ShadowTiger
05-27-2005, 10:21 AM
How often do you go to museums? Do you remember any of them? Are you usually interested in going? Seeing the exhibits?
There are some museums that are just plain amazing. The Hall Of Science in Queens, NY, is just about as interactive as it gets. It's a veritable wonderland of sights, smells, and experiences. Padded foam floors, rubbery walls, ('Cuz you know how those cyclopsi keep flinging small children around when they break out of their cages.) And a LOT to do.
I was recently at the PS1 Museum in Manhatten. No, it had nothing to do with Playstations. It was a public school converted to a Museum, apparently. It's -VERY- heavy on Modern Art. o_o About half of the people there were DDR-girls, and the other half were Stoners. I felt so out of place walking the halls. @_@ It was like a bloody hippie convention. Unisex bathrooms, creaking floors, ... this ... scent, that smelled like they had tried to make some kind of fruit-based jelly, and failed. MISERABLY.
All the art there was so ... odd. I mean, I like modern art, but this was just exceptional. There was a video of this guy walking up to a building, setting up a camera, lens, film, backcanvas, ... and then he just walks away. About 20 seconds later of seeing that same screen, ... this building in the background starts to rumble and just explodes. The film was called "35mm mystery." It was pretty damn cool. It had GREAT mood and music to it. I loved it. It was only 2 minutes long though. :p
They also had a brief clip about this guy in a white shirt and glasses standing in the foreground, facing away from the camera toward a row of fancy houses in a dense thicket of trees, (Yet clearly in a fine upscale neighborhood.) He yells to the houses:
"Everybody, ... pick up your houses, ... and take ... three .. steps .. back! .... ... ... Three .. Steps!"
I loved that guy. I laughed like hell. They had this weird ... blotch of paint in a room, in the shape of a circle, with a large metal cylinder in the center of it. You could see an image of a burning house from the paint's reflection in the cylinder, that followed you around wherever you went. It was so cool. There was this upside down room, where you were walking on the ceiling of a house, dodging lamps and cobwebs, and looking up, you were staring straight down at a dining room with people having supper.
There was this one room where there were at least 20 white animatronic abominable snowmen crammed into a room with disco lights. There was NO SOUND, .. ... just this really EERIE motion with lots of purple and red flashing lights. ... So horribly freaky.
And that was the TAME stuff. Lining the walls, were pieces of art which upon initial inspection, would probably have made you vomit out of sheer displacement of logic. I'm a fairly artsy person, and tried (tried) to get a fair glimpse of what this art was trying to say, .. and after about half an hour of immersion into all of this crazy, abstract, ... totally weird art, it felt like I was totally stoned, with 7 arms, and 14 genders. ... ... I probably was stoned, considering the people there, and what it smelled like. :odd:
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Have you ever been in a museum like that? O_o
There are some museums that are just plain amazing. The Hall Of Science in Queens, NY, is just about as interactive as it gets. It's a veritable wonderland of sights, smells, and experiences. Padded foam floors, rubbery walls, ('Cuz you know how those cyclopsi keep flinging small children around when they break out of their cages.) And a LOT to do.
I was recently at the PS1 Museum in Manhatten. No, it had nothing to do with Playstations. It was a public school converted to a Museum, apparently. It's -VERY- heavy on Modern Art. o_o About half of the people there were DDR-girls, and the other half were Stoners. I felt so out of place walking the halls. @_@ It was like a bloody hippie convention. Unisex bathrooms, creaking floors, ... this ... scent, that smelled like they had tried to make some kind of fruit-based jelly, and failed. MISERABLY.
All the art there was so ... odd. I mean, I like modern art, but this was just exceptional. There was a video of this guy walking up to a building, setting up a camera, lens, film, backcanvas, ... and then he just walks away. About 20 seconds later of seeing that same screen, ... this building in the background starts to rumble and just explodes. The film was called "35mm mystery." It was pretty damn cool. It had GREAT mood and music to it. I loved it. It was only 2 minutes long though. :p
They also had a brief clip about this guy in a white shirt and glasses standing in the foreground, facing away from the camera toward a row of fancy houses in a dense thicket of trees, (Yet clearly in a fine upscale neighborhood.) He yells to the houses:
"Everybody, ... pick up your houses, ... and take ... three .. steps .. back! .... ... ... Three .. Steps!"
I loved that guy. I laughed like hell. They had this weird ... blotch of paint in a room, in the shape of a circle, with a large metal cylinder in the center of it. You could see an image of a burning house from the paint's reflection in the cylinder, that followed you around wherever you went. It was so cool. There was this upside down room, where you were walking on the ceiling of a house, dodging lamps and cobwebs, and looking up, you were staring straight down at a dining room with people having supper.
There was this one room where there were at least 20 white animatronic abominable snowmen crammed into a room with disco lights. There was NO SOUND, .. ... just this really EERIE motion with lots of purple and red flashing lights. ... So horribly freaky.
And that was the TAME stuff. Lining the walls, were pieces of art which upon initial inspection, would probably have made you vomit out of sheer displacement of logic. I'm a fairly artsy person, and tried (tried) to get a fair glimpse of what this art was trying to say, .. and after about half an hour of immersion into all of this crazy, abstract, ... totally weird art, it felt like I was totally stoned, with 7 arms, and 14 genders. ... ... I probably was stoned, considering the people there, and what it smelled like. :odd:
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Have you ever been in a museum like that? O_o