Vis Technologies Students at David Owsley Museum of Art

I'm super proud of my Visual Communications Technologies students who presented their Mobile Web projects last night for the docents and public at the David Owsley Museum of Art. Their professionalism in their projects and interaction with the public and museum staff were outstanding. My favorite/least favorite comment of the evening was "I can't believe these are art students...the projects are so good." Well for the record, art students are hard-working, innovative, creative, and multi-skilled. They conceptualized, prototyped, designed, and hand-coded (sans-software outside of Text Wranger) these mobile projects in 6-weeks:
Val Allbaugh, Marc Boulais, Alisha Dewitt, Jackie Dunlap, Megan Hesler, Aly Holm, Ladeidre Robinson, Cody Sparks, Jon Wagner.

Newcastle Travel

I've just made it to Newcastle after 27 hours of travel. My original plane was delayed for 3 hours due to tornados that were happening in Indiana. It was haling at the airport and the sky was a fluorescent chartreuse when my plane was scheduled to depart, so I was happy to be inside and wait until it subsided. The drive to IND was treacherous in heavy rains, then the flight on the small plane to Chicago was bumpy at best. Missed the connection to Heathrow which caused me to wait in O'Haire for 3 1/2 hours, then London for 4 1/2 until I caught a flight that got me into Newcastle at 5pm. Horrible situation in Indiana with 2 towns being toppled by massive, unheard-of February tornados.
When I arrived at my friend Marialaura's house, we went immediately out to a performance of John Cage's scores that were in the beautiful performing arts center here and part of the current AV Festival. Tomorrow I hope to walk around and check out more galleries and shows related to the festival.
On the plane I worked on a new web-art coding project that I hope to continue this summer when I'm back in Beijing. p.s. YES it does have to do with Pizza Hut.