It’s a week late, but not a dollar short, I assure you.

Last weekend, Ilsa, Paul and I rode our bikes down to Artopia/Georgetown Music Fest in Georgetown, the current hippest neighborhood in all of Seattle. The art, for the most part was somewhat uninspiring. For example, this block of melting ice.

uh-huh.

There were also men made of stones.

I thought the best art of the day was the setting. Georgetown is an old industrial area of Seattle, sitting at the North end of the Boeing Field runway. It’s full of large old warehouses, brick buildings and little nooks and crannies of streets that tend to end at freeway walls, train tracks and, well, the runway. It’s a place with the kind of history that you don’t see much of in Seattle. Makes for some really cool, dramatic-looking pictures.

I did get a bit goofy with the edits here.

Oh, and there was the Star Wars van.

Best of all though was the Hazard Factory Power Tool Races. Yes, it is what it sounds like. People take power tools such as saws, belt sanders, drills and anything else with a motor that run without human contact could cause some serious damage and run them down a wooden track in races, into things and into each other. I’ve seen these guys once before and they are a blast.

This year, I saw them send various power tools down a track to smash buckets of paint into a canvas in honor of artopia. Then they played power tool skee ball and finally held a demolition derby. Here’s the two good clips of video I could get through the crowd. Really an impressive show.

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