Friday, June 19, 2009

A Collage Worth Capturing

Assumedly, she was five years old. She wore a pink sundress. She savored an ice cream cone as she passed… She was the evening’s perfect representation…

On Thursday, I attended the Wexner Summer Warm-up. Both the event and visual were exemplary. Children frolicked and strolled safely sans their parents. Couples canoodled and relaxed upon blankets in the grass. Fashion nuances and nightmares provided incalculable column material.

The triad of flashback music, people, and vendors intermixed into one of the most unique atmospheres in this city. Between the children and blankets on the grass, the ice cream and hot dog vendors on the sidewalk, and the psychedelic soundtrack, the ambiance ran the gambit… Gidget, Jimi Hendrix, and Seth Cohen would have assimilated comfortably.

Also assimilated comfortably was Wexner Center Promotions Superstar Tim Fulton, one of their premiere characters in this city… It’s not as if I don’t encounter a cocktail of personalities each evening, but Fulton is tectonic triple shot… He is analyst and humorist… Enthusiast and influence… Mastermind and pupil…

In two hours, Fulton enters and exits a dozen conversations… He is more comfortable in the present than the previous… Obviously, his profession is public relations, which involves speaking… Thus, he should be proficient in the art form… With that said, Fulton is a conversationalist and not a talker… The difference must be appreciated…

The difference between artistic and random is miniscule and that line was encountered and erased frequently this evening… I know quirkiness is a characteristic which will win you praise within the artistic sphere… However, quirkiness is an engraved invitation into this column and said invitation is inescapable…

Whether they were wearing Arabic writing or Bart man or Ghostbusters t-shirts (if the gimmick is more than three years old, toss the shirt) or hot pink (males just shouldn’t), the choices resembled those a mother would have made for her sixth grade son a decade ago… Any of those individuals should have been nervous to read the twitter

Since I mentioned the twitter, I have been asked why this website tweets so much…. Why are virtually every moment and reaction typed as they occur… Tonight was a perfect example of the simple answer… You never know what you could encounter next…

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