This is the reason that government committees should never be allowed to pay people to create art for a community. No, it's not really a pile of poo....it a half million dollar sculpture of a coiled snake. A really bad sculpture of a coiled snake. That someone thought was worth $500,000. If you're ever down in San Jose, you can find it prominently displayed right downtown.
A block away from the "pile of poo" we saw this large reproduction of a Leonardo da Vinci design for a horse. It was pretty darn awesome. And just about large enough to have left the "pile". I'll bet if Leonardo had sculpted a snake it wouldn't look like a pile of poo.
No, not Leonardo.
Brunelleschi. A large cut-away model of the dome he designed for the Santa Maria del Fiori in Florence, Italy. I showed the picture to Danny and he actually remembered the name Brunelleschi from his history class a couple of weeks ago.
Yes, we're back to Leonardo. Did I mention that we went to an exhibit at the
Tech Museum in San Jose that was mostly about
Leonardo? A few other Renaissance designers/engineers/architects were also included - yeah, Brunelleschi. Brunelleschi had a whole room devoted to him. Leonardo was the star of the exhibit. If the exhibit comes to your town I would recommend it. I wouldn't recommend that you take any young children or children who don't like to read - there was a lot of reading involved in the exhibit - and some nudity (this is the Renaissance we're talking about).
This is the reason that government committees should never be allowed to pay people to create art for a community. No, it's not really a pile of poo....it a half million dollar sculpture of a coiled snake. A really bad sculpture of a coiled snake. That someone thought was worth $500,000. If you're ever down in San Jose, you can find it prominently displayed right downtown.
A block away from the "pile of poo" we saw this large reproduction of a Leonardo da Vinci design for a horse. It was pretty darn awesome. And just about large enough to have left the "pile". I'll bet if Leonardo had sculpted a snake it wouldn't look like a pile of poo.
No, not Leonardo. Brunelleschi. A large cut-away model of the dome he designed for the Santa Maria del Fiori in Florence, Italy. I showed the picture to Danny and he actually remembered the name Brunelleschi from his history class a couple of weeks ago. 
Yes, we're back to Leonardo. Did I mention that we went to an exhibit at the Tech Museum in San Jose that was mostly about Leonardo? A few other Renaissance designers/engineers/architects were also included - yeah, Brunelleschi. Brunelleschi had a whole room devoted to him. Leonardo was the star of the exhibit. If the exhibit comes to your town I would recommend it. I wouldn't recommend that you take any young children or children who don't like to read - there was a lot of reading involved in the exhibit - and some nudity (this is the Renaissance we're talking about).
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It was a cool exhibit. It was nice to go and not be bothered by kids too - sorry kids. I do think we rushed Steve a bit and we had a lot of questions, "Can you move that sign that says DO NOT TOUCH so we can take a picture?" and "...but what does it do?".
I'm not going to touch the 'poo' issue. I've been shaking my head for years about that one...
(Shaking head) $500,000 for a pile of ??? I really need to steer Emma into the fine arts if that's what there is out there. The world needs more sculptures of Polly Pocket houses made out of shoe boxes.
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