the crow bar has landed

the crow bar has landed,

 and it is living down town now!

views of lots of building and some water ...

night view

view of the river

 day view

and the crow that started it all ...

great clients!

great fun!

good job Kristian!

Dan Goes To the Museum

I was in Boston visiting my ailing sister a couple of weekends ago, had an hour or so to kill, and wandered into the the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for the Egyptian show of items from Tomb 10 A, a fantastic collection of Egptianana if ever I've seen one ... The younger son Will often brought home 'The Treasure of King Tut' from the elementary school library so my interest in that subject goes waaaay back ... I had not been to the BMFA since we took the kids oh maybe 15 years ago and I was due for a refresher .. Museums are amazing places ... full of ideas and information, things you don't see anywhere else. They can really recharge your creative spirit .... This was a good visit. Click the pictures to enlarge them ...

Just like my front steps
I started with the music room across from the coat check ... loved the abalone and ebony triangles ...
They had a couple of really fine banjos, and this was a particularly spectacular peg head

Next stop an exhibit on art and music .. There were some pretty good things to see here. Click them and you can read the signs yourself ...

All the pages of Beethoven's Seventh, sort of transparent and on top of each other on the left, a Wagner opera, same deal, on the right ... about 30" x 60" each .....great concept ...
A John Cage graphic

A couple of great early Dylan photos
A wall of portraits by Herb Ritts .. Little Richard, Bowie, Springsteen,Courtney Love, Tina Turner...great photography ..
But this ... you had to be there for this ... 30 people do synchronized Madonna singing and dancing .. hypnotic .. read the blurb below and imagine you're one of them ...

This was a nice exercise in color and music ...
All in all ... it makes you think .... Tomb 10 A coming up next ...

Tomb 10 A .. The Show

On my way to the Egyptian show I passed by this David Smith sculpture, one of his 'Cubis' series. Sam and I had seen his exhibition at the Guggenheim a couple of years ago and he has been an inspiration since ... Click the photos to enlarge them ,,,

Great sculptor, good welder too ...
Nice banner for the show
Into the show itself ... An almost life size carving at the entrance to a display of his and his wife's burial vaults ...
The door is so the dead can see the sun rise ... I highly recommend the audio tour
Box in a box in a box
All interior surfaces were covered with carefully painted symbolic details ...
Along with some hammered gold and lapis lazuli jewelry ...
Then there are THE BOATS ... They were found in a jumble left by tomb raiders and carefully restored and reassembled after considerable research and study by a team of obviously very patient people.
And there were a lot of boats
Each with incredible detail
A little more jewelry ... more stones and hammered gold
And then I was off to the Oriental furnishings and artifacts .. I have more photos. stay tuned ..