Enter World: exploring mediated cultures

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Tangible Gifts Through Blogs

Back in January Jan Cartier had a birthday drawing offering to paint a dessert of the winner’s choice. I came across her painting a day blog in one of my art feeds and was drawn especially to her chaos paintings from New Orleans. What luck that the day I first came across her site she was offering this prize, because I tossed my name in the hat and won!

In an effort to pay it forward, the April issue of MetaPaint’s newsletter offered tickets to Juneau Jazz & Classics in a similar raffle.

Right around my birthday she posted the finished painting of my wedding cake for Naughty Friday. I’m excited to get the original in the mail and see the detail.

She also placed one of her Chaos paintings, Water Lily Chaos, up on eBay for Zoo-To-Do. The entire purchase price goes to restore the New Orleans zoo Audubon’s bird house.

Her site is an excellent example of connecting people, causes, and art through blogging.

Friday, April 11, 2008

Movie Madness: Filming Shelter

Shelter is being filmed in Pittsburgh now, and will soon be taking over Braddock. At some point they will be in Mayor John’s house, the Braddock library, and even in Jodi’s bank.

They offered Mayor John a part in the film, I think he’ll be meeting Julianne Moore and wheeling her on a gurney. Cindy told me her sister went to school with Moore at JDHS, so that’s an interesting twist.

Friday, June 01, 2007

First Friday

Enough SL First Friday art walk and online research. I’m off to explore Juneau’s RL First Friday.