Art to Go, Week 3

We saw TomKat

Read a book called Getting It, which is mostly about helping uninformed dudes like myself keep from making asses out of ourselves when confronted by art that, at first glance, doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense. Despite some Jim Goad-esque lapses into oddball analogy lists, the book was a good read and taught me how to look a whole lot less stupid.

Our groups put together some outlines for the website. We now have a basic idea of how things are going to work, I think. It's good to see a sort of blueprint for what we're doing. The more things come together, the less worried I am about the end result.

We went on our field trip this week. Dammit, that was fun. Kind of like a vacation. The staff at both IMA and Dayton were way cool and had a lot of great questions and advice. At folks at IMA were eager to show us their museum and to get our feedback on the way they had done certain things, as well as expanding our understanding of VTS. Members of the Tour group tried out the cell phone tour at the IMA. I'm glad we were able to experience that, as it gave us an idea of what works and what doesn't on an audio tour. Dayton had a really nice kids' room that sucked us in for a good long time with all of the activities available. And the Jellybean people were awesome.

The documentary is coming along great. The "Too Hot for TV" version is going to be something else.