For Anna....and art school....

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/color_codes.png

he hee.

Right Brained

OK....my dad sent this to me...one of his many mass emails....
but supposedly not many people see the dancer turning right??????

Dude. I see it turning right. I focused and saw it going left for maybe 30 seconds....
now it's just going right again...

Makes sense that I'm right brained, but does anyone else see it moving right???

Right Brain vs. Left Brain

art...architecture....

HIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was for Amy and Michelle......
well it looks like I might be teaching a college beginning 3-D class this winter!!!
Yeah!!! I got a call from the Chair of the Art Department saying he's recommending me!! Yeah!!!

Thought this sounded interesting.....designer dog house fundraiser auction....in Austin...

Amy and I used to talk about opening a dog bakery/lounge...
I'm excited to hear how this one goes in Texas...

Anyone around Chi-town....
opening tonight at 33 collective..Sergio Gomez is one of the faculty at South Suburban College. Met him yesterday.....should be fun.

If Lego Star Wars wasn't enough for ya....

Here's an email I got from cuz today....


Subject: Star Wars Light Saber Is Finally Launched into Space


I know many of you have repeatedly said to yourself, wouldn't the
Universe be a better place if Luke Skywalker's light saber had actually
ventured into space. Well frett no more.

The actual prop from the movie the Mark Hamil held in his Jedi actor
hand is stowed away on the shuttle Discovery at the NASA Kennedy Space
Center. It will travel into space with the astronauts into the
Internaional Space Station - for seven days and will travel 6 million miles in
14 days and then will return to Earth.

What a wonderful way to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the fill
RETURN OF THE JEDI.

I just hope the astronauts don't hurt themselves playing with it.

If you want to watch how the lightsaber's journey began check it out at
http://www.starwars.com/video/view/000545.html.

Hope you're well.

Peace out,
Elizabeth Klaviter
Faithful Star Wars Fan and your friend.

PS. Speaking of peace and the Earth - please remember - contribute to
the health of this great planet that we live on.

Love you cuz!!!!

Michael...you know me OH so well..

Wood Porn
For anyone that loves good wood....

Shoe Saturdays

Second class went well with the kids and ceramics....be an architect day....since they wanted to make bird houses...it was fun...if not difficult because I made them work with slabs.
They look really good, though...wait til you see what the five and six year olds did....yeah, I'm a pretty good art teacher...It's amazing what happens when you challenge kids....they continue to amaze you.
So...then on the prowl for copper shoes for anna's wedding....I took mom and went up and met with Susan and we started here at Grace....
http://www.chicagomag.com/Radar/Sales-Check/August-2007/New-Shoes-in-Bucktown/
Probably not the brightest of ideas to START at the amazing Italien boutique shoe store...I did find a pair of FABULOUS copper shoes here.....just welll....way more than I thought about spending on shoes for a wedding.....but then again...I'd wear them again....strappy strappy four inch heels....with ankle wraps and tie in front...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh. But, no I did not buy them..
Then we went to DSW.....it's HUGE. Lines of shoes.....and nothing. We found nothing. No copper. No cute shoes....we all tried to find something. Last time I went there I found SOOOO many shoes I wanted but I was in grad school....
Then off to dinner....a couple blocks away....
http://www.miafrancesca.com/restaurants/mia/
mom had the yummmmmmmmy pumpkin ravioli, which would have killed me because it was in a sage butter sauce. I got a pasta broccolli dish..and Susan got the Mahi Mahi with prawns...
Mom and I split a Lava Torte.....mmmmmm.

Next Saturday.....more shoe shopping for copper shoes....if I don't find a pair by then, I'm going to buy a cheap pair and paint them copper.....the irony is....the dresses are purple...and purple is IN so we saw over a dozen pairs of purple heels that probably would have been fine if I knew what color purple the dress was....

What do these three things have in common?

METAL!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check out Barry's recent Iron Piece…I helped him pour that head three years ago in the CAC parking lot…
http://blog.nola.com/living/2007/10/art_for_arts_sake_what_to_see/print.html

Good site for current scrap pricing info….if you're getting rid of stuff around...
http://demolitionscrapmetalnews.com/?page_id=17

Scoundrels!!!!!!!!!! KEGS ARE FOR BEER!!!!
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=3338635

Oh yeah.....it's almost my favorite time of year...

Re Your Brains.

art research...

So, I was doing some research on mold.....for this proposal I'm starting to work on for a show...
Someone at this luncheon today wanted to know when I was going to do a show at the substation...when the gallery director asks you....so I'm working on my proposal....
ANYWHO...I came across this artist...Stacy Levy...I like to share artists who I think are just doing really neat work.....THIS IS REALLY NEAT WORK....check out some of the installations.
http://www.stacylevy.com/installations/

undergarments

Yes, undergarments.

Anna's wedding is less than a month away.....
I'm shoe shopping this weekend...and Mom asked me about undergarments, too....

This is probably one of the most self-indulgent times I get.....when I'm in a wedding...I allow myself the lingerie I don't normally allow myself to splurge on...and even if I don't splurge I'll still go looking....but it's not the Victoria Secret nothings that I long for that men seem to drool over. It has nothing to do with men for me, at least not really. It's more about how I want to feel.

I've always had a thing for retro undergarments. It might go back to me wearing Oma's floor length négligées as a kid and then twisting them up for different styles...I dunno...
I was the only one in high school to have a merry widow...In college, I bought one of my still most favorite 1950's slip in purple....oh...I love that thing...check it out if you're in New Orleans. It is still one of my most favorite places to be in....House of Lounge. My favorite bra is from House of Lounge. I found a neat website and it has this nifty little history of stockings....

In any case, a good undergarment is the foundation of the outfit..and they make you look curvy where you're supposed to...make you feel more confident and beautiful no matter what item it is

and maybe just maybe they remind me of a connection to a more glamorous time when people got dressed up for dinner and sat around a piano

and I guess it even reminds me of Oma playing Let Me Call You Sweetheart for Opa....

maybe it's the romantic part of me with a little sass thrown in......just maybe.

The Atomic Age

So....I saw this little article for a Ford mid-century concept car, the Nucleon just below the Ig awards and it made me chuckle....
People would be just a little more careful about how they treated other cars if these guys were on the road...as Amy's friend Anna used to say about London commuters....People ought to have a little fear when they bump into you rudely..in New York, you could get shot...you're a little nicer..

and this jogged my memory of the exhibit I was trying to think of earlier this week or sometime last week when talking of car design....

Retrofuturism: The Car Design of J Mays
that I saw at MOCA in Los Angeles in 2003.

scoping out for foundry type

Doing a plaque for my aunt's church....hoping to find some new foundry type.

Supposedly we've got some up in the loft, dad says.....

I'm trying to get it set up to do more, so figured it couldn't hurt to see what's out there....

Anywho... this made me chuckle and also think of many things in my parent's house in general

...check it out...

weeds

So, I decided I needed to get the weeds down since it was starting to look like a jungle out front....looks way better now.
And I tackled the tomato plants in the back garden....not an easy feat.

Hey y'all.

So, it's been a crazy busy couple of weeks.

My sales trip down the river went well....I got an order this week in. Yeah!
So, for those that don't know.... I drove to NOLA and made sales calls along the way and while there. (Part of my master plan to be back in NOLA more often) I drove down 61 in Mississippi and spent Wed night in Greenville with my friend Chris and had a very nice steak dinner in the middle of a cotton field. It was marinated in bourbon....mmmm...thanks Chris!...I got to see frogs crossing the road....dessert was conversing with my dear friend until my eyes couldn't handle being open anymore.

I hadn't slept in a few nights, so I slept in and before taking the leisurely drive down to NOLA Thursday....I stopped at the Kermit Museum...or rather the Jim Henson Delta Boyhood Exhibit, which Chris had been talking about since he took his job there.....and that I couldn't pass up the idea of it...classic small town museum...The conversation with Emily, a stereotypical small town lady, where I got to learn all about her son, who's in Iraq and her daughter's old Big Bird slippers, and the best part was tucked in a corner....I'd hate to spoil it for you...you'll just have to visit Chris and see it...

I spent the rest of the evening/night with my friend Julia....who is always so good to see and we generally laugh way past our normal bedtime....then spent all of Friday seeing potential customers....and headed over to Tulane...met up with my favorite undergrad advisors...missed some people too.....and met some new fun people!!! Had a couple drinks at Ralph's on the Park waiting for Julia...was still feeling chatty...

Then spent the rest of the weekend with Anna and Sean moving into their house on the North Shore!!!! YEAH! I cannot explain the pure excitement I felt for them. How exciting it is to move into your first house and to just have things go well. That is truly what one wishes for their friends. It is such a honor to get to be a part of it at any stage. I don't think I'd want to live on the North Shore, but it was nice to visit and Sunday brunch was completely cute and tasty with mimosas to boot....our reward for the move Saturday....It was good to see Dave and finally meet Anna's dad...he's been an enigma to me for many years as I've known Anna for ten years and never met him and she's stayed with all my family, I believe. All of this is offset by the fact that I still have bruises from some of the boxes...but I can move again, so it's all good.

Crashed with Chris on my way back...hey, thanks for being the perfect stopping distance for the time being....AND for the use of the TOTALLY KICK ASS WELDING HELMET and hit another customer Monday morning before driving the rest of the way Monday......

So, yeah...it was a quick trip...but now you're all updated...

OH....and I started teaching a class today....Saturday mornings...10-11:30. Handbuilding for kids...ages 5-11 are in the class. Community art center. There's 9..8 showed up today. It was SOOOOO much fun. I'm viewing it as therapy I'm not paying for. Evidently Aliens are SOOO not good. Not the kinds from other countries, but the more than likely could be out there in space somewhere but it's not proven.....and one girl would TOTALLY NOT RECOMMEND seeing War of the Worlds.....the one with Dakota Fanning. It was scary and not good.
I tell ya, they are fabulous!

AND....Dad and I started working on the burnout furnace...yes...it is very exciting...I just bought the last part for it today....now I can weld the legs on....oh yeah. For those that don't know what that means....it means art castings and sculptures a-comin' soon....