From "Smithsonian brings bison back to the National Mall with gigantic statues" (WaPo)(gift link, because this is all about the photographs).
“a thin thread and a confusing miasma”
From "Smithsonian brings bison back to the National Mall with gigantic statues" (WaPo)(gift link, because this is all about the photographs).
20 comments:
Planned Quadrupedhood (QP)... WaPout (no pun intended... maybe, baby).
Let Gurbanguly have his Big Gold Dog. We got Giant Bronze Bison.
Great art.
I did not know we had a "National Mammal." Awesome!
Can we bring back the Teddy Roosevelt statue to NYC now? And that Abe Lincoln statue they took down?
Honoring bison is ungulate supremacy.
I would have enjoyed a picture of what they looked like when the sun was up.
"The species has recovered from the brink of extinction and now exists in all 50 states with a population of approximately 500,000 animals. It is currently listed as “near threatened”"
That's a lot of bison.
I like Bison. And its good we have a statue. Ultimately, however, they're just wild cows. Like someone said, 500,000 is enough.
Teddy Roosevelt is still in the closet. Maybe they'll let him for Gay pride month.
B-B-B-But - the bison-tenial was fifty years ago.
For those who don't want to give WaPOO their email:
MSN version with photos
I can't tell if they're on the Mall side or the Constitution Ave, or which would be better. More people pass on the street side, but gawking would not be good.
Excellent, Onasses
Duh, there's the Wash Monument, so Mall side.
The director of the museum since 2013, Kirk Johnson, starred in a few PBS Nova geology/natural history docs that I enjoyed. Wiki says he received a bachelor's degree in geology and fine arts from Amherst.
RCO, TR & friends were at the NY Natural History museum.
Bison are great, but I, for one, would welcome UNCLE BEAZLEY back with even more enthusiasm.
Had to look him up, mikee, as I didn't know his name. Sinclair's molded while you wait dinosaurs are about all I remember of the '64-5 NY World's Fair (I was 4). "It's a small world" doesn't count, because I saw it again a few years later at Disneyland.
I saw the Bronze Bison fight Michael Nunn at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City in 1990.
I don't know about UNCLE BEAZLEY but I do recall Uncle Buckle the Safety Buffalo.
There was a life-sized model (maybe a real, stuffed one?) of a bison at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh—may still be there.
These animals are SO big! Standing next to even an inanimate bison is a bit scary.
Why was almost every photograph taken of the statues in low light and from menacing angles?
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