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Museum Lets Cell Phone Users View art by MMS

posted by martyb on Thursday July 20 2017, @01:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the send-me-a-sandwich dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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: 2) by Lagg on Friday July 21 2017, @06:26AM (1 child)

    by Lagg (105) on Friday July 21 2017, @06:26AM (#542236) Homepage Journal

    I think it's just that geologists are always good to have around. I recall him mentioning that he worked for a mine. So I imagine stuff like that is lucrative. This part of AZ has something of a mining history and he was literally the only geologist I knew here face to face. Seems rather reliable for a STEM job in a rural area. I wonder if this is the same reason my surveyor friend doesn't seem to have many complaints.

    These sound cool though, I shall add them to the list. Thanks. Also it's pretty funny that you seem to have the same kind of tomato/tamato issue with Nevada that the state does. You'll see people get annoyed sometimes if you say ne-vah-dah or ne-vad-dah too. Interestingly Nevada City sounds a lot like a place we have named Oatman. It's not exactly a museum but it functions as one. And some of the goofiest gift shops ever. Or at least it was when I was there last like vialed sulfer/fart liquid, black candy that stains your teeth and is spicy, etc.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by darnkitten on Friday July 21 2017, @09:35AM

    by darnkitten (1912) on Friday July 21 2017, @09:35AM (#542278)

    Our geology is supposed to be interesting to geologists, but I guess the area is mostly known for played-out mines--there are still a number of "active" mines and miners around (when metals are high), but they're usually barely break-even propositions. Nonetheless we are only 90 minutes from Butte, once "The Richest Hill on Earth," and this last winter the place where hundreds of snow geese died landing on its sulfuric-acid-laden lake.

    Nevada City is sort of an adjunct to Virginia City, a historical district, once the territorial capital, where Sheriff Jack Slade ran a gang of Road Agents, including one Clubfoot George, until some honest citizens formed a Vigilance Committee and hanged the lot of 'em.

    Or framed a bunch of innocent men to cover up their own banditry, depending on which side your family's descended from--and you'd best bear in mind which side you're talking to--It Does Matter. They do hold on to their grudges around these parts.