Note: This post is part of my “Museums Project“, a collection of 200+ high-concept ideas for museums. This was inspired by my visit to the Micro Wonder Museum, an interesting little place 30 minutes outside of Budapest, Hungary. In that tiny museum you look at art through microscope-type lenses. The...

This post was written on 9/6/2021 and finalized today. My plan for the Eureka Room keeps changing. (I feel like that statement sums up the entire 8-10 year saga of The Eureka Room.) The June Plan In June, when covid looked like it was on the outs, the plan was to run the ER in my house. Once I had 2...

There are too many details of the dinners to write out in one post. These seasons were a monster of a masterpiece and was far and away the most work we had done for a show - even though we reused a lot of the skits and ideas from previous seasons. There were many witty lines, clever timing of lights...

Note: This post is part of my “Museums Project“, a collection of 200+ high-concept ideas for museums. The Museum of Intermittent Art Sometimes the art is at the museum, sometimes it is not. It might be back in a few minutes. Or a few weeks. Today the statue is there and tomorrow it is gone, but mayb...

Seasons 3 and 4 are essentially the same as each other, just done at different times and with a few changes. I'll just describe them as one show here. I’m assuming that you have read about Season 1 (and behind the scenes of Season 1) and Season 2 (and behind the scenes of Season 2), so I won’t go in...

For “Curious Dinners Season #2” we added more details and learned some more lessons. As with each dinner, there was way more learned and experienced that I can write about in a post. Here's a few highlights and memories. The Props Just some of the many, many props involved in the show. You can see s...

The guest experience for Seasons #2 was somewhat similar to season #1. We had a few personnel changes, added some skits, and refined some of the existing skits and processes.   Because we reused some skits and ideas from the previous season we decided to not allow repeat guests. I'll write here...

Season #1 was a lot of winging it. None of us had seen each other skits until the night of the show. Vianca had never cooked in a restaurant or for 12 people, let alone a four-course vegan dinner in a kitchen that only had a few more pieces of cookware than your average workplace breakroom. I’m pret...

Here is what Curious Dinner Season #1 was like from a guest's perspective. In the next post I will cover some of what happened behind the scenes and lessons learned. The Invite You receive an email from paperlesspost.com that contains this message: You RSVP and receive acknowledgement that you are o...

The “Curious Dinners” were a series of absurdist dinner party experiences some friends and I made from 2016-2019. They were inspired by the fantastically strange restaurant Kagaya in Tokyo, Japan with borrowed elements from Andre’s Carne de Res and other Paisa bars in Colombia. Little to no informat...