London 2008
Posts from Jeff Guin’s April 2008 London trip, including Future of Web Design conference notes, personal travel moments, museum visits, and reflections on place and culture.
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Where the Future of Web Design London Took Me Ten Years Later
In April 2008, I went to London for the Future of Web Design conference. It was my first trip outside the United States, and I got there in a way that was very much of that…
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A Date with Eternity: The British Museum
A visit to the British Museum becomes an experiment in coping with the abundance—and absence of context—inside one of the world’s great encyclopedic collections. Rather than attempting to absorb everything, Jeff Guin follows a selective guide…
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The Bleak House at 48 Doughty: Dickens House Museum
The Charles Dickens Museum offers a counterpoint to the encyclopedic museum: a modest house where rooms, furniture, manuscripts, working materials, and literary history remain connected to the life that produced them. Jeff Guin’s visit becomes a…
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Misconceptions, part II: No way a southern Yank will fit in
If I’ve had a concern about this trip, it was the anticipation that I would feel like a Neanderthal walking into a village of Homo Sapiens for the first time. I’ve traveled a bit within the…
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That’s one tough lady!
Wartime makes for a strong Queen, it seems. Somewhat casts a shadow over our Rosie the Riveter. I am glad they specify it was laid by The Queen and not some other cut-rate “Her Majesty.”Continue reading…
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@weather: it’s what makes London timeless
I mentioned in a couple of previous posts all the pretty flowers in bloom here in England. They are indeed beautiful because, along with these old stately buildings, they’re part of the permafrost. Things that are…
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Visiting Trafalgar Square & Reviewing “That Hamilton Woman”
A 2008 visit to Trafalgar Square becomes an impromptu review of That Hamilton Woman and a reflection on Horatio Nelson, Emma Hamilton, classic film, and the way historical reputation is shaped through popular storytelling. The original…
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Russell Square
One neat thing about the cold weather here is that bulb flowers last a lot longer. These would have faded months ago in Louisiana. I took this at Russell Square, on the way to the British…
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Best Camera Café EVER …
A spontaneous 2008 review of Camera Café on Museum Street in London, a tiny camera shop and café across from the British Museum where old film equipment, Wi-Fi, chow mein, and conversation somehow occupied the same…
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Boag takes an already great conference FOrWarD
Chairing a tech conference and maintaining the eccentric air your audience of artsy-techie designers expects would seem to be mutually exclusive goals. Not for Paul Boag, the brilliant designer and podcaster, whose on-stage persona hovers somewhere…