ljc and Aaron’s Halloween dinner was last night. A great time was had by all! We’re all trying to get the sauce recipe — a secret that Aaron’s grandfather made him swear not to share under the threat of “dying ’till he’s dead.”
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This past weekend was the Renaissance Martial Arts festival, an event we’ve been running out of our Kung Fu school for the past 7 years. Below is a slide show of pictures from the festival. Since I was typically behind the camera I only appear in one of these pictures.
Flickr continues to impress me. While it has some draw backs, galleries that used to take me hours, if not days, come together in under 60 minutes. Which is a nice thing, especially since my work as the RMA webmaster is purely voluntary.
LJC organized “Mexican Museum Night†in honor of an exhibit of Mexican Wrestling Photography that just opened at the Eastman House and a show of Latin American and Latino art at the Memorial Art Gallery.
Dre and I agreed that, of the two shows, the MAG’s TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, is the one to see. While I loved the Mexican Wrestling photos, that exhibit was marred by some of the worst signage I’ve ever seen. Not only were the notes written in incomprehensible academic speak (and I’ve read many of the works they were referencing), but they were full of typos and mispellings (enough that I even I noticed). It was pretty embarrassing all things considered.
TRANSactions, on the other hand, was uniformly excellent. The art was really challenging (its one of the more “gutsy†shows I’ve seen at the MAG) and the presentation was excellent.
After the museums, we headed across the street to Selena’s. Aaron’s new friend Domo came along for the ride. Unforunately, when Aaron’s back was turned, Domo got a little frisky with Jenny. I’ve been told that Domo has chalked up this unfortunate incident to the booze.
This was the week of getting to see Internet luminaries.
On Wednesday, Ze Frank lectured at RIT. Throughout the course of a very manic and funny talk, he shared his thoughts about the online content space and discussed his experiences producing his daily video podcast, the show. Both his presentation and his ideas were excellent.
![[Me and Touchdown the Cornell Mascot]](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1154/1338817670_88f1aec2ab.jpg)
Today, outside the bookstore at Cornell I was hugged by Touchdown, Cornell’s mascot. It was purely platonic.
All I know is that it was like 90+ degrees out. As you can see I was sweating from walking around campus. I can’t imagine what it was like inside that costume. But one thing I can say, at least on the outside, Touchdown had… well… some B.O. problems…