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Laurence Srinavasan's Transamerica pyramid in ice--not long for this world...especially on a sunny day. #risdnorcal #everythingmustgo #globalwarming

Laurence Srinavasan's Transamerica pyramid in ice--not long for this world...especially on a sunny day. #risdnorcal #everythingmustgo #globalwarming

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Mary Curtis Ratcliff's "Party Bling" @RISD alum event in #SFO's #HayesValley today #everythingmustgo #risdnorcal #handcrafted

Mary Curtis Ratcliff's "Party Bling" @RISD alum event in #SFO's #HayesValley today #everythingmustgo #risdnorcal #handcrafted

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Small sampling of Robert Howard's mound of 20,044 smiling heads cast in grout--one for each day of his life #risdnorcal #everythingmustgo!

Small sampling of Robert Howard's mound of 20,044 smiling heads cast in grout--one for each day of his life #risdnorcal #everythingmustgo!

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This most beautiful object, made of feathers, worth the visit. @omca #fridaynight

This most beautiful object, made of feathers, worth the visit. @omca #fridaynight

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#offthegrid food truck heaven @omca Friday night #winogrand

#offthegrid food truck heaven @omca Friday night #winogrand

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I realize I'm taking this stairway every chance I get. Another farewell @sfmoma, as we prepare to close. Bye-bye building as we know it!

I realize I'm taking this stairway every chance I get. Another farewell @sfmoma, as we prepare to close. Bye-bye building as we know it!

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You're looking square into the eyes of the #OaklandRover, temporarily returned from its fearless foraging & fomenting of creative acts in the community @omca

You're looking square into the eyes of the #OaklandRover, temporarily returned from its fearless foraging & fomenting of creative acts in the community @omca

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Public sculpture: it looks great with people around it. #markdisuvero @sfmoma @ggnra #crissyfield

Public sculpture: it looks great with people around it. #markdisuvero @sfmoma @ggnra #crissyfield

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And the flip, back to front! @sfmoma

And the flip, back to front! @sfmoma

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In our conference room, next year's model... or is that 2016's! @sfmoma

In our conference room, next year's model... or is that 2016's! @sfmoma

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Garden sculpture chez Edith Hillinger

Garden sculpture chez Edith Hillinger

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Thought for the day. Wrap your mind around that one!

Thought for the day. Wrap your mind around that one!

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Escalators off the hook...

Escalators off the hook...

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Office between occupants: our very own Thomas Demand. @sfmoma

Office between occupants: our very own Thomas Demand. @sfmoma

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Back to the future at OAK, where we're greeted by live band w Theramin. Feels like an effortless transition from #mw2013 in Portlandia!

Back to the future at OAK, where we're greeted by live band w Theramin. Feels like an effortless transition from #mw2013 in Portlandia!

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At #mw2013, downtime = re-connect with a screen near and dear to you.

At #mw2013, downtime = re-connect with a screen near and dear to you.

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"you'd never guess there's technology in there" @timsven re @mono1984's new craftwork laptop sleeve @rvktradingco

"you'd never guess there's technology in there" @timsven re @mono1984's new craftwork laptop sleeve @rvktradingco

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Leaf lens

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Fleurs

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Videofreex Symposium @ SVA

Videofreex Symposium @ SVA

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After dinner at El Quixote

After dinner at El Quixote

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Reunion at Skip's: Skyping with Nancy in Southern California

Reunion at Skip's: Skyping with Nancy in Southern California

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David and Mary Curtis

David and Mary Curtis

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Posing for the official Reunion Photo

Posing for the official Reunion Photo

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15 Minutes of Fame

15 Minutes of Fame

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Caucus in Skip & Jane's Kitchen

Caucus in Skip & Jane's Kitchen

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David Cort & Parry Teasdale reminisce (Video)

David Cort & Parry Teasdale reminisce (Video)

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David & Curtis reminisce @ Skip's

David & Curtis reminisce @ Skip's

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David Cort & Mary Curtis Ratcliff

David Cort & Mary Curtis Ratcliff

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Videofreex Reunion @ Skip's

Videofreex Reunion @ Skip's

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Comment card @sfmoma. 2 of 2 in a series #courtship #marriage

Comment card @sfmoma. 2 of 2 in a series #courtship #marriage

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Comment card @sfmoma. 1 of 2 in a series #courtship #marriage

Comment card @sfmoma. 1 of 2 in a series #courtship #marriage

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Today's view of the @GuWenda. Portents if significance. @sfmoma

Today's view of the @GuWenda. Portents if significance. @sfmoma

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@cheeseboardpizza: the question of authority vs community participation raises its head. Tasty!

@cheeseboardpizza: the question of authority vs community participation raises its head. Tasty!

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Blade of early morning light in the backyard

Blade of early morning light in the backyard

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Back in CA: what is this yellow tree that resembles a porcupine or a hull encrusted with sharp mollusks?

Back in CA: what is this yellow tree that resembles a porcupine or a hull encrusted with sharp mollusks?

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Thinking of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Hannah Arendt & other European luminaries who took refuge here during #WWII @NewSchool

Thinking of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Hannah Arendt & other European luminaries who took refuge here during #WWII @NewSchool

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After the museum. @MoMA

After the museum. @MoMA

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Updating Barr's relationship network: opening wall of #InventingAbstraction @MoMA

Updating Barr's relationship network: opening wall of #InventingAbstraction @MoMA

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Great set of elephant-lidded eyes that reveal little but the coruscating surface of age. All famous artists, all men--but for Louise Nevelson, lower left. Bill Brandt @moma

Great set of elephant-lidded eyes that reveal little but the coruscating surface of age. All famous artists, all men--but for Louise Nevelson, lower left. Bill Brandt @moma

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Even the wealthy have bad days. Bill Brandt's "Losing at the Horse Races, Auteuil" @moma

Even the wealthy have bad days. Bill Brandt's "Losing at the Horse Races, Auteuil" @moma

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@moma extensive projection of film und foto on same gallery walls in #ShapingofNewVisions show. Bravo!

@moma extensive projection of film und foto on same gallery walls in #ShapingofNewVisions show. Bravo!

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NYC

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...and internalized constellations

...and internalized constellations

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Catacombs? The Vatican? No, New York's Surrogate Court

Catacombs? The Vatican? No, New York's Surrogate Court

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Hard times at the Post Office

Hard times at the Post Office

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Helène Aylon, like a pilgrim with a cane in the back alleys of this aestheticized post-industrial hive #chelsea

Helène Aylon, like a pilgrim with a cane in the back alleys of this aestheticized post-industrial hive #chelsea

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Leading our #chelsea tour, none other than illustrious artist Helène Aylon

Leading our #chelsea tour, none other than illustrious artist Helène Aylon

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In #chelsea, after @HirakiSawa video Lineaments @JamesCohan,, we step out of a nearby elevator and find this set

In #chelsea, after @HirakiSawa video Lineaments @JamesCohan,, we step out of a nearby elevator and find this set

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Welcome to the Seder! #berkeley

Welcome to the Seder! #berkeley

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Climbing up #IndianRock to join the groups gathered for the beautiful SF Bay view #berkeley

Climbing up #IndianRock to join the groups gathered for the beautiful SF Bay view #berkeley

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No, not the red car. It's the next Berkeley Art Museum, now entering its cocoon state. @bampfa

No, not the red car. It's the next Berkeley Art Museum, now entering its cocoon state. @bampfa

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No, this is not a #Gober but a live performance artist connecting wall and floor in his own ever-evolving slo-mo way #Silence @bampfa

No, this is not a #Gober but a live performance artist connecting wall and floor in his own ever-evolving slo-mo way #Silence @bampfa

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Alt view: "Box with the Sound of Its Own Making" by @RobertMorris #silence @bampfa

Alt view: "Box with the Sound of Its Own Making" by @RobertMorris #silence @bampfa

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I'm finally standing in the presence of, and listening to "Box with the Sound of Its Own Making" by @RobertMorris #silence @bampfa. Alt view follows.

I'm finally standing in the presence of, and listening to "Box with the Sound of Its Own Making" by @RobertMorris #silence @bampfa. Alt view follows.

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I'll miss this space of interlocking planes and vistas when it's gone. @bampfa

I'll miss this space of interlocking planes and vistas when it's gone. @bampfa

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I'll miss this space of interlocking planes and vistas when it's gone. @bampfa

I'll miss this space of interlocking planes and vistas when it's gone. @bampfa

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@bampfa successfully straddling that line between museum as display space & museum as temple. The two merged here. #himalayanpilgrimage

@bampfa successfully straddling that line between museum as display space & museum as temple. The two merged here. #himalayanpilgrimage

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@AnnaHalprin describes the principles at play in her 1965 dance piece "Parades & Changes"... a self-generating system of movements that never unfolds twice in the same way and aspires to evoke life in its beauty & complexity @bampfa

@AnnaHalprin describes the principles at play in her 1965 dance piece "Parades & Changes"... a self-generating system of movements that never unfolds twice in the same way and aspires to evoke life in its beauty & complexity @bampfa

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A moment of silence (this one in memory of RFK) plays in Kurt Mueller's Cenotaph, a jukebox installation @bampfa exhibition #Silence.

A moment of silence (this one in memory of RFK) plays in Kurt Mueller's Cenotaph, a jukebox installation @bampfa exhibition #Silence.

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Only in San Francisco: a plaque for a fictional hero -- Bogie's detective podner who got done in on this spot on Hammett's "Falcon."

Only in San Francisco: a plaque for a fictional hero -- Bogie's detective podner who got done in on this spot on Hammett's "Falcon."

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Spring seen thru the departing haze of Mahler's Ninth

Spring seen thru the departing haze of Mahler's Ninth

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A place for everything in the white picket fence-reality of the 'burbs... including 3 kinds of garbage.

A place for everything in the white picket fence-reality of the 'burbs... including 3 kinds of garbage.

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Berkeley housing

Berkeley housing

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This gaze, found in a book on sadhus and shamans, asks: do you take your life, your being on the planet, seriously enough? (Not seen in this picture: the skull he's holding in his hand)

This gaze, found in a book on sadhus and shamans, asks: do you take your life, your being on the planet, seriously enough? (Not seen in this picture: the skull he's holding in his hand)

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Listening to Lenny conducting Mahler's symphonic sweeps and walking under this spring-like tree with bees buzzing into every bloom...

Listening to Lenny conducting Mahler's symphonic sweeps and walking under this spring-like tree with bees buzzing into every bloom...

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The latest confection @sfmomabbcc: the Winogrand Ice Cream Cake on a Texas sheet. It comes out playing Stevie Wonder! @sfmoma

The latest confection @sfmomabbcc: the Winogrand Ice Cream Cake on a Texas sheet. It comes out playing Stevie Wonder! @sfmoma

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The pivot: heading downstairs and passing first-generation Macintosh.

The pivot: heading downstairs and passing first-generation Macintosh.

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My favorite house in nearby Albany, CA--replete with bottle tree in front yard & crescent moon in door. Clearly, cool people live here.

My favorite house in nearby Albany, CA--replete with bottle tree in front yard & crescent moon in door. Clearly, cool people live here.

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Ocotillo outside the Heard Museum in Phoenix

Ocotillo outside the Heard Museum in Phoenix

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Leave your shooting utensils on the table.

Leave your shooting utensils on the table.

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@MIMPHX from the outside. Turns out there are 10 hrs of video/audio and +/- 7000 exhibits on view at one, with AV parsed into 30-second chunks.

@MIMPHX from the outside. Turns out there are 10 hrs of video/audio and +/- 7000 exhibits on view at one, with AV parsed into 30-second chunks.

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So many of these look more like found object sculptures than musical instruments. @MIMPHX

So many of these look more like found object sculptures than musical instruments. @MIMPHX

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Window onto the Conservation Lab @MIMPHX. I guess they're not working on Sunday!

Window onto the Conservation Lab @MIMPHX. I guess they're not working on Sunday!

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Trying out the gamelan in the Experience Gallery @MIMPHX

Trying out the gamelan in the Experience Gallery @MIMPHX

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Even the Theramin has its place @MIMPHX

Even the Theramin has its place @MIMPHX

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Full Balinese game land & shadow puppet work-up @MIMPHX. What you're missing--and what I'm hearing--is the music.

Full Balinese game land & shadow puppet work-up @MIMPHX. What you're missing--and what I'm hearing--is the music.

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Sikh peacock-headed lute @MIMPHX

Sikh peacock-headed lute @MIMPHX

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Abstraction, or bas relief, of a plucked lute, which, it turns out IS also a plucked lute. Phet banam, NE India @MIMPHX

Abstraction, or bas relief, of a plucked lute, which, it turns out IS also a plucked lute. Phet banam, NE India @MIMPHX

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Music for the ears and body, visuals and learning: instant gratification at every station! @MIMPHX

Music for the ears and body, visuals and learning: instant gratification at every station! @MIMPHX

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Afro-Can guitars @MIMPHX

Afro-Can guitars @MIMPHX

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The globally famous, the national heroes, & the local unknowns mix it up on the video vignettes. Here, Cesaria Evora in Cape Verde. @MIMPHX

The globally famous, the national heroes, & the local unknowns mix it up on the video vignettes. Here, Cesaria Evora in Cape Verde. @MIMPHX

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Multiple stations clustering instruments, contextual artifacts, short texts, and videos evoke each region or musical variant. Step up & the music auto-triggers in your headset. @MIMPHX

Multiple stations clustering instruments, contextual artifacts, short texts, and videos evoke each region or musical variant. Step up & the music auto-triggers in your headset. @MIMPHX

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