Month: April 2006

Imaginary Inspirational Quotes?

For the last couple of days I’ve been motivated into action by a couple of quotes that I read. Or did I? As I try to search for the quotes themselves, they are nowhere to be found in magazines around the house or online. But despite that, I have been running them through my head.

The first one came from some rich businessman/entrepreneur. When asked what the difference between most people and a billionaire, he replied, “intention.” While there’s a lot more that keeps most people from being a billionaire beside lack of motivation, the trip towards crazy-ass wealth does have to start with a first step.

The second came from pop-culture renaissance man J. J. Abrams. In addition to creating favorite shows “Alias” and “Lost” , he may even get me to see a Tom Cruise movie this year. When asked why he liked doing movies, TV, etc, he said unlike other people his dreams didn’t fade away. Instead he was allowed the opportunity to make them real and live in the world.

To repeat Mel Brooks and myself from a previous post…

” ‘My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.’

– Hedley Lamarr, ‘Blazing Saddles’ – 1974″

I love that quote. It seems often that I can’t turn off my head, music, ideas, etc. Always thinking.”

And I have yet to turn it off. I figure why keep all those ideas that I’ve been creating, revisiting, and continually reworking only in my head. I’m always thinking about the things that I would buy if I had more money, and if any of these ideas lead to a little more spare change then great, more toys!

The first tangible step ( and the simplest) was taken a couple of days ago. 9 bucks got me a 8 1/2 by 11 inch notepad. Already filled a couple of pages with ideas, drawings, notes, etc. Nothing world changing for sure, but a good starting point. So, hopefully the future will have me posting about new non-work related projects. It’s about time to get some of these ideas out of my head and introduced to the world.

I will end with questions relating to 3 different projects. While I will be cruising the internet for answers, I’m always interested in what anyone has to say.

1) Anyone have suggestions/experience with printing t-shirts? Easy/hard? Worth the time? Did you make any money?

2) Anyone have suggestions/experience with mass-producing plastic molded items?

3) Anyone have suggestions/experience with filing a patent and/or patent attorneys?

One Gallery, Some Flowers, Misc…

Before going to work this evening at the Ferst Center I decided I needed to hit some places in town for a little taste of culture.

First on my list was Youngblood Gallery and Boutique. They will be having a new gallery show opening next week, which I am hoping to attend. The boutique had a 40% off sale so I ended up buying a copy of Found Magazine #4 and a pair of Stroke’s Striped Socks.

After that I headed out to Foundation One Studios, a gallery Atlanta blogger Mary wrote about. But they were closed. On a Friday?

After that it was a short visit to a couple of vintage clothes and antique/tchotchke stores in Decatur. Before coming home, it was a trip to the Your Dekalb Farmers Market for some flowers for the hard-working sweetie.

Now I’m home getting ready to head out. This show (The Secret Garden) will be the last scheduled show for me, and I have to start working on a summer strategy for work. Often museums, galleries and theaters have less work during the summer’s warm months and this is something most freelancers in my field have to contend with.

But before that, a big ‘ole roadtrip.

Upstate NY!
Vegas!!
New Orleans!!!

Sweet!!!!

Getting in Trouble at the Bar, Weird Georgia, and God in Las Vegas

What’s better then trying to get your friends in trouble at the bar? Not much.

The girl that was making a spectacle of herself by bumping and grinding her girlfriend all evening left her purse open on the bar. Only the sharp eyes of one of our friends prevented us from putting his phone number on a napkin in the purse. So close! And they thought I was going to pussy out and not join them. How could I not, I had my Communist Party T-shirt on.

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My email had the newsletter from Weird US.Com talking about Tiger Ridge, GA. Their messageboard reposted the newsletter titled, “TIGER RIDGE, GA: INBRED AND LOVING IT?”

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Knit Motorcycle, originally uploaded by Extreme Craft.

Also, I may have to take a trip to Athens to see Theresa Honeywell’s Knit Motorcycle at the Georgia Museum of Art.

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2005-06-19+12-43-59, originally uploaded by Frank Peters.

Atlanta blogger hannahbeth just got back from Vegas, and noted, “God seems to be missing in Vegas and it’s palpable and it made me very uncomfortable.”

Being a 5-year resident of Vegas, I can tell you that’s not true, he visits the strip just like every one else (map). Right off the strip is the Guardian Angel Cathedral. This modernist catholic church was built on land donated by the former owner of the now-destroyed Desert Inn, and features a stained-glass cityscape of Vegas with a collection of casinos depicted.

So far a google search finds no pictures of the cathedral’s stained-glass. That’s something I may try to remedy when we hit Vegas on our cross-country roadtrip.

Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center: Pictures of the New Exhibition

The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (map) will be having its public opening of “Courting Disaster” on Friday, April 21st, 7pm – 9pm.

For those that like the visual arts, this opening is a welcome excuse to some good art in the ACAC’s great exhibition space. For those who think contemporary art is talentless crap, come to the show and I’ll try to explain why that’s not true in this case.

Hilary Wilder: Painting installation with a complete take-over of the exhibition space.

Katherine Taylor: Large and small painting detailing the aftermath of hurricane damage.

Donna Mintz: Intimate installation of submerged houses, suspended from apothecary jars.

Drugs, Work, etc…

So, I heard the score was approximately 2 lbs of meth…

“Currently, methamphetamine prices nationwide range from $6,500 to $20,000 per pound…” – DEA – Publications – Methamphetamine Situation – A Growing Domestic Threat

If my info is right, someone from Saturday is in trouble!

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Lot’s of work these last few days. Doing a gallery installation at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (map). For those culturally inclined, the ACAC will be hosting an opening of:

“Courting Disaster – Katherine Taylor, Hilary Wilder, Donna Mintz, presents the work of three accomplished artists, each delving into the themes related to natural and man-made disaster and catastrophe.”

This is a real beauty of a show, and I hope to post pictures before Friday’s opening. I’ll post more about the artists and their works, but I’m beat and I can’t do them justice right now.

And lastly….

While getting a ride to work, I saw a blogger in the wild.

Drugs Are Bad, Mkay: Why So Noisey, People Upstairs?

Why so noisey?

Well, it was the Narc Squad busting in on the upstairs apartment. It actually made for a fun evening of various neighbors getting together and gossiping about, “what that was all about!”

They are nice.

We should get together even when there’s not a police raid going on.

Blogger Get Together: Not @ work

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Not @ work, originally uploaded by MDL.

Sadly, that one (and only) beer got me WASTED!

Not really. But I hurt a lot because I was laughing so much. I was hurting because of work, but the hurting continued throughout the evening.

And it was good.

Free Speech Issue At Georgia Tech: The Right To Be Intolerant?

“Ruth Malhotra, a 22-year-old Georgia Tech student and evangelical Christian, along with co-plaintiff Orit Sklar, a religious Jew, are suing the college for infringing upon their right to speak freely, if in an unpopular fashion…”

Plastic: The Right To Be Intolerant?

Slow Down, and See the Sights: Airships

Images from the Panoramic Photographs Collection (American Memory from the Library of Congress)

Image from Drawnography

Wimberly, Allison, Tong & Goo Futuristic Projects Airborne Hotel Resort

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