Brownzilian's Carnaval, 2006

Last night was the Brownzilians' Carnival Party. It was early for Carnival (not until the end of February), but better early than never. The party was at the Graduate Student Lounge at Brown, organized by Daniel, Yeung and Sérgio (new Brownzilian, he is a Professor at Brown). There wasn't enough people to fill the room but there were definitely enough people for a fun party. Surprisingly, there were more Americans (at least non-Brazilians) than Brazilians. Strong Portuguese presence, most notably Catarina, a new Portuguese Grad student, with whom I danced since Ines was hiding in a conversation about String Theory and Portuguese Poetry most of the night.

The excellent music was provided by none other than me. I connected my laptop to the lounge's gigantic TV and stereo. I started and maximized iTunes, connected an external mouse and hid the laptop, so people couldn't spill beer on it. The idea was to have an interface to let people select songs during the party - you just used the mouse to select the song you wanted played next on the TV, and the music was routed to the stereo system, which was very loud. The whole system was pretty cool, too bad I didn't think of taking a picture of it. And needless to say, I had a great selection of songs to satisfy to everyone's tastes, from Samba to Salsa!

Click on the picture above or here for the pictures. (Pictures taken by Artur)