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Trip 1: Met and The Neofuturists:

At the Met, Ishna and I went up to the exhibition on the roof, Cloud City. I had been on the exhibit earlier this summer, but it was just as fascinating as the first time. Every time you go into the sculpture you see new angles, and different ways people can be reflected.
After that, we ended up in the  Andy Warhol exhibit. At the exhibit, it was fun seeing how other artists stole ideas from Warhol and incorporated them into their own art. (My favorite pieces that I remember were the giant cigarette box and the maple syrup art of Jackson Pollock.)
We managed to get to the photography exhibit, but we didn't have a lot of time to look around. It was funny to see how people manipulated photographs before photoshop - a humorous example being an artist who boasted he could take a picture of the sky and moving waves...when in reality he took the pictures seperately and pasted them together (some of the waves in different pictures being taken from the same photo, as shown in the exhibit!)

I also realized that there is a HUGE AMOUNT of mediums to work with.  cuz luke showed animation that I've seem before, but I didn't know the animation was made on a linoleum (check if it was a linoleum)

-Trip both plays:
I love all of the work of the Neofuturists!
In the first play, On the Future, they focused on lighting techniques. It was fascinating to see some of the shadows created... I also loved how they constantly broke the 4th wall and interacted a lot with the audience (that meatball smelled amazing...) There were a lot of good things that could be borrowed (I really liked the time travel one, with the guy yelling out the window at himself and constantly coming and going...the one about the history of space told by gay people was interesting also...great lines said. I wish I had the script to that show!)

The second show, Too Much Light Makes the Baby go Blind, was fun, but not as...serious with their meaning, from what I could remember. There were good things to borrow from there, too, but that one was a real "experiment" (slightly ironic since it's been around longer than the first performance...)

Great trip as always...I hope to see more neofuturists!