MoMA!
Had a fun day in the city today. Went with beechan2, her mother, and Bee's wacky and awesome friend Christine to the Museum of Modern Art to see the Tim Burton exhibit!
etherieldc (Dan, who finally came back to LJ!) and his bf met up with us briefly, but they had somewhere to be right after and we sadly didn't get to muck about in a huge group.
I didn't take pics. There was none allowed in the Burton exhibit AT ALL, and modern art is, well...
Odd.
Here's an example of one Dan took:
http://tweetphoto.com/12723384
No joke, its not a TV screen, JUST LITERALLY a BLACK CANVAS.
Steve commented it looks like a pirate flag without the Jolly Roger.
I think it was either like the present in Jack Frost (the Rankin-Bass version) where you pretended what it was, or a picture of Santa Claus that only true believers could see.
Other "art": A chair, a piece of thick sailor rope going from the ceiling to the floor, a 12-by-12 area of bricks stacked two high...
And you had to try and stay three feet away from the art, however the card telling you about the art had small print! And the card placement wasn't always near the art piece so you had to go hunting to figure out what the hell you were staring at!
Crazy weird stuff. Our brains broke.
You know you've gone mad when the TIM BURTON stuff had a flow and made sense! Sheesh!
The Burton exhibit ranged from concept art, to production notes (including the ORIGINAL paper the Willy Wonka "cannibalism" joke was written on), TVs playing his shorts, a reject letter saying his writing style for a book was too "derivative of Dr, Suess," and MOVIE PROPS! Stuff from Willy Wonka, Beatlejuice, Nightmare, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns!
Heaven!
I really liked Bee's buddy, she was awesome and the four of us survived on our wacky sense of humor. It was a blast!
Bee was talking about going to the Museum of Natural History. I've also always wanted to hit up MoMI, the Museum of the Moving Image, in Queens. And the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (http://moccany.org/) looks like its right up our alley. <3
Unfortunately its too late for me to hit up the Titanic exhibition. I could never find anyone to go with me for the $25+ it cost, anyways. XD
etherieldc (Dan, who finally came back to LJ!) and his bf met up with us briefly, but they had somewhere to be right after and we sadly didn't get to muck about in a huge group.
I didn't take pics. There was none allowed in the Burton exhibit AT ALL, and modern art is, well...
Odd.
Here's an example of one Dan took:
http://tweetphoto.com/12723384
No joke, its not a TV screen, JUST LITERALLY a BLACK CANVAS.
Steve commented it looks like a pirate flag without the Jolly Roger.
I think it was either like the present in Jack Frost (the Rankin-Bass version) where you pretended what it was, or a picture of Santa Claus that only true believers could see.
Other "art": A chair, a piece of thick sailor rope going from the ceiling to the floor, a 12-by-12 area of bricks stacked two high...
And you had to try and stay three feet away from the art, however the card telling you about the art had small print! And the card placement wasn't always near the art piece so you had to go hunting to figure out what the hell you were staring at!
Crazy weird stuff. Our brains broke.
You know you've gone mad when the TIM BURTON stuff had a flow and made sense! Sheesh!
The Burton exhibit ranged from concept art, to production notes (including the ORIGINAL paper the Willy Wonka "cannibalism" joke was written on), TVs playing his shorts, a reject letter saying his writing style for a book was too "derivative of Dr, Suess," and MOVIE PROPS! Stuff from Willy Wonka, Beatlejuice, Nightmare, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns!
Heaven!
I really liked Bee's buddy, she was awesome and the four of us survived on our wacky sense of humor. It was a blast!
Bee was talking about going to the Museum of Natural History. I've also always wanted to hit up MoMI, the Museum of the Moving Image, in Queens. And the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (http://moccany.org/) looks like its right up our alley. <3
Unfortunately its too late for me to hit up the Titanic exhibition. I could never find anyone to go with me for the $25+ it cost, anyways. XD