Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Other Peoples Stuff’ Category

Into the Unknown: a journey through Science Fiction at the Barbican

After asking for one adult for the Russian Revolution at the British Library I struggled a little to ask for one adult Into the Unknown at the Barbican or Into the Unknown a journey through Science Fiction to give it its full title. This exhibition has a great Start with a mix of books, film […]

Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Myths

  I realised after I’d bought the tickets that asking for one adult to the Russian Revolution has a certain comic quality.  Anyway, the latest exhibition at the British Library is well put together.  As you’d expect from the British Library the focus is on books, documents and maps along with a few carefully selected […]

Places of the mind – British watercolour landscapes 1850–1950

Room 90 at the British Museum is one of my favourite places to visit when in London.  Hidden away at the top and back of the building the little art exhibitions are often a real treat. Places of the mind – British watercolour landscapes 1850–1950 is no exception with works by James McNeil Whistler, Edward […]

Voyages at the Science Museum

I was fortunate to have the Voyages exhibition at at the Science Museum to myself for half an hour at the end of Thursday. The stunning photographs by Anderson & Low’s of recently conserved ship models from the museum’s collection are ethereal.  The photographs are beautifully displayed with a real minimalistic. I’d happily have five or six […]

Pink Floyd Their Mortal Remains at the V&A

The exhibition Pink Floyd Their Mortal Remains at the Victoria and Albert museum in London is more of a multimedia experience than a simple display of artefacts. Then I’ve never been to an exhibition that includes a show with lasers, Vari-Lites, multiple projectors and smoke machines or display based a two-story section based on the […]

e-on software 3D CG Environment Competition 2017

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The Danger Tree

The Danger Tree is a free, augmented reality exhibition by artists Scarlett Raven and Marc Marot (previously shown in Greenwich) is on at the Dr Martin Luther King Junior Building at the Albert Dock until the 18th December 2016. The gallery has been filled with a replica of a ruined gallery on the border between […]

Vue 2016

So I’ve had a couple of days to try the latest version of Vue.  I’m not going to post any pictures because I’ve not really got anything I want to share yet. Here in the mean time are some videos e-on have posted that do a far better job than I could of showing off […]

Barkow Leibinger – Serpenting Gallery Summer House 2016

Queen Caroline’s Temple