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Waterfall under the Bridge

There will be a "cool" public arts project in NYC for three months this summer -giant waterfalls, including one that will fall from the Brooklyn Bridge - a design of Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. This could be refreshing in the heat of the summer. I will be showing my paintings at Ad Hoc Art in July/August, so it will be fun to see this when I travel there for the show. (Thanks, boingboing )

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Amy Crehore in Deep Pop Exhibit, NY

"Feed the Bear Blues", an oil painting on linen panel by Amy Crehore.

This painting will be in the Deep Pop Exhibit.(From my "Blues Gal" series)
On Sunday, January 27th, 2008, the long-awaited Deep Pop exhibit, curated by Andrew Michael Ford (Ad Hoc Gallery) will open at the Kenneth Chapman Gallery, Iona College, 715 North Avenue, New Rochelle NY. This historic exhibit will feature 63 incredible artists:
Scott Altmann, Anthony Ausgang, Carrie Anne Baade, Wayne Coe, Christopher Conte, Molly Crabapple, Amy Crehore, Jason D'Aquino, Inky Dreadfuls, Bonnie Durham, Lori Earley, Mark Elliot, Austin English, Ron English, Matt Feazell, Lori Field, GiL, Kelly Haigh, Matt Hansel, Julia Sonmi Heglund, Hiromi Iuchi, Sarah Joncas, Aya Kakeda, Ben Kehoe, Joshua Krause, Danielle Lamberti, Daniel Hyun Lim, Tommii Lim, Laurie Lipton, Francesco LoCastro, D. Dominick Lombardi, Travis Louie, David MacDowell, Angie Mason, Jeff McMillan, MIHA, Heiko Muller, Ryan Myers, Naomi Namba, Lilly Piri, Anthony Pontius, Jenn Porreca, Mario Rivera, Jonathan Rodriguez, Martina Secondo Russo, Frank Russo, Sean Samohey, Marcus Schafer, David Stoupakis, Kevin E, Taylor, Elisabeth Timpone, Jon Todd, Fuco Ueda, Edwin Ushiro, Mark Dean Veca, Keith Weesner, Martin Wittfooth, Jaeran Won, Nancie Yang, Genevive Zacconi, and Chet Zar.
This once-in-a-lifetime show will be an unforgettable experience for those who can make it up to New Rochelle, NY between Jan 27 and Feb 21, 2008.
"Fine art inspired by the world of pop imagery".
DEEP POP Exhibit
Iona College Council on the Arts
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Chris Anthony at Corey Helford Gallery

Photos copyright Chris Anthony 2008

Opening on January 26, 2008, from 9-11 pm, at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, CA is a solo exhibit of fine art photographs by Chris Anthony. I blogged about his Victims and Avengers show last year around this time. Who could forget his haunted, surrealistic narratives in browns, reds and black? He won the American Photo Grand Prize 2007 for them. His works are stunningly beautiful, highly imaginative, thought-provoking and mysterious. Go see "I'm the Most Normal Person I know" if you are in the L.A. area.

Corey Helford Gallery

Chris Anthony

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What is Genuine Mother-of-Toilet-Seat?

Gibson 1938 fingerboard
Gibson 1938 Headstock or Peghead

Stewart-MacDonald's fancy pearloid - laminated
When I revealed that the second Tickler Ukulele would have a fingerboard made of genuine mother-of-toilet-seat, I realized that some people might not know what that is. It's a plastic that looks like mother of pearl and it's also known as pearloid. On certain vintage models of guitars, banjos and ukes, it was used for pickguards and fingerboards. It was also used to decorate banjo resonators and headstocks. Lou Reimuller (luthier of Tickler Ukes) bought his pearloid at Warmoth where they have all colors and patterns. They also have supplies at Stewart-MacDonald.
Here is a Gibson 1938 from the
National Music Museum Collection
at the University of South Dakota.

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JM's World War One Sketchbooks

I found out about JM's World War I sketchbooks

from the fantastic and beautiful blog, BibliOdyssey . Please follow the link for more of this amazing visual diary (University of Victoria’s Special Collections Library).

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HOBOTOPIA

Laugh Out Loud Cats Comics

Speaking of hokum, hokum music, humor, comics...and cats!
Please check out this wonderful little film at the Ape Lad (Adam Koford) blog:
HOBOTOPIA
And...this giant morsel: Laugh Out Loud Cats ARCHIVE (buy the new book at Hobotopia)
for more wonderful CAT humor. Yas, yas, we love dem cats!
And a most recent and hilarious little film on boingboing TV.
Official Website: Adam Koford (Ape Lad)
And last, but not least, The New Yorker's current EustaceTilley competition with Ape Lad's contributions.


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