A hot sunny Sunday with French toast for breakfast, made with yesterday's baguette. Kevin Parker is in town from Manchester because he gave a lecture at the Sorbonne yesterday on the science of vision. He came over for coffee and then we walked the few blocks to the incredible Art + Craft Museum - not what most Americans would expect - and one Kevin's favorites, so we were holding off on going until he was here. This amazing museum is full of old wavy glass and wooden cases of turntables, batteries, cameras, phones, typewriters, stenographer machines, gears, automatons and a church filled with airplanes and chitty chitty bang bang cars.....like this spy camera tie:
An old Church is part of the museum and it is filled with crazy modern scaffolding ramps and planes and cars....
I learned that Eiffel assisted on the Statue of Liberty. I always thought it was just Bertholdi. Here is Liberty David...
Guthrie's dream machine
Kevin!
A miniature replica model of the building of the Statue of Liberty
The darkroom at Salpetriere (replica miniature model)
Underneath one of the many models of the Statue of Liberty at this Museum, you can walk under the stairs and discover this amazing view
One of the many auomatons
An old and gorgeous bicycle
My Manchester blue shoes and the red couches at the museum
The first and only braille photograph I have ever seen.
Cables
Experimental TV device
Cameras
Gears
Street graffiti on the way there
Guthrie loving this museum
Harper resting
Kevin, David and Harper learning something
Kids inside radios
magic lantern wheels
microphone
a camera to catch motion sequences
A negative image of an old phone
One of the first planes hanging in the amazing staircase
radios
model staircase
stenographer's machine
Typewriters for Amy White
Crazy x-ray images on the windows.....
Fabulous photos! Love what you are doing with Lumiere, So amazing that I am here while you are. So jealous that you are staying... !
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