Metallic Art

A couple weeks ago, we made it out to the Met. It'd been a while and we heard about this amazing exhibit on the history of the Samurai. The exhibit is the first time most of the pieces have ever left Japan and been allowed to be shown outside of the country. It also groups together different time periods of the Samurai and their evolution and demise. I've heard they will continue to change the exhibit with new pieces so I totally recommend people to go out and see it. It's called Art of the Samurai.


After looking through all the intricately made swords and armor, Scott and I realized how lucky we had been while living in Japan. We visited so many museums and castles and even informal places that had historic pieces like this that we started to take for granted because we were able to see so much of it. Now we really appreciate those opportunities.


Upstairs, the roof garden was still open and we got to see this installation by Roxy Paine. Scott had actually seen job openings at the studio where they make these huge stainless steel pieces. We were trying to remember if it was last year that they also had metal trees in Madison Square Park as well. Anyway, I liked it better than last year's metal balloon things and Scott couldn't help but check out all the welds. Actually, as we were leaving we overheard a guy say, "It's pretty cool, but the welds are pretty crappy."

Every Vote Counts

Have you voted today? There's still time!

I did my civic duty at the below, the Immaculate Conception Church in our district. Hopefully something immaculate will come from it. I went in the middle of the day and found out I was only the 15th person in my district to vote. That was a bit disheartening. I guess it's not as exciting of an election as last year, but I was hoping the momentum for people to go out and vote would continue especially since other countries are dealing with threats and opposition to this privilege of democracy. Well, we'll see tonight who's in charge for the next four years and what they can inspire for our future. Just hope it's affordable.