wyliepoon
Senior Member
If ROM has a couple of extra dinosaur skeletons just as big as that barosaur in the picture, that would justify its plan to build a tower on the Planetarium site... a condo tower for dinosaur skeletons.
Canuck
Active Member
Or a dinosaur jar.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Like Bing Thom's ROM proposal.
AoD
AoD
adma
Superstar
Any room for this?
Canuck
Active Member
Exactly.
adma
Superstar
Maybe C5 can whip up a few recipes from here
spaced
Active Member
That's Brian Jungen.
I'd love to see one of these in Toronto. I always thought it would look great in the AGO's new Gallery Italia (or whaterver the new north sculpture galley is called now).
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Kent Monkman - whose raccoon fur jockstrap, Louis Vuitton quiver and platform moccasins are also in the ROM's show of Native art - opens his new show, gay-cowboys-and-indians art, tonight at MOCCA 952 Queen West from seven to nine o'clock.
http://www.rom.on.ca/photodiary/?p=106&m=200710
http://www.rom.on.ca/photodiary/?p=106&m=200710
FutureMayor
Active Member
LightSabre Battle
Anybody go to the LightSabre Battle in front of the ROM Friday night?
I went with a group of friends and had a great time. It was an awesome sight to take in and even more fun participating in. The shadows bouncing off the Crystal looked really cool.
Hope they make this an annual event!
Louroz
Anybody go to the LightSabre Battle in front of the ROM Friday night?
I went with a group of friends and had a great time. It was an awesome sight to take in and even more fun participating in. The shadows bouncing off the Crystal looked really cool.
Hope they make this an annual event!
Louroz
adma
Superstar
I saw pictures of that event. It was a fraud. There were actually *girls* there
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
When I left the place a few minutes ago, I noticed a lovely little cluster of icycles hanging from the east side of the Crystal. There's potential for some really spectacular ones, given the right weather conditions, I think.
marcus_a_j
Senior Member
How long till an icicle falls and injures someone walking by and the City orders changes to the design to prevent it from happening again?
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
There was quite a bit of ice on the ground beneath them, so I think some had already fallen off.
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
At the Currelly Society annual lunch today I sat next to the brilliant Vincent Tovell, senior fellow of Massey College and Officer of the Order of Canada, who has had a long and stellar career in arts, culture and broadcasting since the 1950's. We had a lovely long natter about this and that. What a sharp mind. At times I felt like I was being interviewed - rather an honour considering who he has interviewed.
Three curators gave talks:
Katherine Dunnell of Minerology told us about the 20 carat Columbian emerald ring ( heck, we passed the rock around - what gorgeous colour, in a deco ziggurat-like setting ) that the Museum recently purchased.
Heidi Sobol of Conservation told us about the restoration of Edward Taylor Dartnell's painting, Panoramic View of the City of Toronto ( circa 1850 ) which hangs in the new Sigmund Samuel Gallery. It was in very bad condition and they had to heat it on a large table specially designed for the process in order to remove the painted canvas from a second backing it was attached to with wax. Yikes! It had a three-way tear, with water damage, but the threads of the tear was woven together again and the restored and cleaned painting re-heated and waxed back onto the original canvas backing.
David Evans of Vertebrate Paleontology told us about the rare 80 ft long Barosaurus they'd recently discovered stored in the basement. He was very enthusiastic in his description of the moment when, flying over Michigan, he realized that the ROM actually owned one of the beasts that he was heading south to find: "Turn the 'plane back!" was his first thought. It had been collected by the Carnegie Museum in 1910-20 in Utah, and was a 1962 exchange acquisition for the ROM. The Loise Hawley Stone Bequest will pay for the creation of "filler" segments of the skeleton ( which is 40-45% intact ). There are 4 neck bones, all the back, lots of tail and upper leg etc. surviving, and he said it is being mounted in Trenton at the moment, attached to armatures.
Three curators gave talks:
Katherine Dunnell of Minerology told us about the 20 carat Columbian emerald ring ( heck, we passed the rock around - what gorgeous colour, in a deco ziggurat-like setting ) that the Museum recently purchased.
Heidi Sobol of Conservation told us about the restoration of Edward Taylor Dartnell's painting, Panoramic View of the City of Toronto ( circa 1850 ) which hangs in the new Sigmund Samuel Gallery. It was in very bad condition and they had to heat it on a large table specially designed for the process in order to remove the painted canvas from a second backing it was attached to with wax. Yikes! It had a three-way tear, with water damage, but the threads of the tear was woven together again and the restored and cleaned painting re-heated and waxed back onto the original canvas backing.
David Evans of Vertebrate Paleontology told us about the rare 80 ft long Barosaurus they'd recently discovered stored in the basement. He was very enthusiastic in his description of the moment when, flying over Michigan, he realized that the ROM actually owned one of the beasts that he was heading south to find: "Turn the 'plane back!" was his first thought. It had been collected by the Carnegie Museum in 1910-20 in Utah, and was a 1962 exchange acquisition for the ROM. The Loise Hawley Stone Bequest will pay for the creation of "filler" segments of the skeleton ( which is 40-45% intact ). There are 4 neck bones, all the back, lots of tail and upper leg etc. surviving, and he said it is being mounted in Trenton at the moment, attached to armatures.
AndreaPalladio
Senior Member
I say we start a petition right now to rename the 401 Highway of Dinosaurs!!