july 30, 2007
since i arrived so late last night, i decided to go into work around 1pm today. you know, to get some sleep. so i got up around 8am and explored the city. first i headed to buckingham palace, then to westminster abbey, then to big ben and the houses of parliament and then to the tate modern to tour see an exhibit called "global cities".
the tate modern museam is amazing, one because it was designed by one of my favorite architectural firms, herzog & de meuron, and two, because it's collection of modern art is pretty spectacular. some of theartists you might recognize - alberto giacometti, roy lichtenstein, andy worhol, joan miro, pablo picasso, salvador dali, piet mondrian, mark rothko, paul klee, gustav klimt... just off the top of my head.
the global cities exhibit was impressive. the whole exhibit revolved around the exploding populations of the world's largest cities and the effect on many global issues that result from this. the exhibit was displayed with an architectural twist, geared toward urban eco-friendly design. i thoroughly enjoyed it.
then work. ugh.
after work, i had a late dinner with one of my colleagues - john camm. john is on old bugger that has been hired by hh on contract to do our presentation drawings. the guy is not only a fabulous artist, he's a great designer and has the perfect british monty-python-like wit. dinner was a blast.
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
poland day 15
july 29, 2007
i woke up hung over again, although not nearly as bad as friday morning. it's strange - you'd think that after my 6 month health kick that my body would not be able to process the amount of alcohol i've consumed in the last three days. apparentl, my muscle memory is extraordinary.
denis and i decided to go for a bike ride today into osieck and beyond. there is a large cathedral that you can see from the hotel that i wanted to check out. "downtown" osieck is only about 1km from the hotel so the bike ride wasn't long. the cathedral was pretty impressive, especially for a town the size of osieck (population 200... maybe).
denis then had a wonderful idea - a bike gang. so he and i formed one. the ohshitski dragons. he the leader and i the stunt rider. the videos are hilarious.
each town has a large billboard map of the town, which is extremely useful when you are in a bike gang. we wanted to see who we could terrorize next. so we found another little "town" about 2km away and rode there. on our way, we ran into some local trouble. another gang of 5 teenage boys on bikes. they laughed at us when we first rode by so on our way back, denis greeted their jeers with a ferocious bell ring (our bikes were well equipped with signal bells for such an occasion).
afterwards i packed, said my goodbyes and was driven to the airport. i didn't arrive at my hotel in london until 2am. i'm probably going into work late tomorrow.
i woke up hung over again, although not nearly as bad as friday morning. it's strange - you'd think that after my 6 month health kick that my body would not be able to process the amount of alcohol i've consumed in the last three days. apparentl, my muscle memory is extraordinary.
denis and i decided to go for a bike ride today into osieck and beyond. there is a large cathedral that you can see from the hotel that i wanted to check out. "downtown" osieck is only about 1km from the hotel so the bike ride wasn't long. the cathedral was pretty impressive, especially for a town the size of osieck (population 200... maybe).
denis then had a wonderful idea - a bike gang. so he and i formed one. the ohshitski dragons. he the leader and i the stunt rider. the videos are hilarious.
each town has a large billboard map of the town, which is extremely useful when you are in a bike gang. we wanted to see who we could terrorize next. so we found another little "town" about 2km away and rode there. on our way, we ran into some local trouble. another gang of 5 teenage boys on bikes. they laughed at us when we first rode by so on our way back, denis greeted their jeers with a ferocious bell ring (our bikes were well equipped with signal bells for such an occasion).
afterwards i packed, said my goodbyes and was driven to the airport. i didn't arrive at my hotel in london until 2am. i'm probably going into work late tomorrow.
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