While I was visiting my parents earlier this month, I took some pictures around their house, shop, and driveway. Despite the hurricane and everything else, it was nice being around so much nature everyday.
This is the same place where I took photos of the night sky and easy to spot constellations back in January.
About a third of the way between Hortense and Jesup in Georgia is the Wayne County community of McKinnon, whose history includes the arrival of Finnish immigrants who wanted to develop this land after World War I. Their arrival was initiated by a group of Finns in Brooklyn, New York who advertised and convinced other Finns in the northeast USA to invest and move to this part of southeast Georgia.
Above is a picture of the old school house, and below are some street signs representing the community’s Finnish roots.
Looking back at my photos, I realize now that I forgot to take a photo of Finland Street, because that was where I was standing!
This is one of the most dynamic photos that I’ve ever taken, and I made it completely by accident. In 2006, I saw this juggler across the way from where I was walking with friends in England. I targeted the focus on the juggler with my old Panasonic LUMIX camera. Thankfully, the camera kept the shutter open long enough to capture the action of the crowd around the juggler doing his thing.
I saw this bust of Albert Einstein by Jacob Epstein in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, England in 2006. There’s a total of six castings of this bust. Another is located in Cambridge at The Fitzwilliam Museum.
This is one of the odder works of art at MOMA that Y and I saw a few weeks back. It’s Marcel Duchamp‘s Rotary Demisphere (Precision Optics) from 1925. The spinning lines on the half-globe under the plexiglass dome creates a pulsing effect optical illusion when it is turned on. Perhaps to preserve the original motor at its base, it is operated via a geared down electric motor off to the side of its base. It’s only turned on twice a day for five minutes each time–at 11:00am and 3:30pm. It’s an interesting assemblage of electrical and mechanical technologies to create the whole work of art.
