Reflexion - the 'best' of 2008

Having been looking back to 2008 and wondering what has been best for me – what have I enjoyed the most – here goes – my list of bests for 2008:

Best films at the cinema – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Mermaid, The boy in the striped pyjamas - (I'll never forget that closing scene in the last one)
Best DVD’s – Three Colours Blue, Dead Man, The Quay Brothers
Best experimental film events – Bradley Eros at Camden Arts Centre with no.w.here film collective, Ken Jacobs at Tate Modern
Best reading – Eva Hesse by Lucy Lippard, The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard, The summer book by Tove Jansson
Best exhibition – Artes Mundi at The National Museum, Cardiff
Best art installation – ‘Shibboleth’ Doris Salcedo in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern
Best travel experience – visiting Bangladesh – so many wonderful experiences like riding in a rickshaw, new tastes, smiley people etc etc
Best travel photo I took – this one below which looks like it could be biblical times and not today – Washing up in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Best fun time – WOMAD, Charlton Park
Best listening – Rachid Taha
Best food – too many to list – I just love food!
Best smell – chimmey smoke from a log fire and bluebells
Best relaxing time – spent with my good friend Maggi in her idyllic Welsh cottage in Snowdonia National Park
Best art work produced – my short film ‘After Mology Nagy’
Best learning – black and white photography short course which has opened my eyes to new possibilities and seeing differently!
Best new discovery – the blogging community