Mar 09, 2008 11:09
After yet another hot day, last night, I headed out with R & S to town to see if we could find something worth seeing at the Fringe.
We had a pleasant dinner at Chopstix and then wandered to the Garden of Unearthly delights. Caught the end of an escape artist's act, and then we continued to wander, ending back up near the gate for another busker - this time a juggler/balancer - "Hi, I'm Bob. I'm from Utah. No, I'm not a mormon. But I do have three wives."
After some warmup balancing & juggling tricks (and it was fairly impressive juggling) he did a few more dangerous things - a three-wheeled unicyle - ok, a tricycle, but the wheels were all vertical, one on top of the other - and finally a severely tall balancing 'surf'. It was actually pretty good, he's fairly skilled at this, and didn't lose it when things went slightly wrong (jumping up onto the tricycle).
Next we headed out to get some icecream, then down to North Terrace for Northern Lights, an installation which is part of the Festival of the Arts. Along the older buildings on North Terrace (Adelaide Uni, Museum, Library, Art Gallery) they have set up these large projectors that shine some light on the buildings in very cool patterns. Each building has about five different ones, that cycle every few minutes. It's quite cool to see Bonython Hall looking like something from a horror movie, or the Elder Con looking rather 60's inspired, or even covered in sheet music. The Library had one that was pages, and another that was a bookshelf. The museum had a giant spider web, and coecalanths, and the art gallery had greek statues (projected where the columns are) and a sketch-version. All rather cool!
So a pleasant night out seeing some free stuff :)
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