EDIT: I just found that this post was never published (GS 081808)
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Well I haven’t posted in a couple days…
We went to Venice Beach and found some shark teeth…
Yesterday Mark and I went to the Salvador Dalí Museum. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I found several things quite amusing:
First of all, the Dalí museum apparently draws homosexual men like butterflies to a flower.
Second of all, I find it quite humorous when two or more individuals find themselves viewing the same piece. Each person proceeds to sigh and coo to his or her companion of “Dalí’s amazing abilities as a photorealist” and the “fantasies depicted in the works of Miró”… next they will stare at the piece, their simple goal to be the final person “appreciating” such a work. In groups of three and four, the instant that one person gives up, the entire group relaxes with relief that he or she has been viewed as cultured and sophisticated and moves down the line.
Today mom, Mark, and I went to MOSI and saw the Bodies! Exhibition.
[On the way, we saw a corvette led by a truck with a rocking-chair in the back, both with their hazard lights on]Mom: “They must be going to the rocker-hospital… ‘Look out, look out, we’ve got a broken leg!’”
The cadavers on display were created through a process of using acetone immersion (for bodily water evacuation), a vacuum chamber (to remove acetone as vapor), and replacement of original fluids with a silicone polymer (down to the most basic intracellular level). As such, all bodies appeared as though they would were the person’s muscular or circulatory structure flayed while he was alive. Additionally, this dictates that the external genitalia be present in most cases.
Perhaps the most enjoyable part of the whole experience was observing people without their knowledge walk up to the models. Every single person would walk to the model, aim their face directly at the head, and move their eyes immediately down to the exposed penis. Every single person.
Of course, there were some rather large ones. ;)
We also watched a film in the MOSIMAX theater, which is basically watching a movie on the entire surface of a dome the size of a planetarium. I highly recommend it.
