When I was in Seattle over Memorial Day weekend, I went to Tacoma for an afternoon of beer, wildlife viewing (seals and bald eagles! In an urban park!), and glass. I love Tacoma’s Museum of Glass. The first time I was there, quite a few years ago, there was a glass octopus! This time, there [...]
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More Glass Mollusks: you know, for kids!
Posted in art, octopus, squid on June 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Octopuses spotted in New York
Posted in art, octopus on April 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I love the art and poetry in the subway. The art seen on the subway trains basically always depicts the subway somehow, but usually in a more fantastical way. This one I’m rather fond of features a train of submarines using eels as the third rail. And of course there’s an octopus at the controls. [...]
Life’s tough choices
Posted in art, chiton on March 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’m back from San Francisco, and there will be more about that when I gather it all together, but here’s a cute photo of some public invert-related art I saw while jogging on the Embarcadero. Meanwhile, I repeat, life has tough choices. This entire weekend, for example, is the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, a competition [...]
Some more molluscan art…
Posted in art, cephalopod overlords, octopus on January 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
So if you read boingboing, this week you saw the special feature on Everybody Loves Cephalopods, which includes a great video on cephalopod neurobiology and behavior. If you didn’t catch it, you can enjoy it now! What follows: 1. Cephalopods are awesome. 2. My last post was on mollusks inspiring art. 3. This week I [...]
Mollusks and art documentaries
Posted in art, octopus, shells, snail, squid on January 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I recently watched two documentaries (available instantly on Netflix) that got me thinking. One was called A Man Named Pearl, about an extraordinary topiary artist named Pearl Fryar, who lives in Bishopville, SC. The other was a documentary about paper folding/origami called Between the Folds. A Man Named Pearl was interesting mostly because his topiaries [...]
Molluscan street art
Posted in art, octopus, snail on October 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I had a little hiatus there while I was doing some working and traveling, but I’m back! I’ve seen a couple of really interesting street art pieces lately. The first is a mural I walk by in the Barrio. All four buildings on one particular corner are painted in this trompe-l’œil mosaic style, that’s all [...]
Friday is for linking
Posted in art, nudibranchs, octopus, snail, Uncategorized on October 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A few great things going on this week. Some in the world of science, some in art. 1. In art, there are some great upcoming opportunities to see large artfully rendered mollusks. An octopus you can walk inside of at SFMoMA, and some large purple snails on a Causeway in Miami Beach. 2. I don’t [...]
Artsy Manhattan Mollusks
Posted in art, octopus, oysters, personal, shells on September 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Maybe I’m a tourist in my own city, but I always jump at the opportunity to bring visitors to certain places I love– the zoo, the Met, the Natural History Museum, etc. This weekend included both the Bronx Zoo and the Met. The zoo was fantastic– no mollusks, as usual, but excellent sightings of some [...]
Ugly Public Art: now with more mollusks
Posted in art on September 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ooh, I’ve been told I can hear the sounds of the sea by putting a seashell up to my ear. What could the ocean be telling me? WHARRGARBL (If you’re not up on your internet memes, let me help you with that) There was some lovely public art in San Diego, kinetic and colorful and [...]
Mollusk cute: hang gliding on a dorito
Posted in art, cute on August 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Please watch this video: MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON from Dean Fleischer-Camp on Vimeo. I can’t even decide what my favorite part is. Maybe the lint dog.
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