Saw The Duchess of Malfi at the Old Vic. Play by John Webster about a widowed duchess who falls in love, leading to the inevitable Jacobean bloodbath.
Liked it a lot. There are stylized touches like slow-motion processions which help give it the slightly unreal air I think you need: these plots can feel a bit too implausible if you try to make it realistic. Good performances from Eve Best as the Duchess and Harry Lloyd as her villainous Duke brother .
Well worth a look.
We got good value tickets as a Lastminute.com package: �20 for both the theatre and a two-course meal, got decent seats at the back of the stalls too. Not bad considering you'd pay that for a movie and a pizza.
Museums
Saw the
British Design 1948-2012
exhibition at the V & A.
Liked it a lot: though it's fairly familiar stuff,
there's a lot of good things to look at.
Includes Marc Bolan costumes,
Festival of Britain posters, a Mini and an e-Type,
and of course the inevitable unsittable chairs.
Museums 2
Saw the
Hans-Peter
Feldman
exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery.
German artist who mostly repurposes and draws over kitsch
popular images and decorations. Not too bad: the cross-eyed
distorted portraits and red noses are amusing, and there are
some interesting photos like
this one.
Not terribly keen on the haw-haw-let's-poke-fun-at-the-tawdry-taste-of-the-masses
vibe though.
Links
Socioeconomics.
Should schools
promote self-control: "Higher cognitive ability may not always be a good substitute for self-control in the acquisition of important academic and technical skills".
Pedestrian behaviour
"walking speed is correlated to socioeconomic standing".
Video. How blind people use the iPhone. Terry Wogan's secret pirate radio show, via cats and ladder. Google glasses video with ads added.
Articles. Apparently "Enemy Mine" novel had a gay subtext, via.
Pics. US juvenile detention, via Lego science fiction models. Moscow 1931. Distorted comics women.
Sci/tech. Video visualizing 18th, 19th century ship voyages.
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