American Museum of Natural History
How did I never discover the amazingness that is AMNH? I can’t believe I live in New York and waited this long to see this museum and I feel like I’ve been missing the entire UWS. I’ve done the Met, Moma, Guggenheim even the Cloisters upup town, mostly because the first year of art school demands this of you. I’m kinda surprised a drawing class never made us draw dinosaurs in AMNH. Nevertheless, I just experienced the greatest museum NYC has to offer. I’m thinking of becoming a member because you can’t possibly enjoy this museum in 1 day. Ma + Pa Cottontail have been visiting for a week and we’ve been talking about this museum for a couple years. The day finally came and I couldn’t stop taking pics. I even discovered my new alias: Oxy Sylvilagus Floridanus. That’s latin for Cottontail.
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Taxidermied Grizzly and cubs.
Meoooooowww
Mad kids in the Planetarium. Asteroids and all types of craziness, too cool for school.
We watched a film in the Planetarium called “Cosmic Collisions”. It makes you feel super teeny tiny, the theater is a half sphere and you feel like you’re on Jupiter. Basically the Milky Way galaxy is a very big place and could one day collide with the galaxy Andromeda. Also, gravity is the shit. Last night at Sway I got into a deep convo with my friend Paloma and her friend Tim. He basically said there is an entire belt of asteroids circling us, Big Bang coould happen again any day. And there is a planet out there thats just frozen water and frozen fish fall from the sky and land in Kansas. WTF?
Moby Dick makes you feel very small.
Thank you Richard Archbold! Such a good dude.
THE COTTONTAIL
Sylvilagus Floridanus
“Over much of the country the Cottontail is well known. Give it a sufficient cover of tangled briers in which to hide and civilization has no terrors for it. It is as much at home in a town or city as on a deserted farm. The Cottontail is very prolific…...”
For details, please enlarge this. Worth the read, I shoulda known the AMNH would know my Geographical Distribution, we are talking American History here. Duh!
Blonde Bunnies!!!!!!! RIP
Heron in the house too!?!?
Every animal you could ever think of and why. Birds, beetles, crustaceans, anteaters, clams, goats, mammals, fish, etc. It was too much to take in. I’m buying a membership.
Diplo came through.
There were also special exhibitions on Darwin and LIVE! Snakes + Lizards but you can go see that for yourself. The IMAX movie on caving was sick too. Who wants to go? I’m D.
XO
