1. THE ADVENTURES OF
FLAT STANLEY
Philadelphia, PA New Jersey New York
City
2. 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
3. Camden, NJ: The Color Run
Night
5k run & walk
First TCR Night
event in USA
Runners are
showered with
colored powder
(food-grade
cornstarch)
5. Camden, NJ: The Color Run
Night
TCR Arch & Ben Franklin
Bridge
Wearing a headlamp as a belt
6. Camden, NJ: The Color Run
Night
Stanley at the finish line Running through color (video)
7. Philadelphia: Driving around the
city
Philadelphia City
Hall
Statue of
Philadelphia
founder, William
Penn, atop building
Was the tallest
building in PA until
1923
8. Philadelphia: Driving around the
city
Hard Rock Café
Theme restaurant,
worldwide
Founded in 1971
Walls coveredwith
rock and roll
memorabilia
10. 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
16. Visiting Chalfont, PA
Located in Bucks
County, PA
Historic District is on
the National
Register of Historic
Places
American Colonial &
Victorian-style
houses
17. On the way to work
Heading into the
office to work in
Benefit
Administration, it's
Open Enrollment
time for making
benefits elections.
23. 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
26. Met Museum: Photograph
Studio
Large format camera
Stanley is taller than the
Wacom tablet pen!
27. Met Museum: Photograph
Studio
Before: Using PhotoShop to
eliminate a thread used in a
photo
After: Stanley is a pro! The
thread in the photo is gone
28. Met Museum: Temple of Dendur
Egyptian temple
built by the Roman
Government around
15 BC
Exhibited at Met
since 1978
29. 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
30. 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.
31. MoMA: Picasso
Movement: Cubism (1905-1920)
In Cubism, material
is sometimes
visually removed
from its known
context, isolated,
and/or combined
with unrelated
material.
32. 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
33. 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
34. 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”
35. 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.
36. 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
37. NYC: National Debt Clock
Constantly updates
to show the running
total of USA gross
national debt &
family share of debt
Originally installed in
1989
38. NYC: Macy’s
Flagship store at
Herald Square
World’s largest
department store
from 1924-2009
Building was
declared a national
landmark in 1978
39. NYC: Radio City Music Hall
Entertainment
venue in Rockefeller
Center
Home to the
Rockettes
Building declared
national landmark in
1978
40. 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
41. 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
43. NYC: Guggenheim
Solomon R.
Guggenheim
Museum
Art museum
containing
impressionist, post-impressionist,
modern, and
contemporary art
Architecture by
Frank Lloyd Wright
in 1959
44. 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.
47. 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.
49. 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
50. 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.
56. 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.
