The Arts
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2013 » August
Archive for August, 2013 The Smallest Museum In The World… Art that is small in size but large in thought… The Micro Museum: The self-proclaimed world’s smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain (Atlas Obscura) CONTRIBUTORS: Dustin Stonecipher, EricGrundhauser “The Mµseum” (or “Micro Muscuem”) is too small to have a real address. In fact, at only eight inches deep and sixteen inches wide, this New England art installation is dwarfed by the “We Make Our Own Bread” sign glaring from the Subway sandwich shop next door. The self-proclaimed “smallest museum in the world” is the culmination of three years of work for head curator Judith Klausner. “I’ve always…
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2013 » June
Archive for June, 2013 Newton’s Beads: Momentum Gone Wild… The best bead chain experiment ever, from “Earth Unplugged” – Enjoy! “Newton’s Beads” (with BBC’s Steve Mould): Emily K. Editor on 30 Jun 2013 | Audio & Video &Science & Research | Comments Off The Abandoned Suitcases of Insane Asylum Patients… So many stories to imagine of so many lost lives – this is a journey into the minds of other people… Abandoned Suitcases Reveal Private Lives of Insane Asylum Patients By Hunter Oatman-Stanford “If you were committed to a psychiatric institution, unsure if you’d ever return to the life you knew before, what would you take with you? That sobering…
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2013 » May
Archive for May, 2013 Teotihuacan has concealed a mysterious secret. Until Now. An interesting discovery has been made in Mexico’s ancient city of Teotihuacan. I wish that robots like this would be used in more mysterious ancient places – how about for exploring beneath the Sphinx where there may be large hollow chambers? The Huffington Post | By Ryan Grenoble “For centuries, Mexico’s ancient city of Teotihuacan has concealed a mysterious secret, only recently revealed by the help of robots equipped with lasers and infrared cameras. The small, remote-controlled devices have explored several rooms beneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, a structure described by Discovery as a “six-level pyramid…
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The Alternate Universe of Kymaerica
The Alternate Universe of Kymaerica This art is so deeply strange and oddly intriguing – are the installations permanently marking real locations commemorating history from an alternate reality? Or are the markers temporary art pieces placed strategically for short periods of observation? Either way, the work touches on the concepts of memorials, travel, geography, and history in a way that gets our imagination soaring… THE BELIEVER – NOVERMBER/DECEMBER 2009 Discover Kymaerica The brick courtyard was adjacent to the railroad tracks on Atlanta’s industrial west side—and part of a structure that had been transformed from its industrial roots to become the home of a five-star restaurant. I must have taken a…
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Abandoned amusement parks from around the world…
Abandoned amusement parks from around the world… With a tip of our hat to BoingBoing from whence many of these links originated, enjoy the mysterious beauty of abandoned amusement parks from around the world… Eerie images from the lost amusement park in New Orleans . The beautiful decay of River Country, Walt Disney World’s first waterpark. It opened in 1976, and closed in 2001. All the attractions remain in place, slowly being overtaken by nature and neglect… here. Berlin’s answer to the creepy and wonderfully abandoned amusement park here. Gorgeous photos of an abandoned park in northern Japan, here. And last but not least, the incredible and abandoned cheap Japanese…
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Beautifully Strange Paintings of Visual Chaos
Beautifully Strange Paintings of Visual Chaos What are these paintings conveying? Are they beautiful or are they just strange? How do they make you feel? I find them to be gorgeous, but mostly I love the way they make me feel like I am reading a story about something odd, suspenseful and exciting – to me the experience of looking at these is so much like reading something that you simply cannot put down because it’s so riveting… The Organized Chaos of Tatiana Kazakova by Tracy Jones “Flying saucers, whales, watermelons and white padded rooms collide inside the mind of Tatiana Kazakova. Living in Moscow, Russia, this digital artist and…
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Two Turntables Are A Drawing Machine
Two Turntables Are A Drawing Machine Perhaps this is not exactly mysterious, but the work of artists who tinker in thought provoking ways is always going to inspire wonder here at the Museum of Mysteries… Two Turntables Are A Drawing Machine “Forget two turntables and a microphone—focus instead on two turntables and some wooden arms. In Drawing Apparatus Robert Howsare turns a pair of turntables into an automated drawing machine, swapping rotating vinyl for two wooden arms that draw geometric patterns as the turntables spin around…” See the complete post here. Emily K. Editor on 09 Apr 2013 | Oddities &The Arts | Comments (0) Comments are closed. Connect With…
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2013 » April
Archive for April, 2013 Lost Egyptian City Revealed Nothing floats the Museum of Mysteries’ boat more than new Egyptian discoveries… Enjoy! (HuffPost) “It is a city shrouded in myth, swallowed by the Mediterranean Sea and buried in sand and mud for more than 1,200 years. But now archeologists are unearthing the mysteries of Heracleion, uncovering amazingly well-preserved artifacts that tell the story of a vibrant classical-era port. Known as Heracleion to the ancient Greeks and Thonis to the ancient Eygptians, the city was rediscovered in 2000 by French underwater archaeologist Dr. Franck Goddio and a team from the European Institute for Underwater Acheology (IEASM) after a four-year geophysical survey. The…
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Lego Abandonments
Lego Abandonments First of all, I love the word “abandonments” – and here are some in miniature. Made of Legos. Amazing! (Article by Urbanist) “Hundreds of hours and in some cases over one hundred thousand pieces have gone into the creation of this series of seriously detailed LEGO models, each constructed to replicate the processes of decay in miniature…” Click for the gallery. Emily K. Editor on 31 Mar 2013 | Oddities &The Arts | Comments (0) Comments are closed. Trackback URI | Connect With M.J. Copyright © M.J. Rose, All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy
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Mysterious Power of Love Letters
Mysterious Power of Love Letters …The power of words is no less potent than a love potion. I think it’s quite obvious that Virginia Woolf knew the secret to writing an effective love letter - Throw Over Your Man: Virginia Woolf’s 1927 Love Letter to Vita Sackville-West by Maria Popova “…and I’ll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads.” “What makes an extraordinary love letter? After Monday’s omnibus of famous correspondence, I revisited a lovely decade-old book titled The 50 Greatest Love Letters of All Time, which features missives from icons like Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Frida Kahlo, Franz Kafka, and Mozart, covering everything from…
