Finally, spring.

Caught these gems on a walk with my son yesterday.

No posts lately because I’ve been shuffling many eggs around

many baskets

Best,

La

Art for sale

Tonight is the big Second Saturday – Arts Night Out Art Walk in Astoria so there’s a ton of stuff happening around town tonight.

If you are interested, I have a piece you can bid on at the AVA Found art show opening tonight.  It looks sort of like this, but now it has red curtains

on either side. It’s titled ”opening night”

This is a picture of it before I decided to add the curtains:

Thanks for all of the people who called or wrote to wish me a happy

birthday! I had a great time. My parents took us all out to dinner and

they bought me a beer and art supplies. It was a great day all around.

Tonight we are dining at the Bridgewater Bistro and you can expect

an in-depth review tomorrow of that and the Second Saturday Art Walk.

Cheers and best,

LA

You say, it’s your birthday!?!

I found this by typing in “happy birthday”

on youtube. Perfect. It is awesome.

Someone took Fritz Lang’s silent movie ”Metropolis” and set it to the Beatle’s music.

I guess they have a lot of time for this. I don’t know.

Too much time on their hands. But it is really cool.

Also, I was hanging out in the basement with Will last night and I looked down

on the floor where I was standing and I saw this:

Now, I thought that was pretty cool. And I wanted to tell you that I didn’t do

ANYTHING to touch up or alter this picture. I resized it and I rotated it, but

that is all. Now….Look closely at the picture. Above the heart, there is a black

spot and if you look closely….(squint)…I think it looks like a hand making a peace

sign. All you need is peace and love. That’s all I want for my birthday. And I got

it written to me from my very own basement floor. The heart is a naturally occuring

part of the wood floor boards, it wasn’t carved by anyone to look this way.

How cool is that????

Peace and love,

La

Hope your day is wonderful as well

Craves: Membership

 

Membership. We all want to just belong. When I was growing up, if you didn’t belong to the Rose

Garden Pool Association, then you were lame. The pool pictured here is not that pool.

A few months ago I was talking to a friend of mine, who is a professional

writer and I was telling her that I thought it was time that I join some professional associations. I asked her if

she belonged to any, and she said ”No., I’ve thought about it but they’re too expensive, too time consuming, blah,

blah, blah.”

I come to find out today that she has in the interim built a website and joined like four professional associations! I feel outdone.

As I am not one to be outdone,  I have started joining a few places and I’ve decided to start local.

So yesterday I joined the AVA (Astoria

Visual Arts) and I also submitted a request to join Astoria Fog (Friends of the Arts). I feel a lot better now.

The above picture was taken while cruising the back roads of Pennsylvania. Circa 2000.

If you have any suggestions about memberships I should join, feel free to leave them in the comments section.

Mourning Myron Cope Part 2 – a review of Bubba’s in Warrenton

So the other day I announced on this blog that I was sad that Myron Cope died and I was heading over to Bubba’s (“The Home of the Pittsburgh Steelers”) in Warrenton to have a beer and commiserate with some Steeler fans about it. I deleted the post the next day because 1) it wasn’t art related, and this site is about me making arty things. 2)I was afraid it made me seem like I have a drinking problem, which I do not. I do happen to enjoy going out for a pint every now and again. Here’s a pic of Bubbas:

So I did. I went to Bubba’s and this is what I saw:

Very convincing, I thought, in terms of your typical Pittsburgh bar, The wierd thing is when I try to think of a bar in Pittsburgh that looks like this, I can’t really think of one. It’s like a mixture between the Apple Inn in Dormont and a Pizza Outlet. And I come to find out that there are 1.) No Steeler Fans/Pittsburghers present (not

only were there no fans, but that nice young man in the red jacket

smiling at the camera said he didn’t even like football!!! Can you believe it?)

2.)The owners of this bar are not from Pittsburgh 3.) Art Rooney (III?) endorsed

the bar. 4) Sadly, no one I asked even KNEW who Myron Cope was. And

I asked SEVERAL people. It was like a very bad dream in which I felt

like I was at home (i.e. in a Pittsburgh themed bar) surrounded by

aliens.

So if you don’t know who Myron Cope is, here is a video for you:

PS – The man is a LEGEND.

Astoria: the city at the end of the rainbow

Photo Expedition #2 – The beach. Yesterday.

So yesterday, I took the dog and my camera for a walk on the beach. Apparently,

there was an article yesterday on CNN.com about how the storms in Oregon this

December were responsible for washing up all kinds of cool stuff on the beach

and I wanted to see and document what I could find. Lina loved to run around:

and I did find a whole sanddollar, completely intact, which is now at

home in my shrine. I felt guilty taking it from the beach. But I’ve never

found a whole one before, so I did. I found some cool crab shells and I

also put those in my new shrine, in hopes that they would bring me

seafood-a-plenty. It must have worked because we ate salmon for dinner

last night.

Lina and I also found this wierd hermit crab thingy that looked like a ram’s head

or an armadillo. I have no idea what it’s really called

No posts yesterday…sort of

I sort of took the day off on Saturday and went in the

evening to the Fisher Poet’s gathering at the Columbian

Theatre. It was great. I watched one poem, which just

happened to be the guy who got kicked off stage for

being too raunchy. I dunno, I thought it was funny.

I felt like I got my five bucks worth.

I did make snowflakes on Sunday after having an

inspiring converstion with my obsessive snowflake-making friend Lillian

about Dr. Thomas L Clark - (aka: Dr. Snowflake)

who illustrates stories

with snowflakes and is currently on exhibit at the

U Mich. hospital in Ann Arbor.

Here are my very poor ”lily” snowflakes:

a four pointer and an eight-pointer:

Nietzsche in love

 The photo is mine. Circa 2000, the poem is also mine but the topic comes from a dear reader.

 

Nietzsche in Love

His eyes are intense right now
Efficiently, they are brown

Then green waters, gray muck,

Forget-me-not blue around the edges

And it occurs to me that something crucial must be happening as he is republishing the world.
He babbles but has not settled on a color.

We are all made in the dark.
Amor fati?
Please. Are you happy with the price you paid?
The insanity
Upon seeing the whipping of a horse
And intervening,
Becoming unresponsive, metabolizing the pages
Then writing the madness
Letters to your friends who kept them in stashes.

What really happened on the streets of Turin?

“The verb “to be” is the vehicle of amorous frenzy,” said your friend,

The same guy who said your philosophy made you crazy
“How much truth can a mind endure,

How much truth can a mind dare?” You asked.

Oh dear, would you do it over and over and over?
Famous aphorist?

Best,

Laura

Eclipse Photo Expedition: PoHo #4:

Lunacy: I hope you all enjoyed watching the lunar eclipse last night.

Don le lune! I took some good pictures although with my camera

in my pocket (re: not recommended) I had a rather dirty lens which

ruined most of my photos. I must say that I’m not sure if it was the

sky being clear that excited everyone here or the eclipse, but it

seemed like everyone, EVERYONE was outside, looking up. I wish

I would have taken pictures of the people looking instead of trying

to capture the moon/ships/etc. If ever I see another eclipse, this is

what I will do. I saw grannies and gutterpunks sitting together

outside a motel on lawn chairs and that is the shot I want in retrospect.

She was a witching moon last night, wasn’t she? Thanks to Will for

babysitting so I could go run with the lunatics.

Best,

Laura

Ok, here’s one more: