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Kinetics in Port Townsend

This weekend, I cruised on through Port Townsend to check out their much talked about kinetic sculpture race, basically human powered sculptures that have to navigate road, , and mud but somehow put the majority of the focus on showmanship. Luck would have it that I missed out on seeing the race and instead had to settle for the tail end of a parade and the safety check, but I wasn't disappointed.

The entries(/sculptures/racers?) were pretty dang , both with creative decoration and sometimes creative propulsion, like that is powered by the driver essentially bobbing up and down. You can tell that all the participants put a lot of time into their creations, whether they looked race worthy or not.

The theme for the event was something to do with Alice in Wonderland*. People , many of the entries were , there were tea parties in the street, etc. From the brief exposure I had to the whole thing*, it seemed that just as much focus is placed on the non-racing participants (judges, supporters, general crowd, etc.) as on the racers themselves. Basically it was just a big happy creative event. I'm glad I got a peek.

Saturday October 3 2009

File under: events, misc

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on Sun 04th Oct, 2009 04:18 pm PDT Sean said:
You crazy conservatives and your tea parties...
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on Sun 04th Oct, 2009 04:51 pm PDT Amanda said:
We were there too! Only we couldn't stay for the races on Sunday. Now I'm bummed we missed it!
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