On my walk home from work, I stopped off at the Rubin Museum again to check out a new exhibit. They had a cool soundproof booth where you could record audio for a collaborative art project they had set up!
On Tuesday, I spent the entire afternoon going through the massive collections at the Museum of Internation Folk Art and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.
Ceremonial human thigh-bone trumpet! I think it's neat that humans want to save pieces of bodies from humans that are magical and spiritually accomplished.
My engagement with SinglePlatform was about a week away from finishing and my work-load was light. Took an extra long lunch on tuesday to check out the nearby National Museum of the American Indian.
They also had this insect which is the most-interesting / terrible thing I'd seen in a long time. A Peanut-head bug! From Wikipedia: "In several countries, such as Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela, there exists the myth that if somebody is bitten by the machaca, he or she must have sex within 24 hours to prevent an otherwise incurable death. The insect is actually harmless to people."
While waiting for a taxi near the road, I thumbed through my guidebook looking for other places of interest and noticed that the nearby Chaa Creek had a Natural History museum and a bunch of interesting exhibits so I decided to stop by to check it out on the way back into town.
In 2003 they were renovating the basement of the museum when they discovered an old limestone wall. It was eventually determined to be built by Louis XIII in the 1630s. Thought it was cool to see a flower of life carved into a portion of the wall they have on display.
Still had some time to kill, so a few of us headed over to check out the awesome (and unfortunately, now-closed) National Pinball Museum! After checking out some of the older games...
Speaking of music I can hear in my mind, it was fantastic to watch little kids play Super Mario Bros for the first time and see that it still totally holds up to fresh eyes.
