Want to Go to There

Star Wars Identities

The name itself has caught your attention, right? What does it even mean? Does it mean I can go back in time and be a part of Empire Strikes Back?????????

No.

But! It is a traveling exhibition that dives into the psyches of all our favorite characters.

The website for the exhibition describes it with the following lovely bullet points.

• A vast collection of Star Wars props, costumes, models, and artwork from the Lucasfilm Archives, including iconic items like Darth Vader’s costume, the Millennium Falcon model, and Anakin’s full-sized Podracer.
• An insightful investigation into the sciences of identity, developed by the Montréal Science Centre and a committee of scientific advisers, shedding light on what can make fictional characters who they are and what makes you you.
• An interactive Identity Quest inviting you to create your own unique and personalizedStar Wars hero.
• Behind the scenes insight into the creation of the characters of Star Wars and fun facts from the movie-making process.

 You wanna go, don't you? It's in Montreal from April 19, 2012 through September 16, 2012 and then in Edmonton from October 27, 2012 until I don't know when because the website doesn't say. Further research it you will!

Want to Go To There

I have a trip to the UK coming up, and I'm friggin' stoked! I've never been before, and I'm lucky enough to have some natives showing me around while I photograph EVERYTHING and force them order more fish and chips than they've ever eaten in their entire lives.

I'm going to see Buckingham Palace and Covent Garden and Piccadilly Circus and the Tower Bridge and Abbey Road and Windsor Castle and the Tate and the other Tate and maybe Catherine Tate!

But of course, there's one thing that no Whovian should skip!

"The Doctor Who Experience?" you ask. Because of its Daleks, Sontarans, and Weeping Angels???

No. That's for tourists.

BUT THERE'S ONLY ONE BLUE POLICE BOX LEFT IN LONDON! So that is my "I want to go to there." It's by the Earl's Court tube station, and having never been to London, I have no idea what that means, but I WILL find it!

If an alien pops out of it, though, I am more likely to scream than to go time/space traveling...