It's a Bird, it's a Plane...

Ah Pittsburgh, land of the Steelers and bridges. SO many bridges. There are probably about 20 different ways you could get to any destination from any direction in the city. Pittsburgh is also home to the Andy Warhol Museum (the only museum dedicated to a sole artist), a Toonseum (only one of three in the country), and also has the biggest Macy's I've seen outside of NYC. Enough chit chat, let's get to some pictures:

The new arena!

The old arena: looks like a UFO

Bridges, so many bridges

More bridges

Where we ate Tuesday night, kind of a dive but really good fried oysters!

Occupy Pittsburgh!

The U.S. Steel building! Dad I thought you'd appreciate that haha

No idea what this is but it looks cool!

Just a church

Some really cool street artwork across the street from the Toonseum.

Thursday was our big museum day. Me, Andrew, Ian, and LaRena walked to the Toonseum, which is really just one room, but they happened to have a Looney Toon display this month. They have a bunch of the original sketches and even one of the original drawing desks from Disney Studios! I took a lot of pictures so I'll save those for a separate post.

Afterwards LaRena and I went to the Andy Warhol museum, where on the top floor they had a special exhibit of Alex Ross artwork. Who's Alex Ross? I didn't know either, but apparently he is one of the top comic book artists in the business, and he's done A LOT of artwork. The exhibit was gigantic, but also really interesting. Unfortunately I couldn't take any pictures, but all his renderings were incredible. My favorite part of the exhibit was some of his drawings from when he was a kid. It's amazing the progress he made from age 10 to age 13. Also when he was a kid he drew what Charlie Brown would look like as various superheros haha.

The rest of the museum was really interesting too. It had a lot of the various types of art that Warhol pursued and it was very informative about his life, though really for me the Alex Ross exhibit overshadowed the rest of it. It got me thinking that something that can seem childish and silly to one person can actually be a work of art and a way of life for another. I never really thought that I would see comic book art in a museum, but it definitely deserve recognition as pieces of art.

Yesterday we had our end of the year party called The Barnies. The theme was an award show so everyone dressed up and there was a red carpet and awards and Taylor dressed up as Joan Rivers and interviewed people as they walked in. I helped set up the decorations since I was ready early. I had a lot of fun, I felt like I was on prom committee again, or helping set up a wedding. Actually I really enjoyed it a lot, maybe I should look into event planning...

The decorations looked great in the arena!

Screens to show awards and watch people as they entered

I finished watching season one of Modern Family and Will and Grace so I'm due for some new seasons of both shows haha. I love both shows so much, they are just so great. I also started watching Pan Am, and it's really good! Also, this tour ends in less than two weeks, I can't believe I've been out on the road for almost three months! Crazy how time flies...