Bikini

Apparently today is the bikini's 65th birthday. I really liked these pictures (they're both taken from the Lomo's website), and I thought to share them with you.

A day of fun in London and an evening with Ravi Shankar

Dear Josie,

as you know I have just finished exams and holidays have started, there's lots I want to do this summer, and I'm sure I will never get bored in this city! My mum is visiting me for a week, and today we had a long and exciting day: we started from Borough market, near London Bridge, had a coffee at Monmouth (I think one of the best places to have an espresso in London, it's also really cool inside, perfect to read a book). Then, we finally managed to go to the design museum - it was two years I was waiting for this moment, the last times I went it was always closed! - and it didn't disappoint me. There was an exibition on the 100 best design objects of the year, and another one on a Dutch designer. As we were already south of the river, we went to Brixton for a coffee and a cake at the Ritzy cinema, it was so windy that it felt as if we were at the sea! I really like Brixton, even though I don't know the area very much. Did I tell you that I'm writing my final dissertation on it? Maybe I'll get to be there more often next year.

After that, we went to the Barbican centre to see Ravi Shankar, the Indian composer who plays the sitar (which I think has become my favourite instrument in the world). The concert was absolutely wonderful, besides the fact that I've never seen such a sweet old man, he's 91 but he's still really incredible and funny as well.

I'm so tired now, but another day like this is waiting tomorrow. Wish you were here. x

Find Wally!

The Uk pavilion at the Shanghai expo 2010, isn't it cool?

A sweet Lego collection, made in collaboration with Muji

This chair was made out of recycled refrigerators!

The view on Tower Bridge from the museum

Ravi Shankar after the concert

This one is for you

I took this picture tonight when I was coming from the Barbican Centre, after a classical music concert (it was the London Symphony Orchestra playing Mozart!). It made me think of you, and of how excited you were when you went to visit it because it was the church where Mary Poppins was set.

I thought St. Paul's Cathedral looked particularly gorgeous tonight, emerging from the other new buildings. x

Somerset

Dear Josie,

as a nice little break from exam revision, Sephy took me to Somerset for her dad's 50th birthday. It was so lovely being in the countryside for a couple of days: for the party we had to dress up as music celebrities (I went as Bob Dylan, and Sephy as M.I.A.), we stood by the fire at night, and we also played tennis the day after! It was ages I didn't play, it was my sport when I was a child - I thought I had lost all my skills, but I could still play. I'm so looking forward to the summer, I'll be done in one week but it feels so long now.

Garden

Dear Josie,

It's been a while I wanted to show you this, but I never had the time to update the blog. I'm studying really hard for my exams, so this post will be basically pictures. I hope you'll like it! x

p.s. there's no photoshop anywhere! the colours are so vivid in nature!

Abstract Ponyfish

Hey Elisa,
I thought you might appreciate these double exposures I took on my Diana mini of the Yarra. There is a newish bar in Melbourne that is on a little concrete island in the middle of the Yarra. It's under a bridge, and you have to walk out into the middle of the bridge and down some stairs, and you're there! It's called Ponyfish Island. These photos were taken on a Friday night after work, back when I had a job! It was a really warm and humid day, but very grey and overcast. Just as we got to the bar, it started to rain. It's outdoors, but luckily it's under the shelter of the bridge! It was so nice sitting there on the little island with our beers, watching the rain fall on the river and the boats go past us every now and again. I wish you could have been there.
xx
P.S. I forgot this silly one! 

Spring time

Dear Josie,

these are some of the things I've been doing lately:

loving old tube stations;

having beer by the Thames and good chats with sephy;

eating ice-creams of the same colour of my outfit (not on purpose!)

having tea parties

studying

playing with pois (it's so fun!)

hanging out with roxy

following the developments of the flowers in the garden

finding odd things

trying to have a nice picture of sephy and I - and I think this one is cool

laying down in the beautiful weather (this was today in Russel Sq)