Round Museum

After you've fired into the bunny hole and made your kills, your marble collection needs to be stored properly. Where should you put your Keepsies? Why, in a special place like this shot glass inside a cube. Plumpers, Thumpers, and Dobbers? You could get a padded box, but a drawstring bag will do. It goes without saying that Smashers shouldn't be thrown, and Toebreakers shouldn't be dropped. But what about the Popper? You'd be wise to keep it in your pocket.

11.26.19

It's a long walk from the tailgate party and through the parking lot and then down the stadium tunnel to arrive at today's pro football game. Especially if you've had one or ten too many. That pipe just seems to get longer and looooonger as you zig zig your way into the light. Who's playing?

11.24.19

Forget your Iron Throne, the Game of Rivets features the Iron Girder and requires that you gather at least four highly skilled riveters from around the Kingdom – A Cook with tongs to man the fiery furnace. A Catcher to snag the white-hot rivets in an ash-lined leather bucket. A Holder-On to set them with a pneumatic jack. And a Basher to hammer the Round head into a mushroom dome. It's a brutal sport, and yet you can't look away.

11.23.19

Through perceptual psychology one can study how image forms and visual phenomena are interpreted. Ambiguous images are famous for the ability to induce multiple perceptions and binocular rivalries. Wittgenstein would use the rabbit-duck illusion to test interpretation versus perception -- is this a rabbit? A duck? Both? The Necker cube might be coming toward you or going away from you, depending on how you look at it. Can you walk up Schroeder's staircase or will you fall down it? Is this Round a tree ring or a nipple?

11.22.19

A spherical celestial interactive sculpture stands outside the Planetario de Medellín in Colombia, a museum of space sciences featuring a 57-foot digital dome. Named after Jesus Emilio Ramírez González, a priest who was dedicated to the earth sciences, particularly astronomy, the Planetario opened in 1984 and became part of the Parque Explora museums group in 2011.

11.20.19

At some point, everything breaks down. One moment you're enjoying a nice warm shower and the next, surprise! Ice cold good morning to you. After this water heater died, apparently it was buried in a shallow grave out behind an abandoned warehouse down a long, lonely road.

11.18.19

Despite the attire of these figurines, it's not sunbathing weather. With a polar vortex blasting across the U.S. right now, you could apply some SPF 50 lotion to protect from the sun's ultraviolet rays, but would it prevent frostbite?

11.17.19

If the dispenser in your bathroom stall has run out of toilet paper, then it probably isn't this one. While a standard roll of 2-ply paper has around 400 squares, this industrial-sized monster can spare quite a few more than that. Go ahead, you can ask. Three? You want three squares??

11.16.19

If you're waiting on your dumplings and are handed a bowl of seaweed soup, eat up! There's an ocean of minerals needed for good health in this bowl and as much as it is green, it is gone.

11.15.19

This wall needs help. It's seen its fair share of moisture. A little algae removal, cement, plaster, sealant, maybe some repointing, or something. It's crumbling. And I'm pretty sure small animals can get in and out at that vent.

11.14.19