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Monday, 6 August 2012
Slow Boat Reaches London! .(scribbled at 20:20 )

After a staggering trek over 100 miles, Britain's coolest narrowboat (ahem, slightly biased) finally reached London after 2 weeks of not exceeding the 4mph canal speed limit.



Celebrations were due to be underway that Saturday afternoon, so I went over to the New London Architecture Centre on Tottenham Court Road that morning. Which was absolutely beautiful, I spent about half an hour just admiring Pipers Central London model (and searching in vain to see whether Finsbury Park had made it onto the 1: 1500 scale centrepiece. Alas, it only reached King's Cross...darn)

It wasn't just this display that was utterly brilliant though, the centre was filled with a wide selection of scale models of London's finest buildings, skyscapers and outdoor spaces. And if that wasn't fascinating enough ( I'm an architectural model obsessive so I won't waffle on too much about those...) the basement was filled with scale models of home that focused on the ideal energy efficient home. Okay, as I'm typing that it doesn't sound too thrilling but you just have to see it! It's so refreshing to see an organisation that really understands our needs for the future, and does its utter best to illustrate that through this media of beautiful models and displays (the mini solar panels were rather adorable too!)

Anywho, moving very swiftly back to tillers adorned with kingfisher decorations...

Too cute to eat, surely?
A selection of sweet stuff prepared by the  Chisenhale Crew
Slow Boat is now in London until Saturday, so if any of you are around this area you should bloody go see it! It's not everyday that you see a floating radio station-come-art space. It's moored just behind Chisenhale Gallery, who have programmed an intense series of events between now and its departure this weekend. There's a film screening at the gallery on Thursday evening which I'll undoubtedly be heading off to see straight after work. Oh, and there's a talk about radio stations with the brilliant boat master (and canal extraordinaire!) Graham Fisher, who famously appeared on Julia Bradbury's Canal Walks last Summer. I also happen to know from experience that Graham is brilliant to talk  to about the waterways over a nice brew...

After seeing the boat, I went along to Victoria Park with Ikon Gallery's youth programme and Propeller (Chisenhale's Youth Programme) to catch a bit of the Olympic screening on their huge screen... and engage in a but of public sculpture discussions, obviously...

Entrance at Victoria Park


What I Wore Today: A breton top, because I actually have a Helmsmans Certificate.
Anyway, things in Victoria Park were pretty cool. I've got such an urge to try out the (£15!) zipwire there, although I imagine I'll have a Boris Johnson moment and inevitably get stuck halfway...
The ska band by the main entrance were pretty awesome too, although this photograph I took doesn't quite show the capacity, the audience were fairly huge.


http://ikonslowboat.com/2012/
http://www.chisenhale.org.uk/
http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/

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diaristic ramblings about architecture, design, art, baking and shoes.

...all posts penned by Vikki, a twenty-something girl based in London (but currently having itchy feet and wanting to move back to Neuilly).

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