Art Reminds You of Your Daily Humiliation
So I went halfway home to learn I was coming back to a job I had actually been laid off from! Whoa. So I’m home and that’s cool and now I’m gonna chill out and see how long I can do odd jobs for. Need a professional toenail or apartment painter? Need someone to update your blog while you’re at work totally not blogging? Professional afternoon bloody mary drinker? How about a style consultant or someone who knows a lot about the coast guard? I’m here for you.
Oh well! So. All is well. No. All is grand! I resigned from one of jobs today. Woo hoo! I’ll be going down the river this summer. Yay!
Okay, so. Lots of good fun things have happened lately. Much partying and carrying on. I haven’t spent any money on anything except laundry in 2 days. I did my laundry.
Here are some pics from Ed Zipco’s photoshoot party at the Brooklyn Industries Gallery in which he constructed a human slingshot with a mattress landing pad. Also pics from the Sweville show and the Miss Rockaway benefit art show opening Also, a small surprise asshole splasher manifesto that appeared on the ground.
Check out the flickr gallery here
Ahahaha. From the Skewville Orchard Street Art Gallery Closing Party! See the whole thing here.
More pics from the Skewville show here.
Also, the Miss Rockaway Benefit Art Show at Ad Hoc Gallery
ed & kat
Very disgruntled art show organizers!
The fellow they call “Hot Jamie” and hot Todd
Skewtown & Chevin. We’ll miss you on Orchard!!
Chevin, Todd & Brandy Gump.
Kristine, Adam & girl I don’t know.
Brandy & Cubby performing.
Chevin & Thaddeus
Seeliemonsta.
The great Stark.
And then that promised splasher manifesto pic. Thought this was kind of funny:
(from maryland bridge, john k samson)
anyway!
so i’m in the process of moving my organization’s website from (proprietary hell) convio crm and cms tools to drupal & democracy in action. i’m working with these incredible designers and developers called floatleft and vernal creative. i’ve been really really skeptical of drupal in the past, but i feel like the issues with nonprofits and drupal primarily stem from orgs having very small web budgets and not being able to afford support & customization. so, i enter this drupal build with caution, but since we’re putting a solid chunk of cash into it, and working with trusted developers & designers i feel like we’re in great shape.
we’re also using democracy in action as a CRM. right now convio charges about 50K per year simply to maintain their service as a cms and crm. DIA however, charges $2000 to install and then $400 or $500 for maintenance. pretty cool.
i’m psyched to be bringing an open source platform into my work and i’m psyched to build with the folks i’m working with. i would use wordpress if i was building a blog, but given the kind of organization i’m building for, i think drupal is a good fit.
AND…Williamsburg matches today! He he he. Today I am working from home but our wireless is out so I’m across the street at Atlas.
[Update, 11amish]: 8 mac laptops here now, 1 Dell.
[Update, 12:09pm]: 13 mac laptops here now, zero PCs. Also, my pinky is freezing. I don’t type with the right pinky usually. Working from home rules.
[Update: 12:45pm]: Guy walks into Atlas who has tied his dog up outside. The dog is muzzled and wearing a keffiah. Ah Williamsburg.
[Update: 1:09pm]: It’s like zero degrees in Atlas. There are some creepy realtors across the aisle from me.
[Update: 2:22pm]: It’s 24 degrees outside and it feels like it in atlas too. Meh. I should take lunch. One dell, 11 Macs.
[Update: 4:36pm}: Ate some pierogies and went to Lucky cat. They're shooting a film called Pride and Glory on my street. I am the only mac user here, along with a huge glossy screened hp PC laptop. I walked Aparna through the glory of file transfer protocol on the phone. Woot!
whew! i will be a mildly bit less insane now.
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