Cathy's Art Diary

Fun and slightly addictive game on the National Portrait Gallery website, a version of pairs using Tudor and Elizabethan Portraits. I dare you to start playing and you will rapidly not be able to stop and want to beat your previous score. It does get easier the more you play it as the pictures don’t change so you start to remember them better but still it’s fun. You also find yourself shouting “Ah Wolsey” or is that just me? I’ve just found Regency Familiar Faces  too so off to try that!

What can best be described as a happening in Greenwich! When wandering in Greenwich I turned a corner to find a large very thing! It turns out it is called Bloom and describes itself as “an urban toy, a distributed social game and collective “gardening” experience that seeks the engagement of people in order to construct fuzzy BLOOM formations”. Ay the wiser, not sure I am but it was fun. It’s a series of flat pink pieces of plastic which can be clipped together to create firms. The core is put together by designers but then it moves to different sites and passers by join in and add new section or build their own designs. It was lovely to see a family concentrating on putting the bits together, often with the Dad’s having the most fun!