Science Museum Photo Challenge #20-25

The last 6 photos from my last 6 days!

#20

This is atmosphere! (officially, always with a lower case 'a')

In addition to the Chronophage, I've been doing some work in this gallery, specifically on the 'CIPs' (central information points).

Here are some bonus photos of the specific CIPs I've been evaluating:

They are about argo floats and radiosondes and puddingstone and forminifera and other things with names that are fun to say.

 #21

The ships gallery. With a mezzanine level designed to look like the upper deck of a cruise ship.

Quite creepy after 6pm when all the visitors have left!

#22

The ships gallery has some gorgeous models. This is one of my favourites - the Blair Athole. The real thing was almost 260ft long.

#23

Replica Geissler Tube, 'a glass tube for demonstrating the principles of electrical glow discharge'.

Yes. I had to look that up.

#24

Artwork in the Energy gallery.

Of course I touched it.

#25 

Lights off. Home time!

Science Museum Photo Challenge #6

Toyota's 'i-Unit' concept 'car of the future'.

In the Science Museum's 'Plasticity' gallery.

Science Museum Photo Challenge #2

Here's today's photo!

I walked past a ton of time today on my way to and from the gallery I was doing observation work in. It's a stand alone piece, dedicated to the iPod (obvs) and I just had to take a picture so I could read the whole thing. Every time I was walking by I didn't have the time to stop so I would read one more bit each time I went by - this is a much easier way of doing things!

I have a problem

Ok, so I very recently discovered the Chrome Web Store. Behind the times, I know. Terrible. But my only experience with browser extensions before has been finding items necessary for my sanity, like Adblock, and experimenting with various social network 'helpers' that turn out to be insanely annoying.

Turns out Chrome has this extension lark sorted. Big improvement on the last time I went playing with browser enhancement.

After I installed a nice little selection of 'practical' extensions, namely the gmail, googlecalendar, BBCRadio, bit.ly, share to Twitter, share to Tumblr, Blogger dynamic view and resize window varieties (why did no one tell me about that last one when I was designing interactives?), I turned to the apps section of the web store.

There, I discovered Springpad.

Have you seen Springpad? It's basically a web based facility of digital notebooks, which lets you set up different 'notebooks' (folders) of bookmarks, clippings, tasks and little notes and view them in awesome ways. It's like an organisation nerd's dream. So it's like my dream.

Here's how my Springpad looks now: 

A little empty right now, but how pretty! How organised! I can have all my notes and things to remember and to-dos in one place. Its existence makes me smile.

Look at that browser. All minimalist and organised with all the right bookmarks and useful extensions. The world is good.

I know. I have a problem. This became perfectly clear when I playing with a kid and his lego on Tuesday and I realised that not every 7 year old organised their lego pieces into different boxes and compartments according to colour and shape.

Yeah. I know.