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  2. JULY, 2019: NEW MEXICO

NEW MEXICO VI: SANTA FE: MEOW WOLF

Get a local assortment of disparate disillusioned local artists to invest in an empty warehouse with the promise that they can create whatever they want inside. Allow their natural anarchist and anti-commercialist passions to ferment for a few years while they experiment with various types of enthusiastic and unfettered self expression. Add to the mix a visionary (or two) who sees that the group could reach an appreciative audience with a win-win scenario once the members have satisfied their anarchist / anticocorporate desires and are ready to organize and possibly get paid for their creativity. Allow a few more years, tears, discussions, arguments, and other intense interactions until the group is whittled down to a core of folks ready to choose a leader and take it to the next level as a business. Find a benefactor and get him on board for a sizable donation ($2.7 million from R. R. Martin of GAME OF THRONES fame helps). Then add the closing of a local bowling alley, which happened to make available (at just the perfect time) a huge and empty space at a reasonable price. Allow all the above to impossibly self-create and you might just end up with MEOW WOLF! https://meowwolf.com/
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VIDEO 6: CLICK ON THE PHOTO AND ALLOW IT TO BUFFER A BIT: ABOUT 2 MINUTES

LASER harp! There are many individual LASERS shining down from the ceiling to detectors on the floor. When you interrupt a LASER beam, the instrument makes a tone, different for each LASER beam. While my little Lumix camera did not capture the LASER beams in the air very well, you can see the light on hands, fingers, etc. to get an idea how it works.

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  • ABOUT TO ENTER MEOW WOLF'S HOUSE OF ETERNAL RETURN
  • VIDEO 1: CLICK ON THE PHOTO AND ALLOW IT TO BUFFER A BIT
  • THERE ARE SOME PLACES WHERE YOU CAN SIT AND RELAX (Thank goodness!)
  • YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU WILL FIND BEHIND ANY DOOR!
  • Um, Zac: I don't think that's really an official passageway (but you never know until you try it!).
  • VIDEO 2: THROUGH THE FIRE PLACE, MUSICAL MASTODON, and INTO THE CLOTHES DRYER!
  • From the Meow Wolf website: "Meow Wolf champions otherness, weirdness, challenging norms, radical inclusion, and the power of creativity to change the world."
  • Meow Wolf can be experienced at many different levels: <br />
1.  If you want an unforgettable experience for a youngster (which is what we were after), you can just go from room to passageway to room rather mindlessly, without worrying about any of the other levels.<br />
2.  You can download Meow Wolf's ANOMALY TRACKER app and watch happenings which are invisible to others on your cell phone as you walk through (more at <a href="https://santafe.meowwolf.com/">https://santafe.meowwolf.com/</a> )<br />
3. You can find out the theme of a "treasure hunt" and look for whatever objects are the theme of the day, take photos of them, and then win some type of prize. I'm not sure what prizes are available, but the day we were there people were looking for hamsters (if I remember correctly).<br />
4. You can search for clues to the mysterious narrative of the House of Eternal Return. While I have not done this, I guess it must be kind of like a "crime solving treasure hunt" or something. Last year there were several adults delving deeply into that.<br />
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They also have presentations and classes of various sorts, and probably have many other modes of interaction of which I am unaware.<br />
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So, there is something for everyone, and while most of the place remains unchanged from day to day, I think that these "extra" things you can work on change. So, for the locals there are reasons to return again and again and again.....
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  • ONWARD TO MORE!
  • We were pretty mindless here, and just enjoyed the fact that some of the lights change color or turn on and off when you tap them. However, if you tap them just right, then the colors will form a pattern along this wall which reveals a combination for a nearby lock. On opening the lock on this day, one could find one of the hamsters (a stuffed toy, if I remember correctly) of the "treasure hunt."
  • VIDEO 3: CLICK ON THE PHOTO AND LET IT BUFFER
  • INSIDE THE "ICE PLANT" ROOM OF MIRRORS
  • VIDEO 4: CLICK ON THE PHOTO AND LET IT BUFFER A BIT
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  • THE BIG VERSION OF THE TOY!
  • VIDEO 5: CLICK ON THE PHOTO AND ALLOW IT TO BUFFER A BIT
  • BOUNCING RIO!
  • VIDEO 6: CLICK ON THE PHOTO AND ALLOW IT TO BUFFER A BIT: ABOUT 2 MINUTES
  • RIO TRYING HIS LUCK AT EXCALIBUR!
  • BeverLi Joi

    on August 31, 2019

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