Wednesday, May 21, 2008

The Rest...

Well, I don't want to jinx it, but the weather is getting better! After some typhoon weather (it took me a full two hours to get to school yesterday because my line was down due to the strong winds and rain), we have sun!

So I took a bunch of pictures of other things on exhibit, but the pictures are not that great and rather random, so I'll try to be a bit more selective.

We got to try lifting these heavy pails! It was uncomfortable because the thing was chained down and didn't allow for you to move that much. It was pretty heavy.

Here was another little model of somewhere, but on top of that, they had this TV screen that showed you close-ups of the model, and had a whole story line of stuff that might've happened. So thought-out.

A pretty and colorful display.

This thing was awesome, even though you can't tell. So what was cool about the museum is they had a lot of moving/interactive exhibits. This one is set up like a kabuki play stage and, as this old Japanese guy next to us started explaining to us (which was super awesome!), it showed special stage tricks. You could not only see it as it appeared from the audience, but if you look closely, the frames at the top of the picture are actually mirrored reflections of the backstage, so you could see what was actually going on.

The bridge and things from below.

A carriage. I think all the pictures of me doing the things that Daniel is doing in my pictures are on his camera. So you can pretend that's me if you wish.

So we went into this model of a Japanese-style house and I went to check out this room and they had turned it into a storage room for the time being. ...Who does that?

A pretty panorama photograph. I took this because of the colors, but also because, instead of putting it all on one wall (there was plenty of space), they broke it up to cross the corner.

We were on top of the first of a set of moving displays.

St. Nikolai's Cathedral! I've been there! Another moving display.


A really large 'moving' display. But it was pretty lame. From where we were crouched, we could hardly see anything, and it would just be one section lighting up and then some dialogue or something playing.

Pictures of the city from the museum. We were just amazed at how light it still was outside because inside the museum was spent in sheer darkness for the most part.

A giant giant colorful festive thing near the gift shop.

And that sums up our museum trip!

1 comment:

Daniel Andreano said...

Yea we gotta have a photo swap day sometime so I can get some pictures of me.