Saturday, December 28, 2019

Milkweed in seed: Renwick Gallery VIRTUAL & AUGMENTED REALITY Flowers, and Washington DC museums * Fascinating Smithsonian virtual exhibit at the Renwick Gallery on Thursday, 27 Dec 2019!



On Friday, December 27, 2019

Hi Karen, and Erica (and Janie Ma),

Thanks again so much for your hospitality in Washington DC after Christmas. It was really nice to see you and to visit.

Am seeking to send a few great photos to you from a different (less full) email account - musicalmacflower@gmail.com - above, and soon.

Hugs, your cousin, Scott
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Art -

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Karen Leighty Janie MacLeod cousins in front of Renwick Gallery 12 27 2019.jpg



Karen Leighty Janie MacLeod smiling in front of Renwick Gallery 12 27 2019.jpg




Karen and Janie in line at African American Art Museum Washingston Monument 12 27 2019.jpg



Karen on wall and Janie in line at National Museum of American Indian 12 27 2019.jpg



The 3 of us Scott Karen Janie in front of White House 12 27 2019.jpg



The above photos were taken by Scott MacLeod





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Photos taken by Karen Leighty in the Renwick Gallery:


Jane MacLeod Renwick museum with Karen Leighty Scott MacLeod Wash DC 27 Dec 2019.jpg



Scott MacLeod Renwick gallery with Karen Leighty Jane MacLeod Wash DC 27 Dec 2019.jpg




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On 3:50PM, Sun, Jan 12, 2020 Scott MacLeod <musicalmacflower@gmail.com wrote:
Janie and Karen,
And here a few more Renwick AR pictures, - and, in particular, how the exhibit worked, which I found innovative:
1 hold tablet up to ceramic stump on gallery floor - bar code connects
2 see augmented reality in tablet
3 see virtual text description of AR
4 see artist's flower painting on wall, upon which the AR flower is based.
Grant Kirkpatrick did the multimedia, and Ginny Ruffner, the flower paintings. 
Good exploratory use of AR in major museum :) 
Scott :)




Renwick Gallery ceramic tree stump on gallery floor 27 Dec 2019.jpg



Renwick Gallery hold tablet up to ceramic stump on gallery floor - bar code connects 27 Dec 2019



Renwick Gallery ceramic tree stump and tablet together 27 Dec 2019.jpg



Renwick Gallery DC Blue flower drawing 27 Dec 2019.jpg




Renwick Gallery DC full tablet Rosa AR 27 Dec 2019.jpg




Renwick Gallery DC tablet Rosa AR sign 27 Dec 2019.jpg




Renwick Gallery DC Rosa drawing 27 Dec 2019.jpg




Renwick Gallery DC Hummingbird flower sign Rosa 27 Dec 2019.jpg



Renwick Gallery DC About the Artist Ruffner sign 27 Dec 2019.jpg



Renwick Gallery DC Video Pic Ginny Ruffner 27 Dec 2019.jpg


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Saw a fascinating Smithsonian virtual exhibit at the Renwick Gallery museum in Washington DC on Thursday, December 27, 2019!

Grant Kirkpatrick and Ginny Ruffner


A new installation at the Renwick combines sculpture, augmented reality and hope

https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/2019/06/27/new-installation-renwick-combines-sculpture-augmented-reality-hope/

https://americanart.si.edu/books/ruffner

https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/ruffner



https://americanart.si.edu/press/2019/20/ginny-ruffner-reforestation-imagination-transforms-renwick-gallery-post-apocalyptic





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On Saturday, December 28, 2019

Explored the actual-virtual at the
National Arboretum too ...
and re the Bonsai exhibit ...

Hope to post some Bonsai's ...



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In the afternoon, went to the Phillips Museum ...

picture of the music room

would like to play my Scottish small pipes here as my 'Honey in the Bag' album comes out




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On 3:32PM, Sun, Jan 12, 2020 Scott MacLeod <musicalmacflower@gmail.com wrote:
Karen and Ma,
I also found a very nice 53 second video of you walking / us on the Washington Mall on that brilliant day, but it's over the 25 MB limit of my Gmail account, so will have to wait for another day.
Perhaps I'll be able to post it ny blog or similar.
In the meantime I'm including a few pictures from the virtual flower / augmented reality exhibit from the Renwick ...
:)
Hugs, Scott


On Jan 12, 2020 3:05 PM, "Scott MacLeod" <musicalmacflower@gmail.com> wrote:
Here too are
The 3 of us, Scott, Karen, Janie in front of White House
You 2 in front of Renwick Gallery :)
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2
3


Scott



On 2:59PM, Sun, Jan 12, 2020 Scott MacLeod <musicalmacflower@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Karen, and Ma,
Karen on wall and Janie in line at National Museum of American Indian
African Art Museum 
Fondly, Scott




On 2:50PM, Sun, Jan 12, 2020 Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Karen, and Erica, 

Thanks again so much for your hospitality in Washington DC after Christmas. It was really nice to see you and to visit. 

Am seeking to send a few great photos to you from a different (less full) email account - musicalmacflower@gmail.com - above, and soon. 

Hugs, your cousin, Scott





On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 4:08 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks so much for these great, great photos, Karen!

Your email here came when ... see below ...

Jane MacLeod Renwick museum with Karen Leighty Scott MacLeod Wash DC 27 Dec 2019.jpg
Scott MacLeod Renwick gallery with Karen Leighty Jane MacLeod Wash DC 27 Dec 2019.jpg

Have been intending to do a blog post about visiting the Renwick museum, (and related virtual experiences even), and other museums in DC with you for a while, and will add all the good photos I took to this, and may send some along as well, if it isn't easy for you to download them! (Perhaps by Sunday!) And blogged a bit today -about all the robotics' language + - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/01/taiga-aphilo-scott-macleod-making-of.html - I've been hearing from you both :)

Memories are an interesting avenue to head in too with family history at some point. How best to do this in a focused way even? :)

Warm regards, Scott


P.S.: Your email here came when I was on a great walk out the 'ridge road' near where I live in Canyon 94516 in East Bay MUD (Municipal Utilities District) ... which is basically at least a 7 miles' long drive in green wood south from where I live to out of the 'park', (and contains Oakland's San Leandro water reservoir ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Bay_Municipal_Utility_District) ... with amazing views of the tops of mountains (like Mt Diablo) around here with NO houses or development on them due to great late urban planning. While there are no houses atop these big hills and ranges, there are big cities all around too including Lafayette, Concord, Walnut Creek, Pleasanton ... and quite a few more ... all fairly new large cities too, and close to the rest of the SF Bay Area cities. :) ... It's 331 square miles of watershed with about 7 reservoirs - 

Thanks again for these great photo memories! 




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On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 3:27 PM Karen Leighty <karen.leighty@gmail.com> wrote:
I missed out on photo ops while you were here, but these will have to do as memories —






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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

4:08 PM (2 hours ago)
to KarenJane
Thanks so much for these great, great photos, Karen!

Your email here came when ... see below ...

Jane MacLeod Renwick museum with Karen Leighty Scott MacLeod Wash DC 27 Dec 2019.jpg
Scott MacLeod Renwick gallery with Karen Leighty Jane MacLeod Wash DC 27 Dec 2019.jpg

Have been intending to do a blog post about visiting the Renwick museum, (and related virtual experiences even), and other museums in DC with you for a while, and will add all the good photos I took to this, and may send some along as well, if it isn't easy for you to download them! (Perhaps by Sunday!) And blogged a bit today -about all the robotics' language + - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/01/taiga-aphilo-scott-macleod-making-of.html - I've been hearing from you both :)

Memories are an interesting avenue to head in too with family history at some point. How best to do this in a focused way even? :)

Warm regards, Scott


P.S.: Your email here came when I was on a great walk out the 'ridge road' near where I live in Canyon 94516 in East Bay MUD (Municipal Utilities District) ... which is basically at least a 7 miles' long drive in green wood south from where I live to out of the 'park', (and contains Oakland's San Leandro water reservoir ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Bay_Municipal_Utility_District) ... with amazing views of the tops of mountains (like Mt Diablo) around here with NO houses or development on them due to great late urban planning. While there are no houses atop these big hills and ranges, there are big cities all around too including Lafayette, Concord, Walnut Creek, Pleasanton ... and quite a few more ... all fairly new large cities too, and close to the rest of the SF Bay Area cities. :) ... It's 331 square miles of watershed with about 7 reservoirs - 

Thanks again for these great photo memories!














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