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16
Feb
2008
Weapons of Mass Communication
Met up with Beanie for a day out in iceberg lettuce cold London. On my way over to his house, I found some more great visual texture.
Soon we hatched a plan to go check out an exhibit at the Imperial War Museum. On the way there, I noticed a Honda billboard up the road. Sure enough it was a bit of Beanies work. Beanie has been Mr. Honda for the past year at WK. Lots of good work that has not only thoroughly pleased the client, but also garnered recognition from design mags and annuals. Good job dude.
The Imperial War Museum is deceptively large. Of course, at first impression it is grand in it’s scale since they have full size planes hanging from the ceiling as if they were toys. It was the depth of all of the exhibits here that was exhausting.
Unlike every other museum in London, taking pictures here was cool with security. Only the main exhibitions were camera free. We made our way upstairs to the poster exhibit, Weapons of Mass Communication. An exhibit that had a lot of pieces that spanned at least the last 100 years of war propaganda from all over the world.
Down in the basement of the place was all kinds of stuff. Portraits of the biggest political villians ever like Adolf below. To tools of the trade. Uniforms, all kinds of guns and weapons, exhibits about D-Day, the bombings of London in 1914, what it was like in the trenches, video history from the gulf war, and bombings by the IRA. It’s all here and done in a way that is not morbid or morose. There were a lot of 10 year old boys running around the place.
Models of massive ships.
These are signs that would be found in the trenches.
After several hours here, we made our way to the Southbank Centre. Free Music concerts and other exhibitions.
Right outside was a great skate park. 
Below is Magma books. Great place for design books and eye candy. 
This is from the 14th floor of some hotel near Oxford circus.
A long day with a great catch-up with an old mate. I was knackered by the end of it. Time to get some sleep because tomorrow I am heading to another airport. London Gatwick to Barcelona.
16
Feb
2008
lastnightspissup
Friday marked my last day of work at Wieden+Kennedy London. Amazing how fast time has flown by. When in Rome, one would eat grapes and probably stand around naked posing for a neoclassical sculpture. Well, we are not in Rome. We’re in London. In London, we take piss in our drinks, or go get pissed, or just drink piss. You can get piss at the take away or bring your piss in a bottle. Jesus, where’s the loo?
Tony Davidson, ECD of Wieden’s, showed up and started taking drink orders. All of a sudden things got desperate.
