Family
Traveling in Style
Is there an art to traveling? There seems to be with these mentions regarding “The Fine Art Yacht,” a new style of camper and wedding buses in India. My oldest son was working at the Chart House restaurant in Alexandria, VA and saw the Expoship’s Seafair Grand Luxe, a new 228 foot yacht on the Potomac River. It is a venue for a traveling, international art exposition and there’s application kit for exhibitors. The Chart House has a great view and everyone was staring. Here’s the skinny on the MadSilence blog. My mother sent me these photos that have been traveling the Internet about a state-of-the-art camper that can actually…
Italian Latte & Paper
Going from one of my favorite Italian Master artists, I thought I could use a pick-me-up (tiramisu), but instead of dessert, why not latte art (?), and consequently, this design remind me of Italian paper…Are these just rambling thoughts or typical connections of someone with an artistic bent? Here’s a story, Latte art turns a cup into a creative canvas, by Jennifer Fong, featured in Canada’s Times Colonist paper. It describes how creating such designs in coffee is an art form and makes a latte all the more delightful to enjoy. It only takes a minute to achieve but there’s training involved to get the desired results. There is a…
Follow up on FLIK
We attended the FLICK Interactive film festival and exhibit at Art Whino at National Harbor, MD. It was funky but I was pleasantly surprised. We first took a walking tour around National Harbor since my boys and their friend had not been there and then entered the gallery. They were the only three teenagers there and I thought they might feel a bit intimidated but their uniqueness didn’t seem to bother them. The interactive art exhibit reminded me of the tugging heart in my previous Toe Jam post, but there were a couple positive stand outs: the interactive video-screen art, similar to an Etch-and-Sketch by design and the computer motherboard…
