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Antiques and art

4:09pm Saturday 29 December 2001

Today I rode my bike to Empire Cafe and ate a muffin, parked my bike and visited all the shops looking for a document chest - lots of short wide drawers that I can use to hold paperwork, letters, etc or whatever. I also scoped out a few barstools to put by the bar, but didn't find any that I liked. (I didn't find any document chest at all.)

I did, however, find an art gallery called Mixture, which expanded my art-creation mind with some cool new concepts for art. One set of hangings consisted of some 3D-ish things, some colorful, some not, and then parafin poured over it, about a 1/4 inch thick. Wow! Is this art? It gave a supremely mystery look to the pieces as they seemed shrouded in fog. Cool stuff.

The other wild idea was using a canvas covered in a mosaic of hand-written letters of personal nature. It was just as if this artist had gone through all the old letters s/he had received, plastered them on a canvas and painted on that. Amazing. I am quite likely to try new things than just painting acrylic on canvas.

(My first acrylic-on-canvas piece is finished now, and I will get a picture of it on my website someday soon. Maybe as soon as next year!)

My next piece will be painted on a big print that I've had for years. Tammy and I bought it together back in the day. I don't know the name of the print or the artist, but it's a scene looking over a lake with big mountains in the background and reflecting on the lake, and some deer chillin' by the edge of the lake in the foreground.

I *was* going to just paint over the whole thing (and give it to Wende's parents as an overdue gift (a long time ago I said I'd paint them something that matched their room)), but now I'm going to leave some of the recognizable parts of this print intact and visible beneath my acrylic. I think it should totally rock. I may start on it tonight.

I bought two 45 rpm 7" singles at a flea market: Olivia Newton John "Totally Hot" and Bee Gees "Stayin' Alive," each of which I will incorporate into art in some way.

ktru

7:29pm Saturday 29 December 2001

I'm at KTRU, vaguely manning the board as the basketball game is being broadcast. This is certainly the easiest way I know to make $35.

Before the game started, we were broadcasting WRN (World Radio Network) because no DJs were available from 4pm to 7pm apparently. I arrived around 6:25 and put on some music - couple of songs and then I put on a couple of CDs at the same time: Francis Dhomont's Frankenstein Symphony and Plastikman's Consumed CD and they sounded SO GREAT together! I let them play together for fully 25 minutes until it was time for the basketball pre game at 6:55pm.

Now Rice is clobbering the other team (Sienna Saints). It's halftime now and they are ahead by 17, 39 to 22.