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

If you are in Southern California and can temporarily open up your heart to foster a hound, Basset Hound Rescue of Southern California is in a tough spot and needs your help!

 BHRSC has 2 hounds in the Pet Hotel (Clyde Jr & Duke); 1 hound with the Vet (Lulu Belle); and 4 hounds (photos above) potentially heading our way on Dec 2nd, and we're out of foster homes.

So folks - we need your help - especially if you can foster one of these kids...even if it's for one-time-only. Please let me know if you can help out - I bet the joy you receive helping a hound during the holidays is far better than any other gift you could receive.

You can contact Laurie McCulloch  at: lmcculloch@bassethoundrescue.org

What is the Recovery Discovery Tour?:  "The Recovery Discovery Tour," is a self-guided auto tour of artists' homes and studios in Highland Park, Eagle Rock, Mount Washington, organized by the Arroyo Arts Collective.
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.

As part of the Recovery Discovery Tour,  artist Edem Elesh will open his home studio in Mount Angelus, a hilltop neighborhood in Highland Park.

From an absolutearts.com review:

The work of Los Angeles based painter, Edem Elesh, finds itself in the murky waters of the viewer's unconscious.Fantastical, dream-like and dystopian, Elesh's imagery is set in our postmodern time, at an intersection where the subject matter of various sorts has been cut loose from it's origins and dropped onto the foreign occupied space of the canvas.With an irreverence and narrative approach to working, each subject has been abandoned and ultimately left to stake its claim in a new and unfamiliar territory.When asked about the conception and drive of an individual painting, Elesh straightforwardly replies that, "Everyday situations of existence" are always where his subject matter remains fertile. 

Edem Elesh website
 

Steven Anderson last opened his home studio on the Arroyo Arts Collective Discovery tour in 2003.  After a five year hiatus, Steven's home studio high in the hills of Eagle Rock will again be a featured destination on the tour.

From the artist's web site

Steven L. Anderson was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1971, and raised by a family of creative environmentalists. He achieved the rank of Eagle Scout in 1988 and the following year attended the University of Michigan with the plans of being a "renaissance man." It was here that he began to make small collages using an approach of appropriation and re-contextualization that would serve as a basis for his creative process.

A post-graduate slacker/LSD experience in the newly split Czech Republic convinced Steven to follow a path through the arts, leading him to the Art Institute of Chicago to train as a painter, printmaker and graphic designer. It was here that he met and fell in love with his wife Liz (Department of Graphic Sciences), his life-long love and inspiration. Agnes Anderson joined the family in 2007.

Steven's career as an artist has been a cycle of collaborative and individual production, focusing on the nature of power and the power of nature. In 1998 he joined Cakewalk Magazine as co-publisher; designing, editing and raising money for issues 2-6. Steven has also been a driving force in 2004's October Surprise curatorial project in Northeast Los Angeles. Other fruitful collaborations have included Fat Farmer Bob and His Colourful Crazy Beard (2008-), Fuz Fon (1999-2001) and Chicago's Free the Real World Coalition (2001). Steven has art-directed and designed for In These Times (1998-2001) and WhiteWalls (1999-2003) magazines in Chicago, and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (2003-04) and 1105 Media inc. (2003-current) in Los Angeles, among others.

The Andersons currently reside in Northeast Los Angeles with cats Big D. and Kittenhead Jenkins.

Steven L. Anderson's web site

What is the Recovery Discovery Tour?:  "The Recovery Discovery Tour," is a self-guided auto tour of artists' homes and studios in Highland Park, Eagle Rock, Mount Washington, organized by the Arroyo Arts Collective.
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.

ARROYO ARTS COLLECTIVE RECOVERY DISCOVERY TOUR ADVANCE TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE 
 
Recovery Discovery Tour tickets are $10 in advance and $15 on the day of the Tour. Advance tickets are still available at Galco's Soda Pop Stop, 5702 York Boulevard in Highland Park or on-line at www.arroyoartscollective.org. Hurry!
 
You may think, "Wow, 17 years! Hmmm, 17 years? There's always next year." Well, maybe not. You never know when there will be another chance to visit any of this years' 100 artists' homes and studios. What wonderful treasures might you miss? For example, new to the Tour this year are Margaret Alarcon, Kraig Blue, Molly Cleator, Carol Es, Matthew Freeth, Betty Phoenix Wan Hamada, David Reed James, Stephen James, Rebecca Janes, Susan Loraine Kromka, Irma LaPointe, Antionette Miller, Earl Parson, Michelle Perone, Rebecca Quesada, Darren Ragle, Gigi Scully, Richard Scully, Warner Traynham and Mark Verrillo. 2003 was the last time Steven Anderson was on the Tour. Now he's back. What's he been up to? Or you might want to see what Linda Lyke, Raoul De la Sota, Margaret Garcia, Michael Arata and J. Michael Walker, to name a few, have been up to this year.
 
You can walk, bike, take your car or leave the driving to us. Let the Arroyo Arts Collective plan your itinerary with one of our shuttle routes.
 
And have you heard about the Arroyo Bucks? What's up with that? Because this is the Recovery Discovery Tour we're offering a little financial stimulus package of our own. When you spend $100 or more on the work of any one artist your Arroyo Buck will give you a $10 discount.That's the Tour for free. What a deal!
 
WHO:     The Arroyo Arts Collective
WHAT:    17th Annual Recovery Discovery Tour
WHEN:    Sunday, November 22, 2009, 9:30am to 5pm
WHERE:  Lummis Home, 200 E. Avenue 43, Los Angeles  90031 

Tonight, November 14, NELAart presents: SECOND SATURDAY GALLERY NIGHT 

WHEN: Every Second Saturday 7:00-10:00p.m.
WHERE: Highland Park and surrounding neighborhoods.

NELAart Second Saturday Gallery Night is a free self-guided tour of the galleries, non-profits and artist run project spaces located in Northeast Los Angeles (NELA).

NELA has a tradition in the arts that dates back to the early 1900s.

The tradition continues with new spaces opening regularly. NELA is now one of L.A.'s most exciting destinations to view contemporary art. 

Individual gallery hours may vary:

Avenue 50 Studios, 121 North Avenue 50

Bike Oven, 3706 North Figueroa Street

Cactus, 5434 Eagle Rock Boulevard

Cafe de Leche, 5000 York Boulevard

Drkrm, 2121 San Fernando Road

Future Studio, 5558 North Figueroa Street

hi tree, 131 North Avenue 50 (behind Avenue 50 Studio)

Jose Vera Fina Art, 2012 Colorado Boulevard

Judson Studios, 200 South Avenue 66

Kristi Engle Gallery, 5002 York Boulevard

The Land of Odd Gallery, 4690 Eagle Rock Boulevard

La Tierra de la Culebra, 240 North Avenue 57

MorYork Gallery, 4959 York Boulevard

New Puppy, 2808 Elm Street, Unit 1

New Stone Age Mosiacs, 4532 1/2 Eagle Rock Boulevard

Outpost for Contemporary Art, 1268 North Avenue 50

Sea and Space Explorations, 4755 York Boulevard

She Rides The Lion, 133 North Avenue 50 (behind Avenue 50 Studio)

Southwest Museum, 234 Museum Drive

Toros Pottery, 4962 Eagle Rock Boulevard

Two Track Art Studio, 135 North Avenue 50 (next to Avenue 50 Studio)

Verbre Studio and Gallery, 4540 Eagle Rock Boulevard

On Sunday, November 22, artists' homes and studios throughout the Northeast Los Angeles Communities of Highland Park, Eagle Rock, Mount Washington will open their doors during "The Recovery Discovery Tour," the Arroyo Arts Collective's 17th annual self-guided auto tour.

The Moppet Studio of Carol Es will be one of the featured destinations on the Arroyo Arts Collective Recovery Discovery Tour.

Carol Es is a visionary mixed-media fine artist and writer with curatorial experience, as well as a musician and recording artist, and a web designer skilled in PHP and MySQL databases, DHTML and Java scripting. 

Carol's Blog

Es Art Website

Carol Es on LinkedIn

As more and more people join a public wave on Google Wave, adding their comments at different spots within the wave, it might become difficult to determine which comments or "blips" you have already read, and which you haven't.

Here's how.  Unread blips have a bold, vertical left border, like this:

After you click on the blip or tap your space bar, the vertical border will disappear, like this:

And yes, Wave was built so that tapping the spacebar really is the easiiest way to surf through all the blips in a wave.

Did anyone else in the State of California receive a letter about registering to pay use tax on out of state purchases?

The letter gave a link to the BOE web site, here's a link to the FAQ on the BOE web site:

http://www.boe.ca.gov/sutax/useTaxRegFAQ.htm

Interesting?

I've been waving now for almost a month.  And just now, today, this morning, I learned how to TAG WAVES.

Open the wave you want to tag.  Keep in mind that wave so created as a collaboration tool; so you don't need to be the person who created the wave, in order to add tags to the wave.

Look down at the bottom of the screen in the footer area.  In the footer area of the wave column, you'll see a button labelled "Tag".  Click the Tag button.

A small dialog box will open.  Type in your tag keywords and hit enter

The keyword tags will show up the the wave column footer, and will be searchable in a wave tag search.

What is a wave tag search?

Type a search into the wave search box using this format:

with:public tag:real estate

No space between "with:" and "public";  no space between "tag:" and "real estate"; or whatever keyword you want to search on.  Click the search icon at the right .

If you received a Google wave invitation, and just created your account, here's the first thing to do:  Add some contacts!

Look down at the lower portion of the left panel, and you'll see the Contact Box.  Click on the + sign, to the right of "Manage Contacts"  to add a new contact.

You will need to ask your friends and family for their googlewave addresses, the same way you have to ask people for their email addresses when you first get acquainted.

Type in the person's googlewave address, and click Submit.

Now the person shows up in your Contact List.

Click on the person's photo or avatar to bring up a dialog box.  Click on "Ping" to send the person a message.

Type something in the message box and click "Done."

The ping becomes a new wave that will show up in the center column when the person goes to Google Wave.  The person will not get a separate email notice, so you need to count on your friends to check their waves daily, just like you count on them to check their email messages.  You could send the person an email saying "Hey I waved at you, check your waves."

The wave is private between you and that person, unless you decide to make in public.  Here is how you make it public.

You can also keep the wave private, but add other participants.  To add another participant, click the + button in the left column, above the wave content.

Your contact list will pop-up.  Just click any name in the contact list that you want to include in the wave.

Do you ever have email conversations with groups of people?  Maybe your team, office staff, and assistants?  Or maybe you send emails to a group of family members, and everyone chats back and forth via group email.

If you think in terms of using Wave in those group email situations, you will have made the basic Wave Paradigm Shift.