Ingenuity Festival 2008

Ingenuity v.4.0 opening night, as captured by the ubiquitous Flip camera of Thomas Mulready, which starts at the Cool Cleveland kick-off party in the old Halle Building, then catches Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Ingenuity Festival Director James Levin copping Mulready's pork pie, then takes a strange detour through a holographic exhibition by Tom Cvetkovich, big band on the Main Stage with the Cleveland Music School Settlement, the brilliant 99 red balloons knows as the Red Eyed Skywalkers by Jenny Marketou floating high above Star Plaza, and a duck into the All Go Alley to see impromptu modeling and Angels By Night by Kidist Getachew (see CC interview here).

Howlermonkey ripped up the Alley Stage while artist vendors sold hand-crafted jewelry. Zeno with his friendly little robot with the camera in his eye, then back to the Main Stage for Joshua Fried's Radio Wonderland, sampling and mixing live radio. An extended clip of Peachcake's (pictured) unreal antics in the NPi Stage, although most of their act wasn't on the stage at all. Me'Na from Canton wowed the R&B lovers on the big stage, while across the street, on the side of the building, Laser Graffiti. AudibleThread in the alley, and Ruckus Roboticus with some wild turntablism, turning wild children and patriots alike. And that was just opening night... http://www.IngenuityCleveland.com

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