Just got back from this exhibition on on the Santa Monica Pier, and I can't recommend it enough for anyone within reasonable driving distance.The Nomadic Museum, designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, is constructed of the 152 steel cargo containers used to actually transport the exhibit. The space alone is fantastic. You then get to enjoy the culmination of Gregory Colbert's 14 year journey to photograph animals and humans in such a way as to break down the barriers between species, to highhlight shared artistic elements. It sounds ... well, you know how it sounds. And then it kicks you in the forehead and owns you, artsy-boy.
Beside the speia-toned photos printed quite uniquely on massive sheets of handmade Japanese paper, there are three elegant films playing within each wing. Heads up that the center wing movie is the primary film, and while the others are nine minutes long, that one's a full sixty -- something you should know before you decide to stand and watch rather than sit. Also, get there early if you go on the weekends. We had just a five minute wait when we blew in around noon, but by 3 the line stretched all the way around the museum.
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That's one of the most beautiful and wonderful (in the old sense of the word) photographs I've seen.
Thank goodness the current socio-political climate in the U.S. is working to prevent this sort of artistic "expression" from propagating, so that the government can save me from my passions and prevent me from falling prey to them, becoming, I don't know, more vibrantly alive.
Sorry. The last eight days have been unkind.
The photograph is truly beautiful. I'm nowhere near California, but if I get a chance, I'll try and see it.
Hope everyone's having a good day.
Rob
Yeah but in Tom yun goong a baby elephant gets picked up and thrown throw a window by a wrestler...
That's all the excuse Tony Jaa needs to strap on some efelump bones and crack a few skulls.
Now that's art.
We walked thru it was hoping the wife would dilate more. 2 days later we had our baby girl.
I so am going to buy the DVD. It's a 20 minute walk for me down to the pier though. It was so amazing that 3 year olds in the audience were mystified and behaved.
Powerful. I'd like to see it again - but the newborn sorta puts the kibosh on that idea. - ZPD
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