Dear World,
The other week, the staff at Somerset House got given free tickets to the Tiffany's Ice Skating rink! I gave my +1 ticket to Chloe, a close friend from University. I was excited and terrified at the thought of ice skating...and decided that I would definitively 'do a Bambi' and fall on my back underneath an array of limbs and frowns.
In the morning I worked for 4 hours in Somerset House's Dazed and Confused Exhibition:
I recommend this show to everybody over the age of 16. There is some amazing photography by Rankin and some absolutely exciting 'GCSE' work by the famous Jake and Dinos Chapman! It is my job to protect and love these art works- which is no big drama to me seeing as I love them so much! I got an A at GCSE art but their work is OFF THE HOOK and they must have got some excellent grade that doesn't even exist in this world yet.
I recommend this gallery to 'over 16s' only due to the explicit and controversial nature of Dazed and Confused. As regular readers will already be aware, the magazine features lots of sexual imagery, drug references and beautiful but explicitly directed photographs and artworks. There are a few naughty photos in the exhibition that both excite and shock people. I have written down visitor responses to a particular photograph by Rankin, featuring the people who work at the Dazed and Confused HQ, naked!
Here are a few of the aforementioned responses:
'Goodness gracious granddad! Look at these rude photographs!!'
'Look mummy, they don't have clothes on and they are climbing each other.'
'This exhibition has already exceeded my expectations. Rankin is a shock-genius.'
'This exhibition makes me feel uncomfortable and turned on.'
As you can see, the life of a gallery assistant can be extremely amusing! I got interviewed by three girls from the London College of Fashion the other day. They wanted to know how the magazine has developed over the last 10 years, whether I thought is was to be considered 'mainstream' and also my opinions on Rankin and Jefferson Hack! They recorded me on a couple of iPhones and it is exciting to know that my opinions may end up in some 3rd year dissertations!
ICE SKATING: 19th November 2011: Notes from my Moleskine!
'Tonight was spectacular. I went ice skating with 6 girls and it was the single most exhilarating night I have had in MONTHS!!!! At one point, Chloe and I left the edge of the rink and braved it into the middle of the ice rink. I had a sudden urge to mention a certain guy I had been dreaming about for months. The speech soon ended when a guy and girl, hand in hand, came zooming towards us at 100MPH. I tried to do a suave 'dancing on ice' swerve at the very last minute but I ended up on the icy floor, dragging Chloe down with me. Mega cringe. My jeans were soaked and my ice street cred in tatters.
20 minutes and 500 embarrassing photos later, one of the Somerset House girls spots the most beautiful office hunk sitting in the window on the 3rd floor, over looking the ice rink. She screams his name and we all find ourselves 'ducking down' on ice to avoid him knowing that we ALL have a massive crush on him. We caused a huge ruckus as so many 'railing clingers' ended up falling over whilst trying to skate around our secret hiding area! He obviously has the advantage of being 3 floors up and spots us skating in 'cringe mode', knowing our secret was out. There is no way to escape a man so high up.'
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| Somerset House Ice Rink sponsored by Tiffanys |
After ice skating, we headed to Caffe Nero for hot chocolates and chats about art, men, Christmas plans, winter gossip, Dazed and Confused, TV and London life. I revealed the ending of Made in Chelsea and made everyone smile and we all walked off in our separate directions, safe in the knowledge that we were basically the new generation of Sex and the City.
XOXO
