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30 comments:
Beneath the "big vee".
Honestly, you will only get cheeky responses to such detail images.
You were at the Guggenheim in Bilbao!! Amazing!
you passed out near the trays of those little highly polished smooth pocket charms in the back of access and artisans on greenwich avenue right off 10th and when you came to a bunch of them were stuck to your face so you took out your phone and held it super close to your cheek, took the pic and, viola!, looks like i'm the winner this week!
Who's viola, Scottie-babe? Or are you talking about the instrument? Oh, that's right...you're part French, aren't you?
Gosh--Debbie and Scott are both awfully close!
What about Dave!?! Isn't Dave close too?
I suppose...but perhaps not quite as close.
Hey, I was right about the cheeky responses. Here's another one:
A close-up of Lady robot cleavage?
I wasn't fooling around with EveR-1 in South Korea, if that's what you're suggesting....
Oh yes! NOW it's very obvious!
Sheesh! Did Gary steal your thunder after all?
And come to think of it...what have you done with Gary??
I don't believe you were there. The small file size on the photos suggests that there are some copyright violations going on here. hmmmmm?
Oh, BTW I've got no clue about these pics.
Oh, I was there--you can be sure of that!
The more guesses, the more clues. The better the guesses, the better the clues.
OK, are you in Queens at the Noguchi Museum?
Nope, but thanks for the guess!
Queens?!?
Nope--but congrats on eliminating a major chunk o' real estate from consideration!
Brooklyn Botanical Garden?
So are you in Manhattan?
Scott, I'm not sure if it qualifies as a sculpture garden, but I think you've been there.
Debbie, it isn't anywhere in the Brooklyn Botanical Garden.
Gary, it is in Manhattan!
Somewhere in Central Park?
No, but you're getting warm again!
The Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History?
Very warm--get specific!
Is it that thingy thats over by the meteorite that they stole from Indians in Oregon?
Naahhh...I don't think so, anyway! It is, however, possibly something you'd read about in The New York Times.
I think it is the time capsule that sits out in front of AMNH on the Columus Ave entrance (which never actually became an entrance due to 9/11).
Way to go, Gary! I was at the Times Capsule created by Santiago Calatrava, the architect-engineer whose work, like Frank Gehry's, can be seen in Bilbao (in one case very close to the Guggenheim). Calatrava's designs for New York City include the the planned PATH terminal at the former World Trade Center site.
To truly appreciate the Times Capsule, it helps to think back to the turn of the century. It's hard to imagine, but the U.S. was quite different back then. The World Trade Center was still standing, flood waters hadn't inundated New Orleans in many years, there were twice as many women on the United States Supreme Court, George Bush had not yet become President, and millions of ordinary citzens had not yet become financially secure due to tax refunds.
No, what was on everyone's mind was New Year's Eve, when 1999 would become 2000. The media reported that computers might go haywire at that point and bring about the end of the world, but just in case the world would survive The New York Times ran a design competition for a time capsule that would preserve artifacts for another thousand years, when the world would certainly come to an awful end. The competition was the subject of an exhibition at the Museum of Natural History, where Calatrava's winning Times Capsule remains to this very day.
If you were to open the Times Capsule today, you would probably be arrested. But you'd also find a trove of items that send a clear message to the future. Among the contents are a Unicorn Beanie Baby, WalMart bar codes, barbed wire, dog tags, a firearms registration form, an advertisement for a Ford Explorer SUV, a food stamp ID card, condoms and cigarettes from Zimbabwe, a parking ticket from Brazil, copies of The New York Times Magazine, an LP record, a baseball, a child's tooth, a David Letterman Top Ten list, a plush toy, the National Enquirer, hair samples, a fortune from a fortune cookie, Post-It Notes, and a telephone book. Thus, it is easy to imagine sentient creatures of the future slicing open the Times Capsule and understanding that New Yorkers of 2000 thought so highly of their trash that they went so far as to seal some of it in a sexually suggestive stainless steel container just outside a major museum!
Here's more about the design. And here's info about some of the other proposed designs, some of which are quite clever. (Here's one from Pentagram.)
Yes, Dolph's narrowing the search to AMNH was the critical piece of information that got the puzzle solved.
As for format for the next contest, let's keep it business as usual.
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