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Another day I’ll see how many people I can rally up to convince Charter to give Asheville Current_TV, but while most of you are elsewhere right now, consider participating in their 4th of july event. Current TV is a pretty hip TV channel where most of the content is viewer submitted, so hollidays like this one bring out the true spirit. It’s like public access meets threadless.com meets true blue american freedom. I highly recommend it.
Want a summer trip filled with metal, art, daring climbs, flashlights, and fish? I know I do. I’ve heard nothing but awesome things about the City Museum in St. Louis. Three of my friends have gone and loved it. I hope to go soon. It seems like a good way to take a break from the computers for us multimedia folk. Here’s my favorite quote on the subject from the museum’s site:
“What happens when you mix two Saber 40 aircraft fuselages, a fire engine, a castle turret, a 25′ tall cupola and several 4′ wide wrought-iron slinkies, and the creativity of CITY MUSEUM Creative Director Bob Cassilly and his crew? The result is MonstroCity, the most monumental, monolithic, monstrous montage of monkey bars in the world.”
On some blog, I’ve also seen it called a “Disneyland killer” and an “art theme park … with secret passageways inside secret passageways.”
On Friday and Saturday nights, you can go from 11pm-1am when they turn out the lights and give everyone flashlights.
Here is a list of some of their eclectic attractions:
Enchanted Caves
MonstroCity
World Aquarium
Art City
Museum of Mirth, Mystery, and Mayhem
Tiny Train Town Model Railroad
Circus
Renovated architectural relics
Vintage Opera Poster collection
Wurlitzer Pipe Organ
Ball Pit
Shoelace Factory
The World’s Largest Pencil
Apparently new this summer, they’ve opened up the roof. You can get in the bus that’s hanging off the edge, ride a vintage four-story ferris wheel, and get into what looks to be plenty of other cool stuff.
Have you seen City of Lost Children? Yeah, I’m imagining it as something like that only with happier children.
The photo tour on the City Museum website is nice. Here are some other pictures I found online. Anyone want to go with me? Road trip! It’s only 9-10 hours!
Check out the next Bob Cassilly work here. Who doesn’t love cement?
Check out the City Museum on Facebook, too. Tons of fun pictures.
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SLOrk is a fairly unconventional name for an orchestra, but then again so is the orchestra in question. The Stanford Laptop Orchestra does exactly what the extended name implies; a fair amount of people making sound with one laptop per person and a conductor. The resulting sound isn’t as mysterious as the notion, but the group was hip enough to steal a feature spot on Apple.com, so they’re definitely worth a minute of your holiday break.
