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thistlelurid

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Sep 28, 2007 12:00

One of the things I was most looking forward to about
my trip to Boston last week was visiting the museum
at MIT! Not only for the fact that I am a complete and
utter "scientific american frontiers" freak, that goes
way beyond my blind love and adoration of Alan Alda....
but also to see the work of Arthur Ganson in person ( Read more... )

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bricology September 28 2007, 19:53:26 UTC

Ganson's a favorite of mine as well. He's one of the few sculptors working with kinetics whose work has real magic and elegance.

Are you familiar with the works of Theo Jansen?

thistlelurid September 28 2007, 20:04:08 UTC

O, yes....I posted about him a little while ago! Another genius!

bricology September 28 2007, 20:47:13 UTC

Gah. I don't know how I missed seeing that post! Well, glad to know you're already familiar with his work.

jermynsavile September 28 2007, 23:31:23 UTC

Love the Ganson things. I find such things absolutely fascinating.

thistlelurid September 29 2007, 00:57:36 UTC

The maddening part about the exhibit was that all around the room and on many of the pedestals were "do not touch" signs....yet many of the sculptures had buttons that said "press" or you had to push them....or turn tiny cranks etc.! So I was often caught standing there frozen...wrapped up in the dilemma, eyes darting to either side of me! Everyone in the room was sort of watching each other and throwing glances of "are you going to do it? I think Im going to do it!"

Im sure there was a grad student somewhere behind 2-way glass taking notes on it all! :)

jermynsavile September 29 2007, 01:08:58 UTC

Go on, press, you know you want to!

Love that kind of thing. I have been told recently that the button for 'close doors' in elevators very rarely works. It is put there purely because if people are given something to press then they are more patient. I know this. I know that there is approximately a 10% chance that the doors will actually close if I press the button. I still press the button. Repeatedly.

Not sure whether this makes me an optimist or an idiot. Either way it implies that I like to see things happen as a result of my prompting!

thistlelurid September 29 2007, 17:50:52 UTC

I also believe that if you ruthlessly press the call button when youre waiting, the elevator arrives faster!!!
It's a proven fact!! :)