Cardiff Capers Part 3

Day 3 - 24th June 2015 - It's Bigger on the Inside.

Amazingly, I slept last night.  I guess walking miles helps the act of sleep.

This morning after breakfast, I walked to Cardiff Bay.  The area reminded me of both Albert's Dock in Liverpool and also the dock area in Barcelona.  The Wales Millennium Centre seemed very impressive from the outside (I did not enter it).  I visited the Doctor Who Exhibition, purchased a timed admission ticket for 12pm and was informed that today they were very busy owing to a couple of school parties.  You could almost see a couple crying when they heard this.  When I eventually entered the exhibition, the experience began with a little immersive production where the crowds got to walk around and follow the instructions of Peter Capaldi's Doctor and a guide dress as a Gallifreyan.  My moment of stardom involved jumping up and down on a marked area of the floor with several other people in order to escape the Daleks and Skaro.  Once the tour group and I had saved the universe, we were free to look around and take photographs of the exhibits including lots of different versions of the Daleks and Cybermen.  

I left the exhibition and explored Cardiff Bay a little, stumbling upon Ianto Jones' Shrine.  Ianto Jones was a character in 'Torchwood' who died whilst saving the Earth.  The shrine occupies a wall where all sorts of stuff has been attached.  Baudrillard, you were ahead of your time, here is your 'hyperreality' made flesh!  I then walked around looking for somewhere to eat again.  Eventually, I returned to the hotel room with a couple of snacks and resolved to eat out later in a restaurant called 'The Smoke Haus'.  I overate here and I am currently recovering in the hotel room, watching the sun set.

                                                                                             Barry Watt - 24th June 2015.

Some of the inscription on the Wales Millennium Centre.

Ianto's Shrine.

No comment!  Enjoy!

Hands up who wouldn't wear a Cyberman costume as fetish wear?

Everyone loves a Weeping Angel!

Welsh Gull called Sarah.

Afterword.

All references to 'Doctor Who' and 'Torchwood' refer to the BBC programmes and as such, they own the copyright.

Jean Baudrillard was a French philosopher etc who became primarily associated with concepts of Postmodernism.  'Hyperreality' draws upon the idea that it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between reality and fiction.  I can't really recommend any books off of the top of my head at the moment about the subject, but it has been a key concept within popular culture for many years. See for example some of David Cronenberg's films such as 'Existenz'.  The world is a very strange place.

                                                                                                                                           BW.