Expensive creepy machines
The Met has got a show on at the moment called Making Marvels. It’s about two hundred years worth of eye-wateringly expensive things European royalty commissioned between 1550 and 1750. If you click either the catalogue or the picture album links on the page I linked above, you get a 404 error.
Boo, the Met.
Fortunately, I found their YouTube playlist. Don’t miss the famous draughtsman — with his clothes off, no less.
Lots of cool things to see on their Twitter hashtag, as well.
Yes, I’m still haunting Twitter for news of the coronavirus. Today in town, a family of Chinese tourists stopped me to ask directions and I ’bout came out of my skin. If one of the buggers had coughed…
January 27, 2020 — 9:15 pm
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