Mark came home early and the boys all went swimming.
Picked out our crazy hats. Mark's a pirate. I had on a red hair hat, sun shirt and pin for "global warming", Brian had a Happy Hat on.
Then left 5p for Johnny Rockets to eat.
Left the restaurant to catch The US Department of Homeland Graffiti Liquidation Sale at Anno Domini Gallery.
Then ran back to get jackets before moving on to the block party.
Ran in to the bicyclists' artists from MN who were going paint video messages on buildings. Their motto is, "Art for the People/ Art on Wheels!"
Band's playing, art displayed, interactive booths.
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Goat milk ice cream.
We met M Dot Strange and he told us about his interactive dvd which he autographed for us.
There was a little sign, "Clap at drawing." I read it again when Brian started clapping. I lol cuz I thought I got it - the little robot was drawing, and we were supposed to show appreciation. I'm slow catching on. Brian keeps clapping. I FINALLY notice a microphone. I FINALLY notice another sign about the robot. The clapping controls his movements.
Attraction/Repulsion
Attraction/Repulsion is an interactive drawing installation that includes 2 self-propelled, motion sensor drawing robots. The outcome of this piece will be a complex, abstract drawing. The small robots change directions with noise and vibrations.
My arm costume distracted me and caused me to snap the digital camera to the ground. It broke.
Brian and Drew were cycling energy.
They were making music.
A camera caught images of people walking by, and kept a history, recycling thru the history.
Our family stopped to get a poem. He said statistically people wearing crazy hats always want poems. He's typing on an old typewriter.
Here's the poem...
the craziest hat they make is halos
and we all have the same shape of our heads and the approximate number
of eyes finger toes and going home is
so special that pending approval
we will all be given the gracious and
crazies hats available on the drew cards
for who got to wear the jesters
happy face the grandparents
with sarcastically demonic head where
there used to be really nice halo.
One booth had a "live" bar code. You take a picture of it with your cell phone (not compatible with iphone), then you go to a webpage, and it reveals what is said in the bar code "You are what you buy". Mark quickly showed her the iphone, and they both lol cuz it wasn't compatible.
Art cars
I like this guy's blog cuz it explained an art installation Mark and I saw about Jesus.
You know those street signs being held in the air by a costumed character. The festival had midair storytelling. A board had a simple poem written on both sides spinning in the air.
Drew made a wager of a keychain item for a rock, and played rock, scissors, paper, and won.
That was at the Infinite Exchange Gallery "bargaining and trading for art".
You could also exchange a "motion",
or we agreed that for receiving a packet, we would record a "kindness" by writing it down on the tag, tying it to wear it happened, taking a pic and emailing it to her. We're going to be saving some tags for Burning Man. She was thrilled.
There was MUCH more at the Infinite Exchange Gallery that was clearly described in the newspaper handout, but we didn't stop to read it.
On the way out of the festival we saw "At the heart of the project is a series of leaflets designed (following the frameworks of military Psychological Operations manuals) by Piotr Szyhalski, and printed specifically for this installation. Specific visual and textual themes reference a broad selection of US and Coalition Forces leaflets, deployed during the Gulf War and the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.the postcards being discharged to the crowd." Drew's been collecting them. The installation was also in the Art Museum. On this evening tho, a real trash man would pick up the postcard, and didn't realize they were being ejected periodically from a device above his head on the sidewalk, and he was VERY puzzled as the cards appeared again and again. I was lol. It would have made a great video. I had sympathy for his confusion.
Suddenly a man walked up to me with a flashing message on his chest. I didn't get it at first. I was trying to read everything written. It said something about cool, and I wasn't sure if he was part of the festival or not. I said, "i'm global warming" pointing to my outfit, and he good naturedly and patiently waited for us to really read the message that lit up, "I'm cool" "You're cool" "We're cool" "We're all cool!"
Yes, it's all cool.
