Showing posts with label ingenuity festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ingenuity festival. Show all posts

Monday, September 17, 2012

Zapping coolie blasters tumbling ineluctably forward

You can try to write about IngenuityFest, but you will probably fail. If my old friend Maureen McHugh were around, she'd call it trying to dance about architecture. Some things just don't jibe.

IngenuityFest is what comes to fruition when the weird brilliant people are left to their devices. Add a classic industrial space (cavernous lakefront cargo warehouses), a healthy dose of CLE energy and a bit of glitter courtesy of Mother Nature and the magic cascades--as long as you're willing to tilt your head.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.  Enjoy a measure of Ingenuity courtesy of your humble hostess. Click on any pic to enlarge.

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A stone-faced soldier and hovering angels welcomed the royal subjects.


Balloon Fish Man held court high above the troubadours and peddlers, the strolling lovers and drunken jesters.


Lovely dimpled lasses offered up fried cakes and sausages and flat breads stuffed with roasted meats.


Buxom ladies tempted those bellying up for a yard of ale.


Others gave pause to a study in yellow.


The sun set upon Lake Erie, but not on the whirling fliglydids.


Smirking princes peeped from behind plaid walls.


Your humble hostess exchanged secrets with a loyal man bathed in light.


Pixies and duchesses roasted marshmallows before the glow of a neon campfire.


Penguins danced.


Blossoms bloomed.


Royal subjects roved amid pillars of woven light.


A regal Goat inspected a mysterious energy catcher.


That Emperor with the new clothes could learn a thing or two from IngenuityFest.

~~sigh~~

See all you bevellified beaded blizters next year. 

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Sunday, September 18, 2011

Ingenuity Festival 2011



Cleveland's Ingenuity Festival is one of the hippest events in northeast Ohio. It celebrates all things creative and quirky. The lower deck of the Veteren's Memorial Bridge, a Cleveland landmark that spans the Cuyahoga River, serves as the venue. These pix don't begin to do the festival justice (you can view them in full screen over here), but you get the idea.

You have to hear and smell Ingenuity. You have to taste it. You have to feel the electric night air and the energy of the people thrumming all around you. You have thrill over walking 100+ feet above the flowing Cuyahoga.

This town may have it's problems, but you can't fake industrial--and baby; Cleveland. Know. Industrial. I can't wait for next year.

~~erin loves cleveland~~

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