Heading back to Massachusetts

My time in Texas is up - I head back to Massachusetts later this morning.

My parents and I managed to hit the Kimbell and the Modern before I leave. There are excellent exhibits at each place right now. At the Kimbell they have an exhibit called Portraiture in the Age of Picasso. In addition to a number of interesting Picassos that I had previously only seen in books, there were paintings by Max Beckmann, Braque, David Hockney, Francis Bacon, and many more besides. The exhibit is arranged chronologically, from early modern to contemporary.

At the Modern we saw an exhibit of works by Ron Mueck, an artist I knew of but had never seen before. I highly recommend seeing this if you have a chance. Mueck creates ultra-realistic sculptures of people at either very small or very large scales. The oversized pieces are like nothing I've experienced before. Here's a picture of a piece we saw.
















You can view some more of Mueck's work here.

Wii!

Some pictures of me and my friends at Brad's house playing the Wii.

Here is my Mii (my avatar in the Wii - get it?):














And here we are playing Wii golf - which we figured out how to do while reclining. We are very lazy.

California pictures

Better later than never. Pictures courtesy of Meg and her digital camera.

Media Appearance

The Boston Globe ran a story about the grant I am working on this summer and fall.

Hmmm - part of that 200,000 dollars is putting food on my table. Guess I better get started on that search-and-rescue robot.

SALT photos

You can pictures of me and the all the other presenters at this year's SALT here.

Nationalized healthcare = terrorist threat (reasoning courtesy of Fox News)

long time no post

I've gone almost a month without posting. For those still checking, I'll put up some pictures of my recent trip to Austin.

On the road:




















Waiting for the Oasis to open



View from the Oasis



Lion dancing




















Now I'm staying at Stanford for the LSA Summer Institute. The campus is beautiful.















I rented a bicycle yesterday to ride around campus and to go to downtown Palo Alto. There is a theater in town (the Stanford Theater) that seems to exclusively play old movies (pre-1960s). There is a Fred Astaire festival coming up. But I'll be missing classics like The Mummy and Creature from the Black Lagoon. Darn.