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major_clangerI finally got around to taking 25 years' worth of the Journal of the British Astronomical Association to the BAA's office at Burlington House off Piccadilly. All I can say in terms of getting them there is thank goodness for solidly-constructed roller suitcases! It was also a good thing that the Royal Astronomical Society's offices, which the BAA works out of, have a lift.
And it's a very cool lift, too. When I got in I thought "Ooh, that's nice, there's a big picture of the Earth from space on the lift wall." Then the lift started and the Earth disappeared downwards to be replaced by a nebula... the lift has glass walls and there are space pictures stuck up the length of the liftshaft!
Burlington House is of course also home to the Royal Academy and is currently hosting an exhibition of Anish Kapoor's works. The courtyard is accordingly occupied by Kapoor's Tall tree and the eye, which is perhaps what you get when you generalise the concept of the Christmas tree bauble to encompass the actual tree itself.
I love the way you get endless reflections of the spheres in each other, tailing off to infinity - it's like a sort of 3D chrome Mandelbrot set. I'll have to go back, both for the exhibition as a whole and to take my main camera and get some more pictures.
And it's a very cool lift, too. When I got in I thought "Ooh, that's nice, there's a big picture of the Earth from space on the lift wall." Then the lift started and the Earth disappeared downwards to be replaced by a nebula... the lift has glass walls and there are space pictures stuck up the length of the liftshaft!
Burlington House is of course also home to the Royal Academy and is currently hosting an exhibition of Anish Kapoor's works. The courtyard is accordingly occupied by Kapoor's Tall tree and the eye, which is perhaps what you get when you generalise the concept of the Christmas tree bauble to encompass the actual tree itself.
I love the way you get endless reflections of the spheres in each other, tailing off to infinity - it's like a sort of 3D chrome Mandelbrot set. I'll have to go back, both for the exhibition as a whole and to take my main camera and get some more pictures.
