{"id":239068,"date":"2010-05-07T08:08:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T08:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eugenesis.com\/the-saddest-object-in-the-world-an-illustrated-meditation-observatory-friday-may-7th\/"},"modified":"2010-05-07T08:08:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T08:08:28","slug":"the-saddest-object-in-the-world-an-illustrated-meditation-observatory-friday-may-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/the-saddest-object-in-the-world-an-illustrated-meditation-observatory-friday-may-7th.php","title":{"rendered":"&#034;The Saddest Object in the World,&#034; An Illustrated Meditation, Observatory, Friday, May 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_y5Y_xVte8sI\/S99H6JID-OI\/AAAAAAAABnc\/LV9RvexlmzI\/s1600\/Saddest_logo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/eugenesis.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/fb9ad_Saddest_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br>This Friday, Observatory and Morbid Anatomy will host <a href=\"http:\/\/morbidanatomy.blogspot.com\/p\/morbid-anatomy-library.html\">Morbid Anatomy Library<\/a> Scholar in residence and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obscuraantiques.com\/\">Obscura<\/a> co-proprietor Evan Michelson as she leads us on an illustrated meditation on what she has termed \"The Saddest Object in the World.\" This event is a reprise of Michelson&rsquo;s popular <a href=\"http:\/\/observatoryroom.org\/2010\/03\/28\/congress\/\">Congress for Curious People<\/a> presentation which took place at the Coney Island Museum earlier this month; if you missed Michelson's beloved presentation the first time around, I cannot encourage you enough to come out tonight and find out all about The Saddest Object in the World.<\/p><p>Full details follow; hope to see you there!<br><span><\/span><\/p><blockquote><p><span>The Saddest Object in the World<\/span><br>An Illustrated Meditation by Evan Michelson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obscuraantiques.com\/\">Obscura Antiques and Oddities<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/morbidanatomy.blogspot.com\/p\/morbid-anatomy-library.html\">Morbid Anatomy Library<\/a> Scholar in residence<br>Date: Friday, May 7th<br>Time: 8:00 PM<br>Admission: $5<br>Location: Observatory<\/p><p>&ldquo;The Saddest Object in the World&rdquo; is a meditation on one particular artifact; an exercise in Proustian involuntary memory, aesthetic critique, and philosophical bargaining.<\/p><p>Sometimes objects have consequences.<\/p><p><span>Evan Michelson <\/span>is an antiques dealer, lecturer, accumulator and aesthete; she tirelessly indulges a lifelong pursuit of all things obscure and melancholy. She currently lives in another place and time.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>You can find out more about this presentation <a href=\"http:\/\/observatoryroom.org\/2010\/04\/18\/saddest-object-observatory\/\">here<\/a>. You can get directions to Observatory--which is next door to the Morbid Anatomy Library (more on that <a href=\"http:\/\/morbidanatomy.blogspot.com\/p\/morbid-anatomy-library.html\">here<\/a>)--by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/observatoryroom.org\/directions\/\">here<\/a>. You can find out more about Observatory <a href=\"http:\/\/observatoryroom.org\/\">here<\/a>, join our mailing list by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/observatoryroom.org\/mailing-list\/\">here<\/a>, and join us on Facebook by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=93893488209\">here<\/a>.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/eugenesis.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/fb9ad_6582997874621015158-2111167853334356786?l=morbidanatomy.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday, Observatory and Morbid Anatomy will host Morbid Anatomy Library Scholar in residence and Obscura co-proprietor Evan Michelson as she leads us on an illustrated meditation on what she has termed \"The Saddest Object in the World.\" This event &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/the-saddest-object-in-the-world-an-illustrated-meditation-observatory-friday-may-7th.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[577281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anatomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}