Seems they paint all of the traffic signal controller cabinets here. All of them are different. Each seems to have been done, or inspired, by a particular elementary class or some other youth group. Found this one this morning, which is particularly eye-catching:

Better than all of them being just a regular flat gray, I suppose.

While on the way from here to there I walked through the Eskenazi Art Museum today, mostly because it is fun to say and they have the air conditioning going full blast. Also, the place is huge. This is the foyer:

The museum itself:

ince its establishment in 1941, the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art has grown from a small university teaching collection into one of the foremost university art museums in the country. Today, the Eskenazi Museum of Art’s internationally acclaimed collection, ranging from ancient gold jewelry and African masks to paintings by Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso, includes over 45,000 objects representing nearly every art-producing culture throughout history.

So that’s two giant museums we’ve discovered, but not attended, so far. And this one just down the road from everything, which is nice.

Hey, it is July, and hot. Even the statue of Ernie Pyle is sweating:

The Media School, where I live and work, is about to be moving. That’s the culmination of a three-plus year project, and since I’m new and it is the summer, there’s not a lot for me to do yet. A little HR ere, a little paperwork there. And I’m giving myself tours, so I went by to say hello to Ernie today.

I don’t yet know what goes on in this building:

This used to be a dorm. Now it is an administrative building. I hear it is going to become a dorm again:

And this is a side of one of the intramural gyms, Wildermuth. It used to be where the men’s basketball team played during the middle of the 20th century. It sat 10,000 people. Now there are 10 courts, a gym, a pool, locker rooms and classes in there:

The current facility, Assembly Hall, is undergoing a renovation right now ahead of next season. It will seat more than 17,000.

I walked through one of the international studies buildings:

It seems that every physical actor and voice actor that has ever played Vader was British, American, Canadian. But we’ll allow it on the basis of cleverness. And the idea that Polish might be a challenging language to study for most Americans.