Museum of the Moving Image: A good place to hang out
Fellow Blogger Dylan and I took a trip to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens this weekend, and it's totally the kind of place that makes you excited to have kids, so you can take them there and watch their little faces aglow with delight. I'll admit, Dylan and I are both video nerds, but there's a ton of fun interactive stuff to play with if you're not into looking at old cameras and archaic editing equipment. I'd like to especially suggest the make-your-own-10-second-stopmotion tables. And once you're done walking through the top two floors, spend the rest of the day on the first floor, playing old and new arcade games, including Tron, Katamari Damacy, Space Invaders, Donkey Konga and Flow, which is like the hiphop version of Dance Dance Revolution. Plus, there are old movies screening throughout the day, and a movie ticket is included in the price of admission. If you have your old student i.d. (you trickster you) it's only $7.50 to get in, which means $7.50 to see an old flick and then play unlimited video games till closing. ($10 without i.d.) I think I may have found my new hangout.
Coming up next weekend (starting Friday, March 17th), they begin screening the "Fist and Sword: Martial Arts Classics" series. Seems like a good weekend to go.