War Museum,Halloween and Borough Market!

Here are a few things that we did last few weeks before we left for Paris! We went to the British War Museum, which is really cool! I think that mom and dad would really like it!

Here is the front of the British War Museum-it has two large cannons right out in front!

This is a piece of the Berlin Wall that is at the museum that was done by an artist.

Inside there were all different kinds of guns, tanks and submarines, and airplanes hanging from the ceiling.

This is a piece of the twin towers that they have there.

Then on Friday night we had a Halloween party and it was a lot of fun! We all dressed up and Thais made dinner cooked in a pumpkin. We also decorated cookies and cupcakes, had a dance party, and then watched the movie Psycho. For my costume I dressed up as a Liechtenstein comic girl! 

Here is a better picture-Kourtney, the girl next to me, did my makeup. She put dots of foundation on my face so it looked all comic-like and outlined my eyes, lips, and eyebrows with black! I made a little bubble from one of Liechtenstein's pieces! There were a lot of fun costumes-Eve Everett was a can of sardines, and she was wrapped in foil and had two big eyes on her head haha. It was really cute!

Then on Saturday we went to Borough Market, this food market they do every Thursday to Sunday, and it was amazing! There was so much yummy food there, I had to control myself! This place is where I got a yummy lamb sandwich.

Here is the yummy lamb sandwich!

Those bad boys on the end are super-sized brownies!!!

This is some fresh mozzarella, just for you Dad!

I bought a Lamington, that dessert from Australia and New Zealand. I remember mom talking about them, and thought I would try one! They are really good.

Turkish delights!

More sweets.

Bread in a pot!

I bought a gingerbread cookie with this cute elephant on it :)

Macaroons!

It is hard to see, but all of those baskets are filled with all different kinds of mushrooms!

They also had many different kinds of olives! It was crazy how much food they had there!

Art and Brick Lane

Here are few recent updates! 

Today we were able to go as a class to Degas exhibit at the Royal Academy of Arts. Degas is most known for his paintings of ballerinas and dancers, and that was all that was pretty much there! But it was really cool-they had a lot of his sketches and studies of the dancers and even some sculptures that he did too. They were beautiful!

Yesterday I went back to the Tate modern and saw this piece that I thought was really cool and trippy! It is a hanging upside down staircase made out of fabric. The artist is Do Ho Suh! 

On Friday for art class we went to the Courtauld Gallery and I loved it! There were a lot of great impressionist and post-impressionist painters that were brilliant! 

I thought that mom and dad might like this one! This artist's name is Andre Derain.

This famous painting, A Bar at the Folies Bergere by Edouard Manet was there!!! When I learned about in my humanities class I wasn't really crazy about it, but seeing it in real life made me love it!

Yes. THE SELF PORTRAIT OF MY LOVE VINCENT VAN GOGH! It was there! And it is amazing. I just love that man so much!

Last week we went to see a concert. It was this french guy named Yann Tiersen, who has some beautiful piano music. We thought it was going to be a classical piano concert, but it ended up being a techno rock concert haha but it was still fun! This band called Lanterns on the Lake opened for them, and this guy in the band totally reminded me of Jackson with long hair and a mustache! 

Then I saw a large mustache! On Saturday I went to the Brick Lane market and I saw this on the way. I guess the men do this thing in London where they grow a mustache to raise awareness for prostate cancer. Here is more about it, I thought it was pretty funny!

http://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2010/11/free-moustache-trim-for-movember/

The Brick Lane is a cool part of London that had a lot of graffiti and vintage shops. Here is some graffiti that I thought was groovy and reminded me of the artist, Liechtenstein!

This are some polka dot shirts in a cool Vintage shop called, Blitz Blitz!

A little shop on Brick Lane with a cello :)

Love you guys and miss you!!

Westminster, Les Miserables and Graffiti!

On Wednesday we went to Westminster Abbey and it was really neat! It is so beautiful inside, and I did not know how many different people were buried there! Like Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth I and her sister Mary, Mary Queen of Scots, Isaac Newton, Henry Chaucer and so many more! Westminster was first built in 1245 by Henry III as his burial place. It is the traditional place for coronation and burial of English monarchs. And it was where the Royal Wedding was!  

 Me, Kendal, Katie and Lisa in front of Westminster!

Westminster Abbey

For our religion class we had to go to this chapel called the John Wesley chapel. John Wesley started the Methodist church in England, and this is the very fist Methodist chapel he built. These really sweet elderly people work there and gave us a tour. We told our guide, Keith, that we went to school in Utah and he asked us if we were Mormon! haha I guess even Englanders know Utah's history! 

On Wednesday night Kendal, Katie and I went to see Les Miserables! We went to the theater an hour before the play started and we were able to get tickets that were worth 50pounds for only 27 pounds, and they were good seats too! It was my first time ever seeing it, and it was amazing! I cried like a baby and the music was great! I know that mom would love it. The only songs I recognized were the ones mom would sing-There is a castle on a cloud and can you hear the people sing! I am in love with Jean Valjean!

I saw this the other day and I knew mom would love it-it's a Tiffany & Co. taxi cab! 

All of us had to do a collaboration project, and my group decided to do graffiti! So at night we went to a skatepark to do our project. But it is a skatepark were tagging is legal, so we really weren't that hardcore haha. But we still felt rebellious! We were all in charge of making a letter to spell out CREATE, and I did the E! 

This is what it looked like when it was finished! Word straight up!

I love you guys and miss you so much! I hope you are doing well-talk to you soon! 

Frieze Art Fair!

On Saturday we were able to go to the Frieze Art Fair, a contemporary art fair that goes on every October in Regents Park. They set up this gigantic tent and gallery rooms and had more than 170 different galleries there. It was so cool! It was for sure THE art scene, and there were a lot of great contemporary artists. I know that mom and dad would have liked some of the things there-it is so great that I have parents who like contemporary art! I mean we do have an orange bamboo forest in our living room! ;) Here are some things that I thought were exciting!

Painting by Gerhard Richter-I really like him.

Here is a Frank Stella for mom and dad!

This is a self portrait done by Ryan Gander. I really like how he used glass panels.

A neon light piece done by Tracey Emin. I am really digging neon right now! This fair had a lot of different neon light pieces and fluorescent colors which were fun.

I didn't get this artist's name, but these are pieces of furniture with a kind of rainbow vortex carved into them that I thought was cool!

Piece by Anish Kapoor. I really like him.

I thought mom and dad would like this one!

This is a sculpture by John Chamberlain, another artist I really like. He does these abstract expressionist sculptures with smashed car parts!

PEOPLE OF THE FRIEZE ART FAIR

Another cool thing about the fair was the people that were there! Many of them were funky art hipsters! And there were tons of wealthy people there that were buying paintings for millions of pounds. I know that this is really stalker-like and kind of weird, but I took some pictures of people there because I wanted you too to experience their awesomeness! So here they are! 

I loved this girl's hair!

And this girl's hair too!

I also got a granola bar from a little cafe they had set up called Gail's, and it was the best granola bar I have had in my life!!