The show started today at the serpentine -
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Planning on taking nephew maybe November.
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Loving the look of panic as she realises the commitment required.
You mean I can’t just have the painting?
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I wonder if the had to cut a hole in the floor to get it in there 
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Respeck.
The frame here is an interesting thing- WE had something much the same - It was used for various trials / Before more permanent fixings etc - Thing is there’s only one image of it and no surviving example of one - so it had to be made - I love the striving here, it’s nuts, but it’s worth it.
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Booked for 26th with @coco
Already in town for a gig so fits in well.
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Yes, a good effort at reproducing this.
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Two of my favourite things - music through exotic sound systems and paintings.
Art
It looks like the whole thing has gone way over their heads.
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Aye, that’s the stuff.
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We’re these ones used to kit out cinemas as talkies replaced silent movies?
The 16A in situ was first released in 1929
Talkies started in 1927. I’m never quite sure how the sound for those was synched to the pictures though. Discs I assume. I don’t think they were recording to magnetic tape at that time. Still, must have seemed miraculous.
Makes you wonder what those original WE designers would make of it now. Also, just how many cinemas would have scrapped the originals as they were replaced by more compact systems and amps, doesn’t bare thinking about.
They’d (mostly correctly) think most audiophiles are morons.
I can imagine their opinion on cables.
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Extended blind listening tests between rubber and gutta percha insulation.
Most cinema kit was leased not owned - when the flicks went bust due to the advent of the tv, WE engineers would often go into the building and sabotage all the kit rather than take it away (too heavy / awkward) a boot through the drivers, smash a few valves and trash the internals - job done 
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I thought it was the clapper board that was used to sync the sound so they could align the audio disc to the film during playback but guess that was later.
