“To Pee-wee we must at least partially credit the mainstream culture’s decades-long appreciation for mid-century American kitsch, in all its glitter, cereal-box dinosaurs, princess phones and sci-fi robots. The owners of funky tchotchke stores in any town’s gay/artsy neighborhood owe Pee-wee Herman (and the B-52s, and Godzilla) their undying gratitude for prolonging a fetish for retro junk culture that persists to this day.”
Afternoon view: Blanket of white azaleas outside the library. (Taken with Instagram at Heights Library)
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Bonus: “Rice University has commissioned a [Turrell] skyspace for its campus following a multimillion-dollar gif…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a74557e4b0b80ded0421f1/1437979155426-7N6U8BZ3FBRNYQT85882/image-asset.jpeg)
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Bonus: “Rice University has commissioned a [Turrell] skyspace for its campus following a multimillion-dollar gift from alumna Suzanne Deal Booth.”
Related: Earlier post about the Turrell skyspace in Houston’s Live Oak Friends Meeting House.
Update: Info from today, March 18, via The Rice Thresher, Rice University’s newspaper: The $6-million skyspace “will be situated on a raised grass hill so that people will be able to walk through it into a covered tunnel inside, where there will be space for 30 to 40 people to sit on benches. The second floor will have standing room for 60 to 70 people, along with a panel in the ceiling to display the sky and frame an LED display for shows at sunrise and sunset. The skyspace will be outfitted for musical performances by small ensembles.” The installation is expected to be completed by December.
Opera House provides live streaming for mobile phones →
Via emergentfutures:
USUALLY when patrons attend a performance at Sydney’s Opera House, they’re politely asked to switch off their mobile phones.
But this Sunday, when music lovers converge on the iconic Sydney venue for the 2011 YouTube Symphony Orchestra concert, audience members will be asked for the first time in the history of the Opera House to turn on their mobile phones and live stream the event worldwide.
Full Story: AustralianIT
Great special section on museums from today's New York Times. →
Readers who come to Times articles through links from search, blogs and social media like Facebook and Twitter will be able to read those articles, even if they have reached their monthly reading limit. →
Via willzone:
spiderman street art.