Two great weekends
*Alex just told me that all the people on my blog look like monsters! (That the photos are fuzzy because of resizing). I'm on a Mac so it looks fine for me and I think its only for PCs, let me know if you get the same problem!
Work:
Last week I briefly freelanced at Gyro. It was one of the biggest agencies I've worked at, kind of sweatshop like, but no surprises there.
Here's that one off thing I did for the US company I mentioned last week (click on the image to see it larger):
Supposedly one of those Ts would retail at 300 USD. Eek!
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Play:
Two young PhDs. Stephen and his friend Yunshan from Cambridge came over to London for the weekend. Stephan and I went to the same high school in Auckland, hadn't seen him in 4 years.
Chinatown
By the way, I have to say, London Chinatown kicks NYC Chinatown's ass! Its half the size of the one in NY, but the food here is 100 times better, and its MUCH cleaner (no fish market dumping goo-y stuff on the sidewalk!). Still doesn't beat the San Fransisco one though.
Buckingham Palace
St James Park
Dress is Catherine Malandrino.
For dinner we went to Tamarai. Now this place reminds me of Lotus in NY. They both have the lotus theme, both serve pan-Asian fusion food, both act as a restaurant/bar/club combo, both have cocky waiters etc... But the food at Tamarai was impressive, especially the starters. We were seated at the lounge right infront of the DJ booth which gave us almost full view of the place. I give it a 7/10. -1 point for the maitre-d who kept taking our menu away from us, -2 for not being able to give me my usual after-dinner White Russian – supposedly because it takes too long to make as it was clubbing time and too many people were at the bar! So I ordered a Mojito instead...(which takes longer to make than a White Russian! What was that all about?!)
Dress is Nanette Lepore.
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The previous weekend, Toshi came to visit from NY. Toshi is a graphic designer but his real passion is in beats and DJing. We took a day tour to Stonehenge and Bath. The Stonehenge was really kind of underwhelming... Bath was nice, its this little Roman architectural styled city with natural hot springs where the wealthy used to go and bathe. Also home to Bath University where Edith went to school! The whole city is built with limestone so all the buildings are this monochromatic yellow-ish color. The weather got cloudy and rather gloomy the second half of the day, nonetheless, great to get away from the city for a day.
At some lousy bar near Leicester Sq, joined by Daniel (see previous post).
With Toshi's friend Sayaka
More pictures on my flickr.
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Cut&Paste London is next weekend. Looking forward to that.
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Damn, this song is good (video too):
Apologize by One Republic. The video was made by this guy.
Work:
Last week I briefly freelanced at Gyro. It was one of the biggest agencies I've worked at, kind of sweatshop like, but no surprises there.
Here's that one off thing I did for the US company I mentioned last week (click on the image to see it larger):
Supposedly one of those Ts would retail at 300 USD. Eek!
***
Play:
Two young PhDs. Stephen and his friend Yunshan from Cambridge came over to London for the weekend. Stephan and I went to the same high school in Auckland, hadn't seen him in 4 years.
Chinatown
By the way, I have to say, London Chinatown kicks NYC Chinatown's ass! Its half the size of the one in NY, but the food here is 100 times better, and its MUCH cleaner (no fish market dumping goo-y stuff on the sidewalk!). Still doesn't beat the San Fransisco one though.
Buckingham Palace
St James Park
Dress is Catherine Malandrino.
For dinner we went to Tamarai. Now this place reminds me of Lotus in NY. They both have the lotus theme, both serve pan-Asian fusion food, both act as a restaurant/bar/club combo, both have cocky waiters etc... But the food at Tamarai was impressive, especially the starters. We were seated at the lounge right infront of the DJ booth which gave us almost full view of the place. I give it a 7/10. -1 point for the maitre-d who kept taking our menu away from us, -2 for not being able to give me my usual after-dinner White Russian – supposedly because it takes too long to make as it was clubbing time and too many people were at the bar! So I ordered a Mojito instead...(which takes longer to make than a White Russian! What was that all about?!)
Dress is Nanette Lepore.
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The previous weekend, Toshi came to visit from NY. Toshi is a graphic designer but his real passion is in beats and DJing. We took a day tour to Stonehenge and Bath. The Stonehenge was really kind of underwhelming... Bath was nice, its this little Roman architectural styled city with natural hot springs where the wealthy used to go and bathe. Also home to Bath University where Edith went to school! The whole city is built with limestone so all the buildings are this monochromatic yellow-ish color. The weather got cloudy and rather gloomy the second half of the day, nonetheless, great to get away from the city for a day.
At some lousy bar near Leicester Sq, joined by Daniel (see previous post).
With Toshi's friend Sayaka
More pictures on my flickr.
***
Cut&Paste London is next weekend. Looking forward to that.
***
Damn, this song is good (video too):
Apologize by One Republic. The video was made by this guy.
posted by Alice at
10:54 PM
7 Comments:
Hi !!
These are nice pictures!
I wish I had more time to explore UK.
Nice! hope you had fun!!
Looks like you are enjoying yourself in UK!! Wish i can join you next time!
Wow the pictures on your website look so good!
Hey nice blog Alice and your website looks great, it has a very personal touch. thanks for the shout out. You are very talented and i have no doubt you will be a huge success in the future. Keep up the good work and if i can get the time away from work this weekend i will see you at Cut and Paste. Speak to you soon
wow, you have such a great time there!!!!
stephen must be so happy, surrounded by 2 pretty girls haha.
The weather is great there, not as bad as i always heard about eh~
Beautiful, glamorous and extremely talented. Thank you for adding a touch of class to the hurly burly of the internet. Awesome.
Nice design work.
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