Yuri's Night
Blake (dude who works at Delta of Venus) just told me about Yuri's Night, a huge event being held at the NASA Ames Research Center this weekend. He pointed it out to me because the DJ he had on the stereo was apparently going to be playing there, so I picked up a brochure and, well, it looks AMAZING. Here's the info from the event website, since I won't be able to do it justice:
Yuri’s Night is a celebration of space exploration - and mankind’s curiosity, scientific ingenuity, technical achievements, and spirit of collaboration that have made it all possible. This year, NASA’s 50th anniversary, the Bay Area will be home to the largest Yuri’s Night celebration ever, with 8,000 people joining astronauts, artists, scientists, engineers, and musicians to pay tribute to our global space heritage and to celebrate how much more is out there to be discovered!
Yuri’s Night Bay Area 2008 will feature talks by Will Wright and Stewart Brand; art and sculpture by The Flaming Lotus Girls and Michael Christian; live acrobatic and modern dance performances by Capacitor; musical performance by Amon Tobin and the special debut of the new band Telstar, featuring Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead; and much, much more!
In case you didn't want to read all that, I'll paraphrase:
Yuri’s Night is a celebration of space exploration - and mankind’s curiosity, scientific ingenuity, technical achievements, and spirit of collaboration that have made it all possible. This year, NASA’s 50th anniversary, the Bay Area will be home to the largest Yuri’s Night celebration ever, with 8,000 people joining astronauts, artists, scientists, engineers, and musicians to pay tribute to our global space heritage and to celebrate how much more is out there to be discovered!
Yuri’s Night Bay Area 2008 will feature talks by Will Wright and Stewart Brand; art and sculpture by The Flaming Lotus Girls and Michael Christian; live acrobatic and modern dance performances by Capacitor; musical performance by Amon Tobin and the special debut of the new band Telstar, featuring Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead; and much, much more!
In case you didn't want to read all that, I'll paraphrase:
- AMON TOBIN
- WILL WRIGHT, aka the creator of Spore and all the SimCity games.