My Day at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

For my drawing class, my homework was go to the Harvard Museum of Natural History and pick a skeleton to draw, rib for rib, vertebrae for vertebrae, everything had to be specific.

I loved this museum! I thought it was really cool to see all of the animals they had, many of which I had never seen before, and certainly not as up close! sure, they were all stuffed orskeletons but it was crazy some of the stuff they had! Not only did they have all this cool stuff, but there were not a lot of people there at all! It was very quiet, a very good environment for drawing. It had all the cool stuff that the New York Museum of Natural History has, but 100 times less tourists.

Also, the lighting in there was just fantastic. I took A LOT of pictures, and I'll show you a bunch here!

The Moropus, a descendent of the horse and rhinoceros.

(PS. this skeleton is 42 feet long.) Could you imagine if this creature was still around to this day. No one would ever want to swim in the ocean, that's for damn sure.

Tim Burton at the MoMA

I'm kind of ashamed to say I found out about this through Perez Hilton's twitter,
but I'm a huge Tim Burton fan so I am going to just ignore that fact.

Tim Burton is going to have an exhibit at the MoMA starting November 22nd, with all of his paintings, films, drawings, cocktail napkins, etc.
I am so excited and fully intend on going to see this sometime in the next month.
They are displaying such a large variety of things- I look forward to seeing what else this guy can do besides create ridiculously awesome movies.

Salem in the Fall

Sorry for the delay, folks!
These past couple days have been extremely busy, but I have been meaning to tell you about the day I spent in Salem, Massachusetts on Sunday.
You've probably learned about it in history class if you are from the states, but Salem was the home of the Salem Witch Trials and its a must-do for Halloween.
There are all sorts of museums and ghost tours, etc.

I went with my friends Karen and Ellysia, and we walked around a lot because it was gorgeous, took a lot of pictures, went to a reenactment of one of the witch trials, and went to one really cheesy witch museum, complete with wax statues and automated voiceovers. I'll post a couple of the pictures here for you!

I've been wanting to go for so long, and I finally did!
I recommend that you guys all make it up there at some point.
It only takes a little more than 30 minutes to drive there from Boston, but of course there was a little traffic so close to Halloween.
It was totally worth it!


p.s. I promise that someday I'll figure out what my layout is going to be.