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Retired software engineer who grew up in Montana, went to Montana State College in Bozeman, and moved to California to work at Stanford Research Institute (SRI). Carto's Logbook is about photography, travel and adventure; Mt. Maurice Times is tall tales mostly biographical; Carto's Library is about books I've read and liked.

Danger — On shaky ground, a giant Safety Pin

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Balanced Safety Pin in Blue, San Francisco, 2017

In earthquake prone San Francisco: Ignore the danger, and take a stroll beneath the gigantic safety pin in the sculpture garden of the De Young Museum:

Corridor Pin, Blue is a signal sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. The viewer’s conventional expectations of a safety pin are truly “turned on its head.” The scale is magnified by a factor of 250, and the pin is balanced vertically in a manner impossible to achieve with its real-life counterpart.
Fine Arts Museum, SF

A beautiful Spring day in San Francisco; not to be ignored.

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Lunch in the Sculpture Garden of the De Young Museum, San Francisco, Spring 2017

Cheers, Carto

It’s a dangerous world, here.