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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has a new service that takes requests over SMS and sends them back over MMS:
Text 572-51 with the words "send me" followed by a keyword, a color, or even an emoji and you'll receive a related artwork image and caption via text message. For example "send me the ocean" might get you Pirkle Jones' Breaking Wave, Golden Gate; "send me something blue" could result in Éponge (SE180) by Yves Klein; and "send me 💐" might return Yasumasa Morimura's An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Collar of Thorns). Each text message triggers a query to the SFMOMA collection API, which then responds with an artwork matching your request.
Also in Smithsonian Magazine
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 20 2017, @09:15PM (2 children)
AC #542056 here. Sorry I replied before reading about your mobility problems. If you're near Kingman, there used to be an Amtrak station there. Maybe it's still open? Another idea: people were sharing rides before Uber and Lyft, maybe ride with someone who's actually going to one of those cities?
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Thursday July 20 2017, @10:26PM (1 child)
Don't worry, I avoid bringing up the issues as a whole anyway because they are not relevant except for in these kinds of scenarios and feels like a crutch when I do it. But yeah it's still open. But the rail goes towards socal I believe which I might use it for in a future trip instead of a flight. Amtrak-the-bus is actually still at the convenient location Greyhound used to be, but it doesn't go to the insanely convenient 200 S. Main dropoff that Greyhound does. I can find cheap hotel rooms too in case of emergency and Fremont is right there.
Really just goes to show why this MMS thing is less silly than it initially looks. Even though I can't see myself being able to justify a trip for a museum I can certainly see texting one while on a bus going somewhere and no wifi. Since that's an ideal situation to enjoy some art and music.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @08:13PM
The Amtrak goes in the other direction too, to Chicago. I learned from Ferris Bueller's Day Off that there are excellent museums there.