🏷️ art

This year was much tamer than last year. Oe I should say I was much tamer. The Market Arcade venue was really great as we're the DJs. The venue was almost too big with all the floors. It seems like it might have been better to just have 1 floor and have the drink tickets closer to the drinks and the gambling tickets closer to the baskets. I also think the event could do with some salty/carb based drinking snacks like pretzels or chips.

Holy crap, we cleaned up the prize baskets. I think we won 7 of them. Not so much by luck but by sheer ticket volume and the fact that not a lot of other people were betting at the volume we were. It was almost embarrassing to win so many times. I now own a whip, some clothes, gift certificates to a lot of places, a asian manger, two womens dildos lol, some scarves, a purse, some earings, hydraulic hearth restaurant gift cert, some lesbians porn with nuns, some skin care supplies, dog bed and snacks, and a laser plastic surgery $250 gift cert.

We actually gave away a lot of the prizes. I collected some of the remaining ones into a picture.

I finally won the thing I actually wanted, the laser plastic surgery gift certificate I wanted so bad last year. I have this little capillary I hate on my lip. Discussing with everyone, no one else ever noticed. Now hopefully, I won't have to notice it either.

Stinky had a great time out on the town at the Block Club party. I've been trying to let him out more.

Afterwards we frosted Mickey's back, ate Chilli and I got a belly rub. Was a pretty good night.

I can't stop drawing weird shit while I am on the phone. Its like I am an angry art zombie. The more aggravating the conversation the weirder the drawings get. This one was discussing project management. As a side note, banana skin is a fantastic medium to draw on.

We traveled over to The Albright Knox for First Friday with @terry's mom.

The Art was great but the letters between Knox and the artist were even better. I love reading old letters. Especially, type written ones in the style of those letters. I wonder why we abandoned the dash, carriage return word split.






























This last one you have to see in person. At full height, looking straight at it, it ripples.

We went to Mickey Harmon's Grovey Cleves art opening at the Western New York Book Arts Center on Friday. He had a voice actor reading excerpts from the book. Sadly we were a bit late.

I learned a bunch of interesting tidbits about the former president everyone talks about but no one seems to actually know anything about. The illustrations were playful and really drew you in. I am so jealous of his ability to bring his ideas to life with pen and paper.

My favorite piece was the shadowbox of Tumey Cleves, the hard palate tumor Glover had.

Not surprising, I was mega allergic to the gallery. I think I am literally allergic to books. I am so glad information has been digitalized. That being said, the art books look pretty cool and I just may return back to buy some gifts from the gallery shop.

@Robert got me into cucumber sandwiches. I want to try cucumbers and waffles now.

Had a great time at the elab circus event last night despite the non stop tooth pain. It was cool to dance on the moon.

We made it up their last Tuesday night. The view was amazing. I love the picture of @joe taking pictures of us from the tower.

Getting there was a bit dramatic. Time warner switched our static IPs minutes before I was scheduled to leave. The. I had no monitor to access the server with. @joe and I ended up having to carry to giant TV down to the basement to use as a monitor. Luckily we still made it in time.

I literally spend every moment of today programming for the production at the Burchfield Penney. I think I have a pretty solid video/audio selector formula now to go along with the media manager and camera controls. One of the tricky parts was doing the math for sunrise/sunset but I ended up just scraping the next five years worth of time and dates from the web and storing it in a DB table.

Now the thing just needs to be fed more data.

Programming with @joe a bit was fun. I am really excited about the possibilities.

I was saying to brian it would be interesting to communicate with the audience from cell phones over the speaker system or to have the system itself text to speach grumble about the weather. There are so many possibilities.

Wednesday @holly and I attended the soft opening of the Frontyard show. The projector towers are amazing. I am excited to be a part of it. Here is to a smooth Friday opening.