Round Museum

If you cast your chicken wire net wide enough, you’re bound to catch a few beads, plastic berries, shells and eyeballs — especially along the Walnut Steet corridor.

10.13.22

Hey, found your hat. It was blowing down 10th Street. Will hang it right here for you.

10.12.22

Before the buttery bib lettuce greens get into the bowl with the tomatoes, carrots, beets and avocado, first let’s get rid of the root stump. That’s the end of the salad that really gets tossed.

10.11.12

In the realm of art imitating recycling, a plethora of multi-colored bottle caps have been transformed in one blast of creativity. Can you guess how many Rounds?

10.10.22

I see you up there, reflected in the copper globe light thinking about your special salad order. What will it be today? There are a lot of combinations to consider. Brown rice and kale, with roasted sweet potatoes, chicken and cilantro lime dressing? Spinach and bulgur with black beans, avocado and grilled mushrooms? It's hard to choose...

10.08.22

The southern part of the Rockies in Colorado is inhabited by honey-ants which have special workers that gorge themselves on nectar to the point of being distended into a species of spherical "bottles." Having almost lost the capacity to move around, they hang nearly motionless from the ceiling of the subterranean chambers in the nest. Their function is to regurgitate the honey "on call" when incited by the tapping of their hungry comrades' antennae.

Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Pittsburgh, PA

10.07.22

Sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes with a bitter old nut like the acorn... you don't. Once a staple of the human diet in our early history, it's not a very desirable option nowadays. But, hey, if you leach out the bitter tannins in water and crush some into acorn meal, our man Pliny the Elder says you could use it to make bread. Feel like it?

10.06.22

Hey, daddy-O, the sink needs cleaning. Soooo, put a smile on and start scrubbin'!

10.05.22

Throw the balls in the cage and give it a spin, it's time for some BINGO! Who's making the calls? Here's a B-3... So have a cup of tea. I-17? There's a Dancing Queen! Now a N-32... Buckle my shoe. We have a G-60.... Grandma's getting frisky! And an O-66... Snake eyes in the mix!

10.04.22

Grab your skates off the shelf, kids-- it's time to roll! While the side-by-side "quad" wheel is viewed as the classic style, the first skate design invented by John Joseph Merlin in 1760 had in-line wheels to simulate ice skating. It didn't catch on at the time, most likely because Merlin attempted to skate through a masquerade party while playing the violin, crashed through an expensive mirror and was severely injured. Well, kids... let that be a lesson to always wear your pads and helmet!

10.03.22