Krispy Kreams

I recently went to Selfridges in Birmingham with a friend. She insisted that we got some Krispy Kream doughnuts. Im not a big fan of doughnuts, however when we got there it was like a doughnut museum. The little rings of dough are travelling along a conveyer belt of activity until they arrive in a box ready for you to eat, although this is obviously how all doughnuts are made it was fascinating to see it in action. Before I new it I was buying 12! It just shows how good basic advertising and marketing can draw in origonally untempted consumers! The image also reminded me of the recent skoda advert.

The Ashmolean

The Ashmolean museam in Oxford really fascinated me, it was unlike any art gallery or museam I had been to before. Initially I thought that it was much like the Natural History Museam in London, with large open rooms containing fossils and stuffed animals. However at the rear of the museam is a large door with huge locks to secure it, as you walk through the door it is like entering a time capsule. There are mazes of glass cases with artifacts from around the world stored inside, some are quite shocking but intriguing, such as the shrunken heads from Ecuador and Peru. All of these rather spooky and unusual pieces add to the unsettling feeling that the museam breathes into its visitors. I truley recommend a visit to this museam, the whole atmosphere is not sterile like some art galleries, allowing you to enter into the feeling of being and intrepid explorer rather than purely the viewer of someone elses discovery.