Category: Arts
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Success!
Our first successful production screen Clamoring in Tom’s basement over the past few weeks, we’ve been doing test burns for screen printing. There’s been math involved. We got the hang of it enough to try our hand at actually getting a design together and trying it out for a production run. Having a deadline of…
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Hanging with Art
Julie Moos Mrs. Rose and Mrs. Pleasant, 2001 C-print Collection Johnson County Community College I believe Mrs. Pleasant is pictured above in this photo of a photo. I met up with Art for lunch today and we toured the campus and looked at all the installations and whatnot. Organized by paper, sculpture and photography –…
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SF Day 3
An Academy of Art student draws a sculpture A leisurely day. Started off touring the inside of Our Lady of The Maytag church, then headed down to Lands End in the park to have the Golden Gate completely obscured by fog. Good hike though. Headed over to the Legion of Honor Museum. A bunch of…
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Wham, BAM, farewell Seattle
The steps at the Bellevue Art Museum (BAM) (Likely the most interesting thing at the place…) It was a quick farewell as the Marmot was off to work already and Christopher was heading that way. I tried to make sure I left nothing out of place and made the guest room as tidy as I…
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Tea Words, Zen Words and Calligraphy
Strokin it. So there we were, in a workshop that explores tea as a spiritual path. Really nifty house, all simple and stuff with a manicured lawn and the biggest magnolia tree I’ve ever seen. We sat on tatami mats facing each other around the perimeter of the room. My ankles cried and I sat…
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Look ma! I made a … mess!
It’s supposed to be like that. It’s art. Screen printing is hard. First, we had to find a way to get the image printed out. The laser printer’s ethernet card died from an electrical surge (as did everyone else’s in the building) so that was a no go. The inkjet didn’t print kindly on vellum,…
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It is complete
The screenprinting machine After recollecting ourselves from the bad assembly day, Tom and I jumped in and got the thing put together in no time. Midway through the process, the fire alarms went off, and man, there is no way in heck you can sleep through em. Loud! Painfully loud. We hiked down the steps…
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Contemporary Art
Happy I spent most of the day working with Tom to assemble the silk-screen machine, only to find out, near the end, we had installed some stuff upside down, and failed to put a bushing at the bottom to make it spin proper. Once we realized this, it was time to throw in the towel.…