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THE ADVENTURES OF
FLAT STANLEYPhiladelphia, PA New Jersey New York
City
Camden, NJ: Campbell’s Field
6,425-seat baseball
park
First regular season
was May, 2001
Home to Camden
Riversharks &
Rutgers University-
Camden baseball
teams
Camden, NJ: The Color Run
Night
5k run & walk
First TCR Night
event in USA
Runners are
showered with
colored powder
(food-grade
cornstarch)
Camden, NJ: The Color Run
Night
Camden, NJ: The Color Run
Night
TCR Arch & Ben Franklin
BridgeWearing a headlamp as a belt
Camden, NJ: The Color Run
Night
Stanley at the finish line Running through color (video)
Philadelphia: Driving around the
city
Philadelphia City
Hall
Statue of
Philadelphia
founder, William
Penn, atop building
Was the tallest
building in PA until
1923
Philadelphia: Driving around the
city
Hard Rock Café
Theme restaurant,
worldwide
Founded in 1971
Walls coveredwith
rock and roll
memorabilia
Philadelphia: Driving around the
city
Philadelphia: Philly Magic
Gardens
Largest work created by mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar
Spans three city lots
The mosaics are made up of everything from kitchen tiles to bike wheels
Indoor & outdoor labyrinth
Philadelphia: Philly Magic
Gardens
Mosaic by Isaiah Zagar Painting by Isaiah Zagar
Philadelphia: Philly Magic
Gardens
Philadelphia: Philly Magic
Gardens
Philadelphia: Philly Magic
Gardens
Searching for the Flat Stanley book
Visiting Chalfont, PA
Located in Bucks
County, PA
Historic District is on
the National
Register of Historic
Places
American Colonial &
Victorian-style
houses
On the way to work
Heading into the
office to work in
Benefit
Administration, it's
Open Enrollment
time for making
benefits elections.
On the way to work
On the way to work
Happy Halloween!
Getting ready to
help hand out candy
to all the trick or
treaters for
Halloween!
Going to school at Rider
University
Train Ride to New York City
NYC: Metropolitan Museum of
Art
Largest art museum
in USA, one of ten
largest in the world
Permanent
collection contains
more than
2,000,000 artworks
Met Museum: Great Hall
Met Museum: Photograph
Studio
Met Museum: Photograph
Studio
Large format cameraStanley is taller than the
Wacom tablet pen!
Met Museum: Photograph
StudioBefore: Using PhotoShop to eliminate a thread used in a
photo
After: Stanley is a pro! The thread in the photo is gone
Met Museum: Temple of Dendur
Egyptian temple
built by the Roman
Government around
15 BC
Exhibited at Met
since 1978
Museum of Modern Art (NYC)
MoMA
Modern &
Contemporary art
(art from 1860s-
present)
At current location
from 1939-present
Most influential
museum of modern
art in the world
MoMA: Van Gogh & Starry
Night Movement: Post-Impressionism
(1885-1910)
Used vivid colors, often thick application of paint, and real-life subject matter, but were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, to distort form for expressive effect, and to use unnatural or arbitrary color.
MoMA: Picasso
Movement: Cubism (1905-1920)
In Cubism, material
is sometimes
visually removed
from its known
context, isolated,
and/or combined
with unrelated
material.
MoMA: Jasper Johns
Movement: Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Neo-Dada (1917-1950)
Similar Flag painting fetched $36 million at auction 11/12/14!
Neo-Dada put "emphasis on the importance of the work of art produced rather than on the concept generating the work“.
Foundation of Pop Art
MoMA: Wassily Kandinsky
Movement: Abstract Expressionism (1940s-1950s)
Expressionist artists sought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality.
Abstract art uses a visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the
MoMA: Jackson Pollock
Movement: Abstract
Expressionism (1940s-1950s)
Pollock realized that
the journey toward
making a work of art
was as important as
the work of art itself.
Known as “Jack the
Dripper”
MoMA: Andy Warhol
Movement: Pop Art (1960s)
In Pop Art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material.
Employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects.
NYC: Taxis
A typical taxi travels
70,000 miles per
year, enough to
travel around the
world 2.8 times.
600,000 passengers
per day
236 million
passengers per year
NYC: National Debt Clock
Constantly updates
to show the running
total of USA gross
national debt &
family share of debt
Originally installed in
1989
NYC: Macy’s
Flagship store at
Herald Square
World’s largest
department store
from 1924-2009
Building was
declared a national
landmark in 1978
NYC: Radio City Music Hall
Entertainment
venue in Rockefeller
Center
Home to the
Rockettes
Building declared
national landmark in
1978
NYC: Empire State Building
103-story
skyscraper
Stands 1,454 feet
high
Designed in Art
Deco style
One of the Seven
Wonders of the
Modern World
National landmark
designation in 1986
NYC: Central Park
Urban park opened
in 1857
National landmark
designation in 1968
Most visited urban
park in the USA and
most filmed location
in the world
NYC: Central Park
NYC: Guggenheim
Solomon R.
Guggenheim
Museum
Art museum
containing
impressionist, post-
impressionist,
modern, and
contemporary art
Architecture by
Frank Lloyd Wright
in 1959
NYC: Guggenheim & Zero
Exhibit The movement is from
1950s-1960s commonly interpreted as reaction to Abstract Expressionism by arguing that art should be void of color, emotion and individual expression.
Many of the Zero artists are better known for their affiliations with other movements, including Nouveau réalisme, Arte Povera, Minimalism, Op Art and Kinetic art.
NYC: Riding the Subway
NYC: Magnolia Bakery
Waiting for a cupcakeWhich flavor should Stanley
get?
NYC: Ellis Island
Gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954.
The island was made part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965, and has hosted a museum of immigration since 1990.
NYC: Ellis Island
NYC: Ellis Island JR
“Unframed”
Wheatpaste art applied to walls in Ellis Island Contagious Disease hospital ward
Off-limits to public, access with “hard hat” tour
Life size historic photographs of Ellis Island immigrants
NYC: Statue of Liberty
Dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France
The statue is of a robed female figure representing the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tablet evoking the law upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.
NYC: Skyline
Stanley makes cookies!
Franklin, NJ: Franklin Pond
Stanley watches a swan eat Stanley by a historic sign
Franklin, NJ: Franklin Pond
Stanley by the bridge Having some green tea
Ogdensburg, NJ: Heater’s Pond
Newton, NJ: Thai lunch & tea
National cuisine of Thailand
Balance, detail and variety are of paramount significance to Thai chefs.
Thai cooking places emphasis on lightly prepared dishes with strong aromatic components and a spicy edge.