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San Francisco CA - This is where they make the displays and interactive exhibits at the Exploratorium.
The Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco, California is a building originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition.
Went down to check out the Exploratorium's new location. For two nights they had a show where they projected images on the front of the building. Pretty cool stuff and incredibly well done.
Xylophone seems like the logical follow up to "Chime Line". How can you not play them when they are right there waiting for you?!
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Made of hundreds of thousands of toothpicks, this is only a very small part of it
Pentax Super Program
SMC Takumar 85mm 1.8
Fuji 200
The playground platform was accessible, with a ramp. I appreciated that! Any time that I don't have to watch from the sidelines is really nice.
© Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu. Some rights reserved. Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
© Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu. Some rights reserved. Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
© Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu. Some rights reserved. Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
Went down to check out the Exploratorium's new location. For two nights they had a show where they projected images on the front of the building. Pretty cool stuff and incredibly well done.
Swinging a baseball bat (golfer style). The distance between the dots of one color is a measure of speed of that point on the bat. Beautiful example of accelerated motion.
Photographs by Amy Snyder, 2007
Went down to check out the Exploratorium's new location. For two nights they had a show where they projected images on the front of the building. Pretty cool stuff and incredibly well done.
Went down to check out the Exploratorium's new location. For two nights they had a show where they projected images on the front of the building. Pretty cool stuff and incredibly well done.
Xylophone seems like the logical follow up to "Chime Line". How can you not play them when they are right there waiting for you?
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You see things; and you say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?”
George Berrnard Shaw
A reproduction of the Palace of Fine Arts -- in Jell-O!
The artist is Elizabeth (Liz) Hickok.
This was part of a special exhibit in the Exploratorium (housed in the Palace of Fine Arts [NOTE 2017 - Now located on the Embarcadero]) in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. The Jello molds (which included several blocks of the City surrounding the Palace) were placed on a shaker table -- people could shake the table and see the buildings jiggle, giving one an idea (albeit a not very accurate one) of the effects of an earthquake on buildings. It was hugely fun to watch.
Side Note of interest: The Jello molds were made with vodka rather than water so they would not melt so easily at room temperature -- not your childhood’s version of Jello!! The Exploratorium itself is an extremely cool hands-on, participatory science museum to visit, for both children and adults.