Lloyd Hall Observation

One of the first things that I noticed about The Met was its exterior architecture. Like many historical buildings and museums, The Met's architecture is highly influenced by European architecture; in this case, it appears as though the architecture is attempting to emulate the gothic style. Once inside the daunting faรงade, I was pleasantly surprised to see how richly illuminated the museum was. What made it even more remarkable was that much of the light appeared to permeate through skylights that had been built into the building's ceiling. Moreover, I was pleasantly surprised to see that The Met was considerably less crowded than the American Museum of Natural History, which I had visited the day before.

When you step out of this room to the photography room on the right your feelings within the surrounding change once again. In the first room of the museum the tile is white and thus reflects light, creating yet more light in the surrounding area. The walls go from light and colorful shades to a medium tinted of gray creating a more plain mood within the room. In the side room full of photography the flooring changes from white large stone tiles to wood panel flooring. The opening to this second room is an opening the wall rather than another doorway but instead of the opening stretching all the way up to the ceiling, there is a thinner horizontal plank at the top that is an almost metallically aluminum color. The space is divided up

In an exhibit along the wall to the left of a house-like exhibit, behind a small, white picket fence, shows the furniture that the patron would commonly see in the great depression era home that consist of a 1930s sewing machine table and a well-worn vintage 1930s record player. On the wall above this exhibit has some vintage black and white photos taken throughout the great depression era that capture the hardships that most people encountered with the difficulties with farming and breathing, the dark cloud of the loose earth rolling in, and the aftermath once the dirt finally settled and shows how everything laid buried in a deep mound of dirt, like the large piles of snow seen after a winter blizzard. The house-like exhibit consists of a characteristic 1930s living room that contain items like family heirlooms and old photographs. The museum patron can walk up on the porch and walk in the front door as if walking into an actual home. Upon stepping inside, the patron will see stuff like old vintage photos, a rocking chair, a couch, and a desk. He will also see an antique 1930’s radio on a small table by a chair and listen to it play the 1930s era radio programs, songs, and news

Moving back to the dining room, you receive a more formal feeling from the room. There was a table set up for dinner which had two styles of dining were set up. Three of the four styles were American Style. These had the engravings on the silverware engraved on the front. However, there was one setting setup different. This setting was the French Style. The only thing different from the American Style here was that the engravings were found on the back. This showed us yet again how the times were changing over from French Style to American Style in what would become Federal Style.

It was difficult to read painting acquisition numbers, exact demensions, etc, since the rooms were gated off, or there was no description of some pieces or for what was painted on the walls and ceilings. I focused the portrait of Salem Towne in the dining room.

The red tint stained table completed the look of the room. The walls had a cold feel, like Mrs. Johnson’s eyes. Lela’s eyes wandered around all the food that was prepared, burgers were the main focus of

The Fourth Ward School functions much more as a museum rather than a historic building. The majority of the school has exhibit style rooms with themes such as the Mark Twain and Printing exhibit, or the Mining exhibit. However, with the historic classroom exhibit, rather than describe what it would look like, they have the ability to show the guest as only a re-created historic building can. Pitcaithley wrote of a Colonial Williamsburg and that he “popularized the idea that recreation of missing structural elements…was not only attainable but educationally imperative.” The museum has original seats that students used, but instead choose to recreate a classroom with new, old looking seats that can be interacted with allowing visitors to become a part of the historic

Commissioned by the Class of 1949 and painted by renowned artist and FSU alumna Artemis Housewright, the painting depicts Florida State University’s historic structures and local flora and fauna. Located in the oldest part of the building, original west wing of Dodd Hall, is The Heritage Museum, nee Werkmeister Humanities Reading Room. Located in the west end of the Museum is a memorial stained glass window which depicts four of Florida State University’s best-known buildings. This glorious window designed by Professor Emeritus Ivan Johnson and created by FSU Alumni Bob and Jo Ann Bischoff stands an astounding twenty-two feet tall and ten feet wide. The window consists of more than 10,000 pieces of glass. Encapsulating the north and south sides of the dimly lit museum are tall and stately multi-paned glass windows. These decorative windows serve as the primary light-source of the

The room was big enough for a desk, a bed, a closet, and a dresser. The walls were bare wood from the airship, which gave it a neat look to the room. We were airborne, I was going to write a letter to the curator about the issues I had with Seth, but I decided not to write it, instead I decided to go to the dining hall and eat. When I made my way to the dining hall I was awestruck to see how busy and full it was and the smells, even the furnishings from; the walls to the carpeting on the floor to the windows, it was just breathtaking.

These documents include scenes, resources, and important items in Schine Dining. I took the photos of the space - both the seating and the food areas - in order to help my audience visualize what Schine Dining looks like. This was especially important to my study because I examined where people sit and why, so I figured that providing references to what I am talking about in terms of the layout would be beneficial to my audience’s understanding. The space is an interesting “document” as it’s actually architecture and interior design-based, the people who created it are not around for me to ask questions, the space was just simply built and now exists for students and faculty to use and interpret as they please. I think that the purpose of Schine Dining’s layout was to provide plenty of room for many students to come in and sit down, as well as breeze through the food purchasing area with it’s open floor plan there. The

- In Anglo Saxon culture the mead hall is suppose to be the safe place, the place to have a few drinks, A place to share stories of amazing battles and flirt with women. But that all changes when Grendel arrives and starts to kill and eat thanes one by one throughout the night. Their is a lot of references right off the bat to the Anglo Saxon convert to Christianity, for example the describition of Grendel was compared to Cain who murder his brother Able in the bible. Another one is the home of Grendel who rose from hell after lord has exile all evil from human

Everything in there from the floor to the ceiling was white. It could have used an accent wall or something, but we came there to eat, not the décor of the room. Everything there was white. You could see a lot of dirt, the chairs were scuffed to no end and the floors had a good amount of grit. I felt better about how I was dressed; this place was not as fancy as it made its self out to be. Yes people had dressed nice but that was because it was in a

Parker had previously researched this species, so he and Orr collaborated for further research on these bees.

Merlin stood in front of Tintagel’s Great Hall as he had done many times in the past. Yet in his previous visits, the hall had been dark, sparsely lit, with only a handful of inhabitants. He had never explored the room, although he had many opportunities to do so when Uther was gone. But he never felt the need to. He was content in being with the company of Igraine.

Sol Lewitt's art caught my attention, I selected two works of art without knowing that both works belonged to him. I first came across with Lewitt's painting named "Wall Drawing" which consists of colorful thick zig zag lines on a wall with the dimensions of w482 x h298 cm. Lewitt painted this in 1996, for his medium he used ink on a wall. His second work of art I selected is an installation/painting named "Wall drawing #1091: arcs, circles and bands" which consists of different colorful lines, Lewitt painted this in 2003 using synthetic polymer paint and a wall. The wall painting is part of a room so the dimensions are w16000 x h2000 cm. Both works of art have their similarities and differences when comparing and contrasting their visual