100th
here's a useless happy fact: it's my 100th entry in the blog! :P
anyway, finally went to see spirited away on sunday night...
it was a fun movie, but i think i like princess mononoke better, just cuz it's prettier... :)
wendy took me to an MIT frat party on friday night... the frat house was really close to my apartment, only about 3-4 blocks away, and it's an old, 5-story brownstone building. there were about 30 people living there, and all of them are into media and art, even though most of them majored in engineering or some other things not related to art... the interiors of the house almost resembled an amusement park... most of the walls had colorful murals (some of them glow in the dark) and the stairs were painted black... there was this small room that was filled with foams that you could jump into... the beds in the rooms were suspended from the ceilings with some sort of metal pipes, and in one of the rooms there was this huge net hanging from the ceiling and people were sitting on it. a few people were standing below the net and read excerpts from dr. seuss (they made it sound like poetry), while the others watch and listen from above.
the party was almost over when we got there, but there were still a lot of people at the house... one of them was wendy's friend, sloan... turned out that he was once(?) in john maeda's group, and now he worked for this agency in cambridge called "small design firm," that specializes in creating innovative interactive pieces...
anyhoo, he recently worked on this really cool interactive piece for the christian science church — it's a fountain that has projected animated letters and words that flow to the floor and to the walls, where they then form famous quotes... what's cool about it is that all the animation is completely random and it only turns on when it detects someone approaching... his other project is with the museum of sex in new york, but i don't think it's completed yet... he promised we could go visit the media lab and look at some of the works... isn't that exciting! :)