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Last month I decided to check out the DoodleHATCH Festival, a fantasy and STEM-themed festival that was put on by DoodleHATCH, a very unique art gallery that I devoted an episode of my ongoing web series The Baltimore-Washington, DC That Tourists Rarely See two years ago. I haven’t been back to that place since I finished making that video so I thought it would be interesting to return so I could check out their festival.
It also gave me a chance to play around with the camera on my new Samsung Galaxy A54 5G smartphone just a little bit more. I shot all still photos at this event but I’ve noticed one thing with my new camera. Every time I shoot a still photo, my phone saves it as a motion photo, which means that it lets you capture a few seconds of action leading up to when the shutter button is released. It even allows you to pinpoint which moment you want to preserve as the still frame.
What’s even cooler is that I can quickly convert motion photos to actual video in my Gallery app. I tried it for the first time when I was at the German Festival this past summer and I converted some still shots of a young boy riding a large barrel into a video, which I combined with short videos I shot of that same ride.
For this event I did something similar. I uploaded the video I created on TikTok, Clapper, Instagram, and YouTube. If you’re the type who prefers to just looking at still pictures, keep on reading this post.
I appeared to the festival wearing a pair of fairy wings and my glitter Minnie Mouse unicorn headband. I took a selfie soon after I arrived.
There were two areas of the festival—an outdoor area and an area that’s inside of the DoodleHATCH itself. The outdoor area was held in the parking area that’s closest to the DoodleHATCH entrance. It had some interesting attractions. Unfortunately it was very hot that day. (The temperature was in the mid-90s that day.)
There was an table that was prepared for a tea party.
There were costumes on a rack where people can try on certain costumes and even borrow them for the festival.
There were some neat art displays outside of the building.
There was a mermaid pool, which was incredibly cute and lovely.
I didn’t hang around outside as long as I would have liked because it was very hot outside. I went inside of the DoodleHATCH itself where I saw a bunch of really cool things.
There was an area that was dedicated to STEM-related exhibits, mainly robots and electronics.
That’s it for the DoodleHATCH festival! All in all it was a pretty nice event.
Last November I decided to attend the Baltimore chapter of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School for the first time since December, 2017. I know it’s been a long time but tight finances got in the way. Thanks to my recent job at the Census Bureau I was able to afford to go to Baltimore.
Since my last appearance at that event Dr. Sketchy’s longtime venue The Wind-Up Space closed for good last year. The good news was that Dr. Sketchy’s found a new venue in a brand new neighborhood—Highlandtown.
My family used to go to Highlandtown about once or twice a year when I was growing up because there used to be this restaurant in that area known as Hausner’s. The family that owned that place had two big passions—food and art. Not only was the food excellent (I still have fond memories of when I used to eat hasenpfeffer) but every square inch of wall space was filled with a sculpture or painting of some kind. It was literally like dining in the middle of an art museum. I used to look everywhere while we were waiting for our meal to arrive because there was so much to look at.
I went to Hausner’s only twice as an adult. Once was when my then-husband and I went on a date early in our marriage (after I kept on telling him so much about Hausner’s that he was curious enough to see what it was like). The other time was when my husband and I went with a group of friends from our church congregation and they were all impressed with both the art and the food.
About a year or two after I went with my husband and friends to that restaurant, Hausner’s went out of business for good. It was a case of the current generation who was running the restaurant had gotten older and they were ready to retire but they couldn’t find anyone among the younger generation who were willing to take the business over so they closed it. If you want to get an idea of what you’ve missed, I suggest looking at the Wikipedia.
Getting back to the present, I decided to arrive in the area a few hours early since it has been so long since the last time I had even set foot in that area. I also took a bunch of photos of the area.
The next photo shows the new location of the Baltimore chapter of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School—the Creative Alliance, which makes it home in the historic Patterson Theater.
Since Dr. Sketchy’s wasn’t going to begin for the next few hours, I decided to just walk around the area while taking pictures. The one thing I noticed is that there is a number of murals, sculptures, and other types of art all around the area. I don’t remember Highlandtown being this artsy when my family used to go to Hausner’s.
There is even a portion of Eastern Avenue (which is one of the main thoroughfares through Highlandtown) named after the late Frank Zappa.
One of the murals is a giant map of the Highlandtown area.
I found this chicken-shaped mailbox outside of a Royal Farms store, which is appropriate since it serves up some really excellent fried chicken and western fries for prices starting at $6. In fact I purchased a chicken dinner box for myself at this store.
After I purchased my chicken dinner I walked around the area some more. I found the Southwest Anchor Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library. I decided to take a break from braving the cold outside (it was a typical cold November day in Baltimore) and check out the library.
I found it to be a pretty nice library. It had books (of course) but it also had a computer lab and STEM activities available for people of all ages.
There was an all-ages activity where people could draw special turkey hands. (I visited just a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving Day.)
The top level of the library had this really cool glass art suspended from the ceiling that also faced the windows.
The library also had an atrium on the lower level where people could eat and drink. I ate my Royal Farms chicken meal while I was there.
By the time I left the library the sun had set. I took a couple of photos of some Christmas lights that were strung across Eastern Avenue near the Patterson Theater.
I’m going to write my next blog post about Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School since I’ve already posted so many pictures here.
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All those months of dealing with my ex-husband ending all further alimony payments, getting one job where I was promised that I would eventually get full-time hours only to not being able to even get 20 hours a week after working there for four months while the boss was job hunting himself, and only being able to get freelance piecemeal work began to take a personal toll on me. I really wanted to take a vacation for just a day or two but I couldn’t afford to do it so I was trapped. But then I got my current gig where I was helping a therapist prepare for a series of upcoming webinars that are slated to begin next month so I managed to get just enough money in that I could do something fun.
However the best I was able to afford was taking the Metro to Tyson’s Corner Center in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia. It was better than nothing so I decided to go for it. It was raining heavily that day but I wasn’t going to let that stop me. Besides, I was riding a Metrobus to the nearest Metro subway stop so I didn’t have to worry about driving on slippery roads. I rode the Silver Line Metro to the Mall. When I arrived at the plaza that has the entrances that are located the closest to the Metro station, I noticed that it looked pretty deserted due to the rain.
That’s in contrast to past visits where, depending on the time of the year, there is usually some kind of activities for people to participate in, whether it’s playing with a giant chess set or a giant ice skating rink.
I found out that this year is the 50th anniversary of Tyson’s Corner Center and there were signs touting this fact everywhere.
I walked past the Microsoft Store. I can count the number of times I’ve actually stepped inside of that store on one hand. I walked past the entrance but I didn’t go inside on this trip.
I’ll admit that I only went to this mall for a change in scenery. I didn’t do much shopping because money was still too tight for me at the moment. I basically shot photos of whatever appealed to me at the time.
At least I found out that Golden Girls socks are actually a thing this year.
Pez dispensers have always been a bit on the kitschy side but Pez has really outdid itself with pink flamingoes Pez dispensers.
I made a brief stop inside of the Apple Store, where I saw the latest computers with the large monitors.
I also got a look at the new iPhone XS, which has received a lot of press for its over $1,000 price tag. I have to admit that the iPhone XS has nice sharp graphics on its screen. If the phone allowed for people to do their own upgrades (such as adding more memory or replacing the hard drive) it would be one thing but, as far as I can tell, this smartphone is just like all of the others where you can’t even open your own phone and it will ultimately be disposable once it stops working completely. I’m going to stick with my Samsung Galaxy J3 phone for the time being.
I came across this kiosk that I haven’t seen on previous visits. It’s for a store called b8ta and it sells a mix of Google products and technology products that are created by smaller companies.
I made a brief stop inside of Build-A-Bear Workshop where I saw these cute Halloween plushies and a brontosaurus on display.
I eventually made my way to the American Girl Place. I haven’t been there since last December so there were plenty of new things to see. I saw that Felicity Merriman, the historical doll who’s supposed to represent the American Revolution era, has been taken out of retirement and is now available for sale once again. She’s on display with Addy Walker (who represents the American Civil War period) and Samantha Parkington (who represents the first few years of the 20th century that’s known as the Edwardian Era).
Here’s another historical doll, Nanea Mitchell (who represents Hawaii around the time of the Pearl Harbor bombing) with some new accessories available for sale.
Maryellen Larkin, who represents the 1950s, relaxes in her trailer, which is sold separately from the doll. The details of this trailer are pretty impeccable.
Kit Kittredge, who represents the Great Depression, sits behind her newly released vegetable stand.
Last year I saw Z Yang for the first time. Even though she’s a contemporary doll, this one caught my eye because she’s into photography and videography like I am. I learned that she is among the dolls who will be retired soon. I would say that I’m sorry to see her go but I’m still a bit cash-strapped at the moment so there was no way I could afford this doll and her accessories. There is also the issue of space because I really don’t have enough room to have a huge collection of large dolls.
This doll in the next photo was a bit of a surprise. Gabriela McBride was released last year as American Girl’s Girl of the Year Doll for 2017. Usually the Girl of the Year doll is on sale only from January 1-December 31 then she is retired. I was surprised to see that she was still around in 2018. I still remember last year the times I tried to take her picture but the first time I failed because the phone on my previous smartphone (Droid Ultra) began to act erratically and it wouldn’t take any photos while I was at the store yet it finally worked after I returned home. The second time I brought my older Canon DSLR with me but that effort failed because I had to be elsewhere and I shot photos at that other place before I arrived at the mall and I ran out of battery power by the time I arrived. My smartphone worked miraculously until I got to Gabriela McBride and my smartphone camera decided to stop working. The third time was finally the charm when I arrived last December with a Canon PowerShot camera that I purchased used off eBay and I took some photos of that doll and her accessories without a hitch. I thought that she would be retired at the end of 2017 just like her Girl of the Year predecessors but it wasn’t the case with her.
The country singing pair of Tenney Grant and her friend Logan Everett were also slated for retirement but I didn’t bother with taking their pictures. I had already shot them and their accessories on a previous visit and there wasn’t anything new with those two.
I managed to check out the 2018 Girl of the Year. Her name is Luciana Vega, she’s a Latina, she’s into STEM, and her big dream is to work for NASA so she could go to Mars.
American Girl went all out with the space theme. In fact, one of my Facebook friends who works for NASA was posting approvingly about this doll earlier this year. (He’s the father of two daughters—both of whom are now young adults—and I’m sure he would’ve bought this doll for them if they were still kids.)
Seeing this doll in person I have to say that she’s gorgeous and her clothes are literally out of this world. (If there were ever human adult versions of her dresses, I would definitely want to buy them.) She has gorgeous black hair with a purple streak in it. If I weren’t so cash-strapped, I would definitely feel tempted to buy this doll.
Her accessories, which are sold separately, includes things like astronaut ice cream and a replica of an Apple Watch.
There are corresponding books, one of which comes with the doll and the other two are sold separately. A few days before I came to Tyson’s Corner I was at the library where I saw a young girl checking out a pile of books, including one of the Luciana books.
Among her separately sold play sets is one that resembles a STEM makerspace. There is even a cute robot dog.
If it weren’t for the fact that this STEM maker station cost $100, I would say that it would be a cool thing to purchase for the local makerspace in my area for the kids to play with.
I thought that this robot dog came with the maker station but I found out that this robodoggie is sold separately for $35.
There is also a space telescope so Luciana could look up at the stars.
Then there is this NASA space laboratory and a NASA space suit for Luciana to wear. I can understand why my Facebook friend was gushing about Luciana online. In fact, this capsule reminds me of my ex-husband, who works for NASA. If we were still together, I definitely would’ve urged him to go to the American Girl Place with me so he could see this in person. I also would’ve told him that we could stop off at Wasabi afterwards because I was trying to get him to consider the two of us eating there before he abruptly left me just three days after Christmas and three months after my hip surgery in 2011. (I had gone to Wasabi for the first time when I was still married in October, 2011 but I went by myself that time.)
The details of this capsule are pretty astounding. My ex-husband definitely would’ve gotten a kick out of it if he had seen it for himself in person.
Yes, it’s sad that visiting the American Girl Place so we could see this NASA space laboratory together is another thing I’ll never get to do with my ex-husband but that’s the way things go.
My ex-husband was never into dolls and normally I would never have been able to get him to even step one foot inside of that door. I think I may have gotten him to make a rare exception and actually visit a doll store because he definitely would’ve been impressed with the painstaking details of this NASA space laboratory.
Luciana is totally rocking this astronaut space suit.
For families who want to purchase Luciana and her accessories but who are cash-strapped, there are Mega Construx kit versions.
Like other Girl of the Year dolls, the American Girl Place has a designated space where people can have their selfies taken with a standee of Luciana Vegan and a space capsule.
The sign said to turn the handle and look inside but the door handle was broken when I was there.
The best I was able to do was to shoot through the door window.
American Girl sold separate Washington, DC souvenir t-shirts for dolls. They also had matching shirts for their human owners as well but I only shot the doll shirts.
I didn’t spend much time in the store beyond Luciana and the BeForever historical dolls. But I saw this car that looked cool. It reminded me of that Volkswagen that American Girl came out for the 1970s historical doll Julie Albright a few years back.
I also shot these two outfits that were released just in time for the upcoming winter holiday trio of Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa.
After my visit to the American Girl Place I ate a sushi dinner at Wasabi, which is the place that delivers food on conveyor belts and you could pick which plates you want.
After dinner I walked around the mall a bit. I found a temporary Halloween store that was selling costumes. This year they have costumes based on that mega-popular video game Fortnite. (I’ve seen kids play that game and they can’t seem to get enough of it. I haven’t tried it myself as of this writing.)
I did get a chuckle out of this obvious parody of My Little Pony‘s Rainbow Dash, even though I know nothing about Fortnite‘s Rainbow Smash.
They also had two costumes based on the late artist and TV personality Bob Ross. A couple of friends or lovers could dress up together as Bob Ross and one of his paintings, which I find hilarious.
Just a few feet away from the Halloween store is a Christmas store. This is crazy. Halloween and Thanksgiving haven’t even happened yet and there is already a Christmas store.
Just a few days after I took this shot of these Grinch ornaments I learned that someone is coming out with yet another remake of How the Grinch Stole Christmas that will be shown on the big screen. I guess that’s why there was a display of these ornaments. I personally think that doing yet another remake is so unnecessary. I have the original 1960’s TV special on DVD so I can always play that one on my TV screen instead of paying over $10 to see the remake in a movie theater.
I had a pretty busy Sunday on July 15, 2018. I went carpooling with one friend to church where there was a Tye-Dye Sunday scheduled. By the time I got home from church I turned around and went carpooling with a different friend to this meetup that took place in Rockville.
CoderDojo is basically a global network that provides free computer programming clubs to young people. My friend thought it would be good for me to check this out, especially since I worked as an assistant facilitator with the Takoma Park chapter of Girls Who Code over the past year.
The Washington, DC chapter of CoderDojo meets at the Rockville Public Library in Rockville, Maryland. I had never stepped foot inside this building before but I have to admit that it’s very impressive.
There was an art show going on featuring art done by local youths. It brought back memories of the first time my elementary school art teacher had selected one of my art projects to be shown at the Anne Arundel County Art Show that was displayed at the since-demolished Harundale Mall.
The CoderDojo met in a room on the second floor of the library, which is a designated STEM center. That room had an array of all kinds of stuff that one would normally find in a makerspace (such as computers and robots) but there was some pretty cool STEM-themed art as well.
The meeting started off with a presentation about what computing was like back in the 1990s (when the Computer Internet revolution was just beginning). I enjoyed it because I remember those days like they happened yesterday. There was a mention of using modems attached to telephone wires in order to access the Internet at a blistering 9600 bps.
I enjoyed the presentation very much. Once that ended, the kids started to work on their own projects while parents and other adult volunteers went around helping the kids with their latest projects.
By the time that meetup ended it was closing time for the library. My friend and I were heading back towards the parking garage by cutting through Rockville Town Square when I shot this photo of some kids playing in the fountain.
I also discovered that there was an It’s Sugar store located in Rockville. I had previously visited It’s Sugar in Baltimore and Chinatown in Washington, DC and I managed to convince my friend to stop in the Rockville store for a brief visit, where I shot these photos.
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Last month I was browsing through Target where I took these pictures. Later this month the latest installment in the ever-popular Jurassic Park movies, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, will be released. I saw so many LEGO and Duplo sets that one could easily create his/her own Jurassic Park in the privacy of his/her home. I have a friend on Facebook who is mad about dinosaurs so I took a whole slew for her benefit. Knowing her, she has probably purchased at least one or two of these sets by now. (LOL!)
The Jurassic Park/Jurassic World hype isn’t limited to just LEGO and Duplo. I saw this poster book on sale that includes tearaway poster pages that one can hang on a wall.
Soon after our wedding my new husband and I took a trip to the Orlando area where we spent the bulk of our time at Walt Disney World. Throughout our marriage we kept up with Disney and Mickey Mouse and we made a few return trips to Disney World while making a few trips to the original Disneyland theme park in California. I used to be well-versed on when a Disney anniversary was coming. Ever since my husband left and my marriage ended in divorce, I had let my Mickey Mouse fixation slide big time. (The majority of Mickey clothes I still own were ones that I either bought or were given to me while I was still married.) If it weren’t for seeing these special Mickey Mouse edition of Pepperidge Farm Goldfish Crackers on sale at Target, I would have totally missed the fact (which is printed on the back of these packages) that this year is the 90th anniversary of the release of Steamboat Willie, which unleashed both Mickey and his girlfriend, Minnie Mouse, on the world.
Nintendo’s latest video game system is the Switch. (I still have the original Nintendo Wii and Sony Playstation 2, which should give you an idea as to how far behind I am on the latest video games. LOL!) One interesting thing is that Nintedo has come out with the Nintendo Labo, which definitely taps into the current STEM/STEAM/Maker movement.
I also saw another STEM/STEAM/Maker focused product on sale at Target. Google has a line of AIY, which are described as “Do-it-yourself artificial intelligence.” The products I saw on sale that day were an intelligent speaker and an intelligent camera.
The day after St. Patrick’s Day I helped a friend of mine with his booth at the annual Maker Faire NoVa that was held at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. I had attended previous STEM Maker events in Greenbelt, Silver Spring, and Washington, DC but it’s the first time I ever checked the Northern Virginia one. I have to admit that this event was the largest event of its kind that I had ever attended. To give you an idea as to how big it was, here’s a video I shot of this event.
And now it’s time for the still photos. I knew I had come to the right place when I saw this statue of George Mason (whom the university is named after) all dressed up for the occasion.
These signs were further giveaways that I was at the right place.
The reason why I was there was that I was helping a friend of mine with his table. His name is Phil Shapiro and he frequently hangs out on YouTube and Twitter. He wanted to demonstrate Inkscape, which is the free open source alternative to Adobe Illustrator. He brought a couple of Linux laptops that he made available for people to use. At the last minute he decided to have one of those laptops run Tux Paint, which is a free open source graphics program that is made for kids under 7, which turned out to be a good move because a lot of visitors were kids. The kids seemed to really like Tux Paint so it was all good. In any case, here is what the sign looked like.
Here are a few shots of the table that I took before Maker Faire NoVa opened to the general public.
Here’s Phil Shapiro at one of the laptops setting everything up before the show began.
And here’s Phil showing off the two laptops with Inkscape and Tux Paint to the general public.
One of the many kids tried his hand at drawing with Tux Paint.
Near our table was one that was manned by Bob Coggeshall, who’s famous in the Unix world for inventing the Unix command sudo.
There were all kinds of projects that were run off of Raspberry Pi, such as this vintage teletype.
There were also all kinds of 3D printed projects that looked amazing.
There was a refurbished gumball machine that dispensed 3D printed charms for only 50 cents.
It was at that gumball machine where I made my one and only purchase from Maker Faire NoVa: A tiny 1-inch printed 3D printed Darth Vader who’s seated like a Buddha. I only paid 50 cents for this cool item.
There were also some vintage bikes that the public can ride.
It was at Maker Faire NoVa where I got my first-ever real life glimpse of a Bitcoin mining machine.
It was also at Maker Faire NoVa where I got my first glimpse of American Girl’s 2018 Girl of the Year doll. Her name is Luciana Vega, she’s into STEM and her big ambition is to be the first person to explore Mars.
This boy was showing his work in progress on his latest project. He was in the process of building his own BB-8 robot from the Star Wars movies.
There was just a variety of things I saw at Maker Faire NoVa that were simply astounding.
George Mason University’s Fairfax campus is pretty big. In fact, I think it may be as big as my own alma mater (University of Maryland at College Park). I briefly went through the campus Barnes & Noble store, which had copies of Michael Wolff’s controversial bestseller about Donald Trump’s first year in the White House called Fire & Fury.
I really had a blast at Maker Faire NoVa. It helped that the weather was in the 50’s that day so I was able to wear a light jacket instead of my heavy winter coat for a change. I even saw my first robin of the year while I was walking around outside going from building to building while checking out the event. (The entire event was spread over four buildings.) Sadly that warm weather was a short-lived thing because the weather turned really cold and rainy the next day followed by a snowstorm.
The only downside about that event is that for about a couple of days before that event I started to have stuffed sinuses. By the time of that event my throat felt more scratchy as I talked more and more with the general public while I worked at Phil’s booth. My legs had grown stiff and sore by the end of the day due to the huge amount of walking and standing I did throughout the day. The following day I felt extremely tired and sick. I ended up spending most of the next week sleeping (with the exception of the couple of times I went out in the snow where I did some shoveling two days after Maker Faire NoVa). I even ended up skipping the big March for Our Lives on the following Saturday due to being sick. But the video, photos, and fond memories from Maker Faire NoVa made it all worthwhile.
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Since the winter holiday shopping season has officially started three days ago, I’d thought I’d post pictures of stuff I’ve seen lately on the store shelves. I took these photos mainly to show some of my friends on social media who would be especially interested in these products.
First, here are some photos I shot at Target over the past month or so. Target is selling the 3Doodler along with the DoodleBlock Kit.
Target has a LEGO aisle filled with all kinds of LEGO kits for all ages.
Last year American Girl came out with a line of multiracial 14 inch dolls known as Wellie Wishers, which cost $60 each. Target is now selling a line of multiracial 14 inch dolls known as Glitter Girls for $20 each.
Target also sells a line of 3-foot tall dolls based on various Disney characters.
You know Christmas is coming soon when you start seeing special gingerbread spice cereal like this.
Target has been selling a line of STEM toys, kits, and games for makers of all ages. You can now make a variety of things including LEGO stop-motion animation, piñatas, video games, drones, Raspberry Pi computers, and more. Below are just a few of them.
This is probably the most unique and off-beat product I found at Target: A Funko Pop! vinyl toy based on the late painter and television show host Bob Ross.
I also found some Hot Wheels toy cars that seemed to be made with Baby Boomers in mind. How else can you explain cars based on The Beatles’ film A Hard Day’s Night and Mad magazine.
Recently a new Guitar Center store opened up in Laurel, Maryland so I decided to check it out.
I saw these special edition Cordoba acoustic guitars for adults and children that are tie-in products to the Disney/Pixar movie Coco, which was recently released. (I haven’t seen it yet. All I know that it’s based on the Mexican El Día de los Muertos/Day of the Dead holiday, which happened earlier this month, and which also explains the skull motif on these guitars.)
Last, but not least, are a few of the photos I took when I made my last trip to a local Five Below store.
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