Showing posts with label recreations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recreations. Show all posts

Thursday, May 14, 2009

It's Gonna Stick Like That

The Getty Center has a marvelous setting and a delightful building, but a somewhat less-inspired collection of art. That is, unless you are interested in endless Italian oil paintings of crucifixions.
One of the more entertaining pieces is recreated here by B. The original is below. The security guard wouldn't let us put glasses on the gentleman.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

The Shot Heard 'Round The Neighborhood

The first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired at the Old North Bridge which stands approximately in the same location that a previous bridge stood approximately where yet another bridge stood approximately where the original bridge stood.