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The moon may be high …

Our friends Anita and Emma are visiting from Mexico City, giving us a perfect excuse to have a great Ethopian meal at Etete and then jump on the Metro to see the Hirshhorn Museum turned into haunting, beautiful “liquid architecture” via artist Doug Aitken’s “Song 1.”

Digital projectors toss the work onto the Hirshhorn’s walls while traffic, pedestrians, mopeds and bikes drift through the scene, mashing up real life and art. Last night, we had an extra bonus: a full moon. Various versions of “If I Only Had Eyes for You” drive the work, which features fragments of stories, themes, ideas. The result is mesmerizing.

If you’re in D.C., I highly recommend you check this out. It runs till May 13 from sunset till midnight …

Here’s a clip where the artist explains what he’s up to

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Hooked on fishing …

My buddy Emma visited us recently and did a blog post about learning how to fish. Great stuff. Check it out.

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Another sign of the digital apocalpyse …

Our friend Emma sent us a postcard recently thanking us for gift cards we gave her. The postcard is actually a promotion for a movie called Kabluey that she and her mother found at a  Blockbuster going-out-of-business sale and repurposed as a postcard.

In case I wasn’t familiar with the antiquated brick-and-mortar concept that was Blockbuster, Emma helpfully informed me that it’s “like Netflix but a store.”

Couldn’t help but laugh …