Weekend Mar 26-27, 2011

Continuing in the effort to make weekends more productive, here is another story.

It was again a rainy weekend. With rain there is always the question - what to do?

The start was again quite interesting. The food experiment of the week was bread roll. Unfortunately, in the excitement of making them, i forgot to click photos. But they were quite delicious. A little on the darker side of brown after frying but overall it could be termed a success.

Next up was the visit to San Francisco. This time it was Cartoon art museum. A very small museum and quite interesting. It throws glimpse on variety of cartoon art that is around us. Cartoon art is not just the second last page of the newspaper anymore, there is animation, sketch, there are graphic novels, the manga style and also the political cartoon, often satirical. The famous Danish cartoonist making allah comics reference was there. A nice small museum. I was disappointed to see only one image of Calvin and Hobbes strip.


Then the idea was to go to a Bay Area one acts festival. I had no tickets; the plan to go there was made in morning. I went to the place; a very unique part of SF. There were quite a few homeless patrolling the streets, walls had graffiti art on them and it seemed that it was a place where homeless can go at night to sleep. Saw a building with falling furniture. Found it absurd but fitting to the place. After staring at the building for another 10 mins, i began to like it. Especially the chair :)
Images can be found here - http://www.metaphorm.org/works/defenestration/
and http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/3272/san-franciscos-house-of-falling-furniture.html

But the festival was sold out. So i had to leave. Sigh! But it was still a beautiful day. The rain had gone by now. So i went to Treasure island, a place i wanted to go for a long time. Treasure island is an island opposite to SF. You can see both the bay and SF skyline of buildings from there. It generally has very few people and is very peaceful. The idea was to go there and read The idiot. But by the time, i went there it started raining and it became quite cold as it is after all an island.

That was saturday.

Sunday was spent in a non interesting way. Some chores had to be finished.