Thursday, 22 November 2007

Autumn

Autumn is near end and winter is approaching and I hate the weather. Been busy during the weekdays and lazy during the weekends and been not processing the pictures taken few months back.

The spider 'Maman' by Louise Bourgeois displayed outside Tate Modern in October. If you look carefully its belly contains eggs. This is a popular photography object for the Londoners lately. Apparently there's a 'Maman' group in Flickr with hundreds of photos for the spider, see here.

Another view of the 'Maman' in front of Tate Modern.

There is a line of crack in the turbine hall inside Tate Modern - the Shibboleth by Doris Salcedo.

I don't know how she did it and how is she going to fill the gap back when the exhibition is over, or are they going to change the whole granite floor?

Tonite, England screwed up big time by losing to Croatia and didn't make it to the European Cup next Summer. After watching the game, what I can say is England doesn't deserve to go to the final. What a shame after Russia handed them the life line last week and they lost it in their own hands.

Tomorrow, as Steven McClaren said he won't resign, I expect to see him gets sacked by the FA and Mourinho to come into the picture.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

ahhh..this is uber cool! I read it in the papers here (the crack, not the spider) and wondered if anyone I know would be able to see it for real. Looks like you're the one! :) Your pictures are excellent, gene...for both the spider and the crack. From the newspaper report, they won't be covering the crack, I don't think. I think it's an awesome concept! Love it! Keep those pictures coming. ;)

Eugene Goh said...

Thanks Jaime :)

Apparently there are some health & safety issue on the exhibit - BBC news today:

"As many as 15 art lovers have been injured at London's Tate Modern since the opening of an installation which features a large crack in the floor."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7112960.stm