MY WEEK IN PHOTOS: NOVEMBER 2 – NOVEMBER 8, 2015!

MY WEEK IN PHOTOS: NOVEMBER 2-8, 2015!
Five days in Minneapolis, Minnesota for a nerdy museum/tech conference. A lot of yellow leaves, works of art, and I continue my quest for Malaysian food reminiscent of the meal I had in London last year.

Enjoy!

How long is too long to leave your pet in their Halloween costume?

COME ON. One day a year isn’t good enough for me.

At work a little early to document some installation shuffling

Important leaf moment

It’s finally getting a bit gloomier, which I welcome

More buffalo slow cooker chicken, this time in “nacho” form

He’s getting so snuggly in the mornings cuz it’s been getting a little colder

Made it on my 9 am flight to Minneapolis and BONUS, I got the row to myself! How did I get so luuucky.

I’m a sucker for these United snack boxes, especially this one with honey mustard sauce to dip pretzels (YUM), cheese spread and salami (YUM)…

So many lakes!

Made it to my room that I’ll stress out in for the next few days of the museum conference

And just as I unpacked, the sun started to set and was bouncing light off of all the shiny buildings outside. So lovely.

Nice and bundled to go out and grab dinner with a few co-workers before the madness of the conference begins

Downtown Minneapolis

Sneaky view of “The Local”, an Irish pub downtown. Fish ‘n chips not baaad.

Got back to my room and viciously finished up my presentation. The next morning I was co-leading a workshop about museum video and storytelling.

The next morning I woke up at 5ish to continue polishing the presentation. It was sooo cold in my room, the blankets were all so thin.

Okay. Ready to go. I can do this!!!

Game face! *Frazzled eyebrows*

Fedex Print Center

All checked in, ready to play.

Big room, small tables. These are smaller workshops that are about 3.5 hours that focus on a hands-on kind of approach to a topic.

My fellow presenters, so happy and lucky to have worked with such fun, interesting, hard-working, caring folks.

Finally made it to the Walker! A potato/lightbulb wallpaper by John Baldessari

View from above

*lovely*

Yves Klein

Laundry by Oldenburg

A grove of citrus trees in the Hippie Modernism show

Watching video in a van

And on a hammock. So many things to climb into/sit on

YELLOW!

Polishing the cherry at the Minneapolis Sculpture Park

So many family photos being taken here

You can see the Walker in the distance

Wandering my way back through the city to the downtown area

So many cute dogs and fat squirrels

Passed a little underground board game shop, popped in for a second.

Decided to have a little early dinner on my own, found a little pho place.

The first evening conference opening event included a ride in these historic buses

Museum nerds ❤

Afterwards went to have some soup at Hell’s Kitchen, how could you resist

The bathrooms had these Haunted Mansion-y portraits

❤ my Walker pin

Day one of “actual conference” with a full schedule of sessions and “networking breaks” (*panic*)

Went to this awesome panel that talked about museums built by users of Second Life and other virtual reality games.

I didn’t really photograph much conference stuff, but I did live tweet all the sessions I was in (so sorry if you were annoyed since I never tweet, but found ALL MY TWEETS pouring in at once)

Around dinner I always found myself maxed out of my social capacities and need to recharge my introverted social self…so I walked to this pizza place…

And had a really amazing garlicky pizza. Here’s the place.

Cute little to go box

Only had to walk about 12 blocks but it was SOOO windy. Thought my face would fall off.

The next evening event for the conference was at Minneapolis Institute of the Arts aka MIA.

I enjoyed these “newsflash” items

Cheese on cheese on cheese

My first Alec Soth encounter! I know he lives in Minneapolis.

❤

When two hapas find each other it’s cute

Glass display!

Insane wallpaper

Dream kitchen

A graphite palm tree reaching to the sky

Another view of MIA

REALLY needed some alone time after the full day, so grabbed some hot funyons and enjoyed the eve on YouTube.

The next day started with a great session where we got to “Un-Conference” about social media and social change.

I snuck in a visit to the Mill City Museum

Which is in an old flour mill that still stands in the old milling district

The mill exploded because of a flour dust issue, then was rebuilt. After it closed one night it went up in flames, suspected accidental arson. Now it’s a museum!