Tallinn

Just spent a couple days in the beautiful city of Tallinn.

http://www.tourism.tallinn.ee/

http://www.tallinn.info/flash/

Really charming city with such a mixture of architectural styles. Definitely worth a visit.

The House of Viktor & Rolf Exhibit 18 June 2008 - 21 September 2008

http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=7272

The Fashion Department have been raving about this exhibition!

Libraries of Light: Photographic Books from the V&A Collection

http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/libraries_light/index.html

Display in room 38a, 24 April 2008 - 19 April 2009. Admission free

Unseen Hands - 100 Years of Structural Engineering

http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/architecture/unseen_hands/index.html

Marking the centenary of the founding of the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE), this exhibition celebrates the importance of engineering in creating some of the most iconic buildings of the past 100 years.

Free exhibition

The Supremes Exhibit at V & A

http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/exhibition_supremes/index.html

I went to this exhibit at the weekend. It is well worth a visit - not only to see the fabulous costumes but also to find out about the social context.

Iniva - Institute of International Visual Arts

http://www.iniva.org/

Ecletic mix of exhibits. Including:

Year 7 students worked with artists Jeremy Wood and Agnes Poitevin-Navarre to produce Personal Cartographies, part of Iniva's Mapping Beyond exhibition series at Rivington Place.
The students explored their personal geographies and history through a series of discussions and exercises with the artists.
They mapped their everyday activities, located family connections to national boundaries, thought about their tastes, hobbies, passions, their family roots and how the ethnicity of their friends is perceived.

And

13 Jun – 27 Jul 2008The first solo exhibition in the UK by Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz – a powerful body of work selected from the last ten years that evokes memory and loss to compelling and seductive effect.

Africa Beyond - Artist Residencies Panel Discussion June 26th

http://www.iniva.org/events/what_s_on/artist_residencies

Concluding their residencies in London, Andrew Esiebo, Goddy Leye and Mahmoud Khaled join Mia Jankowicz, Residencies Curator at Gasworks. Their discussion will explore the institutional, ethical and cultural issues raised by their various experiences and working approaches to international artist residencies

Street and Studio: An Urban History of Photography

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/streetandstudio/

I attend the above show on Saturday. Very impressive range of work but perhaps too large and varied to form one exhibit.

My favourite part was looking at the very old 19th century photographs and seeing faces that you would see on the streets today. It brought the exhibit to life for me.

Connections

I am in the process of emailing all lecturers so that we can have brief face to face meetingd and perhaps discuss some of your library needs for the coming semester. I am more than happy to come over to your office but free feel to say hallo, next time you are in the library. It really helps to put some faces to the staff list!

Fashion website

http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/home

Polyvore lets you mix and match images from anywhere on the web, to create outfits, interior designs, or any kind of collage.

Catwalk Queen

Catwalk Queen, Shiny Media’s flagship fashion blog, provides readers with daily fashion news, reviews, catwalk reports, celebrity features and product picks, all delivered with a big dose of fun. From live coverage of the Oscars to videos of new high street bargains, the Catwalk Queen team are there to be your own personal stylist!

http://www.catwalkqueen.tv/

Graduate Fashion Week

http://www.gfw.org.uk/

I am really looking forward to attending the UEL catwalk show for Graduate Fashion Week tonight. UEL student Kelly Shaw's design has pride of place on the homepage.

Library Research Day

Just a thank you to all who attended the Library Research Day on Tuesday. It was a great success and will definitely be repeated. I will let you know when all the materials are available online.