Looking out to North Adams, MA

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Me looking onward

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They wanted a picture of my face

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Just another shot of North Adams

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Ron and I

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This was a large crochet flag by Dave Cole made by The Knitting Machine which consisted of two excavators each with a 30 ft needle on them. During the making Cole was on a cherry picker and used a large hook to thread the yard.

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Ron and The Knitting Machine

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The upside-down trees at MassMoCA. Excellent exampole of geotropism.

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Part of the "Becoming Animal" exhibit was a library for birds. There were actually live African Finches in a large cage.

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Library for the birds

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Cai Guo-Qiang: Inopportune. Stills of a car exploding. Building 5 of MassMoCA is one of the largest display spaces that I have seen, 2 stories high and about 200 ft long.

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Cai Guo-Qiang.

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Also part of the "Becoming Animal exhibit." I forget the name, but it was a simulation of a frog. The orange balloon was inflated from the air compressor in the unit at the back. Once it was full it would deflate under its own weight with the air feeding back through a series of reeds that produced an eery droning sound.

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Further inflation.

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Frog is full. Not

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Better view of the inflation and sound producing apparatus.

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Me in front of another flag made by David Cole from a few thousand plastic toy soldiers and than painted. And no, I'm not asleep.

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Dema by the flag

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Close up of the flag.

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Courtyard of MassMoCA

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Dema in the parking lot of MassMoCA

Ron and I.