By bluerasberry on 2012-09-23
Patrick was in town with his friend Aiden on vacation seeing lots of theatre. He had told me months ago that they were going to see Einstein on the Beach and asked if I was interested. I had not yet heard that the show can been revived. I had wanted to see the show because […]
Posted in art, New York City, presentation | Tagged opera, Patrick
By bluerasberry on 2012-08-12
I visited the Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, the Museum of Arts and Design, and the Noguchi Museum this weekend. I also went again to the Metropolitan Museum of Art – this being perhaps my tenth time there and I still have not walked through all the galleries – […]
Posted in art, education, museum, New York City, tour | Tagged industrial design, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Noguchi, protest, Shakespeare
By bluerasberry on 2012-05-17
I cannot believe this place. The Frick Collection has to be one of the best representative collections in the United States of European art from 1500-1850. It is housed in a museum which used to be someone’s house, and it is right next to Central Park in the Upper East Side. I had never seen […]
Posted in art, museum, New York City | Tagged paintings
By bluerasberry on 2012-05-13
Richard Knipel ([[user:Pharos]]) took me to the Museum of Modern Art the night of Friday 11th May. On Wednesday 9 May I was at a conference at Consumer Reports for the Choosing Wisely program, and at this conference I met collaborators in the program and came to understand what the program would mean to them. […]
Posted in art, health, museum, New York City, research, Wikipedia, work | Tagged Brooklyn Bridge, Choosing Wisely, coffee, Consumer Reports, Museum of Modern Art
By bluerasberry on 2011-04-30
I went out the next day with Nandan and we Sarukh and Abdul and they said they would show us around Kolkata. They pointed out different things and played frisbee in a park on our way to the Victoria Memorial, which was easily the best-presented museum I have yet seen in India due to the […]
Posted in art, India, museum, tour | Tagged Kolkata
By bluerasberry on 2011-04-09
Josh had written me in 2008 asking about Nandan, and Nandan had told me about his visit then saying that he was a fun guy. Josh is a musician. He plays percussion and seems to make music everywhere he goes. He brought this dancer named Penelope with him and together one would start making some […]
Posted in art, education, presentation | Tagged dance, music
By bluerasberry on 2011-02-20
The temple complex at Khujaraho shows the best Hindu carvings I have yet seen and I would recommend the place to anyone is interested in the subject and has time to spend a day there. I had heard a lot about the erotic carvings there, and they are interesting, but there are maybe 10-20 erotic […]
Posted in art, India, tour | Tagged architecture, monument
By bluerasberry on 2011-02-17
Nandan and I took a taxi in Agra and the driver wanted me to visit some shop. I asked Nandan what he thought and he said let’s check customer service in a tourist capitol. In the front of this shop there were marble workers toiling on the floor with all kinds of complicated equipment. I […]
Posted in art, India, service industry | Tagged service industry
By bluerasberry on 2010-11-22
I participated in the Mashed-potato Munch Off at the Green Lake Gobble again this year. I ate 75 ounces of mashed potatoes (4.7 pounds, 2.1 kilograms) in four minutes. The woman to my right was second place. I was intimidated because I had expected them to leave my finished bowls in front of me, but […]
Posted in art, Seattle | Tagged competitive eating, contest
By bluerasberry on 2010-05-19
I attended part of a performance of Erik Satie’s(1866-1925) Vexations Jack Straw on May 16. Satie was a Parisian musician and dadaist who wrote minimalist repetitive music. This work, Vexations, is a song which most people would choose to play in about 3.5 minutes, but Satie wrote on the page of music the sentence, “In […]
Posted in art, presentation, Seattle | Tagged dada, music, performance