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David Attenborough – Wonderful World – BBC

Posted on December 24th, 2011 • Filed under Look • No Comments

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This Week at Serious Eats World Headquarters

Posted on September 3rd, 2011 • Filed under Taste • No Comments

VIEW SLIDESHOW: This Week at Serious Eats World Headquarters

This week we drank a lot of Coke in the name of research, we had a very balanced lunch of tamales and macarons, and some of us skipped town in the Serious Eats Explorer (thanks, Ford!) on a food roadtrip. Check out our week!

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“Genius or Grotesquery? The Arrestingly Strange World of Walter Potter,” The Museum of Everything, Exhibition # 3

Posted on October 15th, 2010 • Filed under Uncategorized • No Comments

The wild and eerie Victorian world of Walter Potter, where baby rabbits go to school and weep over their blotted copybooks, and where Bullingdon Club-style squirrels puff on cigars as toads play leapfrog and rat police raid a drinking den, is being reassembled in London, seven years after his creatures were sold and scattered across the world.

The displays are being assembled at the reopened Museum of Everything, a pop-up museum in a former Victorian dairy, and later recording studio, in Primrose Hill, London…

Whilst in London last week, I had the very good fortune to attend a preview of The Museum of Everything’s “Exhibition #3,” a carnivalesque spree exploring all things collectory, side-show, circus, grotto, and taxidermological. One of the exhibitions more impressive achievements–and the reason I was there in the first place–was the attempt to re-stage Victorian anthropomorphic taxidermist Walter Potter’s Victorian museum of curiosities, a noble feat achieved by borrowing an assortment of Potter’s charming pieces from the assortment of lucky private collectors–including Damien Hirst, Sir Peter Blake, and Pat Morris–who acquired them after the museum was controversially divided at auction in 2003.

Today’s Guardian has run what I hope will be only the first of many ecstatic pieces on this wonderful exhibition, and on the Potter portion in particular, entitled “Genius or grotesquery? The arrestingly strange world of Walter Potter.”

My friend Pat Morris–who spoke on Walter Potter at our recent Congress for Curious People– loaned several of his own Potter pieces to the exhibition, most notably “The Death of Cock Robin, a truly epic tableaux depicting the funeral procession of the fabled Cock Robin as recounted in the well-known Englist nursery rhyme “Who Killed Cock Robin.” This spectacular piece, as the Guardian describes, includes “more than 100 birds including a weeping robin widow and an owl gravedigger who has tumbled some tiny bones out of the soil while preparing space for the dead robin.” For a visual (but please note: this image simply does not do the piece justice!), see third image down.

Besides being a collector of great proportion, Mr. Morris is also the author of the only extant book on Mr. Potter and his work, the lavishly illustrated and encyclopedic Walter Potter and His Museum of Curious Taxidermy, which you can buy in hardback or paperback by clicking here or here, respectively. You can also find out more about Potter, his work and his history by visiting the Ravishing Beast website by clicking here. You can read the full Genius or grotesquery?” article on the Guardian website by clicking here. To find out more about this exhibition–which will be on at least till Christmas–and the very curious Museum of Everything, click here.

Thanks to friend, friend-of-the-blog, and many time Observatory lecturer John Troyer for alerting me to this article!

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World Maker Faire: Last Day to Buy Advance Tickets!

Posted on September 14th, 2010 • Filed under Uncategorized • No Comments

I know you’re all sure you’re coming to World Maker Faire New York on September 25th and/or 26th, so why not save a little money and time by getting your tickets in advance? Save $5 on a day ticket or $15 on a weekend ticket by ordering them before midnight tonight (September 14), and don’t spend the event waiting in line. We always say Maker Faire will be amazing, but this time you’re in for several super special treats:

Diana Eng’s Technology Fashion Show

In 1964 the World’s Fair was a showcase of innovation. On September 25th, 2010 at World Maker Faire, Diana Eng will present the latest innovation in fashion. At 2pm, Models will walk the runway in a high-end fashion show, featuring designs that are electronic, shape transforming, motion sensing, and biomimetic.

World Maker Faire showcases the best of do-it-yourself science and technology, making it the perfect setting for Diana Eng’s technology-based fashion and runway show. Included in the show is a dress inspired by bioluminescent jellyfish and fabricated with electroluminescent wire. Also featured are clothes with deployable structures mimicking opening leaves.

The Madagascar Institute presents: Chariot Races!

Chariot races! Jankety, cobbled together, dangerous-to‐even‐look‐at chariots, pedal‐powered versus jet‐powered versus people‐pulling‐a‐rebuilt‐Idiotarod‐shopping cart versus a motorcycle-with‐minor‐variations smashing and crashing and racing around a tightly‐turning track in heats of four, all for crappy trophies but tons of glory, admiration, and envy at your boundless intestinal fortitude, brilliant creativity, and clever use of limited building skills.

There will be three rounds of races on Saturday throughout the day with a final round of races on Sunday. The races will take place in the Rocket Roundabout (very centrally located at World Maker Faire/NY SCI) and is going to be an audience favorite.

Pictured above is another fabulous attraction coming to World Maker Faire NY: the Thundersteed Jet Ponies merry-go-round.

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