6/9 Luigi Colani, Borough Market, and the Tate

Note: Design Museum is not easy to find.

We arrived kinda late to the design museum, only to find a very happy Bill Deering (not what we expected). He explained how he had found Luigi Colani himself sitting in the cafe and was willing to walk us around his exhibit. WOW. I had no idea who he was, but Luigi Colani just looked cool, definitely someone you wanna walk around with. He designs machines for water and on land, including trains, planes, cars, underwater crude oil carriers. He also designed a Cannon camera, chair, tea set to name a few. Alot of his machines were taken from nature, there was a plane designed like a how a swan lands, or a shark airplane, this is because these animals are natural streamliners. He also has gold business cards and was sitting outside on a seafoam green deck chair smoking a box of cigars talking about how he would be helicoptered to UD to talk to us. What a life.

Borough Market was heaven. One, they give out samples. Two, Bill gave us 5 pounds for lunch. It was so hard to decide what to have to eat. I sampled some cheese, olives, wheat beer, greek dips and ended up splitting fish and chips with Jill and bought a punnet of strawberries. They also had this brilliant stand of chocolate covered EVERYTHING, like bananas, honeycomb, and nuts.

Exhausted at this point...we then went to the Tate to see the Dali and Film exhibit and Helio Oiticica exhibit. I enjoyed the Dali exhibit more than Helio Oiticica's Body of Colour. It was cool seeing Dali's sketches and watercolors and seeing his paintings in real life. I love the way Dali does his surrealistic/abstract shadows usually of people. His paintings have so much fine detail that could be easily overlooked, like little groups of buildings burrowed into a rock in the painting.