This morning I got to go to a really cool event at MICA (the Maryland Institute College of Art)! I found out about it on Tuesday in an email I got from the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore. It's a monthly event called CreativeMornings - Baltimore, and it's a "breakfast lecture series for the creative community". It's free - you just have to reserve your spot online ahead of time! I saw that it was within walking distance so I signed up right away. CreativeMornings started out in New York in 2008 and is now in 98 cities all over the world.
The speaker for this month's topic, which was Crossover, was Patrick Rife. He is the co-founder of Pixelated Photo Booth and Startup Soiree. When I first got to MICA, people were just starting to get there. Dooby's is one of their sponsors and they provided breakfast - coffee, peanut butter and jelly muffins, and pumpkin whoopie pies filled with curry cream cheese frosting! Everything was so yummy!
One of the Pixelated Photo Booths was set up in the lobby and everybody could try it! It looks a lot nicer than an actual photo booth. You just touch the screen to start it and it takes three pictures of you that you can see as they're taken. You can have the pictures emailed to you if you want, and they also print out!
So fun. I didn't know anybody there but I did meet some very nice people!
We all moved into the auditorium and the host introduced herself, showed a video, and did a little game show! If you had an orange dot on your name tag (oh yeah, we got name tags that had a place where you were supposed to draw a pretzel :) ) you got to go up and play a trivia game. The winners got to pick from the front row of prizes (they got really good stuff!! $100 gift cards, a certificate to go to an ice cream shop and make your own flavor!) and the parters that lost picked from the back row. They still got fun stuff, like cool shirts! That was fun to watch.
Next, Patrick spoke for about half an hour. He talked about his background in music, how he went from wanting to make a hit record to getting his undergraduate degree at 26 in art history, to being an art handler and driving the Emancipation Proclamation across the country, to working the 3am shift at Trader Joe's and realizing that he wanted to do something better than that! He and a friend finally started Pixelated Photo Booth and now it's huge! It was really cool to hear about how they started, how much they've grown, and what they're doing next.
I'm so glad I found out about it and went! Afterwards, I looked at the sculpture show that was set up in the lobby and downstairs. It was really interesting! I also finally went to Red Emma's (right across the street from MICA), a cool coffee shop and bookstore that we've heard a lot about but haven't had a chance to visit yet. I saw on their Instagram last week that they're selling (giant) coffee sacks from coffee cooperatives in countries all over the world! I got Alex a cool one from Columbia. I think we're going to hang it on the wall :)
Alex finished his first term of his PhD today!! When he got home from school we walked to The Charles, a 108-year-old building that was turned into a movie theater in 1939, to see The Skeleton Twins! It was a really good, sad at parts, sweet movie!
Thanks for reading!
We all moved into the auditorium and the host introduced herself, showed a video, and did a little game show! If you had an orange dot on your name tag (oh yeah, we got name tags that had a place where you were supposed to draw a pretzel :) ) you got to go up and play a trivia game. The winners got to pick from the front row of prizes (they got really good stuff!! $100 gift cards, a certificate to go to an ice cream shop and make your own flavor!) and the parters that lost picked from the back row. They still got fun stuff, like cool shirts! That was fun to watch.
Next, Patrick spoke for about half an hour. He talked about his background in music, how he went from wanting to make a hit record to getting his undergraduate degree at 26 in art history, to being an art handler and driving the Emancipation Proclamation across the country, to working the 3am shift at Trader Joe's and realizing that he wanted to do something better than that! He and a friend finally started Pixelated Photo Booth and now it's huge! It was really cool to hear about how they started, how much they've grown, and what they're doing next.
I'm so glad I found out about it and went! Afterwards, I looked at the sculpture show that was set up in the lobby and downstairs. It was really interesting! I also finally went to Red Emma's (right across the street from MICA), a cool coffee shop and bookstore that we've heard a lot about but haven't had a chance to visit yet. I saw on their Instagram last week that they're selling (giant) coffee sacks from coffee cooperatives in countries all over the world! I got Alex a cool one from Columbia. I think we're going to hang it on the wall :)
Alex finished his first term of his PhD today!! When he got home from school we walked to The Charles, a 108-year-old building that was turned into a movie theater in 1939, to see The Skeleton Twins! It was a really good, sad at parts, sweet movie!
Thanks for reading!
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