What are you doing today?

[BraindeadAesthetic]

Nothing as cool as Sam's sculpture, but little postcard pictures, 4"x6" and meant to be mailed. I would love to see Sam's pieces under native (non-flash) light maybe 5 or minute exposure. Night photo's can be very very intriguing. And paying mortgage bills, yuck.

[Ray Rolfe]

Filling out my AI grant app. Bwahah. Should have done it last month. But darn it, I have that soap curse of doing everything at the last possible second.
Gotta get those work samples together! 15 hours to deadline!

Oh hey Sam, I got the art cards! Thank YOU!

[Ray Rolfe]

Heya John, are you bringing back some awesome mail art flavor? It's a fun way. I did a call for mail art some years back and got a 4 card exhibition.Thats a whole 8 faces!. .. ah yes, I've found it. It was buried in some conversation from 2003.
Please click the magic T-Shirt to go back in time, back to a day when artists were optimistic participants in a civilized... haha I didn't sleep at all last night or today.. nevermind

[BraindeadAesthetic]

Ray, I just started doing post card sized drawings a few weeks ago. Loved the thread you provided. I plan to bang out a bunch more.

Spent the evening at a few art shows. Started at Altered Esthetics "The Art of Sacrifice" show. This is a great show that is hung very well. Then I popped down to Amy Rice at Gallery 122 @ Hang It. She has put together a thought provoking grouping of drawings and paintings. I found the work on vintage journal pages most interesting. Then I slid down to uptown where The Rock, a non-denominational Christian church was having a community art show. I had a painting in the show. They had live music and children's artwork. A good crowd.

Here is a little doggy for your perusal, pastel on mat board, 4"tx6"w - it's a post card

[Gabriel Combs]

liquid in the buckets drop
ruins the easle, over-layered
sands brushes down

thru a distress
sketchbooks fall apart
yet new in use

time table of measure
not plucking the 256 greys
computing bad luck

this passion play

[Ray Rolfe]

Flaming Lips at the MYTH! Fuck YEAH!!

Photoby Kyle Matteson

[purenoumena]

Okay, I don't remember posting in this thread before -but I feel rather good about this weekend so I'm posting now just for the heck of it.

Friday day: worked at my day-job at Little Brothers, Friends of the Elderly.
Friday evening/night: The Art of Sacrifice opening at AE - well attended and well received. This is one of our most powerful exhibits, content-wise - so I was told several times by guests.

Saturday morning/day: a series of meetings with the committees for our upcoming exhibits.
Saturday evening: The benefit for Eric Lappegard at AE - we raised over 6,000 for his family. Woohoo! Copies of the Schmapples anthology and Cats on Bikes (with Ninjas) book that the Cartoonist Conspiracy put together will still be available for awhile.

Sunday: Took a family member grocery shopping; they recently had surgery and can't drive for a few weeks. Hand lunch with them and then came home, made spaghetti sauce, repotted some sad plants, cleaned, did laundry, and finished up my notes for tomorrow's annual Strategic Planning meeting at AE. Oh, and screwed around on the internet at mnartists.org.

Onward, tomorrow is a new day, one that I will meet head-on with clean(ish) clothes.

[Gabriel Combs]

you turned me on to that band. i see the files are still on the old posts? are they on all old posts? i looked a couple times awhile back and the files were'nt there. it would take a lot away from the art/life of it if the files were gone.

i saw lauren downtown on saturday, the exact same spot i'd seen her maybe two years ago. she looked super healthy and completely different. reminded me of rogue from the first x-men movie except for the streak in her hair was magenta.

i just barely avoided eviction this time. needs a job i suppose. trying to go back to the coffee giant. a straight-forward policy and procedure sounds good after some of the small businesses i've worked for. the small places have the biggest bigots i've ever met. they might as well have a shot-gun rack in their pick-ups.

anyways, paint fell on the city. the pavement, the brick, the mortar. found a five foot by five foot stretched and framed canvas in the alley which i've primed along with some other large odd wood doors and panels. good thing too, because i've ripped my furniture apart and painted it. these apartment walls look good to paint. my landlords suck anyways. they've been on the news as slumlords at least twice since i've lived here. sumsabitches live up to it too. lotsa heavy graphite death of late, but i've been keeping it hidden for the most part.

the black book.

pilboks the destroyer.

also, after posting i see a new post by purenoumena and say thanks for posting.

[Ray Rolfe]

I remember you telling me the files attached to our posts were gone (we were at memory lanes). But no, it looks like the integrity of our art files are intact.

All sounds good. Congratulations on the opening purenoumena. Gabe, you saw Lauren?! Cool. Talk about time and space. Fairly interesting how that happened.

Man that show last night rocked. I got a bunch of Lazar beams from an alien girl and gave them out. So much FUN! The place was about as packed as it could be. I'll have to look for videos and photography today...

I've moved from St. Louis Park to the west side of the the Lake Street Bridge. I'm working on an exciting project I will say more about in the future. The playwright arrived from LA today and I'm conducting video interviews all Wednesday.

Life is good. To bad the cold is creeping in again..

[Ray Rolfe]

Congratulations to Olga Viso.


Director Olga Viso discusses the installations of artists Virgil Marti and Pae White and "Refract, Reflect, Project: Light Works from the Collection."