The Adventures of Flat Stanley

THE ADVENTURES OF

FLAT STANLEYPhiladelphia, PA New Jersey New York

City

Camden, NJ: Campbell’s Field

6,425-seat baseball

park

First regular season

was May, 2001

Home to Camden

Riversharks &

Rutgers University-

Camden baseball

teams

Camden, NJ: The Color Run

Night

5k run & walk

First TCR Night

event in USA

Runners are

showered with

colored powder

(food-grade

cornstarch)


Night


Night

TCR Arch & Ben Franklin

BridgeWearing a headlamp as a belt


Night

Stanley at the finish line Running through color (video)

Philadelphia: Driving around the

city

Philadelphia City

Hall

Statue of

Philadelphia

founder, William

Penn, atop building

Was the tallest

building in PA until

1923


city

Hard Rock Café

Theme restaurant,

worldwide

Founded in 1971

Walls coveredwith

rock and roll

memorabilia


city

Philadelphia: Philly Magic

Gardens

Largest work created by mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar

Spans three city lots

The mosaics are made up of everything from kitchen tiles to bike wheels

Indoor & outdoor labyrinth


Gardens

Mosaic by Isaiah Zagar Painting by Isaiah Zagar


Gardens

Searching for the Flat Stanley book

Visiting Chalfont, PA

Located in Bucks

County, PA

Historic District is on

the National

Register of Historic

Places

American Colonial &

Victorian-style

houses

On the way to work

Heading into the

office to work in

Benefit

Administration, it's

Open Enrollment

time for making

benefits elections.

On the way to work

Happy Halloween!

Getting ready to

help hand out candy

to all the trick or

treaters for

Halloween!

Going to school at Rider

University

Train Ride to New York City

NYC: Metropolitan Museum of

Art

Largest art museum

in USA, one of ten

largest in the world

Permanent

collection contains

more than

2,000,000 artworks

Met Museum: Great Hall

Met Museum: Photograph

Studio


Studio

Large format cameraStanley is taller than the

Wacom tablet pen!


StudioBefore: Using PhotoShop to eliminate a thread used in a

photo

After: Stanley is a pro! The thread in the photo is gone

Met Museum: Temple of Dendur

Egyptian temple

built by the Roman

Government around

15 BC

Exhibited at Met

since 1978

Museum of Modern Art (NYC)

MoMA

Modern &

Contemporary art

(art from 1860s-

present)

At current location

from 1939-present

Most influential

museum of modern

art in the world

MoMA: Van Gogh & Starry

Night Movement: Post-Impressionism

(1885-1910)

Used vivid colors, often thick application of paint, and real-life subject matter, but were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, to distort form for expressive effect, and to use unnatural or arbitrary color.

MoMA: Picasso

Movement: Cubism (1905-1920)

In Cubism, material

is sometimes

visually removed

from its known

context, isolated,

and/or combined

with unrelated

material.

MoMA: Jasper Johns

Movement: Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Neo-Dada (1917-1950)

Similar Flag painting fetched $36 million at auction 11/12/14!

Neo-Dada put "emphasis on the importance of the work of art produced rather than on the concept generating the work“.

Foundation of Pop Art

MoMA: Wassily Kandinsky

Movement: Abstract Expressionism (1940s-1950s)

Expressionist artists sought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality.

Abstract art uses a visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the

MoMA: Jackson Pollock

Movement: Abstract

Expressionism (1940s-1950s)

Pollock realized that

the journey toward

making a work of art

was as important as

the work of art itself.

Known as “Jack the

Dripper”

MoMA: Andy Warhol

Movement: Pop Art (1960s)

In Pop Art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material.

Employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects.

NYC: Taxis

A typical taxi travels

70,000 miles per

year, enough to

travel around the

world 2.8 times.

600,000 passengers

per day

236 million

passengers per year

NYC: National Debt Clock

Constantly updates

to show the running

total of USA gross

national debt &

family share of debt

Originally installed in

1989

NYC: Macy’s

Flagship store at

Herald Square

World’s largest

department store

from 1924-2009

Building was

declared a national

landmark in 1978

NYC: Radio City Music Hall

Entertainment

venue in Rockefeller

Center

Home to the

Rockettes

Building declared

national landmark in

1978

NYC: Empire State Building

103-story

skyscraper

Stands 1,454 feet

high

Designed in Art

Deco style

One of the Seven

Wonders of the

Modern World

National landmark

designation in 1986

NYC: Central Park

Urban park opened

in 1857

National landmark

designation in 1968

Most visited urban

park in the USA and

most filmed location

in the world

NYC: Central Park

NYC: Guggenheim

Solomon R.

Guggenheim

Museum

Art museum

containing

impressionist, post-

impressionist,

modern, and

contemporary art

Architecture by

Frank Lloyd Wright

in 1959

NYC: Guggenheim & Zero

Exhibit The movement is from

1950s-1960s commonly interpreted as reaction to Abstract Expressionism by arguing that art should be void of color, emotion and individual expression.

Many of the Zero artists are better known for their affiliations with other movements, including Nouveau réalisme, Arte Povera, Minimalism, Op Art and Kinetic art.

NYC: Riding the Subway

NYC: Magnolia Bakery

Waiting for a cupcakeWhich flavor should Stanley

get?

NYC: Ellis Island

Gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954.

The island was made part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965, and has hosted a museum of immigration since 1990.

NYC: Ellis Island

NYC: Ellis Island JR

“Unframed”

Wheatpaste art applied to walls in Ellis Island Contagious Disease hospital ward

Off-limits to public, access with “hard hat” tour

Life size historic photographs of Ellis Island immigrants

NYC: Statue of Liberty

Dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France

The statue is of a robed female figure representing the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tablet evoking the law upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

NYC: Skyline

Stanley makes cookies!

Franklin, NJ: Franklin Pond

Stanley watches a swan eat Stanley by a historic sign

Franklin, NJ: Franklin Pond

Stanley by the bridge Having some green tea

Ogdensburg, NJ: Heater’s Pond

Newton, NJ: Thai lunch & tea

National cuisine of Thailand

Balance, detail and variety are of paramount significance to Thai chefs.

Thai cooking places emphasis on lightly prepared dishes with strong aromatic components and a spicy edge.

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