Off to Tate Britain, driving through Chelsea and along the river. A week into November, and the leaves haven't started falling yet.
Long shadows and Battersea Power Station in the distance.
We saw the
Turner Prize exhibit and like most of the visiting public found much of it ugly and baffling ("call this stuff art?"). At the end, a room with catalogues of the artists' previous exhibits, and places all around the walls where you can vent your frustration in writing.
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Mark Titchener's "Ergo Ergot" - revolving disks that give an amazing 3-D illusion. The video components get lost in the fascination with the optical illusions. It "uses light flicker and sound flicker to change the frequency your brain is working at" - the information in it, Titchner says, came from working with a civil rights group and is about threats to civil liberty. Knowing that makes the piece make sense - but it also makes it less "fun" all of a sudden.
Long shadows and Battersea Power Station in the distance.
We saw the Turner Prize exhibit and like most of the visiting public found much of it ugly and baffling ("call this stuff art?"). At the end, a room with catalogues of the artists' previous exhibits, and places all around the walls where you can vent your frustration in writing.
This comment refers to Mark Titchener's "Ergo Ergot" - revolving disks that give an amazing 3-D illusion. The video components get lost in the fascination with the optical illusions. It "uses light flicker and sound flicker to change the frequency your brain is working at" - the information in it, Titchner says, came from working with a civil rights group and is about threats to civil liberty. Knowing that makes the piece make sense - but it also makes it less "fun" all of a sudden. 
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