Round Museum

Hunting crabs at night on the beach requires a flashlight, a big bucket and fast feet. Watch your fingers and toes.

11.01.16

It is Retail Marketing 101, folks: if you want to sell something, get a giant inflatable and park it out in front of your store. Selling steel belted radials? How about a monster-truck-sized tire! Barbeque? A Paul Bunyan-sized cowboy with pistols might do! Soft drinks, junk food and cigarettes? A ginormous... pink... King Kong, maybe? Makes a leering Jack o' Round at the costume store seem tame by comparison.

10.30.16

Halloween brings out the scary and the silly. This bat has eaten one too many mosquito, apparently. It also too closely resembles a piñata, so one candy-mad kid with a bat will take down this bulbous bat real quick.

10.29.16

A rainstorm will usually bring out the parasols in the backyard. These mushrooms are the flowering part of a larger fungus that grows underground, thriving on moisture and shade, and popping up to release tiny spores and spread its mushroomy self all over the place.

10.24.16

Rollo only has two states: "ON" or "OFF" -- there is no in between. Spending the first 6 months of his life cooped up on a side porch, once he was rescued you can't blame the guy for enjoying life's ON-mode to the fullest. This is his OFF-mode, of course, a serene dog-ball which is not witnessed often.

10.22.16

"The camera never lies," they say. An image captured is a precise record of a moment in the camera's eye. But, of course, that is not exactly true. "Mirrors are perpetually deceitful," they say. They reflect only what your mind believes it sees. And, of course that is not really true either. So, if you look at a mirror through a camera, well... is seeing believing?

10.19.16

The Ripley's Believe It Or Not chain of museums trades in collections of unusual and bizarre curiosities. Debuting at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933, Ripley called it an "Odditorium," so it is no surprise that the architecture of the Atlantic City museum follows suit with a massive globe tragically crushing the front facade.

10.14.16

The view from below at the Galaxy Hotel Iraklio in Heraklion, Greece, is a bit more mysterious than from above. Is this the way up or down? Is it taking you in or out? With few details to the smooth spiral curves, the courageous traveler's only option is to take the first step.

10.12.16

Looking through a spiral can be a hypnotizing experience, a seeming infinity diminishing around and around a distant center point. You are getting sleepy.... very, very sleepy. Fortunately this spiral staircase view is on the sixth floor of the 5-star Galaxy Hotel Iraklio in Heraklion, Greece. If you feel sleepy, go lie down for awhile in comfort!

10.11.16

From planets to electrons, forces pulling toward a central point create the rounds that make up our universe. It is all relative. At The Rose Center, the scale of objects in the universe can be measured against the 87-foot diameter Hayden Sphere. Where the Sphere represents the Sun, Jupiter is 9-feet in diameter, Saturn's rings are 17-feet and Earth is the size of a grapefruit. So how big are you, looking up at Jupiter from the surface of a grapefruit?

The Rose Center for Earth and Space
American Museum of Natural History
New York, NY

10.10.16