5 things make a post, DC edition
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learnteachTwice for Luck! Bonus Smithsonian things!
1. Injury mostly healed. But DC heat and walking? Yep, I can feel that injury.
2. Good Lord there are a lot of guns around here. Security, concealed, cannons on monuments...guns!
3. I love learning in museums. See below.
4. The dress style is different here. And there's a LOT of power wear, which I don't get as a left coaster technohippie.
5. Seeing friends, relatives, and being able to help Rex and Mom see relatives and museums is a huge win.
BONUS SMITHSONIAN FINDS!
1. Abraham Lincoln had a patent. Didn't try to manufacture it. http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/exhibition.cfm?key=38&exkey=1210
2. Thomas A. Edison? Built an electric railway on his property. Distributed notebooks all over the studios (to prove provenance of ideas, in part.) And sent many, many of his colleagues out on international missions. The first successful lightbulb fiber was bamboo from near Kyoto. http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/edison/ He worked on cement furniture!
3. Smithsonian American Art http://americanart.si.edu/ has a room of victorian marble boobs. That is, mythical/biblical female figures as white marble statues from the 18th century. Mostly naked chested. But it's ART!
4. In the same building is the National Gallery. Not as good as England's, but still fascinating. They have the original "Hope" collage which is amazing in person--it's a collage with spraypaint icon, and Andrey the Giant is in the craft paper--http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/07/obamas-hope-portrait-head_n_156046.html
The Presidential portraits are fascinating. Much to learn there.
5. Air and Space? No space, too crowded. Natural History? Naturally packed. THe sculpture gardens? Much better sculpture, in general, at Burning Man.
That's it, although the brain spins on...
1. Injury mostly healed. But DC heat and walking? Yep, I can feel that injury.
2. Good Lord there are a lot of guns around here. Security, concealed, cannons on monuments...guns!
3. I love learning in museums. See below.
4. The dress style is different here. And there's a LOT of power wear, which I don't get as a left coaster technohippie.
5. Seeing friends, relatives, and being able to help Rex and Mom see relatives and museums is a huge win.
BONUS SMITHSONIAN FINDS!
1. Abraham Lincoln had a patent. Didn't try to manufacture it. http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/exhibition.cfm?key=38&exkey=1210
2. Thomas A. Edison? Built an electric railway on his property. Distributed notebooks all over the studios (to prove provenance of ideas, in part.) And sent many, many of his colleagues out on international missions. The first successful lightbulb fiber was bamboo from near Kyoto. http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/edison/ He worked on cement furniture!
3. Smithsonian American Art http://americanart.si.edu/ has a room of victorian marble boobs. That is, mythical/biblical female figures as white marble statues from the 18th century. Mostly naked chested. But it's ART!
4. In the same building is the National Gallery. Not as good as England's, but still fascinating. They have the original "Hope" collage which is amazing in person--it's a collage with spraypaint icon, and Andrey the Giant is in the craft paper--http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/07/obamas-hope-portrait-head_n_156046.html
The Presidential portraits are fascinating. Much to learn there.
5. Air and Space? No space, too crowded. Natural History? Naturally packed. THe sculpture gardens? Much better sculpture, in general, at Burning Man.
That's it, although the brain spins on...
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Date: 2009-08-13 11:42 pm (UTC)Yay learning!
Yay family!
Yay :-)
I love museum hopping on the Mall
Date: 2009-08-14 03:40 am (UTC)The National Gallery actually takes up two buildings. Always worth a visit and often has some terrific exhibitions on.
The new National Museum of the American Indian blew my socks off when I visited the last time I was back east.