Day Five

05 Sep 2005

A quick trip down to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art this morning.

I happened to go past the radio telescopes again, so I quickly grabbed some better photos.

I still love them. There's a whole complex of huge white buildings behind them, and hopefully sometime soon I'll have enough time on my way past to drive in and work out what they are doing.

I decided I didn't capture the oddness of the freeway design with my earlier photos, and it still blows me away, so I took a few more shots of the freeway doing crazy things.

See? Imagine trying to do 100km/h in a single lane of bridge, suspended above the ground, which twists and turns. It's good stuff

Once I got to the MoMA carpark, I noticed they have the same elevator control panel as I've seen three or four places over here - including the hotel.

So I photographed it. Maybe I should start collecting photo's of elevator panels? I bet someone has done that before.

MoMA was great - the building itself is a really modernist peice of work. It's got some funky design choices, and the stuff contained within was nice too.

They are doing a Tuttle exhibition at the moment, and I didnt really like his sculpture/painting crossovers aside from his textile peices from the late sixties. And I pretty uniformly loath sculpture from "found objects", so his reconditioning of lawnchairs just made me groan.

Still, a really nice walk through another part of the city.

This street is just a great thing to see .. it's where the parking for the museum is, and right at the very end there is a building on a 30 degree angle .. it just caps off the view in a strangely beautiful way. I dont think the photo captures it at all.

On the way back I had to do some work, so I went yet another long route to the hotel - And found two cool things!

Sun Microsystems!

Not such a thrill because even Perth had a Sun building for a while there, but still nice to see they have a presence here.

Cisco!

I found Cisco a few days ago as well, but didnt get a photo. I'm glad I took this one, it's such a nice shot.