The art walk this month, to put it bluntly, sucked.  Sam is convinced that it is because the parking lots around the area raised their prices (our usual place went from $5 to $8), I think it might be the colder weather and the threat of rain (yes, I’m not kidding) that night.

Whatever the reason was – several of the larger more popular galleries were closed.  That Phartika or Pharmica or whatever it was gallery on the corner is now a …. modern furniture store (blegh!).  Even the Hive was uncharacteristically mostly bereft of anything interesting.

The old bank had some amazing watercolor pieces by Anna Judd

The arts and crafts “fair” was moved to the parking lot across the street from the original parking lot.  The cause wasn’t obvious, but we did notice that there was now a greater focus on the crafts part of “arts and crafts” with more jewelry and clothing booths than art.  There was also a much larger presence of “taco trucks” of all varieties.  We bumped into a (food network?)camera crew filming interviews with the truck owners and vendors more than once in our travels.

One of the larger galleries (now stamped with “Rudd” all over the windows, aparently selling condos upstairs) featured this nonsense and not much else:

Stuck in the lobby of a high rise condominum building we found Darth Vader made out of car parts (?).

I’m pretty sure the same lobby used to have a Predator made out of metal.

There were several bands playing in the alleys and on the streets.  This one was playing in the arts and crafts parking lot:

We were about to leave when we headed back to the Continental Gallery to find crazy light sculptures by Sean Sobczak.