The Met photos
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fbhjrWe took the troupe, and friend, on a field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
We set off early to get there when they opened.
The dreaded soda cup tried to stop us, but the mighty Prius prevailed.
Soon were were driving into NYC.
We got to the museum just as they opened.
By request, we looked at Egypt first. Always one of my favorites, others also wanted to see The Book of the Dead.
It was a nice sunny day outside.
Folks like the Greece exhibit too.
We were glad the temple was open this time.
This is a picture by my wife of Jose taking a picture of her while reflected in the water while I take a picture of both of them reflected.
It is an impressive exhibit.
Then we headed off to the etchings, cutting through the other areas.
This statue shows up in a SF book.
Emperor Max!
An etching from Paulus Hector Mair’s collection.
Of course, the guy who is so well known for it.
An etching of an indoor faire from 400 years ago.
Then we took the troupe through the arms and armor exhibit.
There’s a joke in here. I’m just not sure which way.
My wife wanted a photo of “The Phoenicians” in front of the horses.
(I thought the other end funnier.)
Then, we split up some more for roaming about.
There was sitting by a fountain with things in it.
There were a lot of interesting things at the bottom
Then, it was out to the park for lunch.
We ate in the plaza of the bear.
Nice bears.
The squirrels, not so impressive.
As we finished eating, a parade started.
Even they seemed to be somewhat confused about where they were going.
(Note the three NYC police who were not getting out to direct. Let the army do it.)
I didn’t wait to see how long the parade was, and went back into the museum.
I don’t think I read this sign as others do. To me it says the construction is not going to schedule.
Then, we took the “special elevator” up to the roof.
We did not wait to go into the special rooftop exhibit.
It is a nice view up there.
It is especially nice when the park is all spring green.
It’s nice to see they rebuilt the building after the giant marshmallow man attack.
We had enough of the “special elevator” and took the shiny stairs down.
My wife and I wandered through the renaissance to musical instruments. There was an interlocking exhibit.
I thought this was weird.
They had a lot of musical instruments.
The giant narwal tusk flute was interesting.
This one was just strange.
Stradivarius!
Then, we went off to one of my wife’s favorite halls.
There were people doing artwork of artwork.
He was doing really good artwork of artwork.
Maybe it was the good light.
I tried to use my iPhone, but it wasn’t working well in the museum. So, I used my network tester and was amused at the results.
My wife was enjoying the art, not the connection.
A statue of someone being flayed alive. Strange.
Then, we left for home. There was some sort of skywriting going on, but we couldn’t tell what it was saying.
There was also some sort of street festival on Amsterdam, but we managed to get through to the Hudson.
Apparently my Prius was not fast enough for some folks.
For a while I was glad we were going north when everyone else was going south.
But, then we ran into our own traffic and it cost us more than an hour.
Despite that we got home before sunset.
I found that while we were gone, someone had left other art by our dumpster.
I did not bring it in.
We set off early to get there when they opened.
The dreaded soda cup tried to stop us, but the mighty Prius prevailed.
Soon were were driving into NYC.
We got to the museum just as they opened.
By request, we looked at Egypt first. Always one of my favorites, others also wanted to see The Book of the Dead.
It was a nice sunny day outside.
Folks like the Greece exhibit too.
We were glad the temple was open this time.
This is a picture by my wife of Jose taking a picture of her while reflected in the water while I take a picture of both of them reflected.
It is an impressive exhibit.
Then we headed off to the etchings, cutting through the other areas.
This statue shows up in a SF book.
Emperor Max!
An etching from Paulus Hector Mair’s collection.
Of course, the guy who is so well known for it.
An etching of an indoor faire from 400 years ago.
Then we took the troupe through the arms and armor exhibit.
There’s a joke in here. I’m just not sure which way.
My wife wanted a photo of “The Phoenicians” in front of the horses.
(I thought the other end funnier.)
Then, we split up some more for roaming about.
There was sitting by a fountain with things in it.
There were a lot of interesting things at the bottom
Then, it was out to the park for lunch.
We ate in the plaza of the bear.
Nice bears.
The squirrels, not so impressive.
As we finished eating, a parade started.
Even they seemed to be somewhat confused about where they were going.
(Note the three NYC police who were not getting out to direct. Let the army do it.)
I didn’t wait to see how long the parade was, and went back into the museum.
I don’t think I read this sign as others do. To me it says the construction is not going to schedule.
Then, we took the “special elevator” up to the roof.
We did not wait to go into the special rooftop exhibit.
It is a nice view up there.
It is especially nice when the park is all spring green.
It’s nice to see they rebuilt the building after the giant marshmallow man attack.
We had enough of the “special elevator” and took the shiny stairs down.
My wife and I wandered through the renaissance to musical instruments. There was an interlocking exhibit.
I thought this was weird.
They had a lot of musical instruments.
The giant narwal tusk flute was interesting.
This one was just strange.
Stradivarius!
Then, we went off to one of my wife’s favorite halls.
There were people doing artwork of artwork.
He was doing really good artwork of artwork.
Maybe it was the good light.
I tried to use my iPhone, but it wasn’t working well in the museum. So, I used my network tester and was amused at the results.
My wife was enjoying the art, not the connection.
A statue of someone being flayed alive. Strange.
Then, we left for home. There was some sort of skywriting going on, but we couldn’t tell what it was saying.
There was also some sort of street festival on Amsterdam, but we managed to get through to the Hudson.
Apparently my Prius was not fast enough for some folks.
For a while I was glad we were going north when everyone else was going south.
But, then we ran into our own traffic and it cost us more than an hour.
Despite that we got home before sunset.
I found that while we were gone, someone had left other art by our dumpster.
I did not bring it in.
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Date: 2012-05-22 12:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-23 12:21 am (UTC)You are certainly welcome if you'd like to join in on one of these trips some day.
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Date: 2012-05-22 01:16 am (UTC)Sigh. I miss the Met.
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Date: 2012-05-22 11:41 am (UTC)So, I'm sure it is safer, probably faster, and cheaper.
Any time you folks are out east we can make a trip down there. It's about 3 hours away from our place, but that is doable, for us, as a day trip.
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Date: 2012-05-22 04:16 am (UTC)We've never been to the rooftop either - that was very interesting to learn about - regardless of what could be grown up there!
There was a tremendous explosion of invention in musical instruments during the 1800s - looks like they have an Ophicleide in the collection, which are rather uncommon, though I've played in a concert with someone playing one. Of course, we played old music.. LOL
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Date: 2012-05-22 11:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-22 11:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-23 12:22 am (UTC)Each one is 1000 words....
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Date: 2012-05-23 12:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-22 07:30 pm (UTC)SIGH
next time, as that roof view looks stunning.
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Date: 2012-05-25 07:02 am (UTC)Love the photos. Decided to friend you when you had the pic of Caryatid being crushed by her stone tagged as "this was in an SF novel".
(nodding)
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Date: 2012-05-25 10:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-25 03:17 pm (UTC)Lots of vivid images in Stranger.
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Date: 2012-05-25 03:27 pm (UTC)I saw it at the end of the corridor and thought "Gee, that looks like the one described in Stranger in a Strange Land".
I was quite surprised to find it was the same one.
But, happy.
Edit: autocorrect changes Stranger to Strander? Weird.