Secret Smile..

"The Art and Technology of making Monsters: ANIMATRONICS" .. sounds interesting? yup.. i went to Australian Museum last Saturday to have a look.. playing a little bit of tourist there.. too bad they dont allow cameras inside the exhibition..

if you wonder what it is about, recall all the movies with monsters, aliens, talking animals, warewolves, king kong, apes from george of the jungle, peter pan’s alligator, and even mechanical men like inspector gadget.. they show them all how to build them from scratch to finish. from paper sketches, to casting n moulding (like in engineering workshop), to fiber glass skin, to clay model, to mechanical structure, the motors involved to move the limbs, a bit like robotics, and finally the skin painting and hair punching. interesting rite? even movie recording were demonstrated.. everything from start to end

after spending as much time as i could in the animatronics  section, i moved to Wildlife Photographer of the Year Section.  these are some of the winning photographs. 

Places, animals, captured at their most memorable and candid moments.. 

then i ventured the other spaces of the museum, 

other spaces showed skeletons of ancient animals, biodiversity, aboriginals (people who originally lives in australia) and other things museum have.. 

when midday came, i went out and walked to the art gallery at the other end of the road.

in the middle, there was the Mary Anne’s Cathedral.. there was a wedding ceremony going on. people can actually come inside to visit the cathedral, but only on sundays. with my headscarf on, and with me being alone, i dont think i would enter the building.

  i had my lunch at the park beside the art gallery, and, with satisfied tummy, played tourist again.. i spent a few hours roaming around.. trying to understand the difficult art, and enjoyed the more understandable ones..

after a hard days’ walk.. i went back home.. feeling happy and tired..

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