Comments: We Took a Trip!

Yay!

Posted by George at May 31, 2004 11:18 PM

Actually, how was the Algonquin as a general all-round option? A total indulgence, or sensible, or something in between?

Posted by Mark Bernstein at June 1, 2004 08:54 AM

It's a bit of an indulgence, but not much of one really--I've stayed in some pretty mediocre Manhattan hotels that didn't cost a whole lot less. The Algonquin feels more like a B&B (albeit without the breakfast) than a hotel, and you can't beat the location for midtown.

Rooms are small, but that's to be expected.

The famous lounge is lovely, dark, and deep.

Posted by MGK at June 1, 2004 09:58 AM

Welcome back. Maybe see you on campus today at IDAC?

Posted by Jason at June 2, 2004 07:50 AM

Matt--I rode of the bicycle at Eye Beam this past weekend too. It's too bad we did not meet up somewhere there in the alphabet jungle. I am sorry to say that the alphabet bike, like too much moving digital art, almost made me puke. I was queasy for two or three hours, but I get sick on curvy roads too.

At any rate, the digital art seemed all old fashioned. The technology was a little clunky, but the ideas were really old.

I am working on a new aesthetic for digital art, the first principle is:
1. Art should not make you want to puke.

Are there still really strange books?
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Posted by Don Byrd at June 2, 2004 02:32 PM

Sorry to have missed you too Don--we were there Sat. early afternoon . . .

> At any rate, the digital art seemed all old fashioned.

It was a retrospective after all! (Shaw's Legible City is ~15 years old.)

Posted by MGK at June 2, 2004 03:10 PM