Holidaze

Last weekend was full of random holiday celebrations amidst the busy times of shooting interviews and B-roll footage for our documentary.

First up--the most epic Pi Day! I started Pi Day celebrations back in middle school when my favorite math teacher would have a pizza party and have everyone sing a "traditional" Pi Day song--

Oh Number Pi – Song (to the tune of “Oh Christmas Tree”)

Oh, number Pi
Your digits are unending,
Oh, number Pi
No pattern are you sending.
And even more if we had time,
Oh, number Pi
Oh, number Pi
For circle lengths unbending.
Oh, number Pi
You are a number very sweet,

Oh, number Pi
Oh, number Pi
Your uses are so very neat.

There’s 2 Pi r and Pi r squared,
A half a circle and you’re there,
Oh, number Pi
Oh, number Pi
We know that Pi’s a tasty treat.
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And this year, it was a once in a lifetime Pi Day--Pi to the ninth decimal place! So at 3/14/15 at 9:26:53, we celebrated with a classic pizza pi :)

Vegan Hungarian pizza from our favorite Napfenyes Etterem

The following day was a Hungarian national holiday commemorating the 1848 revolution against Habsburg rule. Many of the festivities centered around the National Museum, where a famous poet, Petofi, had delivered a National Song. 

National Museum

Love the "secret service" men. Cheers for PM Viktor Orban's speech--quite a controversial figure right now with his conservative agenda and hob-nobbing with Putin

After, admission to all the museums was free so perfect time to check out the National Museum.  

Liszt Ferenc's (Hungarian composer) broadwood piano that originally belonged to Beethoven

Stalin's right hand--remnant from a statue overturned in Hungary's October revolution against the Soviet Union

Gömböc--first known convex, homogeneous object to have just one stable & unstable equilibrium point so it always self-rights itself to its single stable position without added weight. Explains the mystery of the tortoise! :)

Overall, the curation was a bit of a mish-mash from WWI and beyond, but a cool collection of artifacts and a good outline of national history.