{"id":1161,"date":"2009-07-11T09:13:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T17:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2009-07-11T09:13:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T17:13:14","slug":"art-walk-july-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"art walk July 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Art Walk July started off with a hodgepodge of arty things in the old bank (?) building.\u00a0 Everything was pretty mediocre (combo drawings of cartoon women with playboy centerfolds…what a brilliant idea…) but I happened to look at the name on a few “interesting” photos.<\/p>\n

Mark Mothersbaugh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Can’t say I liked these photos (after all, they seem pretty easy to do in photoshop), but it was surprising to see they were done by the guy who wrote Whip It.\u00a0 The price had been marked down from $500 to $475.<\/p>\n

The art walk has been getting less impressive every time.\u00a0 However, the number of amateur professional photographers (i.e. “I don’t currently work for anyone, but look at my nice DSLR”) and street musicians keeps growing.<\/p>\n

In one gallery a “work” consisted of this:<\/p>\n

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The girl just slowly moved the rose up and down.\u00a0 When we went by later there was a boy in the bed doing the same thing.\u00a0 Home made viewmaster slides nearby showed photos of two girls embracing in bed…\u00a0 how revolutionary and outrageous.\u00a0 It was in this large gallery that I noticed there are a fair amount of young artists today that have a good skill set, but no idea what to do with them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Like this piece by Edwin Bethea<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Shouldn’t this girl be the one getting shot?<\/p>\n

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The whole night we kept seeing these two people (sex undetermined) dressed as garbage pile Geishas.\u00a0 Their outfits were very elaborate recreations of original Geisha robes, but made completely out of discarded items.\u00a0 They were wearing Geisha masks and carrying (real) shamisens.\u00a0 Unfortunately I couldn’t get a decent picture of them…<\/p>\n

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In the same gallery there were pillows on the floor and hippy girls circling around with incense.\u00a0 I’m sure a laughable beat poet celebration was about to begin but we left before it could start.<\/p>\n

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I got the Pom-Mango smoothy at Lost Souls Cafe.\u00a0 It wasn’t very good, and the fire alarm in the building was going off at the time.\u00a0 Outside this band tried to compete with the alarm.<\/p>\n

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While we walked towards The Hive we were pulled into a building and told to go to the 10th floor because there was a “new gallery” there.\u00a0 It turned out to be someone’s studio – showing terribly mediocre work.\u00a0 I mean really bad stuff.\u00a0 However, down the hall I came upon an open window to a fire escape and became fascinated with the decayed building next door.<\/p>\n

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Infusion Gallery never seems to have anything good anymore.\u00a0 I snapped a photo of one laughable piece by Richard Herring… who may or may not be the British Comedian by the same name.\u00a0 I think if it was him this would make more sense…<\/p>\n

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The Hive was having a show called “Bee-Rotica” featuring “erotic art” often with a bee theme.\u00a0 Some of it was interesting, and some of it was just crap.\u00a0 You\u00a0 know how I feel about sexuality in art, if you make somebody naked for shock value your art is imediately downgraded.\u00a0 Many many things at the hive right now are doing just\u00a0that.\u00a0 Like the giant photograph of the tattooed punk rock guy with an erection.<\/p>\n

Still, the Hive did have works by its resident artists.\u00a0 Some of which are good, like Adam Scott Miller<\/a>, a sort of poor man’s Alex Grey<\/a>. Irony of ironies – a tool song was actually playing when I saw this painting:<\/p>\n

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does this guest book “font” look familiar to anyone else?<\/p>\n

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Way back in the dedicated Goth Room I found a very well painted piece by Ken Dougherty<\/a>.\u00a0 I was glad to find after checking out his site that most of his work isn’t “goth” themed, but just weird (which is in vogue right now).<\/p>\n

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Another piece that was sort of flung on the wall with a bunch of other stuff but I thought was really good was this one by Mike Bilz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Although you can’t tell from this image – the painting was only about 18 inches high, but the detail was amazing.\u00a0 Although easily dismissed for being “cartoony” the attention to detail with teeny tiny brush strokes was fantastic and unnatainable for someone with non-nimble fingers and little patience like myself.<\/p>\n

The last piece I liked at the Hive was by the man who never dissapoints, Brendan Sharkey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Back on the main drag the Regent Theater was still evolving.\u00a0 This time they had a live band next door, or they’d remodeled or something.\u00a0 There was a crowd of onlookers (to the right in the photo) and then a live projection of the band in the entrance to the theater (to the left in the photo).\u00a0 The band didn’t sound that great.<\/p>\n

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Next to the Regent in the parking lot was the same “arts and crafts” show.\u00a0 The band was replaced with a DJ.\u00a0 Michael Pucak was still doing live paintings:<\/p>\n

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We overheard that charcoal portrait artist (see last month’s art walk blog)\u00a0telling someone his name is Robert Rodriguez.\u00a0 Good luck on your SEO with that name…<\/p>\n

Down the street were two very vintage looking guys with a very vintage looking car.\u00a0 They were selling ice cream bars out of a cooler for $1 each.<\/p>\n

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We finished the night off with hot dogs from Weeneez<\/a>.\u00a0 The hot dogs were okay, but nowhere near as good as The Stand. Outside Weeneez\u00a0The People’s Party\u00a0<\/a>was playing in their own truck – apparently they do this a lot.<\/p>\n

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Art Walk July started off with a hodgepodge of arty things in the old bank (?) building.\u00a0 Everything was pretty mediocre (combo drawings of cartoon women with playboy centerfolds…what a brilliant idea…) but I happened to look at the name on a few “interesting” photos. Mark Mothersbaugh. Can’t say I liked these photos (after all, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}