Last night was a tad hot yet Crocker partiers came to Art Mix: Fired Up Mix, ate, thanks to SactoMoFo food trucks Drewski's Hot Rod Kitchen, Krush Burger, and VolksWaffle, did art in various forms and some of us had the mighty fine peach daiquiris.

All while listening to DJ Missy Mark's music to "Crocker" by!

Some went on a docent-led tour of ceramics in the art galleries.

Sadly, stilt-walking plate spinner Scott Barber was absent due to a car accident, someone told me.

Here are some scenes: The only way to start the evening was with a real fresh peach daquiri! (Image by: Kati Garner)

Lots of art was made:

Image by: Kati Garner Image by: Kati Garner This was the first time this guy ever worked with clay. (Image by: Kati Garner) Learning to work the wheel. (Image by: Kati Garner) Image by: Kati Garner Image by: Kati Garner Art pieces waiting to be picked up by their owners (Image by: Kati Garner)

The clay and tiles were there thanks to Brian Tanner's business Alpha Fired Arts.

One of the art pros. (Image by: Kati Garner) High tech art, Digital Glaze (below), caught a lot of people's attention. Using Microsoft's Kinect, UC Davis Design students, in one month's time, had this ready for use last night.

According to Ashish Subedy, the Kinect detects people in front of it and when people make movements, they can retrieve information about where people's body parts are and plot them on the screen accordingly.

"Some examples of these parts are right foot, right ankle, right hand and right shoulder," he said. "Since we can get information regarding their hand location, when users raise their hands to grab a brush, the brush gets selected and they can begin drawing."

Subedy said he and other students did this as a class project, so it was very educational. However, they also focused on art/entertainment. So, he said, it serves an educational and an art/entertainment purpose. Through people's movements different colors and designs show on a monitor. (Image by: Kati Garner)

Plate spinning was a challenge for some and not for others! Image by: Kati Garner Image by: Kati Garner DJ Missy Mark and assisant set the music mood. (Image by: Kati Garner) Some enjoyed eating in the cool atrium of the Crocker. (Image by: Kati Garner) The SactoMoFo trucks provided great eats. (Image by: Kati Garner) Others shared a good $10 bottle of beer! (Image by: Kati Garner) A Krush Burger. (Image by: Kati Garner) Italian Ice. (Image by: Kati Garner) The scene early in the evening before the crowd arrived. (Image by: Kati Garner) More clay art waiting to be retrieved by owners. (Image by: Kati Garner) The end of a fun evening. (Image by: Kati Garner)