Fine-art Fridays: skateboard crutch dancing.
I don’t know if this is hella corny or hella awesome. I’m leaning towards awesome, but you be the judge.
M. Meschery
Joel Kimmel: Portraits of the league.
A hearty FTB welcome to Joel Kimmel. He’s been working hard for a while now on a series of NBA-themed portraits. He currently resides in Brooklyn, but hails from Ottawa, up in Canadia. He’s blogging it up too. Take a wee little break and peep out his stuff. Personally, I dig his attempts to place his subjects in a frame of reference that honors both strength and weakness with a degree of grace and honor. Baron seems to have a certain noblesse oblige. Marbury as a Coney Island sideshow past its pull date is particularly noteworthy. I’ll now be adding the “buy it here link” since I didn’t bother to write him in advance of cribbing his artwork for this post. I’ll now turn it over to the critic’s circle of fire, aka, the comments thread for the final analysis. Just the same, I’m feeling you Joel. Keep doing what you do. I have an MFA in creative writing and I’m putting it down for beards and basketball. I understand. I’m feeling you. Kapisch?
Turman
PS. Here’s an interview he did for Blog Cleveland.
Baby, get your bus pass. We’re gettin’ married!
It’s spring and love is in the air, and on the road. A month or so back, some friends of mine decided that they were going to tie the knot in the exact location where they first met - on AC Transit, the Transbay Bus, going back to Oakland… the lower deck. It gets none more Baytastic than that. Don’t try to claim some East Bay status just because you wear an A’s cap and eat at The Smokehouse three nights a week. Until you get married on AC Transit, you’re just a tourist. Yes, the bar has been raised pretty high my friend.
So the way it went down (for those of you about to spend 10 grand and hella C02 on your wedding) is like this:
Bus Fare (Transbay) for 20 of your closest friends and family: $65
Extra Cake (to give to the nice bus driver): $12
iPod portable stereo (to set the mood): $77
Most Unforgettable Wedding: Priceless
The best part about this is they didn’t even reserve a bus (I don’t think that’s possible anyway). The guests all dressed in white and met up at the Transbay Terminal and just paid their fare and got on the bus like some Public Transportation Love Cult or something. Yep, it’s so easy anyone can do it. That’s why it’s called “Public Transit.” So, if your fiancé is coming at you with banquet hall rental information for The Fairmont or The Claremont, say “Baby, we can go to Fremont,” and then hand their ass a transfer. Oh, and don’t forget to set up your Ultimate Eco-Wedding Registry here: Offsettherest.com
M. Meschery
Fine-Art Friday: graffiti plus video plus all day equals, “Whoa, this is bad ass.”
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
This is amazing. A while back, Gd requested a fine-art category. This seems as good of a time as any to kick it off. We don’t really have beards, Bay or basketball here, just the lovely spectacle of some Argentine cats adding beauty to the world’s vacant parts. Happy weekend.
Turman