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Ξ July 29th, 2008 | → | ∇ Uncategorized |
Simulating Worlds at the Field Museum
(reconstructing worlds in chicago’s province museum. all photos by chad tyler.)we had originally intended to hate these photos to use in a post on a given of our favorite this american life episodes, simulated worlds. they are of exhibits getting assembled at the field museum in chicago. they’ve been languishing in our archives for ages, waiting dutifully for us to get our acts together and dispatch them, only to be tossed aside in in the end in favor of these from the american museum of national history library.they’re completely beautiful photos. they make one hope for to take the plunge in into the nut museum at night to have your own clandestine tour or to role play indiana jones. or dialect mayhap to shoot a misguided but probably absorbing sequel to chris marker’s la jetée. we mould them so much that we’re giving them their own post.it should be noted that all photos were taken by a landscape architect working as a baton in the museum’s workshop.
one wonders if you can convey the same amount scientific fact from a half-built museum show off than a “complete” one. is a museum display with its dinosaur bones, which may or may not be a culminate set, fully assembled and an intimation of a cretaceous ground on which its feet have been soldered, behind which have been painted a scene of a cretaceous environment — is this anymore closer to reality than a half-assembled dinosaur on a half-intimated foundation against a half-painted view scene? is there such a gulf between their unchanging of “completeness” that, in the interest of science, you cannot bring into the world their reconstruction half “finished”?in the tal episodes, jack hitt spots a label in one of the amnh dinosaur exhibits. it reads: “these are all intriguing hypothesis but the fossils do not give us enough evidence to test whether any of them are correct. the mystery remains debatable.” so setting aside the obvious issue of public safety, would it in effect be a disservice to the mission of the museum to educate the public if they enquire the wooden supporter beams or parts of the overlay still stainless and haven’t hitherto been painted and levitra online textured like jurassic excrement or each and every bones noiselessness with their brightly colored archival tags?to put it in another way, is there scientific value if the craftiness of a museum display is made more apparent?
don’t you just inclination these museum exhibits were prepared behind clear glass so that the public can see the staff at work?we identify that we’ve on all occasions wanted joke of the more dynamic landscape architecture firms, as a stripe of performance/art/installation, transfer their operations to the philip johnson’s lorgnon house, or some glass-fronted sidewalk offices in times square as a replacement for a week, and the public gets to confer with their daily charettes or them assign hours creating a single autocad go or making anonymous comments on pruned. it will be broadcast simultaneously on hgtv and hbo, which will allow those people who give birth to seen breaking and entering to lastly slaughter its still gradual bitter aftertaste.
(see also richard barnes’ series of photographs titled animal logic. we should point out that identical of the photos appeared here, because it gives us a explanation to also point you to the works of alison care …
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