Final Friday 2/26/10: MiCA 12/v

*This is the second of a series of blog posts about my Final Friday experiences. 

From OUTSIDE and Cafe de Wheels, we headed to MiCA 12/v ...

We were instantly greeted by owner Mike who asked, "White...or red?"

We like shop owners who greet us in this fashion. We likey a lot.

Mike has a great collection of Wire & Twine merch at MiCA. I proposed a challenge to Mike**: could he get one of W&T's most popular shirt, "Nice Tweets" in the store BEFORE the next Final Friday? I told him, if he could, then I would Tweet about it and organize a mini-Tweetup so that all the Twitterati could get the shirts at FF. 

Mike said that he was up to the challenge. 

I'm holding you to your word Mike.

You have more than a month.

Let me know when you get the shirts in Mike...and I will commence the pimping.

You can find MiCA 12/v on Facebook and Twitter. 

You can find Wire & Twine on Facebook and Twitter.

**See comments for challenge update.

Final Friday 2/26/10: OUTSIDE and Cafe de Wheels

*This is the first of a series of blog posts about my Final Friday experiences.

Not even the imminent threat of snow, blustery winds and freezing temps could keep us away from the OTR's Final Friday last week.


In a way, it was a silly social media game/personal challenge/incentive/ that I held myself to: see how many FF places I could actually "check in to" on Foursquare. Hey?! What better way for a social media fanatic to spend her Friday night, than with friends/people she loves and enjoying a FREE event, FREE food and FREE alcohol...AND have some SM fun?! (Oh, and fyi Bob...SM=social media and not this S&M)


Game was definitely on.

It was a beautiful night as we headed out...

First stop in the OTR was the Cafe de Wheels burger truck parked outside of...OUTSIDE and meeting up with our (initial) twitterati entourage for the night: distortedgirl, A_Crutch, 5chw4r7z, ms5chw4r7z and recycledbin.

First, placing orders outside...

...then heading into OUTSIDE to devour the delicious food...

Umm, hello people?! Do you see that veggie burger? I can't even begin to tell you how juicy and "fresh-tasting" it was! Definitely can taste the secret ingredient...beets (but not in a bad way.) Absolutely deelish! Oh, and the sweet potato fries were great as well! Make sure you check the rest of their menu out the next time they are out and about!

After we stuffed ourselves, we got to socializing...

And enjoying the great hospitality, libations and inventory of owner Terry Lee...

Terry made the wintery weather outside of OUTSIDE seem to disappear and miles away with his special cocktail for the night (or maybe that's what my buzz was making me feel!) It was like summer in a glass...

While Terry's son, Zac, lay down some kick ass house music...

Terry has so many cool and unusual items in his store. You owe it to yourself to stop in sometime.

You can find OUTSIDE on Facebook.
You can find Cafe de Wheels on Blogger, Facebook and Twitter.

A Cincinnati Fairey Tale Beginning

If you missed the free opening celebration of Shepard Fairey's "Supply and Demand" exhibit at the CAC last Friday...well, then you should just go ahead and punch yourself in the face.


To say that the Fairey opening was *THE* event of the city that Friday night would definitely be one of the biggest understatements of the year. The place was (uncomfortably) packed but yet buzzed with the energy from Fairey's 250 works and the magnitude of the realization of just how darn lucky/blessed Cincinnati really was to have gotten such a big, artistic "get."


I felt incredibly lucky to have been able to say, I was there when the Fairey tale unfolded...

 

 

And if you don't want to go completely blue from all the punching of the face, you still have a chance to catch Fairey's work. The exhibit runs from Feb 20 - Aug 22, 2010. So get there...unless I punch you in the face.


Also, look for (some of the initial) murals Fairey has erected so far around the city (it's been confirmed he'll return in May to finish installing the rest.) Consider it your newest scavenger hunt assignment of sorts. See if you can take pics of all of them...I know I'll be!


To learn more about Fairey's fairy tale, go here and here.


Also, find him on Facebook and Twitter.

And in honor of the exhibit, I decided to get Fairey-fied myself...

 

Get Fairey-fied here.