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Trip2
In January, the Friday after break, STAC took a spontaneous trip into the city to see "The Event of a Thread" by Ann Hamilton at the Park armoury. After a few hours, we separated and explored the city until 7:30 where we met up at the Crane theatre (which is quickly becoming a STAC haunt) to see HorseTrade Radiotheatre's production of King Kong.
Park armoury:
My favorite trip. I loved the exhibit! The gentle movement of people swinging back and forth, and the curtain flowing by the mechanical breeze was quite calming. Many people were taking a nap under the giant curtain!
The constant movement and the large crowd made the exhibit very photogenic, too. I took a lot of pictures/video: Link (Note: Facebook albumn only friends can see)

Exploring:
I was in a group with Ellen, Danny, little Katz, Lex, Emily, Jessica, Ishna, and Scott. After we exited the armoury, we walked down 5th and looked at the post-christmas decorations, including the tree.
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Then we took a train down to The Village, where Ellen showed us an authentic Ukranian restaurant (I've seen it before -the building across from 16 Handles- but I never knew it was a restaurant.) I ordered perogis and they were delicious!
After that we walked around and settled on 16 handles for dessert. By then, it was time to head to the Krane theatre to see the show!
King Kong production:
We've been to the Krane theatre to see a few shows from The Futurists, and from those experiences we were all eager to see how this show would be.
The show did have excellent voice acting, but...it was a bit too dry to taste that night. It was clever how the actors used a huge picture of King Kong, and let a lot of the scenes up to the viewers imagination, but I think we were all looking for something more...exciting.
All in all, it was a relaxing trip. A nice come back from break (I love doing spontaneous things...)

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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!