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This is the local conservatory near my house. I go there in the winter to breathe fresh warm air and also to write in peace. I usually write in the palm or fern room. This is the sunken garden, full of flowers and a long pond with Koi. Sometime a friend and I go there to secretly feed them very fancy koi food and they jump out of the water for it, while we look nonchalantly at a plant nearby.
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No picture today, just a link.
Went to the musuem today and saw Crossing the Channel, British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism:
http://www.artsmia.org/crossing-the-channel/ .
My impressions: overall very good, but too many shipwrecks and horses! lots of propaganda. Some really cute kid paintings though. The key piece was a copy of Gericault's Raft of the Medusa, painted 3 yrs after the original. The original used some unstable paints, I guess, so the copy was made.
Anyway, it was huge, bigger than my livingroom-16x23 feet. I asked how they transported it. Turns out they unframe and roll it up, I looked on the sides, the part that is attached to the frame, and it had hundreds of holes left over from all the times it has been exhibited over the years since 1822!
Went to the musuem today and saw Crossing the Channel, British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism:
http://www.artsmia.org/crossing-the-channel/ .
My impressions: overall very good, but too many shipwrecks and horses! lots of propaganda. Some really cute kid paintings though. The key piece was a copy of Gericault's Raft of the Medusa, painted 3 yrs after the original. The original used some unstable paints, I guess, so the copy was made.
Anyway, it was huge, bigger than my livingroom-16x23 feet. I asked how they transported it. Turns out they unframe and roll it up, I looked on the sides, the part that is attached to the frame, and it had hundreds of holes left over from all the times it has been exhibited over the years since 1822!
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Noor said:
I enjoyed the sounds here (not much use online though!)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/janetcardiff/
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systeman said:
it is a shame they don't put some of the voices on line. I would very much like to experience that exhibit. Maybe next year I can.
There are chinese period rooms here that were brought in there entirity, including floors, the exterior walls and roof.
When you first walk through this room there is a particular smell, not unpleasant just very different from others:
http://www.artsmia.org/uia-bin/uia_doc.cgi/query/1?uf=uia_WJNVEc
I was told is it the smell of a wood that no longer exists.
There is also a wall of doors with little translucent pieces of mother of pearl stuck in the lattice work so light can come in.
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place with smells in the exhibition (again not much use online!) is the Yorvik Centre - showing excavations of the Viking settlement in what is now York.
http://www.jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk/
place with smells in the exhibition (again not much use online!) is the Yorvik Centre - showing excavations of the Viking settlement in what is now York.
http://www.jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk/
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Haven't been there either.
I remember a bomb shelter "experience" at the imperial war musuem, that had smells, temps and even particles in the air after you emerged from the shelter when the all clear sounded and you could see, feel and smell the bombing of London.
Also at Epcot Center, which is Disney, in Orlando Florida there was a ride where you go back in time and you can see and feel the prehistoric swamps.
systeman said:
Haven't been there either.
I remember a bomb shelter "experience" at the imperial war musuem, that had smells, temps and even particles in the air after you emerged from the shelter when the all clear sounded and you could see, feel and smell the bombing of London.
Also at Epcot Center, which is Disney, in Orlando Florida there was a ride where you go back in time and you can see and feel the prehistoric swamps.
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There was a pretty entertaining bra unhooking contest going on in the kitchen. The teenage children of the participants were not as amused.
Tinkerbell took 30 secs to unhook his own bra, most of the women about 3, a male software pirate did it in 8 secs, I just laughed a lot and took pictures. I hate bras anyway.
Tinkerbell took 30 secs to unhook his own bra, most of the women about 3, a male software pirate did it in 8 secs, I just laughed a lot and took pictures. I hate bras anyway.
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Going to a concert of these guys for my birthday:
flash/Belladonna
I was just looking at their site and I realized I know that pipa player on their last album, small world...
flash/Belladonna
I was just looking at their site and I realized I know that pipa player on their last album, small world...
