Washington, DC

I am very happy to report that the DC dance music scene is going strong! Very Strong. In fact it's the best that it's been in a long time!

I took some pictures whilst out & about. Enjoy!

Muse
Muse has two sweet rooms, both upstairs and downstairs. I realize it doesn't look packed in these pictures... Silly me I waited until everyone left to remember to take pictures! The weekend I was there they had Andrea Ferlin, Garth, chris burns & dirty one @ a party called Electric Cabaret Thursday night and then Justin Martin of Dirty Bird Friday night.



Here's Chris Burns DJing Upstairs:


The Downstairs Bar


The Über Cool Upstairs Bar


Jimmy Valentine's
This venue is a rad 150 person venue in North East without so much as a sign! But those who are in the know... are really *in the know*

Juan Zapata of East Coast Boogiemen was on the decks when I visited this fabulous venue....



18th Street Lounge
Last but not least, there's 18th Street Lounge, Thievery Corporation's place which is a ridiculously cool space with three rooms and a balcony/lounge outside in the back.

Star-Spangled Banner

So there's also a star-spangled banner exhibit in the Museum of American History.

The original flag from the Battle of Baltimore in the war of 1812 is on display in this exhibit... The one that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the Star-Spangled Banner, is present and accounted for... minus one of it's 15 stars and about 12 feet of stripes that were given away as keepsakes.

The outside of the exhibit is pictured here.

Rainy Days => Museum Daze

Today we went to the museum of American History. It was pretty fabulous. the facade is pretty cool with a nice sculpture of i don't know what :-)








there's exhibits and photos of different types of transportation and significant points in transportation history. Everything is life-sized and walk-in. below is a walk-in old-school-styled elevator.



here's a sign from the edge of the pennsylvania turnpike.
















We spent most of our time in the transportation and technology exhibit on the lower level. there was a walk-in diagram of an old-school bus that vibrated.



a video inside played an advertisement extolling the virtues of public transportation. the weird reflection in the plexi-glass is the reflection of the black & white video behind the glass.


here's a picture from another walk-through exhibit featuring this diagram





and here's some people i found along the side of the road:

the photos from my camera (not my camera in my phone... these are taken from my phone) will be in a gallery that i'll put up when i get back home.

why should the french be the only ones...

who have a large phallic symbol as a national monument???!!! take this you frenchies!!!!

What's Radder than Rad????

Thanks for asking! I'll tell ya' what's radder than rad:

The Smithsonian American Art Musuem!!!

It's got SOOO many great pieces of art work! I took a ton of pictures.

I'll put up a full photo gallery upon my return to San Francisco later this afternoon. For now, feast your eyes on this piece of work:



From the card next to the painting:

Levee Farms
1998 oil on Canvas

Wayne Thieband
born Mesa, AZ 1920