i’m so sorry to all the people who get to know me well
you are deceived into thinking you’re making friends with someone who is nice and quiet and normal and shy
and then i explode into this horrific mess of weirdness after i get comfortable talking to you and you’re like THIS ISN’T WHAT I ASKED FOR
i’m sorry
OH MY GOODNESS PITBULL PUPPY SO ADORABLE AAAAAAAH
(I am a huge pitbull fan, if you couldn’t tell. They are the most energetic cute puppies in the world.)
(Source: mockingcatnus)
I’M SORRY BUT HE’S ONE OF THE FEW I WILL TOTALLY FANGIRL FOR.
(Source: aplacewithmagic)
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Museums Want to Entertain You (and That’s Not a Bad Thing)
Once, art museums were like fortresses. They were built of stone atop forbidding mountains of stairs. Today, museums might be nestled under glass pyramids, or sheathed in undulating ripples of stainless steel, or built to look like boats and the hood of a sports car. A city in China has plans for a comic book museum that’s shaped like a speech bubble.
Just as the buildings have changed, so have the exhibits inside them. Today museums must compete with a host of entertainment options that didn’t exist a generation ago. Customers who could be down the street seeing Titanic: An IMAX 3D Experience instead are unlikely to be satisfied with the old school, cattle-like shuffle past painting after painting, just as patrons with smartphones in their pockets don’t want to read names and dates off of little white cards. Even the Louvre has gone high-tech. The venerable institution has partnered with Nintendo to put gallery maps, high-resolution imagery, and a dozen languages of audio commentary in every visitor’s palm.
Patrons who expect multimedia bang for their buck get it at “Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs 1851-1939,” a new exhibit at Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The ambitious show, which opened on Saturday and runs through August 19, explores how World’s Fairs did—and still do—offer a means for nations to assert themselves on the international stage. World’s Fairs also became the first platform for introducing new styles, manufacturing techniques, and consumer goods on a global stage. Popular products first presented at a World’s Fair, for instance, range from mayonnaise and Cracker Jacks to the sewing machine and telephone. The bejeweled Cartier clock is eye-popping. The prototype Herman Miller plexiglass chair will make any design-lover swoon.
Read more. [Image: Bob Greenspan]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2q9k3amrN1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Museums Want to Entertain You (and That’s Not a Bad Thing)
Once, art museums were like fortresses. They were built of stone atop forbidding mountains of stairs. Today, museums might be nestled under glass pyramids, or sheathed in undulating ripples of stainless steel, or built to look like boats and the hood of a sports car. A city in China has plans for a comic book museum that’s shaped like a speech bubble.
Just as the buildings have changed, so have the exhibits inside them. Today museums must compete with a host of entertainment options that didn’t exist a generation ago. Customers who could be down the street seeing Titanic: An IMAX 3D Experience instead are unlikely to be satisfied with the old school, cattle-like shuffle past painting after painting, just as patrons with smartphones in their pockets don’t want to read names and dates off of little white cards. Even the Louvre has gone high-tech. The venerable institution has partnered with Nintendo to put gallery maps, high-resolution imagery, and a dozen languages of audio commentary in every visitor’s palm.
Patrons who expect multimedia bang for their buck get it at “Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs 1851-1939,” a new exhibit at Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The ambitious show, which opened on Saturday and runs through August 19, explores how World’s Fairs did—and still do—offer a means for nations to assert themselves on the international stage. World’s Fairs also became the first platform for introducing new styles, manufacturing techniques, and consumer goods on a global stage. Popular products first presented at a World’s Fair, for instance, range from mayonnaise and Cracker Jacks to the sewing machine and telephone. The bejeweled Cartier clock is eye-popping. The prototype Herman Miller plexiglass chair will make any design-lover swoon.
Read more. [Image: Bob Greenspan]
