back again, in the midst of boredom

Another visit to San Jose!
Just a few days ago, Elda and I took off to visit our neighboring city again. This time though, we were then able to visit the places we intended to go to but closed the other day. The visits were fascinating!

Elda has always wanted to go to the Museum of Art and Tech Museum located at the downtown. Since we arrived at the city earlier than the other day, we finally got the chance to visit them.

The museum was mainly packed with contemporary arts instead of classic fine art like paintings and such. It was rather surprising to see almost all kinds of art displayed in the museum. Not just some abstract paintings but also photography, videos, short movies, paper arts, and arts involving the tricks of lights and electricity, just like what Leo Villareal's exhibits offer.
There were two exciting exhibits that entertained us the most which are a video of an Inca boy doing the cover of 'The Sounds of Music' in a meadow and a group of Taiwanese youths doing the cover of Michael Jackson's Bad.

The whole exhibits of the museums were definitely breathtaking.
They'll give you this impression that this museum ain't like any other art museums you'll find in this world.

Next up, we headed straight to the Tech Museum, but before reaching the place, we stopped for a minute or two in the park, just to snap some pictures.

I didn't expect this picture above to look good.
Love the blurry effect but believe it or not, this was made out of a coincidence (the wind was blowing and it sort of chilled me). So before finishing the shoot, I swung my camera while pressing the capture button, capturing this scene and I said "Shoot!" at the same time. So guess, this picture would be best if it's called "SHOOT!" lol

For me, San Jose is like the mini version of San Francisco. Of course those two cities don't bear any similarities in look nor situations since San Francisco is surely a much bigger and more recognizable city compared to San Jose.

Onto the next destination: The Tech Museum!

The museum itself basically is just like any other science centers, filled with unique kinds of scientific yet interactive exhibits. There was this interactive exhibit that offered the ability for visitors to compose a song using numbers.
Elda and I tried it and actually, it was quite easy to do that. All of you have to do is just pressing random buttons containing numbers and just press play. The result will come out as the sound of piano. We could also set the tempo as we wanted to.

So it turned out we randomly and quickly pressed all buttons and set the tempo to the maximum, then press 'play'

The result was incredibly hilarious.
Haha. Have no idea how to interpret that hilarity on this blog, but try to imagine that.



We only had like an hour in the museum before it closed (the ticketing person told us that though, and doubt if we still determined to have a tour around the museum that long) so right at the hour where it's supposed to be closed, Elda and I exited quickly. Later on, we found this outdoor exhibit at the back of the museum, displaying ball that went through paths and moved by physical elements.

I promised once that I'd take a picture of the city's monorail, didn't I?
Good thing in this visit, I got to have my camera ready while standing before the rail and waiting for the vehicle to pass by.







On the way home, we strangely spotted thin clouds hung in the sky (yes, even if there's a cloud in the oh-so-shiny days could be something amazing, since it hardly happens. The summer sky would be normally pure blue sky and it's cloudless).

Anyway, I'm still finding out if Mac has a Wordpad program, since it's more comfortable to blog with Wordpad and that it's copyable to Blogger rather than using Microsoft Word.