thesisblog http://shygrl.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:07:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 en crammed organisms! http://shygrl.com/blog/?p=7 http://shygrl.com/blog/?p=7#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:07:47 +0000 shannon http://shygrl.com/blog/?p=7 Crammed Organisms - World's Largest Plush Show! Plush, Stuffed Animals, Plushies, Softies

I’ve been accepted to be in the Crammed Organisms show! I’m so excited and thankful to be grouped together with so many other amazing plush-makers! Click the image above to learn more about the show and click here to see all the artists participating.

]]> http://shygrl.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=7 double-wonder http://shygrl.com/blog/?p=6 http://shygrl.com/blog/?p=6#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:32:17 +0000 shannon http://shygrl.com/blog/?p=6 “The visitor to the Museum of Jurassic Technology continually finds himself shimmering between wondering at (the marvels of nature) and wondering whether (any of this could possibly be true).

And it’s that very shimmer, the capacity for delicious confusion…that may constitute the most blessedly wonderful thing about being human.”

- Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder 

]]> http://shygrl.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=6 suggesting http://shygrl.com/blog/?p=5 http://shygrl.com/blog/?p=5#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:01:00 +0000 shannon http://shygrl.com/blog/?p=5 “The architecture of museums can only suggest a particular view, it cannot determine meaning, and it cannot separate people form their beliefs.”

(in context of how specimens in natural history museums are not always seen as “emblems of evolution” but as creations of god, or viewed by those who believe in both god and evolution.)

- Nature’s Museums: Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display

]]> http://shygrl.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=5 museums and power http://shygrl.com/blog/?p=4 http://shygrl.com/blog/?p=4#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:52:27 +0000 shannon http://shygrl.com/blog/?p=4 “Foucault called into question the boundaries of disciplines and emphasized the dependent relationship of knowledge and power; his work is therefore all the more important in the study of science museums.”

“consider the high political stakes of exhibitions, especially exhibitions that claim an internal logic based on supposed neutrality.”

- Nature’s Museums: Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display

]]> http://shygrl.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=4 ultimately playful http://shygrl.com/blog/?p=3 http://shygrl.com/blog/?p=3#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:34:56 +0000 shannon http://shygrl.com/blog/?p=3 “The tension between what is real and imaginary is a source of its aesthetic tension as well as its subversive implications. Additionally, the work is ultimately playful.”

- Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder

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