Sylvia's Scenario

What is the best way to start off the beginning to long, dark days ahead now that summer is over?  How about celebrating at a Light Festival?  That's what Bruce and I did last night and we loved it.  We attended the United States' first international video projection mapping competition that was held here in Seattle at South Lake Union (SLU).  And it was awesome . What is video projection mapping, you ask?  Good question.  Apparently, it is very popular in Europe.  You need interesting architecture to make it work and then you need a big space in front of the big piece of architecture to view it.   Europe has both with all their ample walking space all over the place and all that amazing architecture.  Fortunately, we also have a place like that here at MOHAI's (Museum of History and Industry) with it's 5,000-square-foot facade and plentiful grassy standing space in front of it.  I'v...

It may be "back-to-school" time and the beginning of football season, but I am still enjoying what's left of my summer.  Is August more than halfway over already? (gasp!)  Around here, summer means lots of festivals, Mariner baseball games, free concerts, art shows, air shows (Blue Angels), boat races, and lots of yummy food everywhere.  What can I say.  I love summer and I don't want it to end. So far this summer, we've gone to Alki beach for two of their festivals; the Alki Art Fair last month where they had a stand selling mangos-on-a-stick that I loved  and then, of course, the big Sub Pop Anniversary concert last weekend that I blogged about already in my previous post. (Our rock-and-roll weekend.)  We also went to our neighborhood's SummerFest that they have every year at the Junction, which is West Seattle's main downtown area.   It's a lot easier to go to local festivities in our nei...