[sumo] Re: [sumo art] Boston Sumo art exhibit
Lon Howard
itsulon at wavecable.com
Thu May 1 16:28:49 EDT 2008
On May 1, 2008, at 5:55 AM, Jim Bitgood wrote:
> I finally made it. While I was in Massachusetts for the marathon, I
> visited the Museum of Fine Arts and looked at the sumo art exhibit.
> I didn't know sumo cards would count as "art." But they have a
> glass enclosed display with some cards in it. I even recognized
> some that are in my card collection. Does that make me an art
> collector? :-)
> It's a very nice exhibit, all in one room so it's easy to go back
> and forth and look at things more than once. It's all in the Asian
> wing of the museum, so there are other things to look at on the way
> to the sumo room.
> I took a lot of pictures of the real art, but I have no place to
> post them for anybody to see. If anyone could do that, I could send
> them to you. The only problem is that they don't let you take flash
> pictures and when I turn the flash off on my camera, it locks in a
> very slow shutter speed. That tends to blur a lot of the pictures.
> Of course, since I went to the museum after doing the tour of the
> Boston Brewing Company (Sam Adams beer), that may have added some
> blur to the pictures too.
> And I ran a 4:29:44 marathon on Monday. Not nearly my best but very
> encouraging considering the lousy medical year I had in '07.
I could put them on the Flickr site and send the link to the list.
How many ??
- Shomishuu
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