Jillian and I went to the Powerhouse today to see the World Press Photo exhibit of award-winning photographs from 2010. There were some very powerful and disturbing images, depicting some of the tragedies of 2010 - Haiti earthquake, Floods in Pakistan, stampeding crowds at the Love Fest etc. In fact, most were quite visually disturbing and because they wanted to black off those photographs for an audience of 15+, they were all grouped together. I've never really noticed the importance of gallery layout before, but this one was noticeably not very good. Some of the captions were in the corners, meaning you would have to block another photograph to read it, spacially people were constantly bumping into each other or in the way. It was quite cumbersome. Again, with all of the most graphically disturbing clumped into one room, the others were spread along hallway walls upstairs and next to the cafe, making them seem less important. In fact, Jillian brought up a good point that the show and in fact all of the contest photos seemed to be dominated by negative things. Where are the uplifting, positive influential images?!
Afterwards, we took the city cat back to the CBD and ate breakfast at the Pancake Manor. We had both only been there once, and now I know why. I like the idea of it better than the food. Oh well.
Back at home, I took a nap while Jillian began to pack up all of her stuff. This evening was supposed to be the opening of the Winter Wonderland in King George Square, complete with ice skating! Jillian and I really wanted to go, but I guess they weren't quite finished with it, so they pushed it back to open the next day. No harm. Jillian and I have lots of booze to finish before we leave at home, so we put a big dent in our Capt Morgan and I watched a movie..
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