-- from lil

Some photos from the National Science Museum, Tokyo. The exhibit on the left is a tree of life, lighted panels on the floor show connections among species. The exhibit on the right has these screens which have the info about the animals (in different languages) and videos of the animals in their own surroundings etc etc

Overall.. an interesting museum I'm sure. Obviously there are far more interesting ones in the world, but we seem to specialize in making the best YOU ARE NOT WELCOME museums in the world. Forget the upkeep of the artifacts, forget the "welcome to the morgue" smell. Start from the sullen guards. Its not my fault that you're placed in this boring job, in fact they hardly have anythign to complain about. Its a cushy job, and unlike their other brethren who are out on the street upholding they law, these guards just sit and do nothing. The least they can do is be polite to anyone who decides to grace the museum with his/her presence. Guard rant some other time....

Anyway, we need cool museums. We need exhibits that are interesting. Not just informative in a "Garfield's Tree Channel" way, but exhibits which suck in the guest. I want all encompasing, all experiential, interactive immersive spaces. I want total immerision.. And I want freindly, attentive, knowledable people to staff our museums. People who dont get paid even if they fuck around and NOT help people... and can we have people who know something? Its a fuckin museum, people are expected to ask question and the staff that populates most museums doesnt know their elbows from their assholes.

And stuff the WHO WILL FUND THIS EXORBINANT INTERACTIVE MONSTROSITY? Hell I dont know, if they can finance vitrified tiles to be put on garbage dumps (and the garbage dumped outside) they can scrape up some dough for my cool museum.

Another thing... I want hands on museums.. people should be allowed to touch the exbhibits. Not like, every time a viewer comes back u have a whole army of people yelling DO NOT TOUCH YOU BARBARIAN, git yer filthy hands off my museum. Wont do.

And the reverse too... people.. public.. when u're in a museum that DOES allow touching, be a little respectfull. This aint yer fucking drawing room u inconsiderate basards. Repect other people's stuff. Do not spit in corners, do not piss on the walls.

And those who write their and their significant others' names on monuments are the lowest form of scum there is. They should be castrated with the same instrument they defaced the monument with, then they should be hung upside down, naked, at the door of the same monument as a warning to other would-be scum. Like the good old days.........

Gimme a break.... Raj Loves Anjali. Well the chances are Anjali never heard of raj, cause Raj is a puny-pricked basatrd who never had to balls to talk to Anjali, and all he COULD do was chisel this shit on some monument. Might have been that Anjali chiseled it, in which case, She's a Bitch.

back to museums.... how cool is this:


-- from lil

A parasol garden on the roof, they open up when someone is near, and close when the person moves away. I love interactive shite.

All the pictures are taken by Lil on Flickr. Click here for a slideshow of her museum pics

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