DC -- Event: In America: Remember -- Viewed from Washington Monument and NMAAHC (Multiple visits):
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Description of Pictures: When the In America: Remember installation was going up (September 14 to to 20th), I tried to go up into the Washington Monument twice a day to photograph its creation -- over a dozen times over a week. After it was mostly finished, I went into the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) one day to photograph it from there. During deinstallation, I went up again.
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2021_DC_In_America2V: DC -- Event: In America: Remember -- Viewed from Washington Monument and NMAAHC (Multiple visits) (205 photos from 2021)
2021_DC_In_America2CC_211003: DC -- Event: In America: Remember (art installation by Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg) -- Closing Ceremony (169 photos from 2021)
2021_DC_In_America2OC_210917: DC -- Event: In America: Remember (art installation by Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg) -- Opening Ceremony (225 photos from 2021)
2021_DC_In_America2_2021Wk1: DC -- Event: In America: Remember (art installation by Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg) 2021 Wk 1 (Sep 14-19) (Visits 1-6) 666,624 --> 673,484 dead (573 photos from 2021)
2021_DC_In_America2_2021Wk2: DC -- Event: In America: Remember (art installation by Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg) 2021 Wk 2 (Sep 20-26) (Visits 7-10) 673,484 --> 687,764 dead (230 photos from 2021)
2021_DC_In_America2_2021Wk3: DC -- Event: In America: Remember (art installation by Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg) 2021 Wk 3A (Sep 27-Oct 3) (Visits 11-16) 688,245 --> 700,975 dead (329 photos from 2021)
2021_DC_In_America2_2021Wk4: DC -- Event: In America: Remember (art installation by Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg) (Oct 4-6) (Visits 17-19) Deinstall (398 photos from 2021)
2021_DC_In_America2P_JC_210927: DC -- Event: In America: Remember: Performance by Shane Palko and Jason Chu (67 photos from 2021)
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INAMEV_210914_025.JPG: It's amazing to see how many of the prison-window PVC kits were being used at the same time by the Ruppert Landscaping people. I count at least 28 of them in this photo.
INAMEV_210914_161.JPG: The volunteer tent
INAMEV_210915_012.JPG: The In America: Remember volunteer tent
INAMEV_210915_085.JPG: The Rupert Landscaping crew used PVC frames to place the flags. They had 9 rows of PVC pipe, each ten inches apart, held together by three perpendicular pieces. Each of the 9 rows had 8 (9?} marks for the flags so you could set down 72 flags the first time. Then you flipped the frame along one side and put down the next set of 72 flags.
INAMEV_210915_176.JPG: You can see seven teams from Ruppert Landscaping using the PVC prison-bar setup.
INAMEV_210915_212.JPG: Ruppert Landscaping had two different set-ups for PVC frames. The ones that looked like prison windows could do about 72 flags at a time but required a fairly large area to be set at once. For the smaller areas, what were called "chicken feet" were used. These allowed 16 flags at a time to be planted.
INAMEV_210916_001_STITCH.JPG: It took me awhile to realize that my Android device (Nokia 5.3) was going to do a better job with panoramas than my Fuji XS-1 was going to do.
INAMEV_210916_155.JPG: This is where the opening ceremony would be held.
INAMEV_210917_082.JPG: Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg's In America: Remember exhibit by the Washington Monument should be up until October 3, 2021.
INAMEV_210917_088.JPG: NatGeo lift
INAMEV_210918_024.JPG: You can see the New Zealand section -- the little rectangle of 27 flags -- to the upper left of the counter sign. The comparable US section is to the upper right of the counter sign.
INAMEV_210918_056.JPG: The In America: Remember installation was visible from the western-facing windows of the Washington Monument as well as from the northern and eastern sides.
INAMEV_210918_074.JPG: You can see Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg talking to Doug Firstenberg in the lower left section.
INAMEV_210918_149.JPG: The teams are filling in the section where the opening ceremony had been held.
INAMEV_210919_066.JPG: The pole just outside the window on the left is a lightning rod
INAMEV_210919_223.JPG: The triangular section is where the inscribed flags from the RFK Stadium installation were placed.
INAMEV_210920_032_STITCH.JPG: The In America: Remember art installation by Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, commemorating those who died in the USA from COVID-19, was erected by the Washington Monument beginning on September 14, 2021. It featured one white flag for every American who died of COVID-19 and the count was updated every day.
INAMEV_210920_117.JPG: The In America: Remember installation is visible looking both west, north, and east from within the Washington Monument.
INAMEV_211003_026_STITCH.JPG: The vertical piece on the far left is a lightning rod.
INAMEV_211003_092.JPG: The chairs and tent were set up for the closing ceremony.
INAMEV_211003_106.JPG: There were a bunch of wasps flying around due to the rotting bird carcass that a hawk had stored above the windows. As a result, you could see them fly by periodically and most of my time-lapse videos that day had problems with what looked like UFOs flitting about.
INAMEV_211003_156.JPG: One of the tents where people could do flags for loved ones lost from the virus.
INAMEV_211005_037.JPG: The flags are getting removed at a speed which impressed me to no end.
INAMEV_211005_121.JPG: You can see the TPS protest going on in the lower right.
INAMEV_211005_261.JPG: The lightning rod again. You can see some of the pipes containing the wiring connecting it.
INAMEV_211006_25_STITCH.JPG: Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg's In America: Remember installation officially ended on Sunday, October 6, 2021, with 701,133 US deaths from COVID-19. The flags were removed the following Monday through Wednesday, leaving a ghost image of the memorial.
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2021 photos: This year was filled with hope. Yes, the COVID-19 pandemic is still with us but it was hoped that restoring sanity to the White House. the rapid vaccine role-out, and a government that finally cared would put things back to normal again. But the force was strong in the evil anti-vaxxer movement and the virus variants made quick use of that so we're still dealing with this crap. Plus the continued impact of the Trump putsch attempt... Sigh.
Trips this year:
(May, October) After getting fully vaccinated, I made two trips down to Asheville, NC to visit my dad and his wife Dixie, and
(mid-July) I made a quick trip up to Stockbridge, MA to see the Norman Rockwell Museum again as well as Daniel Chester French's place @ Chesterwood.
Number of photos taken this year: about 283,000, slightly up from 2020 but still really low.