i decided at the last minute (11.00am friday during drawing) to go to boston for the night to see my parents, who were at ASHA (american speech and hearing assoc). i took the bus up for port authority, and they met me at south station - where i immediately ran into a girl i studied abroad with in copenhagen. weird! we ate dinner at "elephant walk," a cambodian-french (and also gluten free) restauraunt. delicious.
unfortunately, i jumped on the bus in my disgusting still unwashed since the review clothes and only a pair of thermal underwear (why!?!?!), not realizing i was getting to boston just in time for all the celebratory honors cocktail parties. oooh, boy! hello thousands of people to make a good impression to! haha, and i was so out of it. you know it's bad when you find yourself in a ten minute conversation with the guy they hired to dress up as paul revere for people who want pictures with a legend at the "texas" party. it was surreal! as evidenced below.
my mom and dad were staying at this really nice new westin, so they had this great room high up with a wall of windows and a great view. the best part was the beds. oh man, those beds are great. so many pillows. so high off the ground. great sheets. ahhh that bed. i couldn't stop getting up to look out that wall of glass though. somehow glass like that makes the scene outside so much better. it frames it, i guess. but equally across the whole plane.
then this morning i got to go down to the convention and see my mom's new book's publisher's stand! cooool! here's my dad looking happy about it. i guess it's been reaaally well recieved and sold out, but my mom would never admit to it wholly - so everyone else says so! oh man i am so happy for her. i guess the publishers are really happy cuz theyve had tons of orders from universities.
so then we had some seafood, i had looobbssttteeeer WOOO! and went to the new diller+scofidio+renfro building right next door, the institute for contemporary art. wowwww. i was really pretty impressed with in, especially with the structural clarity of it, in terms of tectonics - the large horizontal ribbon cutting through (i.e. the shape on the side of the block) the whole volume and these little snippets cut off and in. i'm not sure about how the decided to site the whole thing, it seems like it was just kind of plopped down there but really i only saw about 15 seconds of its surroundings so who am i to comment. i really just like diller+scofidio.
