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Data + Art at the PMCA
Last night, Evan and I went to the opening of the Data + Art exhibit at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. The show explores how data can be explored, visualized, filtered and even set to music for the sake of understanding, expression or art.
The opening display was a collage mosaic of photos, charts, medical [...]
Touring Tokyo
On August 14, we took the Shinkansen to Tokyo. We had reserved seats, but they turned out to be in a smoking car — and at the very front of the train. We decided to look for new seats, but all the unreserved calls are at the back of the train. I walked from car [...]
6 Days in Kyoto
Getting to Kyoto from Bangkok involved a very long day of traveling, which seems to be a recurring theme on this trip. First we took a 5-hour flight to Tokyo, then had to hop on an hour-long train to get to the 3-hour-long Shinkansen — where we had to stand in the unreserved smoking car [...]
12 Days in Istanbul
Sorry I haven’t written in a while — the keyboards in Istanbul are a bit hard to type on because some of the letters and punctuation marks are in different places, and I just haven’t spent too much time in front of the computer lately. Good thing I’ve been writing about my days in a [...]
The Egyptian Museum and the Crazy Bazaar
Well, we’re just finishing up day 2 in Egypt, and it’s already been a bit of a wild ride. We haven’t been able to upload any photos just yet, but I have written down what we’ve done over the past two days, and we’ve included this lovely webcam photo from the hotel’s lobby computer.
June 28:
Early [...]
Springtime in Hyde Park!
Winter finally decided to loosen its clutches on the city of London, and we’ve had some lovely weather. The first really gorgeous day, Evan and I took an excursion down the road to Hyde Park. While we’ve been to the park plenty in the winter, and we knew it was a nice park, it was [...]
Straddling the Hemispheres
A few weeks ago, we went to Greenwich to check out the National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, where the prime meridian was conceived. The Maritime Museum was pretty well put together, though seemed to be more for children, whereas there wasn’t a whole lot to see at the Royal Observatory (the building on the [...]
Finishing the National Portrait Gallery
Sunday, Evan and I finally made it back to the National Portrait Gallery to see the rest of the exhibits, including the Vanity Fair special exhibit.
The museum is consistently great — even on my third trip, I felt I was still learning things and being introduced to new people. And I was still interested in [...]
Trip #2 to the Tate Modern
Sunday, Evan and I went to the Tate Modern with Ceres and Hannah. We were really excited to see some of the exhibits we weren’t able to make it to on our first trip, mostly up on the fifth floor. There were also some new installments on the third floor. My favorite one was 30 [...]
New York in a New York Minute
I’m sure I’ll be posting a bit more, with photos and better descriptions, but Evan and I got back from our New York weekend today.
We left from Gatwick airport Friday morning and had a 2-hour delay off the bat since our plane didn’t arrive on time. After an uneventful flight — Evan slept and I [...]
National Portrait Gallery, Trafalgar Square and Dinner Drama
Today, I went to the National Portrait Gallery with Evan. We didn’t have time to see the whole thing — we got about halfway through, and the Vanity Fair exhibit was sold out — so we’ll have to go back again. Good thing the museum is free.
Though it rained earlier today, the afternoon turned out [...]
Museum Hopping: Tate Modern, National Gallery, Portrait Gallery
While my parents were here, I got to go to a lot of museums. More than I’d been to since I’ve been here. The first one we hit was the Tate Modern, which was incredible.
The first must-see was Shibboleth (pictured), also known as the giant crack in the floor that spans the whole building. The [...]
Churchill Museum and Chinese New Year
Sunday, Evan and I went to the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms, then went to Chinatown to celebrate Chinese New Year. The museum had some interesting displays, but the part about Churchill seemed a bit disorganized, since we were skipping around through different parts of his life. There were some really neat interactive exhibits, [...]
Parliament, Big Ben and Westminster Abbey
We headed over to Parliament, just down the street from Horse Guards Parade, and stopped to take some photos. The building is very ominous and ornate — the kind of thing that makes it unsurprising that Harry Potter came from a Brit’s mind. And it couldn’t be more different from anything you’d ever find in [...]
Paris Museums: L’Orangerie
Sunday, we met up with Evan’s grandparents, who were also visiting Paris for the weekend, and went to the Orangerie to see its small collection of art. The most impressive thing there was two large oval rooms with Monet’s Water Lilies on the walls. The rooms were filled with diffuse natural light that came in [...]