Attendant's View

Attendant's View

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Unsolicited artistic nudes

That got strange fast.


When an artist you don’t know uses your personal facebook account to contact you, rather than any work related channels.


You politely, yet in a friendly tone, explain that you don’t exhibit unsolicited original artwork.


They offer to send you images of their work, to see if it’ll change your mind.


They further explain that they are painted nudes, and she is very beautiful (this is from a male artist)


Uhhh…. Nope, thanks, bye, and block.

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installator:
““This picture shows artist Nola Hatterman at the Stedelijk, busy hitting a nail into the wall. It was taken during the installation of the exhibition of De Onafhankelijken in 1931. Behind her we see fellow artist Anneke van der Feer...

installator:

“This picture shows artist Nola Hatterman at the Stedelijk, busy hitting a nail into the wall. It was taken during the installation of the exhibition of De Onafhankelijken in 1931. Behind her we see fellow artist Anneke van der Feer holding a painting.” (@Stedelijk)

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Science Museum plans 200 hectare site to show off lost treasures

Language, it’s a funny thing isn’t it, how we want it to entice and excite?

How can 300,000 objects be “lost treasures”, if they have “been in storage for decades.”?

Admittedly the Science Museum Group’s managing director has said they “are unearthing things that we really didn’t know that we had” but “oh, that notebook belonged to James Watt!” isn’t perhaps what the public are imagining!

Filed under museums engineering science technology heritage museum

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When visitors are frankly discussing display content, totally unaware there’s staff around the corner.

“That’s massive. F*ck me sideways.”

“With that? You sure you can take it?”

“… Well, not what I meant, but, I’d give it a go for the YouTube fame.”

Filed under museum museums overheard attendants view

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things I have seen adult, professional archaeologists do, on the clock

archaeologysucks:

  • Eat a worm.
  • Chant “EAT IT! EAT IT! EAT IT!”
  • Launch water balloons across the site at the portable toilet when someone was using it.
  • Back the work vehicle up against the door of the portable toilet to trap someone inside.
  • “Gently” tap the crew vehicle in front of them with the bumper of their vehicle.
  • Discreetly vomit in the bushes due to hangover.
  • Intentionally run over roadkill while laughing maniacally.
  • “Moon” the work camera.
  • Topless Day
  • Throw a co-worker into the bog of water-screening run-off sludge.
  • Flint-knap right next to a test unit.
  • Chase one another around with a dildo they found (and then bag it as an “artifact” and send it back to the lab).
  • Draw a smiley face on their hardhat in their own blood.
  • Write off a shovel probe because there was a horse standing on the spot that wouldn’t move.
  • Yell out, “I peed on a snake! :D”
  • Have a shovel fight.

ooohhhhh yes…

- Hurriedly lift a square of turf, poo, replace turf, because they were desperate and the portaloo was occupied. 

- Sing “We know what you’re doing” every time a guy goes to pee behind a wall.

- Build a throne out of turf sods, spades and shovels on the spoil heap.

- Gently shake the stepladder when someone was trying to take bird’s eye photographs from it.

- Cook enough rice to feed the crew for three days because the person on cooking duty had never cooked rice before and didn’t reliase it expanded.

-  Hand a newbie something to hold, then casually mention it’s human bone in an effort to freak them out.

- Throw colleagues into the sea.

(via dead-men-talking)

Filed under archaeology archaeological fun at work

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This free to download comment card is a very interesting idea. As museums and galleries are increasingly being challenged on their traditional interpretation, this is one way to raise concerns by popping something in the comments or donations...

This free to download comment card is a very interesting idea. As museums and galleries are increasingly being challenged on their traditional interpretation, this is one way to raise concerns by popping something in the comments or donations box. 

I’m especially fond of “Totally Impenetrable”, which applies to a few art galleries I’ve been in. 

Created by Alice Procter and available (along with other thought provoking things) at https://www.theexhibitionist.org

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