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| Having not been in San Jose in a long time, I'd forgotten it has a
downtown trolley.
| The Basilica of Saint Joseph, next to the art museum.
| The San Jose Museum of Art's cafe is housed in this 1892 building that
used to be a post office.
| The actual San Jose Museum of Art.
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| Chihuly chandeliers in the lobby.
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I liked Ruth
Bernhard's photograph Eighth Street Movie Theater, New
York. It feels like what a 1950s artist might have felt a
futuristic movie theater felt like. The pictures on the web don't do
the photograph justice.
| A video of Ruth Asawa's neat three-dimensional sculpture. Sadly, it's
hard to see in this video how the branches rise above the plane of the
wall.
| Too bad I wasn't allowed to photograph this cool display that makes a
storybook interactive. The plaque describes it well.
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Katya Bonnenfant takes old-looking calculators and clocks (likely from
the 60s) and animates the screens, having numbers decompose into pixels
that then form figures which do whimsical things. I guess she must've
invisibly replaced the screens to get a higher resolution display in
there.
| This plaque describes a hilarious video game. It cracked me up.
Crossing borders, avoiding liquor bottles, fighting stereotype monsters
(a roach in a Mexican mask).
| Outside the Tech Museum I found this rolling ball machine. I loved them
as a kid. I still do.
| A video of part of the machine in action.
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| A funny and useful glossary, in the The Tech's gift shop.
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Near San Jose State, I spotted some restaurants housed in cute single
family homes. Too bad I was driving, else I would've taken a photo.
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