Twelve Months Twenty-Four Photos. Numbers Twenty-One and Twenty-Two - November

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Nearly there now, just two more entries to go and then we're done. Getting out and about to things has been a bit tricky, bad weather had it's own effect but I rather stupidly let S.A.D. kick my arse for a few weeks before I realised that it had indeed shown up. I went with friends to The Science Museum for the just opened CERN exhibition, Collider which was fun. Due to it's success we had to buy tickets and then wait a couple of hours so went and drifted around the free stuff. I don't go to the South Ken museums much due to their amazing tourist trap nature and had restricted myself to just the V&A for the last few years. I realised that by just going to the Science Museum for one thing and ignoring all the other stuff I was doing myself a disservice. There was also the Oramics exhibition which any fan of electronica should consider essential viewing, and lots of materials stuff such as Thomas Heatherwick's piece above, which attempted to be made out of every material that goes into the modern house. I think if I had only seen Collider I may have been disappointed again, the biggest spaces were for two video pieces, one for scientists telling us how momentous the Higgs Boson discovery was and another for a rather... 'artistic' rendering of what happens when two particles collide in the accelerator. There were lots of magnets and cabling, but as part of a day out at the Science Museum it was great.