Where have all the Vikings gone?

The Viking ship sculpture in Reykjavik is a reminder of Icelanders' early days. It sits overlooking the water and is now watched over by unfinished "viking condominiums" stalled by Iceland's economic disaster and facing an uncertain future.

They've Landed!

"Cloud Gate" Millenium Park, Chicago, Illinois June 2008

Maybe I was the only one who didn't know about this thing but what a cool surprise to walk up a rise in Millennium Park in Chicago and come across this! The abstract reflections are from standing underneath and looking up.

Stone Buddhas Have It Easy

Detachment may not be much of an accomplishment for them but they sure set a great example.

Something happens to him after a few.

St. Louis Stainless Steel

Eero_Saarinen's stainless steel masterpiece of monumental minimalism.

A Monument to George Washington

The Washington Monument has attracted the attention of protesters over the years.

Norman Mayer protested the insanity of nuclear weapons in 1982 by driving a van up to the monument and threatening to blow it up. They shot him dead.

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Dwight_Watson drove a tractor into a pond in Constitution Gardens near the Monument in 2003. He also claimed to have explosives. He was protesting the fact that he couldn't make a living growing a highly addictive, fatal disease causing drug (tobacco) without continued government subsidies. He served fifteen months in jail.

Neither man had explosives.

Conspiracy Theorist's Moral of the Story-If you are going to protest, do not protest something meaningful for purely selfless reasons. Protest something ridiculous for completely selfish motives. That way the powers that be might sympathize and let you live.

To Form A More Perfect Union

At the Greenbelt (Maryland) Arts Center (formerly Greenbelt Center School) one in a series of limestone friezes by WPA artist Lenore Thomas depicts part of the preamble to the Constitution of the U.S.

Greenbelt, Maryland.

The New York Public Library