Saturday, July 28, 2007

Seattle (Day 5): Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?


So who else remembers growing up with the computer game (and television show) Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, a game in which you would use clues to determine the geographic location of a major theft (the object of which typically involved something literally "un-stealable", like a building, a lake, or a park). Anyway, it sure looks like one of Carmen's henchmen has stolen and transported Los Angeles' Walt Disney Concert Hall, and plopped it down right next to the Seattle Space Needle, only to have it melt a little in the summer sun. Well, it turns out that this awfully familiar looking architecture, the Experience Music Project, was in fact designed by the same architect (hmm....since I'm feeling kind of saucy, let's do this...for a free coffee, my treat, be the first to post a reply naming the architect). Anyway, EMP was fairly disappointing, albeit another tourist trap of sorts that only succeeded in it's exhibits of Northwest music, the history of electric guitars, and a memorial to Jimi Hendrix. Honestly, it wasn't all that impressive, and I couldn't possibly envision going to it more than once (unlike a certain museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. where I could fantasize about attending every year and enjoy it fully each time!!!).

1 comment:

khayward said...

Not only did he do the experience music project, as well as the disney hall, but he also designed a guggenheim in spain- not to be confused with the art museum in the big apple... he is after all- Frank Gehry. I'll hit you up when you get back... :). Enjoy sunny Seattle.

Kent