Random thoughts on art, technology, stuff, and occasionally Real Estate: October 2009

ARROYO ARTS COLLECTIVE RECOVERY DISCOVERY TOUR

SAVE THE DATE: NOVEMBER 22, 2009!!

On Sunday, November 22, artists' homes and studios will open to share the wealth during "The Recovery Discovery Tour," the Arroyo Arts Collective's 17th annual self-guided auto tour in Highland Park, Eagle Rock and Mount Washington.

Who: The Arroyo Arts Collective
What: "The Recovery Discovery Tour," a self-guided auto tour of artists' homes and studios in Highland Park, Eagle Rock, Mount Washington
Where: Starts at the Lummis Home, 200 E. Avenue 43, Highland Park, CA 90031
When: November 22, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Special Preview Party: Saturday, November 14, 7 to 9 pm Future Studio, 5558 North Figueroa Street, Highland Park. Samples of tour artists' work will be on display

This year Tourgoers will also receive a $10 Arroyo Bucks coupon good toward a single purchase of art worth $100 (or more) on the day of the Tour. To plan your trip to the Tour via public transportation please visit the Metro trip planner at www.metro.net or call 1-(800) COMMUTE. Tour-goers who arrive by Metro will receive 2 coupons (worth $20) by showing their Metro ticket, day pass, or monthly pass.

Tickets: $10 (plus $1 handling) advance on-line purchase. Tickets will be held at will call at the Lummis Home on the day of the tour. Deadline for advance purchase is 10pm Friday, November 20, 2009. Tickets can also be purchased for $15 at the Lummis Home on the day of the Tour.

Watch a Video About The Tour  IF YOU LOVE THE ARTS, WATCH THIS VIDEO!  DON'T MISS IT!!

Link to Press Release

Index of Member Sites

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WE TELL STORIES 4th annual HAUNTED HARVEST FESTIVAL
AT HIGHLAND PARK's OLD LA FARMERS MARKET

 


Featuring performances by the Grammy Award winning Mariachi Divas, We Tell  Stories children's theatre company, Taiko drummers, Folklorico dancers and more.

On Tuesday, October 27, 2009 We Tell Stories, LA's multi-ethnic children's storytelling theatre company-presents The 4th Annual Haunted Harvest Storytelling Festival at the Old LA Farmer's Market at Ave. 58 and N. Figueroa Blvd. in Highland Park, California (LA 90042). Hours are from 3:00 pm - 8:00 pm. Admission is Free.

We Tell Stories, performing since 1981, is known for bringing myths, legends, and literature from all Cultures and times to extemporaneous life. The Haunted Harvest storytelling whirlwind includes Aesop's fables and folktales from Japanese, Mexican and American Indian traditions. From their seats or on the stage in costume, audience members are an integral part of the performance.

This years guest stars are the Mariachi Divas, the multi-cultural all-female Latin band and winners of a 2008 Grammy award for their CD, "Canciones De Amor." In addition, Japanese Festival Sounds will feature the ancient art form of Taiko (Japanese drumming). Young performers from Ballet Folklorico Maria Felix from Ramona Hall Community Center in Highland Park preserve Mexican culture through dance. The troupe has performed at the LA County Fair and downtown LA's Olvera Street.

The ever popular Costume Contest is open to all ages. Participants are also encouraged to enter their already-carved pumpkins in the Carved Pumpkin Contest.  The Festival's additional attractions include face painting, an arts and crafts table, fresh Farmer's Market produce and prepared foods, trick-or-treating and more.

The 4th Annual Haunted Harvest Storytelling Festival is located at the Old L.A. Farmer's Market at Avenue 58 and N. Figueroa Blvd, Highland Park, CA 90042, adjacent to the Metro Highland Park Station, accessible from the Gold Line. To plan the route that's best for you, use the Metro Trip Planner at www.metro.net or call 1.800. commute. Metro riders can show their metro ticket stubs and get a free One-Dollar Farmer's Market Bill to spend at the farmers market. To park enter the lot at Ave. 57. Street parking is also available.

For more information, call We Tell Stories at 323-256-2336 or visit  http://www.wetellstories.org.

Members who were active in the Photography Group back in the early days will remember Bryce. 

Bryce also created the Photography, Advanced group here on AR.

Bryce's wife Kirsten posted on his facebook profile yesterday that Bryce had passed away.  He was only 34.

"On October 25th, Bryce lost his on-going battle with depression. While he seemed fine and much improved lately, we will never know what ultimately caused us to lose such an amazing human being, husband, and father so early in life.

There will be a memorial this week and we will update you all from here. It will likely take place at SPACEbin Greenwood towards the end of the week, but we"ll keep this up to date.

To those of you who've asked what you can do - there will be a bryce mohan memorial fund set up tomorrow at Bank of America. Please donate to this in lieu of flowers to help his stuggling family maintain his legacy and bid him the farewell such a beautiful being deserved.

love to you all...

kirsten"

Bryce was an incredibily talented photographer, and an endearing personality.  I am beyond stunned.

Saturday and Sunday, October 24 and 25
12 to 4 pm.

Enjoy creepy happenings at Heritage Square Museum at its Sixth Annual Halloween and Mourning Tours©. Learn all about death and mourning etiquette during the Victorian era and participate in a funeral inside one of our historic homes. Find out about Victorian Spiritualism - what it was, who followed it and why, and perhaps have your future foretold by a medium. See how other cultures celebrate and remember their loved ones as we look at the Mexican traditions and customs of El Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.  Finally, discover how even the intricate details of clothing played a role how Victorians showed their loss of a loved one.  

On Sunday, (Oct 25), the Halloween and Mourning Tours program is more family friendly. Children ages 2 to 12 may come play period games, make 19^th century harvest crafts, choose a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch (while supplies last), and listen to spooky stories in the Ford House by the San Gabriel Valley Storytellers.

Admission prices are $10.00 for Adults, $8.00 for Seniors over 65, 
$5.00 for Children 6 to 12 years, and Free for Children under 6 and Museum members

Halloween and Mourning Movie Night 
Saturday, October 24, gates open at 7 pm.  

Guests are invited to bring a picnic, blankets, chairs, and candy while enjoying classic scary movies at Heritage Square... if they dare. The scheduled features include "The Unknown", a silent horror movie made in 1927 starring Lon Chaney and Joan Crawford, and "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" a comedy directed by Charles Barton, starring Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi and Glenn Strange. Guests are encouraged to wear warm clothing. Beverages and popcorn will be available for purchase. 

Admission to the Third Annual Halloween and Mourning Movie Night © is 
Free for Museum members and $10.00 for the general public. 
The gates will open at 7 p.m. for picnics with the show starting at dusk.

Google Wave:  How to create a new wave and make it public.

Creating a new wave and making it public is easy, but not exactly intuitive at least for the first few days. 

To start a new wave, click "New Wave".

A message box will appear in the right Panel.  Type the name for your new wave in the message box.  (You can also type in some content, but so far, for no particular reason, I have been leaving the title as its own message box).  Click Done.

In order to make the wave public, you will need to add either easypublic@appspot.com or public@a.gwave.com to your contacts.

So, first look down to the lower portion of the left panel, and click the + button beside Manage Contacts.

Add easypublic@appspot.com, click submit.  The advantage with easypublic seems to be that it will remain in your contact list. public@a.gwave seems to drift in and out  (one of those early beta bugs).

Now look back at your new wave in the right panel.  Click the + button to add participants.  Click on easypublic@appspot.com; and that's it, your wave is now public and can be viewed by anyone, anywhere with a google wave account.

Here's a link to an post on Integral Web Solutions

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that does a good job of explaining what can be done with Wave. 

Then, on the other hand, if you'd prefer a video demonstration, there is this:

(Warning:  Keep in mind this Pulp Fiction satirical video features "adult language" and is not exactly "safe for work" (SFW) )

Google Wave:  If you find a public wave about a topic of interest, and you want to continue to monitor new comments on that wave, you'll want to add yourself to that public wave, so in continues to display in your wave inbox.

This method works for me:

First search for public waves like this  http://activerain.com/blogsview/1285678/google-wave-find-public-waves   (The first few days, there was a managable number of public waves, now they are popping out on the list several per second)

Click on an interesting wave, and all the contents of the wave will display in the right panel.

Now look up at the top of the right panel, and click on the + sign to add participants.

The Add Participants dialog box will open.  If you don't already show up in the list, just go ahead and type in your own GoogleWave address.

As soon as your own little avatar shows up, DRAG it to the Participants Gallery at the top of the right cancel. (Clicking the plus sign does not seem to work when it is your own icon)

To confirm that you are added to the wave's participants, click the word "More" beside the participant gallery.

The participant gallery will expand to show everyon in the wave.

Some good basic info at Lifehacker:  http://lifehacker.com/5376138/google-wave-101

Did you receive a Google Wave invite, set up an account, but now you feel small, alone, and unwaved-at?

Find some public waves!

In the search box, at the top of the center panel, just type  (or copy and paste)

with:public 

Then click the search icon.

In fact, with:public will probably return way TOO many waves.  So just narrow it down with a keyword.  Some examples:

with:public lakers

with:public dodgers

with:public trojans

with:public bruins

with:public real estate

with:public los angeles

with:public GLBT

First, the person must be in your Contacts list.

If they are not in your contact list, follow the steps here to add them.

Then find the person's little avatar in your contact list, and double click on it.

A little popup message will appear, click on Ping (the person's name)

Type a message and click done

The ping will show up at the top of the person's Google Wave Inbox

Note to Google Wave engineers:  It would be really super if a notification of a ping would also show up in the person's regular email box.   Thanks!!!

How to insert a photo in Google Wave.

1. DO NOT USE INTERNET EXPLORER.  There appears to be a bug that causes images loaded while using Internet Explorer to continually display a "working twirl"; never a finished image. 

Google engineers will probably figure it out and fix it soon.  Meanwhile use FireFox or Google Chrome or Flock or Safari.

2.  Start a new Wave, or reply to an existing Wave.

3.  Click the paper clip/attach icon.

4.  Select the image from your computer, click Open.

5.  A thumbnail of the image will appear.  Clicking on the thumbnail will bring up a full size version of the image.

So far, I have not yet been able to successfully drag an image into a Wave message.  Anyone managed that yet?  When I try to simply drag, this is what I get: