doooo-deee...diddle-oo-de-deeeee-dooooooo...

"It's an interactive installation - the children come in and move the pieces about and create a new arrangement."

It's a sodding play-mat with some toys on.

Grrrrr.

What if the children innocently decided to interact with some of the other pieces in the exhibit? Some of the more friable ceramic and glass objects?

That was just in a wee gallery shop thing too. The actual gallery itself had an actual interactive installation thing where children could amend the positions of the things but they weren't nearly as poncing about it. There was even a bit where actual sunlight made it into the building and illuminated some of the paintings deemed to be robust enough to withstand it besides the piece of stained glass which was the sun's main aim. There was quite a good balance of old and modern too, not surprising when the oldest old can be is less than two centuries old; there were still a few mostly-brown standard-dull-portraits of rich people so they must have started almost as soon as they settled. As always when seeing these you have to wonder if they looked any better when freshly-painted and properly-lit.

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I wonder if New Zealanderers get irritated by the main LotR theme tune, especially when people start involuntarily humming it when confronted with the real landscape? I usually get annoyed by the clichéd music emitted by Scotch McSouvenir shops back in Edinburgh although they do tend to play bag-piped versions of the theme tune from Last of the Mohicans rather than anything actually vaguely Scottish. The only situation in which bagpipes are even slightly permissible is when heard from a very long way away on a misty loch so maybe by the same reasoning the LotR feme choon is permitted to be hummed inside the heads of people looking at fancy hills. It is quite nice to seen the sunsetty-hillstuffs for real though any of the pictures I took don't do them justice, especially when the large blobs of muck on my sensor get in the way. I think films can capture landscapes slightly better than still photography just because they can catch the drifting clouds drifting and can zoom and sweep up and down and demonstrate perspective much better. I try to only take pictures of things after I've spent enough time actually looking at things with my actual eyes rather than spending the entire time with a camera glued to my eyeball and viewing the niceness through it.