{"items": [{"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/243106262442480?comment_id=243108922442214", "anchor": "fb-243108922442214", "service": "fb", "text": "To my eye as someone who has been collecting glass art for 20 years, that collection is stunning workmanship.", "timestamp": "1329769083"}, {"author": "Mac", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/243106262442480?comment_id=243108979108875", "anchor": "fb-243108979108875", "service": "fb", "text": "Kinna makes Chihuly look crass and overblown.", "timestamp": "1329769087"}, {"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/243106262442480?comment_id=243110539108719", "anchor": "fb-243110539108719", "service": "fb", "text": "Most things make Chihuly look crass and overblown. (I love his work, but delicate is not in his artistic vocabulary.)", "timestamp": "1329769217"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/243106262442480?comment_id=243112139108559", "anchor": "fb-243112139108559", "service": "fb", "text": "@Michael: when I hear people criticize artificial flowers, though, they usually are complaining that they are fake not that they display poor workmanship.", "timestamp": "1329769375"}, {"author": "Mac", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/243106262442480?comment_id=243112162441890", "anchor": "fb-243112162441890", "service": "fb", "text": "LOL!! Yeah, I loved visiting it and got a catalog.", "timestamp": "1329769376"}, {"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/243106262442480?comment_id=243125479107225", "anchor": "fb-243125479107225", "service": "fb", "text": "Context and knowledge is key to appreciation. If you'd seen the original Lewis Chessmen in your dentist's office, you'd have dismissed them too.", "timestamp": "1329770527"}, {"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/243106262442480?comment_id=243126129107160", "anchor": "fb-243126129107160", "service": "fb", "text": "Which raises the question of whether there's anything of any real value that belongs in a dentist's office.", "timestamp": "1329770595"}, {"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/243106262442480?comment_id=243126989107074", "anchor": "fb-243126989107074", "service": "fb", "text": "And I think a lot of people dismiss the Chihuly in the Bellagio lobby as some tacky mass-produced \"glass art\" rather than the studio work it actually is.", "timestamp": "1329770682"}, {"author": "Julie", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/243106262442480?comment_id=243127952440311", "anchor": "fb-243127952440311", "service": "fb", "text": "I work there! Would be happy to tell you all about them.", "timestamp": "1329770790"}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/106120852580068301475", "anchor": "gp-1329772462513", "service": "gp", "text": "I wonder if you could use the APIs to reproduce Facebook/G+ comments on the other platform (as a comment from you, I guess), effectively making it one conversation?\n
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\nSorry if you already addressed that, and I missed it.\n
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\nAlso not sure if that's even desirable in your case, but things like that really \nought\n to be possible. And easy, eventually.", "timestamp": 1329772462}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1329772794172", "service": "gp", "text": "@David Chudzicki\n That would be possible (over on Facebook, $user said \"$comment\") but I don't like it. I think it would look spammy.", "timestamp": 1329772794}, {"author": "Anna", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/243106262442480?comment_id=243157509104022", "anchor": "fb-243157509104022", "service": "fb", "text": "We saw these. Weren't they at the Peabody? They are amazing in their representations.", "timestamp": "1329773497"}, {"author": "Julia", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/114588710186521489410", "anchor": "gp-1329775251753", "service": "gp", "text": "Similar to Joshua Bell playing in the DC subway: \nhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html\n
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\nWhat's amazing about the glass flowers is the skill it took to make them, which modern silk flowers don't require. But also, if you get people to slow down and look at almost any object (by putting it in a museum case), they will notice the fine details. It's an exercise in mindfulness. If we paid that much attention to actual flowers growing outdoors, we'd be amazed, too.", "timestamp": 1329775251}, {"author": "Ronald", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/243106262442480?comment_id=243180555768384", "anchor": "fb-243180555768384", "service": "fb", "text": "I was just there almost a week ago, showing them to a friend. We were both amazed by the craftsmanship (I've seen them 7 times now, and I'm still awestruck).", "timestamp": "1329775714"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1329775731372", "service": "gp", "text": "@Julia\n I don't know if that's it. Mass produced plastic flowers might have required exceptional skill from some anonymous industrial designer. Maybe some of it is cost and prevalence? Plastic flowers are cheap and widely available; these are not.", "timestamp": 1329775731}, {"author": "Phillip", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/243106262442480?comment_id=243192695767170", "anchor": "fb-243192695767170", "service": "fb", "text": "A requirement for all Cambridge public school children. I had a company scavenger hunt at the Museum of Natural History: People from out of town were in awe. I disagree about the dentist office comment. The fidelity to the actual plants is much greater, and you would notice it. Though at first, at least, you would shrug it off, since you know nothing of high value is likely in the paublic space of a small business.", "timestamp": "1329777008"}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/106120852580068301475", "anchor": "gp-1329779651556", "service": "gp", "text": "\"methods lost to us\" really got me interested.", "timestamp": 1329779651}, {"author": "Allison", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103741579182942078941", "anchor": "gp-1329831966700", "service": "gp", "text": "@Jeff Kaufman\n Mass produced plastic flowers are a pretty far cry from their original inspiration. The silk and paper ones are generally better-looking and (I think) require more skill to make; I imagine they require hand assembly and probably hand painting. When I saw the glass flowers exhibit (last time I was up, actually), they far exceeded the standard silk and paper ones (the darkish rooms might have helped, though). I spend probably too much time looking at tiny details on things, especially vegetation, and the glass flowers are on par with modern high-end silk flowers, at least in terms of looks. (Silk flowers can also feel real.)", "timestamp": 1329831966}]}