Sunday, March 25, 2012

Spring break activities

There was a great music and art festival in Mesa over Spring break that we paid a visit to.  This thing is called the Mirazoso.  It's an inflatable sculpture that you go inside of.  It's a bit disorienting and very comfortable at the same time.  Pictures don't do it any justice.  

Here's Shaw juggling with a steet performer.  He would throw a 5th ball in to the mix and then catch it when the juggler threw it out and then Shaw would throw it back in.  They went for about 10 volleys before he stopped. 
There was a band from Los Angeles that had this cool harp instrument.  The wires were attached to the performing arts center behind me about 5 stories up.  There were large brass tuning blocks bolted to the wires at varying distances from the harp. 
The strings weren't plucked as I imagined they would be.  The musician who built it wore gloves with violin rosin on the fingers and he would stroke the stings longitudinally as if it were a bow on the strings.  Lesa took a turn playing it.  (above) and here's the inventor/musician (below)

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