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paul wheaton
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June 17, 2007, 11:19:19 AM |
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I've had lots of people ask me to take pictures and pass them on.
Well, my digital camera is pretty old. The button sticks, so I have to press it hard. And then I have to jiggle it to get it to come back up to take the next picture. This makes the pictures come out a little blurry sometimes. Well, most of the pictures came out pretty blurry. These are the ones that didn't.
Further, my memory card isn't very big. They don't even make this kind of memory card anymore. So I ran out of memory at one point. My phone has a camera, but it has its downsides too. The biggest downside being that for every picture I take I have to press a whole lot of buttons and I miss the parade!
I wish I had one of those new fangled video cameras. Then I could just video the whole thing!
So here is what I have ...
The parade starts of with about 70 people on bicycles. Some naked. Most painted.
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June 17, 2007, 11:20:33 AM |
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June 17, 2007, 11:21:23 AM |
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June 17, 2007, 11:22:08 AM |
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June 17, 2007, 11:23:44 AM |
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There were about a dozen "Waldo" people.
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June 17, 2007, 11:24:43 AM |
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June 17, 2007, 11:25:22 AM |
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June 17, 2007, 11:27:17 AM |
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I think the first pic is the official beginning of the parade.
The second pick is a sort of "hey gang! let's make a marching band!" It was great!
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paul wheaton
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June 17, 2007, 11:29:22 AM |
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Kids on stilts with flowers!
And then some kinda beast that is supposed to have something to do with bottled water.
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paul wheaton
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June 17, 2007, 11:33:10 AM |
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A beast and my friend Jacqueline on stilts!
Next up came pyramid parts. They took all these big blocks and built a pyramid at a nearby intersection. I couldn't see the completed pyramid very well, so I didn't take a pic. Being a freaky tall guy, I was the only one in our area that could see the pyramid at all, so I was describing it to everybody.
I turns out that my friend Giovanni was carrying pyramid parts, but I didn't see him until after the parade.
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paul wheaton
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June 17, 2007, 11:39:31 AM |
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pyramid innards.
This next pic is important to me. Some slick guy standing nearby said something to his friend like "I think some of these people should keep their clothes on." I think that guy just proved that this woman has 20 times more character than he does. It also shows that this guy is just a letch and has no idea what this parade is about.
This is about art and having fun. There is a touch of erotic here, but I think it is more for the participants than the spectators. I think that to go through the parade naked is a personal triumph. At the end of the parade, that person knows something about their own strength of character. This is a lifetime achievement.
And the letch is just icky and should go away.
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June 17, 2007, 11:40:41 AM |
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Check out this contraption. It is a human powered fan on wheels. This guy only moves when the fan is blowing.
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June 17, 2007, 11:44:53 AM |
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Another pic of the amazing fan contraption!
And look at the green woman in the foreground. She did some sort of amazingly erotic dance of the pendulous breasts. The white things she is swinging around are even more pendulous and somehow add to the eroticism. She is a true artist in a space I have never encountered before. About 30 seconds later she had a "wardrobe malfunction" and raced to cover herself while grinning huge and looking shy. I wish I had a video camera. 
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June 17, 2007, 11:49:31 AM |
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Look at the feet under the tall purple woman. She has some sort of amazing gazelle-spring-feet contraptions. She was running at one point. She could probably move faster than somebody on a bicycle. At one point she fell, but she was able to get back up pretty quickly.
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June 17, 2007, 11:51:16 AM |
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June 17, 2007, 11:53:07 AM |
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This is at the end of the parade at gasworks park.
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June 17, 2007, 12:20:03 PM |
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There was lots of other stuff I wish I had taken pictures of. There were the amazing walking tree costumes. And there was the pageant afterward. And the super cool cars (I have pictures of those from last year). And .... on and on and on ...
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June 17, 2007, 12:24:16 PM |
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If anybody else was there and took pics, please add them here! I have turned on the ability to add pictures.
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Ben Souther
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June 20, 2008, 11:35:35 AM |
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Today is summer solstice.
Are they having that parade again this weekend?
Are you going?
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paul wheaton
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June 20, 2008, 04:45:04 PM |
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The parade is tomorrow. I'm going. I have a new camera.
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