David Hildebrand Wilson is the co-founder of the Museum of Jurrasic Technology along with his wife, Diana Wilson. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship in 2001.
He received an MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts in 1976. He and his museum are the subject of the book, "Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder".
I decided that I would go to the Mueseum of Jurassic Technology for my museum visit. After hearing such negative reviews of FarmLab I decided to check out this little gem, plus I love visits to West LA ;) Anyways this place is tiny on the outside and I got lost looking for it, driving up and down Venice Blvd a few times before stopping off at a Starbucks for a coffee and directions. Good thing, because the lovely barista girl told me it was just a few min walk up Venice. Sweet! I totally forgot to take a picture of the entrance, but here a a few of the shots I thought were awesome.
This was a "horn" from some ladies head!
This was interesting, it was a fox/dog(?) head and when you walk up it started barking and growling.. but when you looked into this lil thing, you see an image of a sitting man doing the barking noises.. trippy!
This contraption was cool, every so often it would spin and ring all the bells that was on it.. I was almost afraid to come into this room because it was so luminous and... scary haha.
xray radiographs of plants!
This is a sculpture of Goofy.. yes, its sitting on the head of a needle. Tiny!!
This is the Pope in the eye of a needle
And this is Napoleon Bonaparte
An image of mother and child, child has a nasty case of gangrene of the feet. This photo doesnt do it justice, you could see the bones in the feet and everything. crazy.
A room full of Napoleon stuff.
Seen off of Venice Blvd in Culver City
Same street, different truck haha
A picture from the parking structure.
Photo of downtown from the parking structure
Downtown Los Angeles taken from the 10 freeway
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