London Trip

Back in February we went on a field trip to London and payed a visit to it's British Museum. Me and my peers were walking around the Museum for quite a while before we caught up with Rob and the lot at the actual thing we were actually supposed to look at. And the things we were supposed to look at looked quite good.

Now, for me what was more interesting rather than the game was the craftsmanship of the pieces, they all looked really good! I am somewhat of an artist but it's still not often that I start getting worked up about some little statues, but still this is my sort of thing. Screw all the massive sculptures that are obviously a little impressive. It's the small things that matter, the hand must be crazy steady to add a lot of detail to something that small.

Working on a big canvas with small tools is always easier but working with small tools on a small canvas is so much harder, this is what art should look like. Not like that weird modern “Art” where it's just a picture of the loo and it's labelled something stupid like “Impressionistic everyday items.”, I refuse to believe that a toilet is a piece of art. Well, at one point it might have been artistic, but now it's just somewhere you defecate.

Anyway... I gone of track a little bit. The point of that was that I was really impressed with the little sculptures.

Later we encountered something that we thought could have been game pieces for something like an old version of drafts.

Well... They weren't pieces for a game but they were a part of a cremation ceremony. But they could have been game pieces? You never know, maybe it was some famous guy getting burned with his favourite game stuff? Either way discovering these things was an exciting experience for me.

Unfortunately once we've finished pretending to have sword fights next to the exhibit of swords like really responsible students we got bored and moved on to the museum of Science which was quite fun as well.