Another nice day, and as I was walking to school listening to my new morning song (Elbow - "Ribcage" - the percussion makes this song) a piece of bubble wrap floated in front of me and landed right in my path. While stepping on that bubble wrap and savoring the 'popop pop!', I knew that Thursday would be a good day.
Not too much after this, I was in Picadilly Circus and saw a trash can kind of out in the open... and then I saw it look around and take a few steps. I slowed down my pace to see what would happen. It's not every day you see someone dressed up as a fake trash can. I'm not sure if this was part of it, but there was a somewhat eccentrically dressed woman who seemed to be what the trash can was creeping toward, and there was a man walking up behind the woman who also seemed to be following her. I'm pretty sure they were all in on this together, but sadly I had to run to the tube to get to work on time.
After work I headed to the London Centre to meet with the professor who oversees the internships for a midsemester debriefing, which was really nice. It was helpful to be forced to take time to put things into perspective.
As if I hadn't done enough on Thursday, I headed to the Barbican Centre for Late Night at the Barbican, where they stayed open later than usual and had live music. The main reason I went was to see the Robert Capa / Gerda Taro exhibit, "This is War!" The exhibit was nice, and it was pretty neat to see some of the early prints of well-known photos. However, I think that it was kind of missing some extra element. It was obviously captivating because of the subject matter and the importance of Capa's work in the public's view of the war and as flagship work in the development of photojournalism, but it just wasn't the most impactful presentation of his work.
Anyway, enough on that. I think I might try to go to the Barbican sometime again to see more exhibits and to study since they had some nice spaces and a library (and free Wi-fi). Very cool space.
Oh, and here's a photo I took on the way back from the Barbican. This is just a tunnel nearby the Centre.
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