Underwater at Western Bridge - a great Seattle Art space
Western Bridge, the True's private (open to the public though) exhibition space, is one of our favorite art spaces in Seattle. We all like it, and stop by pretty often. The building itself is a favorite, and this month's show is a nice cooling one for summer, called Underwater. All of the work has something to do with water and their are photos, painting, video and other installations. If you haven't been to Western Bridge, you should go.
Here is Henry touching Jeppe's Hein's Ice Cube (a 20" x 20" x 20" ice cube). We had a nice discussion about the impermanence of things after splashing around in the puddle.
Tony Oursler's "Below" is a clever video installation with a face projected into a water-filled cube onto a blank ceramic "head". The Hen particularly liked the noises.
There are also works by Catherine Eaton Skinner, Olafur Eliasson, Joseph Park and many others. The Dark Room has a video installation of a very impressive Niagra Fahle by Wolfgang Staehle.
We also all really liked Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher's, "Sky Machine: Coast" upstairs in the mezzanine/apartment. And, it has the added advantage of having a button you push to activate it. This always gets high marks from Hen.
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Our trip behind the Scenes at the Seattle Aquarium
We got a behind the scenes tour for the Seattle Aquarium at Hen's school auction, and we went with The Drakes on Saturday. Biologist Andy Sim showed us what happens in back of the exhibits -- he is a great host. If you or your kids are aquarium fans this is highly recommended.
Here we have the refrigerator that the keep the frozen fish food for the big tanks. Lot's of krill.
This is biologist Andy explaining it to the kids.
This pump is used to create water motion in the big tank in the entrance gallery at the Aquarium. The big piston moves a lot of water, but doesn't provide aeration. There is a separate room of pumps and filters that do that.
Andy is a warm water specialist. Here we are sitting in the crawlspace above the tropical tank, with a bowl of krill for feeding the fish.
Here's that tank from the top. One of the divers is in there feeding the fish and doing maintenance. The fish are from various Pacific reef locations, with a lot from Hawaii. The museum collects many themselves, and biologist Sim told us he is returning to Hawaii later this summer to do research, and collect specimens. We also learned that the gwo much of the coral you see in the live coral tank. Andy showed us the tanks in the back room where they transplant and grow new coral. An interesting tidbit was that they use Super Glue to adhere the small coral branches to a rock -- this then gets quickly overgrown so the glue spot isn't visible by the time it makes it into an exhibit.
The Hen and Eveyln had a swell time together.
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The Hen captures Recess Monkey at Cal Anderson Park
Hen took the pic. This is the Monkey's last Seattle show before their summer tour. Catch them in your city.
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