Museum visit
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beige_alertDay one of my week off from work in which I’m not going anywhere nor doing anything complex or distant or expensive was spent downtown at the Milwaukee Public Museum. I saw the butterfly exhibit, of course, a warm, humid room full of butterflies. One of of them obligingly landed right on my chest so I could get a nice look. I saw the chocolate exhibit, at the end of which, of course, they are selling chocolate. I got something with the Museum’s name on it, Cacao de Vida, made by Scharffen Berger from Costa Rican beans. I also got three bars from El Ray, Bucare 58.5%, Apamate 73.5%, and Icoa white chocolate, all of course Venezuelan. Yeah, I know about white “chocolate.” But I like the stuff, and El Ray’s is supposedly very good. I’ve always been a sweet milk chocolate person, but I’m getting to like the darker stuff. At least the better darker stuff.
I saw not one but two IMAX movies, an Amazon one (sort of the usual IMAX documentary), and the NASCAR one, which features lots of race car action and sound. The museum’s print of the NASCAR film has a nasty set of scratches, but at least they are toward the top of the frame (IMAX scratches run horizontally, of course). I’m actually a Formula 1 fan, so NASCAR looks odd to me. The cars are so heavy, and the engines rev up all the way to...an F1 engine’s idle speed. Plus the sponsors all seem so prosaic, because they are local companies. Really, Vodafone isn’t any more or less exotic than Cingular, but we have Cingular here, and I’m used the sponsors being exotic, foreign companies, many of which I know nothing about. West: Could be a cell phone company, could be a tobacco company. Only Germans know. (Tobacco, it turns out, but I needed Google to find out.)
I saw not one but two IMAX movies, an Amazon one (sort of the usual IMAX documentary), and the NASCAR one, which features lots of race car action and sound. The museum’s print of the NASCAR film has a nasty set of scratches, but at least they are toward the top of the frame (IMAX scratches run horizontally, of course). I’m actually a Formula 1 fan, so NASCAR looks odd to me. The cars are so heavy, and the engines rev up all the way to...an F1 engine’s idle speed. Plus the sponsors all seem so prosaic, because they are local companies. Really, Vodafone isn’t any more or less exotic than Cingular, but we have Cingular here, and I’m used the sponsors being exotic, foreign companies, many of which I know nothing about. West: Could be a cell phone company, could be a tobacco company. Only Germans know. (Tobacco, it turns out, but I needed Google to find out.)
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Date: 2005-11-14 09:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-14 09:36 pm (UTC)I don't have a lot to compare it to, but our Milwaukee Art Museum (http://www.mam.org/) (with its fancy new building (http://www.flickr.com/photos/beigephotos/sets/153423/)) seems nice. I'll be spending a day there sometime this week.
I've never even been to Canada. How silly is that? I've been to the UK, to the Bahamas, Paris, Arizona (which is like a foreign country), but not Canada.
If you ever find yourself in Milwaukee looking to visit some museums, I'd be happy to show you around. (I do have a little-used sofa-bed available for friends.)
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Date: 2005-11-15 12:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-15 12:51 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-11-18 08:27 pm (UTC)I think the shark movie is the one that I read is oddly dull, considering that you'd think that sharks couldn't help but be-*CHOMP*-exciting.
The thing I'm still trying to figure out is why the school groups in the art museum are so much quieter and more orderly than the groups in the science museum. I've seen this several times now and it is a mystery to me.