Round Museum

The distinctive sound of the holiday season is the light, festive tinkling of metallic bells on a one horse open sleigh. But this giant jingle will rock you. Rock you.

12.14.21

The Jeep Grand Wagoneer was the first true luxury 4x4 vehicle, allowing Americans to enjoy rugged adventure in comfort and style. This Wagoneer now sits and dreams of days gone by and roads once traveled. Motor housings, rockers and gears are folded inside out making up the surface of the sphere. The once tightly packed SUV has become a hollow shell with the mechanisms which gave this machine its utility arranged for their physical appearance rater than their actual function.

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
Keny Marshall
2009

12.13.21

You can't miss a bright yellow mushroom cap peeking through leaves and ground cover on your hike. The saffron milk cap is known as one of the most delicious mushrooms there is, hence its scientific name. With a slightly peppery taste, slice one up and throw it into a salad, or sauté it with olive oil and salt, or grill it on the barbecue. Oh, happy day!

12.12.21

To access accurate time keeping you have your Coordinated Universal Time, and your standard-frequency and time-signal emissions, and your International Atomic Time with leap seconds added at irregular intervals, and global satellite positioning of your mobile device. But you can always rely on the sun. With a sundial all you have to have is a gnomon that casts a shadow. With a particular size for your latitude. Make sure to add or subtract minutes based on your location within your time zone.

'Tis the season to send and receive packages! With delivery workflows overflowing at the same time supply chains are strained, boxes are either stacking up outside the corner post office or just missing altogether. Some places have experienced rashes of package thefts, with boxes torn up and strewn around the neighborhood. Hopefully your package arrives on time and safely in one piece. You wouldn't want to be identifying the polystyrene remains.

12.10.21

It's December and heading toward the holidays, so a little Round stock of split wood will have you set for a nice fire on a chilly evening.

12.09.21

A remote desert highway. Cool wind in my hair. Twenty miles south of the Grand Canyon. Landscape covered with brittle bush, soon to become tumbleweeds. A souvenir shop disguised as an old west trading outpost. A taxidermic moose. A wagon wheel. A rose. You can check it out anytime you want.

12.06.21

A bowl of crispy tortilla chips awaits you, and hopefully there's something for dipping. Maybe chile con queso or guacamole. If you’re lucky Greg has made a vibrant green salsa verde with fresh tomatillos, green chilies and cilantro.

12.05.21

Every good Scot will surely serve their haggis with neeps and tatties, preferably mashed separate or sometimes clapshot, but always with a dram. That's been a given for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. Why, even Pliny the Elder said of the neep, "its utility surpasses that of any other plant." High praise for a vegetable. Don't know what he thought of whisky, though.

12.04.21

This little group of terrestrial bodies seems like they could be revolving around one another. Over time the shape of their orbits may shift from circular to oval. If we sit here on the plaza for awhile maybe we could observe the points of apoapsis and periapsis between them. Or, they may not move at all.

12.03.21