The bread and my mom!
August 10, 2012
South Street Seaport Museum
When my brother and mother came to visit last week, we went to the South Street Seaport Museum near Wall Street.
This is a picture of one of the displays: tools associated with the history of the port. My brother loved looking at the old tools, but the way they were displayed is what excited me. They were laid out on a flat piece of wood that took up the entire room then tilted slightly. So creative and much better then looking at them hanging on a wall or behind glass cases!
New Camera Lens
When you come across places like this in the city, you have to take minute and appreciate the fact that someone cared enough to create a park instead of a high-rise. This is a picture of a small oasis of birch trees in Long Island City. (My kids gave me a new fish-eye lens for my iPhone!)
More Anthropology Display Art
All of these are simple paper mache. LOVE THEM! If they go on sale next month, do you think I will be able to resist?
Cacti in New York
In Rockefeller Center there is an Anthropology Store, and it is absolutely beautiful! It's like a painting everywhere you look. I was there a month ago when they had decorated the place with paper mache cacti. Oh, how I wanted them for my very own!
So, I decided to try to make them. That didn't work out so well.
Last week I went into the Anthropology Store again just to enjoy the decor, and the cacti were gone! I asked an employee about them, and she said, "Oh! They're right over here." I learned that this particular store has its own in-house design team of 12 artists who come to work and make art for displays every day, and they sometimes sell them when they're done.
Here are the ones I brought home. They were filled with sand, so I barely made it without collapsing. (Yes, I took the subway.) I got lots of strange looks and some smiles. . . a rare thing in the subway. If you're wondering, $20 each! They are BIG, the largest one is 3 feet tall.
So, I decided to try to make them. That didn't work out so well.
Last week I went into the Anthropology Store again just to enjoy the decor, and the cacti were gone! I asked an employee about them, and she said, "Oh! They're right over here." I learned that this particular store has its own in-house design team of 12 artists who come to work and make art for displays every day, and they sometimes sell them when they're done.
Here are the ones I brought home. They were filled with sand, so I barely made it without collapsing. (Yes, I took the subway.) I got lots of strange looks and some smiles. . . a rare thing in the subway. If you're wondering, $20 each! They are BIG, the largest one is 3 feet tall.
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