Of liquid walls

I have no excuse! I am not outrageously busy lately or travelling all over Europe… it's just the GOOD WEATHER! (And I think I might be going crazy and calling it good weather because I don't know any better anymore, but I feel like London is such a warm place all of a sudden). There is sun and happiness and British people getting way to excited about 18 degrees Celcius, wearing clothes that barely cover their underwear and flip flops while getting sunburnt. Ahh.. who wants to stay inside and write a blog! I am only human!

Moving on, I was going out for dinner with my friends the other night (and what a warm summer night it was, let me tell you. I only wore a thin sweater and my summer jacket), when I walked into this building:



This gif above shows the worst quality footage of the building that has ever been recorded, but considering the light conditions and the fact that it was my phone I hope you will give me some slack. Be as it may the building was covered in tiny flaps that would move every time the wind blew. Which means that some parts of the building were still and some were moving if there was air moving.

This is what the building looked like, to give you a slightly better impression. It might be hard to tell but this sight in the middle of the night was really impressive! It felt like the walls were made out of water (as you might be able to infer from the gif) and it was really hypnotising! 

I'll try to blog more regularly. For now I will go back to my sunbathing Brits in Holland park.

Psssshhhh

Last week the science museum hosted one of its monthly late nights and as a good scientist I went there with my friends (to be honest, the main reason was that it was my friend's birthday and that the museum's building is physically touching Imperial College grounds…)

Be as it may they had a ton of interesting items and shows and everything that a scientists heart can wish for. We saw exactly NOTHING of all of this though, because we were too busy being cool at the disco in the middle of the big hall. You might wonder how they could set up an annoyingly loud disco in the middle of one of the main halls and you will be relieved to hear that they did not as this was a completely silent disco (yeah, just when you thought I had joined the cool kids club).

I can see why the two concepts of disco and silent might not be the easiest to combine but apparently it's not that unusual. When you enter the restricted disco area (we don't want to have too much fun) you get a pair of headphones that have to channels with different music (unfortunately one of them turned out to be a hardcore drum and base and house channel so that was usually not the best option). All jokes about that being the nerdiest spare time ever aside it was actually quite interesting ( I'm feeling that this was not the best choice of an adjective). We tried to guess what song was playing just from the dance moves of the other people but it is actually harder than you would think, as, without the musical context. most people just looked confused and jiggly.

Not us though!