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An Ooh Oaah…! moment

Art: 

The First People, 2008
Red and yellow cedar
Susan Point

Drum with skull painting, 1991
Animal hide, acrylic, wood, bone
Susan Point

Mirror rack
Lacquer, bronze and cord
Japanese, 18th century
Edo period, 1603-1868

Seated figure, ca. 600-800
Ceramic and resin
Mexican, Veracruz

Crocodile headdress
Wood, skin, basketry
Nigerian/Cameroonian, Cross River, Ejagham

Seattle Art Museum

June 15th, 2018

 

Zymogenetics

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On the bus trip back to Seattle, I was absorbed by the (fairly) unobstructed views over Lake Union, thinking how clearly visible the Space Needle is even at such a distance, when this industrial building, looking very much like a power plant, with six smokestacks that didn’t seem to work, caught my eye. Then I saw Zymogenetics written on two of the smokestacks, covering their full length… What a strange name for a power plant, I thought, coming straight out of a science-fiction script. Somehow, it reminded me of the Zygons, those shape-shifting aliens from outer space, in Doctor Who.

Curious about the building (but mostly its alien-sounding name), I looked it up: ZymoGenetics, Inc was one of the oldest biotechnology/pharmaceutical companies in the USA, now closed at this address after its acquisition by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, another American pharmaceutical company, headquartered in New York City. The building, or parts of it, was taken over by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, one of the country’s leading cancer research institutions. (source: Wikipedia & GeekWire)

Bus-ride from Everett to Seattle, WA

June 14th, 2018

Welcome to Everett

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Home to Funko Headquarters and a giant flagship store with tons of those cute, square-headed figures, some of which cuter and more collectible than others, called Funko Pop!. I’m sure there are other interesting things to see and do in Everett, but it was Funko Pop! we wanted and by golly, Funko Pop! is what we got! And loads of great fun!

Everett, WA

June 14th, 2018

Sound Lab

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On permanent view

Sound Lab: Interactive multimedia installations. Electric guitars, drums, samplers, mixing consoles are ready for jamming – all that’s missing is you.

Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses. Who would’ve thought they’d be a museum item so soon!

Wild Blue Angel: Hendrix Abroad, 1966-1970. A travelling legend, at home in Seattle.

Museum of Pop Culture

June 13th, 2018

Strange and Far-Flung Worlds to Explore

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Arrakis

[”…in the late 1950s, Frank Herbert flew to Florence, Ore., in a small chartered plane to write about a U.S. Department of Agriculture effort to stabilize sand dunes with European beach grasses. The author was struck by the way dunes could move, over time, like living things — swallowing rivers, clogging lakes, burying forests. “These waves can be every bit as devastating as a tidal wave . . . they’ve even caused deaths,” he wrote his agent, beginning an article, “They Stopped the Moving Sands,” that was never published.”]
Source: Los Angeles Times

*Robot Gort is a full scale reproduction of the robot from the film ”The Day the Earth Stood Still”, 1951

Museum of Pop Culture

June 13th, 2018

Excelsior! Marvel Universe @ MoPOP || SEAttle

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Scarlet Witch #1
David Aja, 2016

Daredevil #188, cover
Frank Miller (pencils), Klaus Janson (inks), 1982

Giant-size X-Men #1, cover
Gil Kane and Dave Cockrum (pencils) and Dave Cockrum (inks), 1975
This rare piece of original art shows the first appearance of the ”new” X-Men literally bursting through an image of the old team.

New X-Men, in-house advertising art
By Dave Cockrum, 1978

The Uncanny X-Men #136, cover
John Byrne (pencils) and Terry Austin (inks), 1980

Wolverine #1, cover
Frank Miller (pencils), Joe Rubinstein (inks), 1982

New Mutants, poster
Art by Bill Sienkiewicz, 1984
Mixed media

Matt Murdock’s cane & glasses as used by Charlie Cox in ”Daredevil” and ”The Defenders” (2015-2017)

Daredevil #69, cover
Art by Alex Maleev, 1998

Daredevil #181, cover
Frank Miller (pencils), Klaus Janson (inks), 1982

Tony Isabella and Arvell Jones created Mercedes Kelly Knight in 1975 for the ”Iron Fist” series. A former NYPD cop, Misty had a mechanical arm (courtesy of Tony Stark), a striking Afro hairstyle (courtesy of Angela Davis) and a tough, sexy attitude (courtesy of the popular so-called Blacksploitation movies that also inspired Luke Cage). As a super-powered woman of colour, Misty was instantly ground-breaking; what’s more, in 1977, Misty and Iron Fist shared what may have been the first interracial kiss in a Super hero comic.

I am Groot, I am Groot, I am Groot, I am Groot (trnsl: Groot as seen in ”Guardians of the Galaxy” (2014)

Museum of Pop Culture

June 13th, 2018