central london | The dog what blogs

Jan 09 2013

art

CREAMY

I think its the oldness, the history, the majesty… The special gallery smell.

Even if i dont like the endless pictures of Jesus and ladies with a single, creamy white boob which seem to be forever absentmindedly falling out curiously ill fitting tops…

National Gallery.

Relaxing.

The show we wanted… Turns out its February.

*****

Quelle dommage.

What befell us next but this remarkable thing…

The things people do eh?

At the white cube some dancers spend there afternoons wearing huge mirror a-boards and drifting around a room full of other mirrors.

You had to be there.

A video…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiecb5w1Rdk&sns=em

But the great thing about this kind if thing is u kind of DO have to be there.

Take silly pictures. Laugh at them…

We’ve discussed this b4.

Love,

Harley xx

“at least stars burn out brightly”

Tagged Art, central london, contemporary art, london, white cube

Dec 11 2012

business, conference, talk

Young Business Staffy of the Year

I think he might be thrown out.

He’s not very smart.

Meanwhile i am going to:

“build my brand”

“attract opportunity”

“make more money”

and “do what i love”…

********

Now iv stopped being glib and sat and listened.

It is v v interesting the skills of presenting things.

What not to forget is content.

Because not everyone is as clever as this Staffordshire Bull Terrier.

These people were so passionate, slick and at the same time open it really taught us things about things we don’t really understand.

Love,

Harleyxx

http://www.keypersonofinfluence.com/

“at least stars burn out brightly”

Tagged becoming a key person of influence, business, central london, conference, gloucester road, kpi, london, millennium gloucester hotel, pitch, south kensington, talk, west london

Nov 18 2012

art, museum

ROUND UP

The Stone Space: There’s a sim card. In perspex. It contains text and photos from an old relationship.

5 Stars. Its on a plinth.

Maureen Paley: There’s pinboards. In Bethnal Green. They contain text about architecture.

3 Stars. Its tucked away.

The British Museum: There’s old shit. In cabinets. They contain bones, pots and in a special free exhibition stuff relating to drinking.

3 Stars. Mainly pots.

A lot of pots.

I think iv said b4.

love,

Harley xx

http://thestonespace.wordpress.com/

http://www.maureenpaley.com/

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/ritual_and_revelry.aspx

Tagged Art, bethnal green, central london, contemporary art, drinking, east london, leytonstone, london, maureen paley, museum, the british museum, the stone space

Nov 16 2012

art

INFINITY IN 10 MINUTES

Mark Rothko eh?

One picture was just black.

No, just black.

One picture was just white.

No, just white.

One picture was just grey.

No, just grey.

And there were various combinations of the three.

Here is the sentence where i pretend i know something…

Ok… if the thing is sparseness, infinity, the emotions arouse, the depiction of nothing…

Surely the ones where theres a bit of something… texture… shading are cheating.

You know what we love Rothko but really the ones where theres more colour. We like simple combinations of colour.

Now these ones.

And there was about 12.

Were not that.

We liked the feeling of infinite emptiness. …Doesn’t everyone?

But it doesn’t take v long to digest.

10 minutes.

Some words: black, white, grey.

love,

Harleyxx

Art

PS i don’t think they wanted you to take pictures of the nothing…………………….

Tagged Art, central london, contemporary art, london, mayfair, modern art, pace gallery, rothko

Oct 30 2012

museum, recording, television

GET IDEAS

How to summarise a lost weekend of spoken word, sadness and nick clegg…

Unrelated.

Like this

A) guildhall lates are lovely lates. Get ideas from meetup and float round antisocially on your own. Theres an amphitheatre dontcha know.

B) tv recording of 'the agenda' good, free and theres no need to be lonely with the internet. Find other lonely people to do stuff with.

Im a dog of few words.

Like Ezra Pound with worms.

Look it up.

Theres no excuse to be uncultured with the internet.

Love,

Harleyxx

“at least stars burn out brightly”

Tagged amphitheatre, audience, central london, city, city of london, covent garden, debate, guildhall, lates, live recording, london, meetup, moorgate, museum, museum lates, recording, soho, spoken word, the agenda, tv, tv audience, west end

Oct 15 2012

film, french, languages

ECOUTE

Aujourd hui nous regardons un film francais.

Les subtitres aussi en francais.

Pour learning francais.

Cest un film about un homme qui travailles dans une office.

La femme sorti le homme.

Aussi Le homme pretended to be une homosexuale pour garder son traivaille.

Im not sure how this worked im going to have to go on le wikipedia.

Gerard Depardieu!

Il adore le homme mais l'homme n'etais pas vraiment une homosexuale!

Le film fini apres une autre femme faire de la sexe avec l'homme qui n'etais pas gay.

Beau,

Harleyxx

“at least stars burn out brightly”

Tagged aldwych, central london, film, french, french film, languages, learning, london, Pub, the george, the strand

Oct 13 2012

Uncategorized

So.
Here goes.
We kicked off with Lenin.
There was a funny story of a policeman in a cupboard.
Then there was Cromwell.
Messy business.
Exhumed corpses.
Then there was someone i wasn’t really listening too cos i was playing on my phone.
Then there was John Wilkes who seemed a nice chap.
Womaniser with a big chin.
Love a funny guide.
She’s on the old audioboo.

*****

Then we got a bit distracted because there was a museum about the St John’s ambulance.

http://footprintsoflondon.com/ciga/

Tagged central london, clerkenwell, east london, farringdon, guided tour, history, john wilkes, lenin, london, north london, oliver cromwell, politics, talk, tour

Oct 11 2012

art, Museum

DARK CHURCH FLESH

A lot happened today.
Cultural, life…
I suppose the cultural things were 3 galleries.
We don’t do things by halves.
Tho perhaps we should do things in more detail.
Gagosian: Some words: Protuberances (is that a word?)
Hus: Some words: leathery, church, knives
Crypt: Dark, church, flesh
There are lots of galleries called the crypt.
We stumbled on another.
I can’t be bothered to tell u about it.
I can’t be bothered to remember the names of the artists.
http://www.google.co.uk
If you’re that interested.
Im guessing we weren’t.
We also went to Regents Park but couldn’t be bothered with the art thing because we wanted to sit on a bench and look at our pretentious art BOOK.
Bought some sonnets for tomorrow…
Had a nice tea with my nice friend Paul.
Lates at Wellcome… I’m tempted to talk about body parts but I have to be careful.
Sometimes if you do lots of things you are too tired to blog about them properly.
#fancy
Sorry to waste your time.

Love,

Harleyxx

Whippscorridor

Tagged Art, central london, contemporary art, london, modern art, museum, museum lates, north london, parks, poetry, regents park, royal parks, sculpture, wellcome collection

Oct 06 2012

apple, art, Football, tv

HEDGE UR BETS

So there was some art.

A new gallery.

The Pangolin.

It had pieces by famous people like Damien Hirst (he conceived the sharks to move) and sarah lucas.

*****

But best is having some food and some football with your dad.

Its funny going to the premier league which is epic… The noise.

After non league which is cheap but dull.

In the middle is lovely cuddly often rubbish @leytonorientfc which has bearable toilets, singing but slightly easier prices.

Hedge your bets?

Have lots of teams.

Then if one loses…

What? They all lost??

Quadruple depression.

But i went with my dad so it was still great.

*****

In the evening it is sometimes ok to watch the telly.

And even if your crushingly lonely if you have a clever staffy* and an i app you can play along with telly quizzes to make u feel 10% better.

Like million pound drop which is all…

Hedge ur bets.

See what i did there?

Love,

Colinxx

*a condition of letting me use the blog.

“at least stars burn out brightly”

Tagged abstract, apple, Art, central london, channel 4, contemporary art, cubism, damien hirst, east london, Football, gallery, ipad, iphone, kings cross, leyton orient, london, million pound drop, modern art, newham, non league football, north london, premier league, sarah lucas, sculpture, staffies, staffordshire bull terriers, surrealism, tv, west ham

Oct 03 2012

art

Big head

Thomas Schutte.
Serpentine Gallery.
Big heads.
Daddy’s got a big head.
Take that how you like.
Take it both ways.
What to say about this?
Big heads really.
Sometimes there were little heads watching the big heads.
We @thedogwhatblogs find the serpentine gallery is a good passing through sort of gallery if your trekking from a calm continental library to a writing group in a Starbucks.
Im offering you a whole lifestyle here punters.

love,

Harleyxx

Tagged Art, art gallery, central london, contemporary art, gallery, libraries, london, modern art, serpentine gallery, starbucks, west london, writing

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Tag Archives: central london

CREAMY

Young Business Staffy of the Year

ROUND UP

INFINITY IN 10 MINUTES

GET IDEAS

ECOUTE

HEROES AND VILLAINS

DARK CHURCH FLESH

HEDGE UR BETS

Big head