Last weekend I went to go check out the Chihuly exhibit at The New York Botanical Gardens. For those of you who don't know Chihuly is an artist who works with blown glass.

The ticket prices were expensive, it ended up costing us about $65.00 to go when the usual non-Chihuly cost is about $12.00. Not only was the day overcast ( not their fault), but a lot of the flowers were dead( oh yeah that ones on them). It was a bit of a disapointment, but some of the artwork was pretty impressive.

I took a bunch of photos, here's a few .....





















You can see the dead flowers here.....






















If you want to go, you should it's nice to walk around in a peaceful place and the forest is wonderful...I just was looking forward to it for a while and it just fell short of my expectaions.

Here's the offical website: http://www.nybg.org/

awesome looks beautiful

Mach said:

Some of it was

How beautiful! I love blown glass art.

This dude is awesome. Did you see the pieces of art he made for the city of Venice? He put these huge pieces over the walk ways and one in the water. The water piece was backlit and it blew me away. I thought I wanted a piece of Chihuly till I saw how much a small bauble cost. Maybe in my next life.

applekisses said:

me too

My photos don't do the colors justice!

ShySlantedEye1 said:

A small glass ball cost $28.00, the larger peices ranged $1,500 for his sketches, and $5,000 plus for the larger stuff.

It's really not that bad a price, I think it's a pretty good investment.
I don't have that much to spend on that right now though

He doesn't make the sulptures, he just designs them and his assistants make them. I think that's kinda wrong.

But yeah I've seen photos of the Venice stuff....really beautiful!

Purdy!!!!!

ShySlantedEye1 said:

They have a few nights at the Garden when they are going to do that type of thing... I shoulda went then!

that's some crazy fucking stuff!!!

faboo!
im in lurve!

pretty

SammiJ said:

He's a crazy looking dude!



He has stuff in the Bellagio in Vegas I wanna see.

Wow...those photos are great! ...Some beautiful compositions and colors there, hun.

Sweeny79 said:

im supposing he gets his inspiration from his hair

Byron said:

Thanks I tried.

Your photos would have rocked if you could have been there!

SammiJ said:

I hadn't thought of that! I was too distracted by his eyepatch!

Sweeny79 said:

One thing, though...why is there a strip of sky and clouds at the top of two of the photos??...

Byron said:

I don't know! I must have messed up something when I cropped them.

I was too lazy to fix it.

Maybe if I changed the name of this thread to read " Guy with eyepatch blows" I might get more responses?

Sweeny, I caught Chihuly's exhibit when it was in Milwaukee, a few years ago.


It was beautiful!!!!

ThreadBare said:

Cool! Was it the same pieces or different?

Reply to 'Chihuly at The New York Botanical Garden'

Chihuly is a homeboy. Our great Seattle area longtime local glass artist.

We know he's bad. We know he's good. We know he is a legend. His art is good good.

Sweeny79 said:

No, these were interior pieces -- vases and indoor sculptures. I couldn't get over it.

Gorgeous!!!

... and I got in for free...

ThreadBare said:

I'd go see another one of his shows no doubt, it was the gardens and the dead flowers that pissed me off.

july said:

2the9s said:

Take your family and go see it!

Sweeny79 said:

That looks like a bad experience I had with those stretchy balloons.

althom said:

When we were there , this little girl kept screaming "BALLOONS!BALLONS!" and pointing...everyone was laughing because she was so cute and so little...then this dumbass bimbo turns to her musclehead date and says

" Wait, they are made out of balloons?

And the date was like " Ummm...yeah...sure they are. "

and then the bimbo looks at the yellow thing like this

then the date looks at her ass and does this big grin and he might as well had a billboard on his forehead that read:

" I am so getting some from this silly bitch tonight!"



Ya gotta people sometimes.