You guys are too funny!
Carla and I spent the day in Seattle doing Seattle things. We started at the Gehry designed Experience Music Project. I posted pictures of views of this building, but here is the west face from the net. Notice how the Monorail passes through the building, and how the pink/purple metal throws 'purple haze' reflections all around it. Don't stand in one of those reflections very long...they get hot.
The whole building is a tribute of sorts to Hendrix. The roof on the other side has structures the resemble crushed guitar frets, as in the building is supposed to be a guitar Hendrix crushed. They left out the burning part, because Hendrix crushed and burned guitars. A tiny piece of the frets shows in the upper left corner of this picture.
Here is an interesting side note; Microsoft gives its employees a Prime card which reduces all these great attractions to about $3...instead of $16-20.
Inside the EMP is as wild as the outside. They were sticklers about picture taking, so I have a few when they were allowed.
And one when they weren't. This is the lobby's twisted vortex of instruments. I was told many of the instrument were playing through a robotic whatchamacallit. I looked and saw the RW, but the instruments had no strings. hmmmmm
Interior twistedness.
There was a rental room with a projection wall running dancing lights or MTV-like stuff. I caught the dancing lights and listened to a giant Cobain.
Hendrix Woodstock outfit.
The rest of his guitars and a timeline on his life were in a no pics gallery. I was amazed at his musical history. He even backed up Jane Mansfield. Who knew she played? I noticed he was tapped to play with known and famous(later) groups when he was still just a kid and did not even own a guitar.
I another area there was a history of guitars and I had to get this picture of an 1897 Gibson (right) and a 1888 Martin. Woooow...
There was a whole gallery on Henson and his Muppets. I could not take any pictures, as the security there were better than librarians! I think my favorite fact I learned there was that Munahmanah is actually a puppet, not just the words to the wordless song...Munahmanah brit de bri dibbet, etc.
HA! You will be singing that tune all day!
We moved on to the Children's Museum and saw the sights we saw there.
Pretty stuff left over from the 62 World's Fair. The place of the Dancing Waters I remember watching as a kid. They don't dance anymore.
In the Museum now.
I love the Butterfly House! Flying flowers.
The last one looks like this when open.
Other pretties.
I was a service brat, and as a kid, we were in Hawaii before it became a state. We would hide under the General's bushes and eat the nectar out of his flowers...just this kind! I remember the flavor.
Then we walked by these big balls and rode the Monorail.
A walk through Nordstrom's shoe department.
A pair of 900 dollar shoes ladies. Good thing they didn't have 11's.
And what is this?