Yep, it’s finally up and running, with all the goodies I had planned to put in there. You’ll notice that the architecture is very reminiscent of an ancient Egyptian tomb, narrow walls and low ceilings.
I didn’t plan that — it’s one of the standard offerings on kunstmatrix, and one I find useful, especially in “railroad car” style layouts, like the cold-water walkup flats in downtown New York City back in the 1950s.
I’m sure it’s not too much different now, smelling of old garbage and sweltering with the newfound heat of summer.
Get it? Yuck, yuck!
Yes, it’s here — the climate change is upon us, and we must do something NOW about it.
My plan is to make a bunch of virtual exhibitions.
Physical galleries and museums are things of the past. The goal of the museum now should be strictly to educate, not to shield the wealthy from their rightful taxes.
Lots of rich people donate to museums that are made of cut marble and have giant pillars out front, with a broad stairway up to the gift shop and beyond.
That’s not how to run a museum online.
One singular advantage we have is that we have our own 3D engine in which we can tailor just about any kind of world you can imagine or remember having done duty in sometime in the distant past.
You will please take note that I used a lot of pedestal effects, more than usual.
This is because we have an inordinate amount of Egyptian material, mostly ceramic wall inlay fragments from the North Palace at Amarna, dug up by Pendlebury in 1936 and donated to the museum by the original purchaser — they were sold at auction to help finance the next expedition.
The pieces in the kunstmatrix exhibition were photographed in 1936 as they were found, but only in black-and-white.
Ours are the first color photos of items that were found at that time and which now reside in the MaMa collection in the form of virtual exhibits as well as the physical items.
In this age of rampant disease and social upheaval, it’s perhaps best to make these things available only on the internet, and that’s what we’ve done.
I serve as one of MaMa’s volunteers, creating exhibits for the public to see. It’s all in the backstory and the facts and details, not just a pretty photo.
Maybe you can think of some exhibition that could be of use on the MaMa list of “suggested online exhibitions” that should be in the index column of the mama.org website, I would think.
I don’t know how this stuff will present on the website, but that is the crux of the matter — all these exhibitions are designed as gateways, doors to our virtual world.
It’s my intention to boost up the Roman exhibit, but I don’t have photos of all our Roman artifacts yet — I’ll use a total of about 75 images for the exhibit, most of them on the walls, some on pedestals.
You can add pedestals by clicking on the plus sign on the floor. It will present an extra plus sign right next to it.
Carefully place the image you want on a pedestal on that spot, having prepared it first as a “billboard” item, of course, set to “transparent” and don’t forget to include a choice of pedestal.
The computer doesn’t know what you think you mean. It only reads what you wrote.
The whole thing about these kunstmatrix exhibitions is that you can hang them on the HOME page of your website, and the most casual of browsers will surely take a moment to click the inviting doorway to see what happens.
To their surprise, they walk into this wondrous space — the first time visitor will also get a face-full of information about how to navigate in there.
It’s very well planned, and although it can’t catch every fish, it can catch some.
The whole problem with zazzle is that you can’t sell on zazzle. Only your family and friends will take the time and trouble to find you on zazzle, track down your store and buy your shit, and that’s only because it’s photographs of them.
What else sells?
Everything’s a selfie. Everything.
So if you make an exhibit of a family, people will ask you if you could do that for their family, and of course you say “yes”, but don’t do it free. It’s too much work to do it free unless this is a very good friend or a relative you actually like.
If you want to make a pretty exhibition, or an impressive exhibition or a fabulously artistic exhibition, this is the place to do it, and if you can, do it now, while you still can.
I’m convinced that you’ll get a great experience from carving out a “something” from a whole lot of “nothing”.
Walk outside the exhibit space into the void, but not too far, then go back inside the nice, warm, comfortable Home Universe you know so well.
You can link these spaces together, as I did here, to create a longer chain of exhibit space. There are several layouts that can be linked together — only four that are strictly stand-alone styles.
There’s plenty to do, lots of different ideas will work in this space, if you give yourself time to develop as a creator.
That is the idea, contribute to the creation of creations. Ideas count.
In the meantime, what about Healing Rooms?
How about a chamber that celebrates your favorite Guru? Antique photos look GREAT in this environment, especially if they’re slightly tinted with sepia tone.
You might have noticed the deep box for the sarcophagus. That’s one way to create a pillar or wall in the space, and it’s a great way to create an imposing object.
Well, that’s enough for now. Get on this right away while it’s still here to enjoy and work with.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby