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The Chelsea Hotel: Topsy Turvy in New York |
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Written by Russell Johnson
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Story, Photos & Video,(c) Russ Johnson
Sometimes I just like to go sit on a stump. Sometimes in a wild place, watching lines of ants queued up, like Pharaohs' slaves, delivering boulder-sized breadcrumbs to some fat-bustled queen. Often it is in some city square. A few weeks ago it was the lobby of the Chelsea Hotel in New York City, where I parked myself in a free WiFi zone and Googled with delight at the dogs and eccentrics who paraded through the lobby, the painter who was painting them, and the cries of "Hey Stanley!"
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Art in the Vineyards: The di Rosa Preserve |
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Written by Russell Johnson
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Art can be joyous or tedious. I have spent days dutifully wandering the
Louvre, through galleries of lookalike paintings appealing only to
obsessed scholars. I have zoomed through rooms of black canvasses and
blue dots, gazed at objects I am supposed to appreciate that I do not
understand, that I am apparently not supposed to understand because by
understanding I would miss the point of the work, which is not supposed
to have a point.
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The Monterey Bay Aquarium |
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Written by Russell Johnson
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Jellyfish, Monterey Bay Aquarium
©2005 Russell Johnson
For
a moment recently, I wished I were a jellyfish. Now, a jellyfish that has washed
up on a beach looks disgusting…like a discarded Ziploc bag. But the Jellies
at the Outer Bay exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California have reason
to be envied.
Imagine
spending your life tumbling languidly in liquid suspension while thousands of
admirers ooh and awwh. Not bad for a gelatinous blob without heart or brain. Jellies
can, however, see, smell (so scientists say) and taste even though they would
make terribly inarticulate restaurant critics. And even though the sight of one
is enough to make a diver convulse in terror, most species of jellyfish, unlike
many objects of beauty, are not the least bit dangerous.
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