art done by the budget conscious for other people

so this weekend i tried to hit up some of the somerville open studios.
i'm really glad i did. i would have been sad to miss out on some of the great stuff i saw. and i wanted to buy so much of it. why can't i be independently wealthy? oh wait, then i'd probably be a stuck up piece of shit with no real friends like all of you! wait. that's such a stereotype for me to throw out there.
what the fuck is going on here?

oh, right, here's some of the people i saw/places i went and stuff you should checkity check!!

i started it off with a tip from erikka, she insisted i went to the museum of modern renaissance
incredible floor to ceiling fresco paints in what used to be an old church.


the little house studios:
consisting of drawings by briana horrigan


paintings by althea roy:

foxy lady paintings by luxville aka Rebecca Hesketh

pasties by maria davis

odd illustrations by joe keinberger

hand made, modern/vintage jewelry by Esoteria

photographs by amy cooper

cool, reflective patches for bike riding, some prints and other things at haptotrope

multimedia pieces, mostly on wood by elise dietrich


encaustic paintings by renee de montaigne

photographs of his grandmother and panoramas by lee kilpatrick

photographs from morocco by nicole lecorgne





great prints as well as paintings by christina preher

edward gorey-esque paintings by deborah newey - couldn't find any links :(

photographs and strange stuffed animal doll art by vanessa r. thompson

whew, that's all i grabbed cards for, i'm sure i missed out on a lot of other great artists too. the things is, they do these open studios throughout boston and surrounding areas all spring through fall. there were apparently over 300 artists that participated in this thing alone. point being, there is so much great art just in the boston area alone.

speaking of which, my sister happened upon this guy greg stones at the mayfair event in harvard square. he does watercolor paintings, but not just any watercolor paintings, stuff like:
five penguins, one hatchet

and pug, snowman, zombie


cool.

today's tuesday?

I rode my bike today, down to MIT, the Stata Center to be exact. This is the crazy building Frank Gehry built on their campus. I was going to check out Organ Organ! which was part of the Cyberarts Festival going on these days, but alas, no one was there to hook me up with a set of earphones and run the thing. At least I got some cool pictures.

This pic is from the exhibit, and is an artistic representation of my heartbeat


These are of the building inside




and now outside

q-time

so i went up to nh to do some family mingling for the ol' easter sunday, but stayed up and made my mom play hooky, or well, she requested it off in advance, but it was still fun, and we all got to go out to eat lunch together before my dad went to work, then my mom and i went to the SEE museum to see the lego display of the manchester mills.



pretty cool stuff.



also, check out my mom playing at SEE!


I still think it's cool how far horizontal the ball goes before it falls.

iron pour

ok, so last night I went to see an iron pour at MassArt. It was sort of random, but I read about it in the Dig, so I just wanted to see what it was all about. Besides being less then 40 degrees outside, I weathered the cold and stuck around for about 2 hours. Check out some of my footage:





This one shows a guy breathing fireballs:


This one shows them pouring hot iron onto a slab of wood that's wet as well as into a wagon full of water, and you can see how it immediately makes the water boil.





This one just shows the capala, which is the furnace they heat the iron up in