Monday, March 30, 2009

field notes: initial reactions to AMNH (hardy stewart)

A big pretty butterfly on white wall, a caterpillar. A big ramp up to street . . . up ramp follow beetles and butterflies and dragonflies and ants. Grasshoppers. Bird, scorpion. Museum, it’s bigger than in pdf. Air is cold and pretty and rain—a few spits. There’s a pretty girl sitting on the fifth step. I have not been uptown so far. Inside, Pantheon type and a fat dino (little ones too) all around!

Can’t sit on the ground

If you sit on the ground don’t sit

On the ground please don’t

African mammals

The giraffes are considerably smaller than what I had expected.

“The watering hole was a place where—the water hole was a place where zebras, giraffes, and whatever you call those came, came to drink their water.”

“I think that one is getting milk.”

“So you already know that that one’s the momma.”

“And that one’s the dad.”

“How do you know that one’s the dad?”

“Same color.”

“Well, yeah, but what else is different?”

“He’s taller.”

“Right.”

--mother and two children observing water hole exhibit

--can see the reconstruction flaws on mountain nyalo—on face mostly. Before knowing about the process of taxidermy I would have thought that these were veins.


Buffalo are huge! No wonder people follow! One million portions.

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