We were in northern Virginia this week-end for a dance competition in Crystal City. Our daughters were in dance classes all day on Saturday and part of Sunday; they performed in competition Saturday evening. They did quite well, thank you.While we were not needed Saturday afternoon, Karen and I went wandering by Metro with a few friends. We visited the National Portrait Museum, where, among other exhibits, there hangs the Steven Colbert portrait.
Colbert has been airing a several-part series lately about his efforts to get the serial portrait from the set of his Colbert Report added to a museum in Washington. The Portrait Gallery people agreed to play along, for a while, and have placed the Colbert Portrait between the Men's and Women's rooms outside the gallery of presidential portraits on the second floor.
It is drawing a crowd.
We found folks photographing the portrait or having their own portrait photographed with Colbert's. And lots of people standing around to watch.
It made it a bit hard to get to the Men's room.
1 comment:
Hi Mike,
I stumbled upon your post doing some monitoring for my client the Smithsonian Channel. (Glad to see that your daughters did well in their dance competitions...I remember those days)
I thought you might be interested in checking out a funny reaction video that the Smithsonian Channel made featuring the Colbert portrait.
You can watch the video or grab the embed code on YouTube (just posted today): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmmebxIVR7M
Hope you enjoy the video!
- Christin Eubanks
Smithsonian Channel Community Administrator
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.