Here’s the latest installment of our World Reviewer mini docs around London: World Reviewer at The Natural History Museum. The stars of the shows are Dippy the Diplodocus and the animatronic T-Rex. Oh, and the Edmontosaurus is pretty cool as well (you’ll have to have a look at the video to see which dinosaur I’m talking about - I’d never heard of those ones either.).
My film making attempts for World Reviewer are on the basic side when it comes to the big screen, but if my efforts have inspired you to visit London you’ll be able to get a look at some serious film making talent if you’re here in October for the London Film Festival.
If not you can have a look at a list of Flim Festivals which might be closer to home and find out how you could find yourself sitting in the same dark room as Brad Pitt.
Inspired by Borough Market, here’s a new WR article about slow food: ‘Life’s too short to eat Supermarket tomatoes’.
Here’s the latest in my series of lil’ London docs., The Science Museum in South Kensington. I’ve always been a fan of hands on exhibits and the Science Museum does a pretty good job of it - which you can see from all the people in the background who were seriously hampering my ability with the camera! I got a bit involved with the idea of seeing the grandparents of all the technology we take for granted today - even I understand enough about how things work to know how a steam engine works but when it comes to things like computers and MRI machines it all gets a bit magical. One of the highlights had to be the HUGE computer with the hundreds of blue wires making all the connections like synapses in the brain of something…makes me see my laptop with a renewed sense of magic.
The Natural History Museum is planned for this weekend.
I did make it down to Borough Market as promised so I could help you get your fix of organic food via remote - like a kind of fast serving of slow food? Grab some fresh organic popcorn that has chosen to become popped and eaten and enjoy.
London’s light and non-too-balmy summer evenings are perfect for outdoor theatre and I’ve been lucky enough to get a few invites to one of the best spots for it, Shakespeare’s Globe. So far I’ve seen the powerfully dramatic King Lear and a new work about London life in 2008 called The Frontline – both definitely experiences. In fact I enjoyed my trips there so much I made a little video documentary about the Globe, in case you can’t get there for yourself. I’d definitely recommend it.