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1. AMCULT_200925_09.JPG: "So You Wanna Date My Avatar" costume, 2009 Actor and web content creator Felicia Day wore this costume, designed by Greg Aronowitz, in a music video to promote her series The Guild. In the show, Day plays timid gamer Cyd Sherman, whose online would collides with her away-from-keyboard life. Awkwardness and adventures ensue when the gaming companions who know her as the courageous character Codex become her real-life friends. Launched in 2007, the six-season series won the YouTube Video Award, among other honors, and proved that content created to stream online could succeed alongside traditional media.
2. AMCULT_200925_30.JPG: The "Poppies," "PLAY," and "OH MY!" murals that cover the walls of the American Culture wing were created by No Kinds Collective, a Washington, DC-based creative agency founded by Brandon Hill and Peter Chang. The murals were inspired by the varied set of culture-based artifacts on view throughout the wing, from the Yankees ticket booth, to the Ruby Slippers, to the jazz and classical musical instruments, to the depictions of American landscapes in video games. No Kings Collective's murals capture the spirit of popular cultural through an expression of vibrant joy.
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Description of Subject Matter: Ruby Slippers and American Culture Displays
October 19, 2018 – Indefinitely
Dorothy's Ruby Slippers from The Wizard of Oz return to view as one of eight installations displaying American history through culture, entertainment, and the arts. Other artifacts on view include a New York Yankee Stadium ticket booth, jazz and classical instruments, a video game wall, and cases for new acquisitions. A stained glass window from the Victor Company’s headquarters in Camden, New Jersey, featuring “Nipper,” the iconic dog listening to his master’s recorded voice, is the culture floor’s landmark object.
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2020 photos: Well, that was a year, wasn't it? The COVID-19 pandemic cut off most events here in DC after March 11. The child president's handling of the pandemic was a series of disastrous missteps and lies, encouraging his minions to not wear masks and dramatically increasing infections and deaths here.The BLM protests started in June, made all the worse by the child president's inability to have any empathy for anyone other than himself. Then of course he tried to steal the election in November. What a year! Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. The farthest distance I traveled after that was about 40 miles. I only visited sites in four states -- Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and DC. That was the least amount of travel I had done since 1995. Number of photos taken this year: about 246,000, the fewest number of photos I had taken in any year since 2007.
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