how simple ideas can change people’s behaviour. This is an idea from Volkswagen’s Fun Factory.

Our lovely office manager delivered Halloween themed drinks and snacks as a surprise this afternoon – including branded beer bottles and beautifully decorated party food – now we’re all set for a gory battle of Slag – Happy Halloween everybody!

Sherry loves competitions. And cakes. So what could be better than combining the 2 in our first annual Bake Off Competition?

We were all asked to do our best ‘Mr Kipling’ and bake a sweet or savoury delicacy that would put the Master Chefs to shame. After a particularly arduous tasting session, and still high on sugar, marks were awarded for Best Overall, Best Tasting and Best Looking. The winners then walked off with possibly the best looking trophies ever.

There has since been a spike in membership requests at the Ironmonger Row gym.

At Sherry we have been busy working on Sygenta’s UK site, which is now live! The site has a dedicated Learning Zone and we are very pleased that it is featured in the latest Planet Science Newsletter as their recommended website of the week!

This is Saab’s latest TV commercial. Nice concept, nice delivery and nice soundtrack from the Swedish singer Asha Ali. A TV ad with added imagination and creativity - now that’s an interesting concept!

The studio has compiled a playlist of our top 20 most played tracks on Spotify. We’ve also made it available as a shared playlist, follow this link to sample our list of oddities and rare nuggets.

1. Roofing Tiles - Galliano (Alan)
2. Terry’s Song - Bruce Springsteen (Celeste)
3. Hard to handle – Otis Redding (Daniel)
4. Beercan – Beck (Gary)
5. Sea within a sea – The Horrors (Ellie)
6. Don’t Fear the Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult (Laura)
7. She’s Electric – Oasis (Narcis)
8. Jolene – Dolly Parton (Maria)
9. Walk On By (Extended version) – Isaac Hayes (Gary)
10. Pressure Drop – Toots & the Maytals (Daniel)
11. The Chain – Fleetwood Mac (Kelly)
12. Tupelo – Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (Ellie)
13. Voulez Vous - Abba (Maria)
14. Dance wiv Me – Dizzee Rascal (Kelly)
15. Paper Planes – MIA (Quentin)
16. Breathe – The Prodigy (Carol)
17. Bela Luggosi’s Dead – Bauhaus (Alan)
18. Cigarettes And Chocolate Milk – Rufus Wainwright (Narcis)
19. It’s Because… We’ve got Hair – Tunng (Laura)
20. Don’t Stop Me Now - Queen (Carol)

Tuesday the 18th marked the first anniversary of our move to our new offices in Ironmonger Row. Although most of the studio were unaware of the approaching anniversary, a few sharp cookies remembered and orchestrated a succession of anticipation-building mystery emails. All of this culminated in a surprise 1st anniversary party which we celebrated in true ‘one year old’ style – balloons, party hats, bunting and a fabulous cake! Of course there were games – adapted in true Sherry fashion. We were also mentally challenged in a quiz that tested our knowledge of our local surroundings and even each other (guess the ring tone!). A big thanks to Ellie, Narcis and Laura for a  great surprise party!

Last Saturday, after a long queue, I managed to get inside Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery, where until the end of the month you can see a spectacular exhibition of work from the graffiti artist Banksy. Whilst controversial and clever the pieces of art can be seen among the permanent collection of the museum, making the whole place an art installation. I really loved how he manages with simple ideas either to raise a smile or make you see the crude reality, or both at the same time.

The concept of the exhibition, I thought, was a clever way to promote the museum and Bristol, as you had to explore the whole museum to find the art which surprised you by being integrated in sometimes shocking and sometimes LOL ways. Just to highlight a piece, the one below, had the power to make me love Mondays.

Really worthwhile exhibition despite the massive queues, might be best go on a week day or very early.

This is not the official music video of Two Weeks by Grizzly Bear, this is a fan video by Gabe Askew, a media artist.

Thursday was Swedish lunch day.

The studio sampled some of Maria’s home cooked specialities.
Thank you for the fermented herring and cabbage rolls.

Rollerskating babies + Sugarhill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight = YouTube sensation watched 3.8 million times.

A Spanish designer Oscar Diaz has designed this lovely calendar, which all of us have fallen in love with. A simple idea but beautiful!

I’m not sure if this is useful, but it made us laugh. www.googlegooglegooglegoogle.com