Today's "Conversations on the Way to School": Hippie vs. Hipster and how Hipsters are not mainstream but they really are, what is a Mullet and could you get away with one at Catholic school (answer: probably not, even though it is above the eyebrows and off the ears), Mitosis vs. Meiosis (as my sophomore crammed for her SOL today), what it means with regards to the legs on a horse on a statue (both legs up vs. one leg down vs. both on the ground), what is the meaning of the statue outside the Chrysler Museum (Anna Hyatt Huntington's The Torchbearer's), the song Happy (how it makes people happy, why does it make people happy, and what, exactly, are the clap rhythms – is it a dual, or triplet, or continuous) and bind spots - what they are in a car and what they are in your eyes and why does Daddy have a blind spot and just because he looked at the sun as a kid doesn't mean he was "kinda dumb". Happy Tuesday!
Answers:
The "Legs on a horse on a statue" thing is called an Equestrian Statue. I didn't know that the placement of the legs of the horse means something, but it does - both legs up, the rider died in battle; one front leg up means the rider was wounded in battle or died of battle wounds; and if all four hooves are on the ground, the rider died outside battle.
Anna Hyatt Huntington was one of the earliest prominent New York sculptos and she created a statue called The Torchbearers. It is was given to the people of Spain to symbolize the passing of the torch of Western civilization from age to youth; it was unveiled 15 May 1955. Replicas of the statue are on the grounds of:
- The Discovery Museum, Park Avenue in Bridgeport, Connecticut, cast bronze.
- The Mark Twain Library in Redding, Connecticut, cast bronze.
- The University of South Carolina's Wardlaw College cast bronze.
- Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey cast aluminum, April 1964.
- The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia cast aluminum, 1957.
(source, Wikipedia)
Hippies want to be eclectic, but they've become mainstream, which is ironic, if you really think about it.
And there's no way in the world you could possibly get away with a mullet at Catholic school - the hair would indeed be off your eyebrows and off your ears but not off your collar. One of my kids asked why most men have short hair, and I said that currently, it was societally accepted, but that it wasn't always that way.
With regards to Blind Spots - when my husband was a child, he was taken a fake apparition site, and told to look at the sun. Being young, and wanting to believe in the apparition, he did so - and he has a blind spot in his eye as a result.
The Mullet thing really has me stumped. It's not just the Catholic School thing, it appears to be a USA School thing? I've been reading a lot of news articles about kids being told they can't do certain things with their hair when it comes to colour or even style? I wonder why it's such a big deal?
:) I love these Posts BTW! really I do. :)
Posted by: Kyooty | 05/20/2014 at 03:39 PM