Bikini bomb tests, art

I'll mention that when I did visit the Atomic Museum here, oft tripping on long stools, criminy, and eventually got to talk with the museum director, that he had never heard of the bikini bomb tests. I liked him well enough, and he was new. However, I didn't fill out the donation forms.

I suppose I should fill all that out now.

Is it this bikini, Osso?

Operation Crossroads?

See how many ships are there, right under the mushroom?

Hopefully they were abandoned old ones, just for data recording purposes.

Yes, but that is a lateral.

Not to be picky.

Sorry. I didn't have a very big step ladder.


Here's a Nat Geographic......

I know of one submarine captain, a bittersweet friend to me.

My father was Richard J.Cunningham, colonel and so on, Joe.

As I said, my father and crew shot down into it.

Colonel John Craig manned the camera.

Not from the center..

I haven't memorized all the photos.

Consider looking up John Craig.

I think of him as a tale teller at our dining table, but he was an interesting man.
Early deep sea diver, involved in early diving design, later a tv guy re Danger is My Business, yada yada.


He was the one who manned the camera to take the center photo, far as I get.

The person who has put this present photo show together, years of work, is Bruce Conner. I am not against him, quite the opposite,
glad he has done this.

I'm insulted the gallery will not reply to me.

About five years ago, I went with my cousins to the local Atomic Museum (not sure of the name) in Albuquerque. I signed at the desk that I might want to donate. The director got pinged and showed up as I was sitting on some long bench.

The director was new and we were friendly and he showed me around, and I managed not to trip (I don't see well in dim light). He didn't know about the Bikini Bomb tests, but he was, after all, new. I left with some papers to fill out if I wanted to donate stuff.


Two down.

My father knew Oppenheimer and Teller. Even I once met Teller, odd story.
I've nothing much useful to say about all that.


I approached the Cohn gallery to talk with Conner.
Zip

The best you can hope is they passed the message to this guy Conner, and he'd be interested. Maybe you can write to him directly, he must have a Linkedin account.

I should have done that in the first place.

I didn't since I understand gallery policy, more or less.

Actually I don't know, Lordy. I've not memorized photos, so my saying yes was being agreeable.

My father lost his super high clearance when a guy under him showed a photo at a party in New York, possibly where he was working at the time.

I don't know, I was eight and my parents left me out of stuff. I do remember some names, as ms busybody.