Lady Bug Circus

In My Own Back Yard

 

 

Down the street actually. In the summer when there is a wedding at this church you can smell the aftershave as you drive by. Many times I have wanted to stop and photograph the events that go on here and today I did.

Continued...

 

Burning Man

Okay, so I am not into Burning Man, and would never go (too hot)- BUT I love looking at the photos of it and hearing about it from Kelly Lyles. Here are two links- here (from last year) and here (this year). Some nudity so be warned.

Iron Artist Competition at TAM 2008

It was quite a scene at the Tacoma Art Museum's A Midsummer Night's Community Festival. There was a performance by Shakespeare in the Parking Lot of The Tempest: Calaban's Revenge (no photo available) and so much more, but Iris and I were celebrating her 70th birthday by going to see the Iron Artist Competition.15 teams or so were to make art with the surprise materials provided and their work was to be inspired by the current shows at the museum. The main show is Illuminating the Word: The Saint John's Bible . Above competitors work frantically to complete their piece in one hour.This was team HeARTies. Their piece ended up looking like this...

This is team The Dolly's Mama and their work is the on on the left...

The piece on the right was made by this team whose name I can't remember(sorry)but here is their picture.

Some hat there, huh? And the winner was....

There was the most brilliant use of a glue gun here, they used the glue to make tears falling from his eyes.

Congratulations to the winning team!

Maybe next year Iris and I will compete, we have a year to think about it.

Impressions of Alan Lau

There were 22 artworks made for the fund raiser for the International Examiner. Here are just a few...

By Roger Shimomura. Acrylic on canvas ( 5" x7" ?)

By Diem Chau. Porcelain rice bowl with stitched image on silk over the top.

By Patti Warashina. Acrylic on paper.

By Randy Hayes. Oil printed canvas on linen. (10"x12"?)

By Marita Dingus. Mixed media.

My personal favorite of course.

By Saya Moriyasu. Porcelain, glaze and chain.

There was lots of entertainment.

Alan read some of his poetry.

Art was created to sounds from musical instruments.

And there was cake. Happy Birthday Allan Alan, thank you for such a great evening.