I attended Tom Wolff's portrait demo Sunday 24-Oct-10 at the 39th Street Galleries in Hyattsville, Md.  Tom Wolff talked about the people in his show "Census", which portrays people from around Hyattsville.  He had an interesting tidbit about each person and the taking of their pictures.  The show portrays people from all walks of life, business owners, artists, residents, the mayor etc.  The show is kind of a slice in time view of people as they are in everyday life around the town.

Afterwards a small group of us went to lunch at Rhode Island Red's Cafe right up the road at 4700 Rhode Island Ave.  Kelly Perl (photographer), Alexa Meade (painter) and I munched down on lunch.  Alexa, Kelly and Tom had a Red's pizza, while I got a gluten free apple and a fair trade chocolate bar, with a Boylan's creme soda to wash it down.

You might remember seeing Alexa's paintings in the Washington Post a while back, of the man in the metro car painted to look like a painting.  Alexa's technique turns real people into art.

http://www.alexameade.com/portfolio.html

Kelly Perl makes industrial scenes into art records.  Her photo's capture the business strcutures that pervade our economy and form it's skeleton.
 
http://www.kellyperlphotography.com/
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A nice surprise, while we were having lunch a jazz quartet set up and played a few tunes for us.  Then a poetry reading took stage and Lauren and I think Alex read some fine poems.  I didn't get the full names of the poets or the group they are with, and am sure I left one out or mangled some names. Seems it was the first poetry reading Sunday event at Rhode Island Red's.  All in all a nice afternoon in  the Hyattsvile Arts District.
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ARTIST DIES after regularly spraying varnish on his paintings

Govinder Nazran died from a fall after repeatedly spraying varnish on his paintings without using proper safety precautions.  Be careful out there people, especially all those spraying volatile solvents or varnish.

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I mean I use to want to be a science fiction writer.  And I would read SF books, paper backs, and I read hundreds of them.  I read them 2 or 3 a week. I had a wall filled with make-shift bookshelves full of Scifi paperbacks.   A big wall. A full wall.  Lotsy, lotsy of Scifi paperbacks.  And I read them and read them till they were pouring out of my ears.  And down my chest, and over my knees, and over my toes and onto the floor.  And they went squishy-squishy slippey when I walked on them.  And they were all gooey and slippery at the same time, like big bugs when you step on them and hear a crunch and a splat, and squish.  And they were hard to move through like they stuck on my feet like molasses or honey made of super glue.  Ewww.  And they pulled my feet from moving and long strings of gooey SciFi would be stretching from the soles of my feet to the floor as I walked.  Or tried to walk away.  And sometimes the wife-head she wanted out, or to pee or something silly like that so I wanted to open her cage but the gooey stuff wouldn't let me get there in time.  Ewww, EEE eww EEE ewww.  Goo! Yawk!

So then I started writing poetry.
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Well, somehow I managed to delete my blog, so here I am starting over.  Computers are sure fun!  :-)

Ok, just a warning, I am a lousy typist anymore, so please forgive any typos I miss correcting.  Funny what just a little nerve damage can do to your manual dexterity.

Tonight I spent some time at Big Bear Cafe in Washington, DC.  I attended a fund raiser for Clark Ray, hosted by Cheryl Edwards.  Big Bear Cafe was generous enough to provide a meeting place and we had some fine iced tea and iced coffee too.  Some people snarfed down some tasty looking pastries too.  I avoided those myself since I am on the gluten free diet.  They sure looked good though.

Cheryl emceed the art auction to raise funds for Clark Ray's campaign and did a great job of it too. Lots of art was sold including a couple of my minature encaustics.  I missed out on one of Cheryl Edward's New York water tower paintings though, danged if someone didn't out bid me at the last minute.

Mr. Stu Davenport, proprietor of the Big Bear Cafe purchased one of my minature encaustics.  Thanks Stu!  Another one was bought by a fine young couple whose names I didn't get.  Duh..!

Clark Ray talked about his campaign for at large council member for DC.  Clark had good points and of course my ears really perked up when he talked about funding for arts programs in the city school system.  Not that I have kids myself, but it sure seems like an important way for kids to learn a creative outlet for self-expression.

Hopefully I won't accidentally delete this blog page anytime soon...
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