I have not yet given up on posting photos, but Kansas City has given up on subtlety.

[spiderplanet]

Once again, I am attempting to make photo posts. This time, I'm trying Flickr.

We got home from Kansas City today, where there was a Worldcon. It was, overall, a wonderful time. While we were there, we visited the Nelson-Atkins Museum, which prominently features their GIANT SHUTTLECOCKS!

They also happen to have a current exhibit that might be the finest examples of Rodin sculptures currently in North America. Did I mention the SHUTTLECOCKS!

Here's a sculpture from their sculpture garden that is not a GIANT SHUTTLECOCK.

It's obviously Steve from Minecraft. He's dancing.



Can you see a picture?

Here's a GIANT SHUTTLECOCK!



Here is Rodin's Thinker pondering the nature of GIANT SHUTTLECOCKS!



Here's another photo of our trip. It's of the Convention Center. SHUTTLECOCK.



Do you see the Shuttlecock? It's possibly less subtle than our own Cherry Spoon Bridge, but only because it has the word "cock" in it.

If you don't see any photos, I may have to burn all of the whole internet in frustration.

Comments

[jiawen]

Are the GIANT SHUTTLECOCKs by the same folks who did Spoonbridge & Cherry? It looks like the same style.

Steve seems to be missing a head or possibly arm. Maybe that's why he's dancing.

[spiderplanet]

I had to look it up, but yes, you hit a bullseye. They are by the same team of artists. The Shuttlecocks were put in in 1994, the Spoonbridge was put in in 1988. We win for being first.

[spiderplanet]

The artists are Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen.