Thursday, August 28, 2014

Cambridge, MA, Day 1: NJ Doesn'ft Have a Lock on Weird

[NOTE: Saturday's ride will be on Monday.  Scroll down to the next post for details.]


28 August 2014

For instance, this street-level patio.  Zoom in and tell me you're not creeped out.



MIT's Stata Center, designed by Frank Gehry.  Princeton's Gehry isn't as showy.






From the back it's ordinary:


This view is from the center of campus:


This is a not at all weird science building.  It has telltale hood vents.  Jack and I play find-the-labs every time we're on a new campus.  MIT is kind of a gimme.  Jack said, "There's one here, and here, and..."


This is weird.  And wrong:


We plunked down $10 each for admission to the MIT Museum.  It was money well spent.  Here are several of the many Arthur Ganson sculptures.

"Machine With Wishbone," creepy:



"Machine With Roller Chain," for the bike nerds among us:



"Cory's Yellow Chair," way cool:



I didn't get the title of this one.  It might be, or is at least similar to "Machine With 23 Scraps of Paper."



"Haliades," by John Douglas Powers (our Infoguy's secret identity?):



"Lalu," by John Douglas Powers:



Outside, wooden hexagons were being clear-coated.  


OMG, think of what this would do to a good paint job.  I can't look:


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