Museum of Jurassic Technology! *image heavy*

[AdminAssistant]

Psst, I'll be in LA in August. Just sayin'. (I'm actually in town for a conference, so I don't know if I'll even have much spare time.)

[Green_Fairy]

it'll have to be in a couple of months, but i'll open up a thread in "get togethers" when i'm planning something. yaaaaay!

[JoitheArtist]

*jumps up and down all crazy-like*
omg that would be fantastic!

Squeee! Just let us know when you plan a trip, and we can organize a meetup.

[Green_Fairy]

Green Fairy: if you do, maybe we should organize a SoCal area meetup around it or something. might be fun.

*jumps up and down all crazy-like*
omg that would be fantastic!

[Andara Bledin]

Green Fairy: if you do, maybe we should organize a SoCal area meetup around it or something. might be fun.

Count me in.

^-.-^

[JoitheArtist]

I've popped an *image heavy* tag on the title for the benefit of those members on dial up...

Thank you!!

Green Fairy: if you do, maybe we should organize a SoCal area meetup around it or something. might be fun.

[crazylegs]

I've popped an *image heavy* tag on the title for the benefit of those members on dial up...

[Green_Fairy]

it's like, 5 hours away from me. i'll have to make a daytrip out of it at some point.

[BookstoreEscapee]

If I ever find myself in LA I'm gonna have to check this place out.

[JoitheArtist]

I'm local, and I've never even heard of the place!

And now I want to make myself a bell wheel. I love bells.

^-.-^

Same here. You should totally go see it, it's really a fun place! Free admission, though they do request a $5 donation.

[Andara Bledin]

I'm local, and I've never even heard of the place!

And now I want to make myself a bell wheel. I love bells.

^-.-^

[JoitheArtist]

What was at the top of the staircase?

A gallery of oil paintings of the seven dogs of the Soviet space program! Laika's portrait had a candle burning in front of it. Off to the side was a small theater where they would show some short Russian films (no show at the time we were there).

And I didn't get pics of it, but past the gallery was a tea room, with tea from a samovar (I think) and a Russian lady serving, and this big skinny dog. Oh, and cookies! Lots of little nooks and crannies to sit in, too.

And that's the Museum of Jurassic Technology!

Oh, and a video that I took, just to give you the atmosphere: View My Video

[JoitheArtist]

You guys would have LOVED this room: http://i39.tinypic.com/209ga3l.jpg (I am an idiot and forgot to upload it on the original message) It made me think of GK's "Hot Tips for America" line. It was a collection of letters sent to the Mount Wilson Observatory in the 20's and 30's. It was actually a relief to see so many that could have come straight off Planet Feedback: even then people were writing in scream-o-vision with no punctuation! Made me feel a little better about the modern era. Anyway, those letters were hysterical!

There was also a Foucault's Pendulum in that room, but my pic of it didn't turn out.

Then there was a room filled with memorabilia from this singer, who was apparently pretty bad.

And an exhibit ostensibly about cones, but also had recordings of the singer's music playing over it.

And this little window with a teacup and madeleines, and some tubes...I think you were supposed to smell something there, but I couldn't get it to work.

There were a few other exhibits, then we headed up the narrow staircase...

[JoitheArtist]

Next there was this awesome room with ghostly flower pictures inside, and metal 3D glasses hanging in the doorway. The pics were taken with x-rays, and when you looked through the glasses, these ghostly flowers would just pop into view!! And the floor was pressure-sensitive, so you didn't even know what sort of flower you were seeing till you stood in front of it and the name appeared.

Then there was a room of early 3D images; not classic stereopticons, but vectorgraphs!! VERY cool, and pretty effective.

In the back was a big room full of weird superstitions: some were illustrated with little dioramas, some were just exhibits of a part of the idea, and some were animations projected on glass in the walls. I took photos of the ant's eggs (to drive love away) and myths about teeth!

[JoitheArtist]

After leaving the Kircher exhibit, we went into this little narrow room with random prints on the wall, and a line of microscopes down the middle. When you looked into the scope, there were these TINY little mosaics made up of butterfly scales!!

Then there was this room all about trailers and parks, using the Garden of Eden as a metaphor for the trailers. And two maps, picked out in lights: one showed the locations of trailer manufacturers, and the other, the location of parks. VERY cool. There were four display cases for things like pincushion collections and weird bottles, and the cases totally look like alien pods.

And then an exhibit by Ricky Jay, about dice decomposing! It was subtitled 'Rotten Luck." The dice were all falling apart in such weird ways!