{"id":5828,"date":"2014-08-03T17:41:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T00:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/?p=5828"},"modified":"2014-08-03T17:45:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T00:45:34","slug":"chihuly-heaven-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/2014\/08\/chihuly-heaven-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Chihuly Heaven in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"

if you’re a Chihuly<\/a> fan, the Chihuly Garden and Glass museum<\/a> is calling your name. it’s right in the heart of Seattle, next to the Space Needle and EMP at Seattle Center. i was in town for the First2Board Seattle Sessions<\/a> (p.s. so great to finally unvirtualize<\/a> so many tweeps!) and my MegaDO\/Sessions friend Jana wanted to visit it — i gladly went along.<\/p>\n

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while his oeuvre <\/em>(look at me with my ten-dollar word!) doesn’t appeal to me on an artistic or emotional level (see tweet below), i do appreciate the skill and mastery it takes to create them, having seen his work at the DeYoung in San Francisco<\/a>* as well as at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

* i knew<\/em> i saw many of these pieces before, but i couldn’t remember where until i did a twitter search just now which proved i was at the DeYoung for this exhibit. sadly, link rot has caused the snipurl to disappear, so who knows what picture (i’m assuming) was on the other end of that.<\/p>\n

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Chihuly (yuck, not a fan) and the deyoung tower http:\/\/snipurl.com\/35mby<\/p>\n

— Jonathan Khoo (@jonk) July 26, 2008<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n