torsdag 23. september 2010
Slik kan det gjøres
Denne bloggeren har ved tidligere anledninger ytret seg om hvordan man kan tenke nytt omkring utforming av museer og historiske utstillinger (her, her og her).
I London markerer man i disse dager at det er 70 år siden The Blitz, den intensive bombingen høsten 1940. London ble bombet i 76 sammenhengende netter!
Og det er her jeg blir imponert.
Den gamle nedlagte tube-stasjonen Aldwych Station spilte en sentral rolle som tilfluktsrom under blitzen. Stasjonen het opprinnelig Strand og ble stengt for godt i 1994. Etter det har den vært en kjærkommen "location" for filminnspillinger, f.eks. filmatiseringen av Atonement.
Avisen Telegraph.co.uk skriver om hva kreative museumsfolk har gjort med markeringen av at det er 70 år siden Londons befolkning søkte ly for bomberegnet. De har ganske enkelt "gjenåpnet" den stengte stasjonen som et museum. Her har de fått kjørt på plass autentisk 30-talls tube-vogner og restaurert gamle plakater, skilt og øvrig interiør.
Dette er i seg selv imponerende, men rosinen i pølsa må vel være at de også har "bemannet" stasjonen med skuespillere som, i tidsriktige klær, gjenskaper atmosfære og situasjoner!
Så til den dårlige nyheten:
Billettene er utsolgt............
Anyway - history matters!
onsdag 15. september 2010
Kulturforskjeller!
Kulturforskjeller er interessante saker. En vil alltid kunne innvende at slike stereotype fremstillinger er misvisende.
Men - du verden hvor lette de er å nikke gjenkjennende til!
Som denne:
Cultural Differences - explained:
On a chain of beautiful deserted islands in the middle of South Pacific, the following people are stranded:
* Two Italian men and one Italian woman.
* Two French men and one French woman.
* Two German men and one German woman.
* Two Greek men and one Greek woman.
* Two British men and one British woman.
* Two Bulgarian men and one Bulgarian woman.
* Two Japanese men and one Japanese woman.
* Two Chinese men and one Chinese woman.
* Two Irish men and one Irish woman.
* Two American men and one American woman.
One month later, on these absolutely stunning, deserted islands in the middle of nowhere, the following things have occurred:
* One Italian man killed the other Italian man for the Italian woman.
* The two French men and the French woman are living happily together in a "ménage à trois".
* The two German men have a strict weekly schedule of alternating visits with the German woman.
* The two Greek men are sleeping together and the Greek woman is cooking and cleaning for them.
* The two British men are waiting for someone to introduce them to the British woman.
* The two Bulgarian men took one look at the Bulgarian woman and started swimming to another island.
* The two Japanese have faxed Tokyo and are awaiting instructions.
* The two Chinese men have set up a pharmacy, liquor store, restaurant, and laundry, and have gotten the woman pregnant in order to supply more employees for their stores.
* The two Irish men divided the island into north and south and set up a distillery. They do not remember if sex is in the picture because it gets somewhat foggy after a few pints of coconut whisky.
However, they are satisfied because the British are not having any fun.
* The two American men are contemplating suicide!
This is because the American woman will not shut up and complains relentlessly about her body, the true nature of feminism, what the sun is doing to her skin, how she can do anything they can do, the necessity of fulfillment, the equal division of household chores, how sand and palm trees make her look fat, how her last boyfriend respected her opinion and treated her nicer than they do, and how her relationship with her mother is the root cause of all her problems. Also, she constantly asks why they didn't bring a damn cell phone so they could call 911 and get them all rescued off this forsaken deserted island in the middle of frickin' nowhere so she can get to her nail appointment and go shopping.
Joda - ikke si du ikke kjenner igjen disse!
Men - du verden hvor lette de er å nikke gjenkjennende til!
Som denne:
Cultural Differences - explained:
On a chain of beautiful deserted islands in the middle of South Pacific, the following people are stranded:
* Two Italian men and one Italian woman.
* Two French men and one French woman.
* Two German men and one German woman.
* Two Greek men and one Greek woman.
* Two British men and one British woman.
* Two Bulgarian men and one Bulgarian woman.
* Two Japanese men and one Japanese woman.
* Two Chinese men and one Chinese woman.
* Two Irish men and one Irish woman.
* Two American men and one American woman.
One month later, on these absolutely stunning, deserted islands in the middle of nowhere, the following things have occurred:
* One Italian man killed the other Italian man for the Italian woman.
* The two French men and the French woman are living happily together in a "ménage à trois".
* The two German men have a strict weekly schedule of alternating visits with the German woman.
* The two Greek men are sleeping together and the Greek woman is cooking and cleaning for them.
* The two British men are waiting for someone to introduce them to the British woman.
* The two Bulgarian men took one look at the Bulgarian woman and started swimming to another island.
* The two Japanese have faxed Tokyo and are awaiting instructions.
* The two Chinese men have set up a pharmacy, liquor store, restaurant, and laundry, and have gotten the woman pregnant in order to supply more employees for their stores.
* The two Irish men divided the island into north and south and set up a distillery. They do not remember if sex is in the picture because it gets somewhat foggy after a few pints of coconut whisky.
However, they are satisfied because the British are not having any fun.
* The two American men are contemplating suicide!
This is because the American woman will not shut up and complains relentlessly about her body, the true nature of feminism, what the sun is doing to her skin, how she can do anything they can do, the necessity of fulfillment, the equal division of household chores, how sand and palm trees make her look fat, how her last boyfriend respected her opinion and treated her nicer than they do, and how her relationship with her mother is the root cause of all her problems. Also, she constantly asks why they didn't bring a damn cell phone so they could call 911 and get them all rescued off this forsaken deserted island in the middle of frickin' nowhere so she can get to her nail appointment and go shopping.
Joda - ikke si du ikke kjenner igjen disse!
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