BOM (Day 19 of 30)

[nanila]

Today we went into Brum with the kids to have lunch, do a bit of shopping, and visit the Birmingham Open Media gallery (BOM). This was the upstairs bit of the exhibition, which had a couple of games and some very cool videos about tools (haptic baton) and instruments that had been developed for use by disabled artist, or to enable disabled artists (a blind percussionist) to perform with orchestras. Humuhumu, sitting on the bloke's lap, is playing a game that produces music, to which Keiki is dancing.

Comments

[cosmolinguist]

Haptic baton! What a cool idea!

[nanila]

It was so neat to see an orchestra with several blind musicians connected to the conductor through the baton. :)

[cosmolinguist]

That would've been so useful to me when I was in school! I'm so glad people are getting to have that experience now.

[silveradept]

That looks fascinating, and I would definitely want to explore that entire exhibition a lot. A lot a lot.

[nanila]

We were there for much longer than we had planned. It isn't a big space. But the exhibits were very engaging for all of us!

[omnipotent]

Rock on, Keiki! ♥

[nanila]

Oh yeah. He will! \m/

[ironed_orchid]

This looks like a lot of fun.

[nanila]

It was a good afternoon out! BOM was the highlight.

[st_aurafina]

Keiki's got moves!! It sounds like a lot of fun.

[nanila]

Yes, yes he does! It was an excellent interactive exhibition.

[cmcmck]

Brum is always good!

I was also in yesterday for a hair appointment.

[nanila]

It is a very underrated city. :)

Ah, I hope you had a good haircut - sorry we missed an opportunity to meet up!