Leaving UCSB
Yesterday I moved out from my dorm room and left the beautiful UCSB campus. It was a very sad experience. I had to say goodbye to the campus i have come to love and to all of the amazing people I have met there.
My brother and mum picked me up. I loaded my two carts worth of random garbage into our car and we departed for Oxnard. Leaving around 5:00 we ran into some traffic, so we decided to stop off at state street for a few hours, rather than wait in traffic. First we went to radioshack looking for a plug converter for Mexico, turns out the plugs are the same (duh!). Then i wanted to find a gift for my host family in Mexico. We looked through barnes and noble and then went to the discovery channel store. Somehow, i am not sure quite how, my brother convinced me to buy a robotic dog that dances when you play music near it. At first i was thinking "whatever," but now every time i think of giving my host family a dancing robotic dog i can't help but laugh.
After shopping we went up to look at the art gallery in the second floor of the mall on state street. When we walked in the lady said "hi, it's just about to start." Confused we just smiled and went into the gallery. In the first room there was a mock kind of office set up. In addition to the office there was some art on the walls and a projector playing a random video on the wall. There was an apple computer hooked up to a web cam. As we looked around an instant message popped up on screen that said "hello, is anyone there." My brother typed yes into the keyboard, which activated the camera near the computer allowing you to see yourself on screen. Apparentely it was a perfmance/interactive art piece. We then continued into the next room, which turned out to be pitch black and lit up by black lights. Some guy informed us that we could paint with flourescent paints under the black light and pointed to a table. He also said "the d.j. will be here in thirty minutes." So we started painting under blacklights. My brother said it's probably a performance art piece that is trying to give you the impression of being in a night club and that no D.J. was actually coming. About 10 minutes later the D.J. came and we found out the gallery was having some kind of special event. It was pretty cool to stumble upon and we got to take our blacklight paintings home with us.
My brother and mum picked me up. I loaded my two carts worth of random garbage into our car and we departed for Oxnard. Leaving around 5:00 we ran into some traffic, so we decided to stop off at state street for a few hours, rather than wait in traffic. First we went to radioshack looking for a plug converter for Mexico, turns out the plugs are the same (duh!). Then i wanted to find a gift for my host family in Mexico. We looked through barnes and noble and then went to the discovery channel store. Somehow, i am not sure quite how, my brother convinced me to buy a robotic dog that dances when you play music near it. At first i was thinking "whatever," but now every time i think of giving my host family a dancing robotic dog i can't help but laugh.
After shopping we went up to look at the art gallery in the second floor of the mall on state street. When we walked in the lady said "hi, it's just about to start." Confused we just smiled and went into the gallery. In the first room there was a mock kind of office set up. In addition to the office there was some art on the walls and a projector playing a random video on the wall. There was an apple computer hooked up to a web cam. As we looked around an instant message popped up on screen that said "hello, is anyone there." My brother typed yes into the keyboard, which activated the camera near the computer allowing you to see yourself on screen. Apparentely it was a perfmance/interactive art piece. We then continued into the next room, which turned out to be pitch black and lit up by black lights. Some guy informed us that we could paint with flourescent paints under the black light and pointed to a table. He also said "the d.j. will be here in thirty minutes." So we started painting under blacklights. My brother said it's probably a performance art piece that is trying to give you the impression of being in a night club and that no D.J. was actually coming. About 10 minutes later the D.J. came and we found out the gallery was having some kind of special event. It was pretty cool to stumble upon and we got to take our blacklight paintings home with us.
a robotic dog? that sounds completely random. and incredibly awesome at the same time.
weird thing about that gallery. cool that you got to keep them though.
Posted by Liam | 3:09 PM