Up in London again last Sunday to meet with a bunch of guys from #joiito, including Gary Turner, whose blog has been a daily read of mine for, like, ever.
Because I’d been so blown away by The Weather Project when I went to see it last time, I’d suggested to the guys that we take a shufti. There were six of us meeting at the Tate – myself, Gary (gt), John (raku), Chris (daggi), Pete (soundrater) and Sean (sbp).
The Weather project was ace even second time round. I resisted the urge to snap more pics, but Gary’s posted a couple of really ace ones on his blog that he took with his slinky new digital Canon EOS. I kept thinking about asking to have a look at it, but it’s such a nice camera I didn’t want to ruin it by drooling all over it.
Gary’s first blog entry with a groovy pic stitched together from four others.
Gary’s second blog entry in which he does something very clever that I wish I'd thought of first.
Once we got down on to the main floor of the Turbine Hall, we did the whole lying down bit for a while, then sat about like IRCers Anonymous, chatting about #joiito. I’m a little disappointed that no one produced a laptop with a wifi connection or some other way to get onto irc so that we could group chat, but yet also faintly relieved.
A blurry Chris
Gary struggles with Sputnik 3, before being told by a rather sheepish attendant that ‘tripods aren’t allowed’. Yeah, cos it’s a real health and safety hazard, that tripod. All those people lying down around us are risking life and limb by their mere proximity.
More of Gary’s photos:
All off us.
Pete
Sean
Sean’s pics, including an excellent one of the back of my head. I always wanted to know what the back of my head looks like, and now I do.
After leaving the Tate we crossed the ex-Wobbly Bridge, met with James (imajes) and then went in search of somewhere to eat. That wasn't shut. I'd forgotten that most of City and Holborn is shut on a Sunday. But still, the walk did us good. No, really. For a bunch of essentially sedentary bloggers, it was a serious dose of exercise.
John at the pub
It's kinda cool now to be able to put a little asterisk next to Gary's name to indicate we've met. There's something peculiarly one way about blogs – you read someone's blog for ages and after a while it feels like you know them. But you don't. Even if they read your blog and get the same feeling, it's still two parallel one-way processes failing to equal a two-way process. Finally meeting in person and being able to actually converse properly is just great, and made even better by the fact that Gary is just such a great guy.
So now I shall have to hunt down a bunch of other bloggers so that I can add to my list!
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