The Moon in June
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izmeinaWhile I had the grandest of plans to write about the full moon on the Solstice weekend, once again I got distracted.
There was a very wierd event on in some vacant buildings in the CBD.
The Strange Festival. Full of creatures even witchier than me.
There was also the Friday evening Solstice party at the Lunar Lounge in the museum.
While there were a lot of critters in crazy costumes, it was not quite the Star Wars bar scene that I was hoping for.
The place was packed. Too much for my liking. A bit hard to be a wallflower when all the hidden spots were taken.
Such a marked contrast to this evening when the joint was almost empty.
No queue for the bar but best of all, only 1 or 2 people in the virtual reality book.
So I got to lurk in the control centre of Apollo and float around in.an international space station.
The museum's moon exhibition is the first time that I've ever tried virtual reality goggles and the works.
But the highlight of the night for me was the Lego at station.
Since it's the start of the dreaded school holidays, the museum has brought out the big guns to keep the chaos monsters amused.
Origami, drawing, colouring and Lego stations plus some very impressive Lego spacecraft models that I'm sure were not there last week.
They always have either guest speakers oe musicians so I lurked in the Lego corner near enough to easily hear the music but not that it would be too noisy.
As a kid I loved Lego, Meccano & spirograph. But the Lego was always given to my brother for birthdays and Christmas so I hardly ever got a look in.
In those days, it was mainly bricks, flat bases, doors, windows and roof tiles and the odd wheel or too. No fancy planes or spacecraft back then.
While the fancy features are fun, in some ways it's been dumbed down to jigsaw sets or colour by numbers.
The basic building blocks are much versatile than the Specialized gadget bits.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall tomorrow at lunchtime in the museum to see the Lego fights and crowd control for the virtual reality headsets.
The next batch of Lunar Lounge guests don't interest me but I'm sure I'll turn up at least twice before lift off in October.
There was a very wierd event on in some vacant buildings in the CBD.
The Strange Festival. Full of creatures even witchier than me.
There was also the Friday evening Solstice party at the Lunar Lounge in the museum.
While there were a lot of critters in crazy costumes, it was not quite the Star Wars bar scene that I was hoping for.
The place was packed. Too much for my liking. A bit hard to be a wallflower when all the hidden spots were taken.
Such a marked contrast to this evening when the joint was almost empty.
No queue for the bar but best of all, only 1 or 2 people in the virtual reality book.
So I got to lurk in the control centre of Apollo and float around in.an international space station.
The museum's moon exhibition is the first time that I've ever tried virtual reality goggles and the works.
But the highlight of the night for me was the Lego at station.
Since it's the start of the dreaded school holidays, the museum has brought out the big guns to keep the chaos monsters amused.
Origami, drawing, colouring and Lego stations plus some very impressive Lego spacecraft models that I'm sure were not there last week.
They always have either guest speakers oe musicians so I lurked in the Lego corner near enough to easily hear the music but not that it would be too noisy.
As a kid I loved Lego, Meccano & spirograph. But the Lego was always given to my brother for birthdays and Christmas so I hardly ever got a look in.
In those days, it was mainly bricks, flat bases, doors, windows and roof tiles and the odd wheel or too. No fancy planes or spacecraft back then.
While the fancy features are fun, in some ways it's been dumbed down to jigsaw sets or colour by numbers.
The basic building blocks are much versatile than the Specialized gadget bits.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall tomorrow at lunchtime in the museum to see the Lego fights and crowd control for the virtual reality headsets.
The next batch of Lunar Lounge guests don't interest me but I'm sure I'll turn up at least twice before lift off in October.
