There’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip, the best laid plans of mice and men aft gang agley, and things never work out quite the way they are planned. I certainly know this from the poetry I write. Sometimes I crank out a nice poem, with a consistent meter and good rhymes throughout, but it doesn’t always express the original idea on which it is based.
This particular exhibit was about as interesting as a refrigerator
This reality was reinforced 3 times today.
A friend posted a link on my facebook page about something called “The Museum of Forgotten Sounds” an internet project which just sounds brilliant, because as new technologies supersede the old, many familiar sounds will disappear. The ring of an old fashioned phone, the sound of a big, brass door knocker, the clip clop of a horse’s hooves. But I couldn’t access the site. Still needs work.
An article I read on the Huffington Post was talking about different social media sites, and how people use them. I can’t imagine that the person who invented Twitter fully realized how incredibly shallow the people who used it would be. I imagine they imagined fast paced, sharp conversations filled chock a block with witty repartee and a concise expression of opinion. Perhaps I’m wrong, and the developers are just as shallow as their clientele. I sure hope not, because that would depress me.
But the hands-on experience that confirmed this for me today was a visit to the “Museum of Children’s Art,” just off Old Town Square. From their internet page, it looked like an inspiring place to take the kids, interactive art exhibits and such.
There were, after the reception area, 3 rooms. In one, kids could write on the walls. It’s a nice thing to have, but it was basically the core of the exhibit.
Also, they made a big deal about recycling, which I’m all for, but I’m always a bit bummed that talk of recycling so quickly turns to how you can cut up plastic bottles and make Christmas tree ornaments, or something similarly useless. If we want recycling to save the world, we’re going to have to recycle old products into useful, necessary items. But, that wouldn’t have fit the theme at all.
Anyway, the kids had a good time, although they weren’t terribly impressed either. The idea of having an art museum for children is a great one. I just would have liked to have seen it done a little bit better.
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