athensmusicandarts:
Woo hoo! This just in from Lou Kregel! It’s official — the Railroad Arts District is taking up the holiday market vacated by Big City Bread.
I had a great talk with Carol John last week, an amazing artist herself and longtime organizer of the Big City Bread Holiday Market. Carol said the market accomplished what she’d wanted it to in the 10 years since she started it: encouraging people to buy from local artists during the holidays. “Really, when we started, there was just one other market that I know of — the Studio Group,” she says (they just had their annual event over at ATHICA4Lease this past weekend). “Now there are so many — last year when I was putting this one together, I couldn’t believe it. And that’s a great thing — that was my motive nine years ago was to make sure people were seeing and buying things from artists here.”
So Carol and husband Carl Martin, who together run D.O.C., are putting their efforts into their own works right now and plan on visiting the bevy of local markets instead of putting one together this year.
So as we bid farewell to the BCB market, give a huge, huge thanks to Carol for organizing the market for so many years — and starting the trend!
6:12 pm • 23 November 2009
iceplanethoth:
gracenmichelle:
A flock of birds flipping you off.
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Flipping off polluting cars.
5:50 pm • 10 November 2009
athensmusicandarts:
My article on Vic Chesnutt ran yesterday — he had some choice words about Paul Broun, considering Vic, who’s been in a wheelchair since age 18, has a “pre-existing condition” and can only get hospitalization insurance. He’s now being sued by ARMC b/c he hasn’t been able to pay off the $70,000 or so he owes the hospital. It’s crazy, ridiculous, rage-inducing stuff, and he’s sufficiently enraged/depressed about it.
On the happier side of things, he plays tonight at the 40 Watt with his touring band o’ punks, made up of Guy Picciotto of Fugazi and about seven members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. This will be a phenomenal show and you should go.
4:50 pm • 2 November 2009
brought to you this year by the hobby lobby, the army store on prince ave, the grit and jay’s bottle shop.
it feels good to be sporting a mullet again. it’s been a long 20 years but i’m back in the game.
juliephillips:
For Halloween this year, we’ve been inspired by “The Lost Boys.” We’ll be David and Star. We need a Michael and a Frog Brother. Hmmmm, now where can we find some of those?
3:16 pm • 31 October 2009
juliephillips:
Sweet Melissa Wilson and I did some aerials at the Georgia Aquarium on Saturday night, and by some, I mean two hours in the air. It was tiring but fun. Kyle painted our faces extraordinarily lovely-ly — watery blues and greens with bubbles, like an early pink floyd show. I have to say the best part of the night was when it was over and we got to go up to one of the windows into one of the big tanks and see all these amazing creatures, including Trixie, the whale shark who was easily 25 feet, maybe 30 feet long. Whale sharks are gentle giants and really just eat plankton (which is bad if you’re plankton, I guess). But they don’t attack other fish or people.
That to say, personally, I think if you’re at the aquarium you should be looking at fish instead of aerialists, but it paid good $ so I’m thankful for that.
3:36 pm • 27 October 2009
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crows outside of my house.
11:14 am • 20 October 2009
julie and i made paper yesterday in our kitchen. these will eventually be incorporated into the artwork for maps and transit’s upcoming cd ‘songs for divining’. these were made from recylced magazines, maps, pages from hynmals, and photocopies.
11:12 am • 19 October 2009
photo by galen burke. pre-show at cine a few weeks back.
we’re playing a brief set again tonight at 9:30 in conjunction with mercury artworks’ gallery reception, ‘terre verte’ at hotel indigo. stop by anytime between 8-10. featuring much locally grown art, music, movement, and big fun.
11:58 am • 16 October 2009
