woke up @ 9am today in a daze........was suppose to get my butt to the Tate Modern by 10.30am! did all my stuff, and headed out @ about 9.50am. got to Tate @ about 10.45am and got briefed by lecturer what we were suppose to do for our visual studies class. *yawn* had my breakfast and enjoyed the sun as he was explaining......

He left us to self explore and out task was to basically do rubbings on any legally surface, and perspective drawings of buildings. Me and Pennapa ended up in the Tate looking @ the exhibitions. The installation by Kapoor in the Turbine hall is really massive and to me, the best point to view it is from the 'bridge' area, looking into the middle portion of the long structure. In the 1st minute i stared at it, i said: "reminds me of spiderman". Pennapa laughed and agreed that it must be the color of the pvc material. Stood there to make a few sketches and we were off to do more rubbings all over the museum!

One interesting section of the works was in the nude/action/body gallery. There was this exhibit of a video by Paul McCarthy, which showd himself in the nude, with boxing gloves on and smearing ketchup all over himself, while jumping around throwing punches. At certain points, he will start punching himself......... i just stared at the tv with this 'eeeee' though going thru my mind, and totally forgot the concept behind the film.

A point to make: the Tate Modern is a great museum to go to, for both the works and the quality of visitors u get. In the 3 hours that we were inside, me and Pennapa spotted a few cute arty looking guys. heh...Asian too! Discussed about it and we have decided to make and effort to go Tate more often during the holidays. *grin*

aiyoh....my essay is still not finish.

*grumbles*