Round Museum

Why did the honeydew and the watermelon decide to get married in a church?

06.15.20

Wasps are busy little builders. The nests they make are composed of hexagonal shaped cells efficiently packed together and eventually wrapped in a spherical, papery outer shell. Entomologists have observed that wasps build the cell walls by measuring and re-measuring with their antenna as they create a series of symmetrical Y intersections. They are real good at this, much better than the hack job that honeybees do.

06.13.20

Remember when Mary Lou said 'You want to walk me home from school'? You said 'yes' and took a stroll, wound up down by the swimmin' hole? Well, there in the skimmer for goodness sake, she caught a scary spider and snake! That ain't what it takes to love you!

06.12.20

The Colored Girls Museum is a memoir museum, which honors the stories, experiences, and history of ordinary Colored Girls. This museum initiates the object—submitted by the colored girl herself, as representative of an aspect of her story and personal history, which she finds meaningful; her object embodies her experience and expression of being a Colored Girl. The Colored Girls Museum is headquartered in the historic neighborhood of Germantown in Philadelphia, an area renowned for its compliment of historic buildings and homes.

06.11.20

It might seem hard, but it will be easier to eat your rice if you master your chopstick technique. First, hold them about halfway down with the upper one like a pencil and the lower against your ring finger. Keep the tips even and lift the rice with a scooping and pinching motion. Then put the bowl up to your mouth and just shovel it in.

06.10.20

Hey, is this Daphne's Disappearing Puff Ball trick? For weeks her Round kitty toy was nowhere to be seen, and suddenly its here on the kitchen floor. Abracatabra!

06.08.20

The swirling snakes and piercing eyes can mesmerize. Don’t look too closely or stare directly. Medusa will turn you to stone. Or lots of little mosaic stones.

Princeton University Art Museum
New Jersey

06.07.20

When you come upon a hole drilled into a rock, always avoid putting your hand into it. See, it says so right there.

06.06.20

This is not James Bond's martini. If you shake this one, you'll crush the flower. The executive drink of the 1950s and 60s was iconic in its three ingredient simplicity: gin, a whiff of vermouth, maybe a lemon twist. While a beautiful wildflower gives this bird bath glass a colorful garnish, this is definitely a post millennium nouveau cocktail. Pick any ingredient, add vodka, add the suffix -tini, and stir. Voila!

06.05.20

With 42 slots and more than 4 trillion possible board positions, all you have to do is drop in a disk to fill a Round space, line up four in a row horizontally, vertically or diagonally and you win. Simple! You just need to anticipate some moves, figure a strategic algorithm for the advantage. Move ordering? Alpha-beta pruning and transposition tables? Brute-force? Ah, whatever, you're taking too long. Just drop one in the middle.

06.04.20