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Sam
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 Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:36 pm Post subject: DC Art & Culture Con: APRIL 1st-5th 2010 |
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HEY EVERYBODY ITS CON TIME
visit lovely WASHINGTON, DC
for a WHIRLWIND TOUR OF THE GREATEST ARTISTIC AND HISTORICAL COLLECTION IN THE WORLD*
April 1st-5th (look a date)
Yeah, we're doing a Washington DC con, to all get together and power through the capitol's extremely large and amazing collection of museums and galleries. So large and so amazing that I really wish that they would move the seat of government way the hell away from it so that it isn't necessarily at risk of getting the shit nuked out of it in the event of war with eastasia or something.
Most of the essential activity will be crammed into a two-day spree so that people can fly in for a weekend. I'll be staying across the potomac in Alexandria and will probably have a car. When we start making reservations I will recommend an Alexandria hotel so every morning we can park at the Huntington station every day and take the DC metro to the Mall.
For the central weekend and the days attached to them (whichever they may be) we'll be recuperating in the morning, taking the metro out around noon, spending the entire afternoon doing the culture tour, then I'll take everyone out to eat and drink. Late nights can be reserved for general hotel room drinking, debauchery, and political career ending cellphone videos.
THE HOTEL
http://www.hamptoninnalexandria.com/index.php
It is a half a mile from the Huntington metro station and also within walking distance of old town alexandria which is a wonderful place for dinner. GO GO MAKE PLANS
CONFIRMED ATTENDEES:
Sam
Celaeno
thewaitersitsondown
feiterceraraeeerra
lemontree
l1ly
puma
Reasonablymad
mouse (again)
Priority picks
Day One — mostly gawping at pictures on walls
National Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
Hirshhorn Museum
Day Two — mostly gawping at dioramas and spaceships
National Air and Space Museum
Natural History Museum
National Museum of the American Indian
Other potentials:
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
National Museum of African Art
Spy Museum
Smithsonian Renwick Gallery
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Phillips Collection
Corcoran Gallery of Art
National Portrait Gallery
Various temporary exhibits (not a complete list, most of these will probably be right along our tour line anyway):
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 to 1900
American Modernism: The Shein Collection
Hendrick Avercamp (1585–1634): The Little Ice Age
The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600–1700
From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection
Ex Libris: Chester Dale
Colorforms
Chris Chong
Josef Albers
*eat a dick, europe
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Sam
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reasonablymad
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yeah, maybe. you know me, though. probably not.
but maybe.
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Michael
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| Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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awwww
too early! |
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Lemontree
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| Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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Uh yeah.. count me in! 
(Love the Hirshhorn Gallery btw.) |
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bad*lil*kitty
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i'd love to see if i can go. my aunt lives outside of DC by a few minutes in Alexandria too, pretty sure I could stay with her. Oh and the spy museum is AWESOME.
There was also some crazy Japanese sort of ..tapas like place that was really cool.
I'll have to see if I can make it. With any luck I can. It'd be fun!
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andrew
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| Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd love to, but I spent a grand on my last four day trip to DC; that city is too damn expensive for casual travel. |
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Lemontree
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| Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| andrew wrote: | | I'd love to, but I spent a grand on my last four day trip to DC; that city is too damn expensive for casual travel. |
Oh hey, btw! I'm almost definitely coming to Seattle at the end of July for my friend's wedding. (Two Microsoft nerds are getting married! <3  ) I don't know the exact date yet.. but its on a Sunday.. so I'll prob. fly in on a Thursday and leave on Tuesday or something. But I hope to try and get alot of you out there together for dinner one night. |
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Sam
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| Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Lemontree wrote: | Uh yeah.. count me in!
(Love the Hirshhorn Gallery btw.) |
Oh, awesome! yes yes ye sye syeaweysey syes eysye. fuck yeah.
we were kind of hoping but we didn't know the likelihood of your attendance!
| andrew wrote: | | I'd love to, but I spent a grand on my last four day trip to DC; that city is too damn expensive for casual travel. |
wusssssssssssss
wuuuuuusssssssssssssssssss |
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Sam
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| Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| andrew: I'D LOVE TO BUT MONEY JUST KEEPS POURING OUT OF MY WALLET INTO THE MOUTHS OF HOOKERS EVERY TIME I VISIT THE PLACE SORRY GUYS |
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Feiticeira
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| Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Sam wrote: | |
Yeah, this is pretty much what Kara said/did to me. |
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Yorick
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| Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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I wanna go! which probably means I won't be able to.
dammit I need money
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Sam
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| Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Yorick wrote: | I wanna go! which probably means I won't be able to.
dammit I need money |
I can't predict anyone's travel expenses or the final costs of hotel lodging but the days themselves can be massively cheap. Most of what there is to see is completely free admission (thanks, socialism), the gallery has an excellent subterranean cafeteria for mid-day grub, and most of the transportation is the Metro.
Honestly the static costs for the events could be around $50 a day. Plus, you may not even need a hotel room. STAY TUNED. |
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Celaeno
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| Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Feiticeira wrote: | | Sam wrote: | |
Yeah, this is pretty much what Kara said/did to me. |
Which means, Sam, that you can add Feit to your list of confirmed attendees.
Also, I give this thread the Kara Stamp of Approval. |
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Feiticeira
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| Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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| rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrfuggit ok it's not like I'm doing anything else. |
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