MoMA…? Yeah…
I’ve got pictures of that.
So when I went to MoMA (the first time) the Tim Burton exhibit was still going on. It was awesome but there were no pictures allowed in it so I just took a few pics of the random stuff outside the exhibit…and then a couple hundred of all the rest of the museum.
…a giant inflatable whatever-that-is.
“Hey, which way to the Tim Bur—-oh…never mind”
This is how you get in. All along the wall once inside are screens showing animated shorts that Tim Burton did.
After walking through the creepy hallway thing you get a chance to see the evolution of Tim Burton. The exhibit was full of drawings and whatnot from his whole life. I guess he must have kept everything or something because there were things he did when he was really young. Then, of course, they had stuff there from his movies like Nightmare Before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow, Mars Attacks, Sweeney Todd, Edward Scissorhands…you know them all. There was stuff there, like, a two foot tall Oogie Boogie sculpture, hundreds of sketches and paintings, the life-sized batman cowls, the suit from Edward Scissorhands, heads from Mars Attacks, foot tall sculptures of almost every character from Corpse Bride…the cape from the Headless Horseman from Sleepy Hollow, Alice in Wonderland sketches…26 different heads for Jack from Nightmare Before Christmas…etc, etc…it was pretty sweet.
So what else does the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) have…? A little bit of everything…
“Okay…who farted?” I think its the one in the back smirking…everyone else looks relatively uncomfortable. She seems almost pleased with herself.
Made by bees…no, really, there’s a video that shows them making it.
Oh, good…you can read this (I hope) so I don’t have to type it all in. This was really a phenomenally interesting piece. You can touch the floating balloons and there was music that went along with it and whatnot…really pretty interesting - all the social interaction. This is for the next few pics…
it was like the exhibit was an interactive display of interactions…pretty meta…heh
There’s a “raining” effect on right now. You can actually change the weather that the balloons drift through…anyway, I have a feeling that this won’t come across nearly as interesting as it was in person…
Here, we’ll end with this epic sentiment:
Right on, brother!…Action!
Anyway, that’s all for now. I’ll try to put up more MoMA adventures tomorrow - although I also hope to meet Jeremy Scahill tomorrow at a thing downtown so we’ll see. Oh, as for work - it’s pretty ridiculously busy. DPRK and Iran are both going full force and there’s still all the normal sanctions regimes to keep up with as well as the upcoming GAO visit to the Mission (which I had to organize - yeah, me plan something…wtf, right?). All for now, time to iron.
