These are a bunch of images not included (in full) in the Journal. Now that we can… may I present a gratuitous bird gallery of Karma and Rafiki! Oh – and then a trip the City Museum in Saint Louis, MO – rob 3/17/21
And then some Rafiki!
So we’d met someone who worked at the City Museum at the open mic at Foam and she guested us in on Saturday afternoon – I Love this place – and it was kind of cool to actually see it CROWDED for once. We generally do evenings and weekdays, but a Saturday afternoon just saw the place filled with children – of course, I don’t GENERALLY approve of kids, but they are appropriate to the environment.
Heather wandering through a tube that runs through the central tank at the Aquarium at City Museum. We didn’t do as much climbing and spelunking this time around because we didn’t want to wear ourselves thin before the show AND I was trying out my new SLR, which is hard to clambor with!
One of the many random shows at City Museum in Saint Louis, MO. Again, that feeling that there was true vibrancy to the place with the presence of the crowds and herds was a little overwhelming and a bit euphoric. Dan, turned out to ALSO be working at City Museum – he was in charge of Bob’s, a sort of sideshow-themed stopping point in the heart of the building where corndogs and beers and random foodstuffs are available. a wise policy! Corndogs!!!!
There seemed to be a lot more in the way of random machines that we kept finding throughout the museum – lots of “push me” buttons and “crank me” signs and exciting tubes…. I Love the sense of exploration that comes with simply looking a little bit closer, finding out what the switch does and where the tunnel goes…. There are also parts of the City Museum that are more… museumish… above are ALL the stick bugs… it’s part of a giant WALL of insects which is in a large ROOM of insects… Part of the museum that was closed off to us last time we were in town was the architectural portion… here are some models of the parking lot monsters and photographs of the building as it appeared before the front was covered in giant bugs, jet aircraft, and school busses – but post the inclusion of The Cabin!
A shot somewhat more typical of the City Museum of Saint Louis, Missouri: the beautiful sculpted works of Bob Cassilly. I was sad to hear that Bob died in September and as I’ve been looking more at his work, I’ve slowly come to the realization that the City Museum is much more a product of a singular vision than I’d previously suspected. A lot of the organic growth of the building is focused around his sculptures and drive and I just hope that this absolutely amazing ENTITY of a space continues to thrive without him… He died working on another great THING – look up Cement Land and be amazed!
the Dragon’s Den shore shows off his vision… beasts a’glarin’ and dimness prevailin’! In the Den below City Museum – I’m newly amazed by my new camera. These are spaces that are very, very dim – and as shown the opposite page, the camera is finding light and colour that my previous cameras didn’t have a prayer of detecting.
