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The Adventure School took to Miami like a fish takes to water. We made the 5415 mile journey for Miami Art Basel in December. We stayed in a trashy hotel with artists, Anne Mathern and Chad Wentzel. Anne was showing work at Art Aqua Miami, organized by the Seattle artists Jaq Chartier and Dirk Park, to be a strong hub of West Coast work. The Adventure School, Mathern and Wentzel learned that sometimes you have to go to Miami to learn to love Paris. We spent a lot of time hanging out at Le Baron/Paris Paris Miami outpost. We met Nicolas Ullman of Paris’ Ullman Cabarock and sang some rockaroake to Nirvana. All the hot French people decided we were French too and we decided that we were indeed French and we admired their stretch pants and mustaches. Seattle was well represented at Basel. Luckily, we got to hang at four am bars with local scene mavens like Matthew Richter, Betsey Brock and Erik Fredericksen. We loved The Art. Besides learning to love the French, we learned to love BARR. We saw BARR perform at a party with the members of Paper Rad and the entertaining guy who pulled that Soy Bomb stunt at the Music Video Awards when we were kids. We spotted lots of arty notables at the party like Dash Snow, Dan Colen, Kathy Grayson and A-Ron the Downtown Don.
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