went to the seattle center today which is where are the museums and exhibits are in downtown seattle right around the space needle (seattle’s most iconic piece of architecture).
we stopped by the bill and melinda gates foundation visitor center that had a lot of information about the charity work that the foundation does as well some cool interactive things. they had this one place where you could write a card and share a cause you cared about, so i made a card for hand in hand and hung it on the display! we also got our picture taken and shown on the visitor wall!
after, we went to the experience music project (EMP) and science fiction museum. at the EMP, we got to pretend to be a rock band and play a fake concert that was recorded. our band was called the “party rockers”: danny played guitar, julia keyboard, andrew drums and i was the singer! good thing we didn’t have to actually sing and play – just had to pretend like we were doing it!
the entire museum made use of a lot of pretty cool technology (apparently a lot of which is developed and donated by microsoft because paul allen donated a chunk of money to have the museum built). at the science fiction horror exhibit, they had this shadow thing that monster-fied you! it essentially took your silhouette and transformed it into different monster-like shapes.
my favorite part was the avatar exhibit that showed a lot of the technology and behind the scenes stuff that went into making the movie. we learned how they were able to render the avatars from the actors using CGI and i even got to become an avatar!!
they scanned me in this room and the camera was able to generate the avatar image according to my motion. here’s the final video of me in the cool tree scene of the movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91zVk7PXsuY
