Yesterday I went to Milwaukee with Emma and it was great. We went to the Milwaukee Public Museum to see the Body World exhibit and the Human Body IMAX. Body World wasn’t as impressive as I thought it would be. I found it to be more disturbing and bizarre than interesting. I had high expectations I guess. I thought the displays would appear more lifelike, but they seemed artificial rather than real flesh and bone. I don’t regret going to the exhibit though. I wanted to see it and now I have.

The Human Body IMAX show was interesting. I learned that extreme close ups and time-lapse cinematography can produce unsettling results when displayed on an IMAX screen. When the show first started I became a little dizzy. I feared I was going “express my illness” onto the people seated in front of me. Thankfully the feeling passed quickly and I enjoyed the show.

We also went to the Milwaukee Art Museum. The modern displays were much more interesting than the classics. I guess I’m a product of the technology age. I can acknowledge the skill and creativeness of some classical pieces, but I don’t appreciate it. One of the really interesting exhibits involved light and darkness. It was just a dark room with lights on strings set evenly apart in rank and file. When you walked through the exhibit the air flow created by your motion would cause the strings sway. To the left is a picture of Emma in the exhibit. She’s the void in the center of the picture.