tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54422651566590122762011-10-19T11:50:58.232-05:00Reacquainting ModalitiesSane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-60519369868228224302011-10-19T11:40:00.004-05:002011-10-19T11:50:58.256-05:00

Hey everybody! Sane Artworks is undergoing a metamorphsis into something super great... keep up with what I've been up to in the meantime at my active e-zine LOCAL TROLLEYThis message was long over do... I fully intended to stay regular, ahem current with my art blog portion of my schitzo schism that took place all the way back in February... Essentially, I wanted to separate the things I was

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The rapid growth of SXSW media expo is pushing its limits as cutting edge experience. Like all great perennial events there comes a point of cliche and possible sell out. I came across an interesting piece by tech industry entreprenuer Mark Suster questioning reasons to go to SXSW, as if SXSW is an abomination of a former experience. I'm willing to bet it is.Without question there is fun to be

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Clearly not new to art Leah Smithson's work is getting notice and praise. Later this month Smithson's will exhibit her art in Hotel Des Arts in San Francisco, CA.

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What happens when you stop thinking in terms of good and evil, and deal with what is... Riverwest is a neighborhood in Milwaukee, and now there is a play about it... Riverwest: A Rhapsody!

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Riverwest Currents is the neighborhood monthly paper in Riverwest. The 6th annual Riverwest Follies supported its continued circulation. You can always count on some craziness in Riverwest, but mellow works fine too.

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August Wilson published 10 plays during his heralded writing career. One of them, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom currently being produced by the Milwaukee Repertory Theater.

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To be a class A city, Milwaukee's Downtown completely fills Sunday nights with silence. This past weekend I tried to capture the stillness. Milwaukee streets softly illuminated by gentle street lanterns. Picture Milwaukee, Downtown City Scapes on Local Trolley

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Plastic shopping bags can be put to work... The hosts of the People's Books Co-op "Do It Together" showed me how.

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New York artist Chakaia Booker defies waste through On Site: Chakai Booker at the Milwaukee Art Museum. On to Local Trolley Blog now...

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Local Trolley is the new home of Sane Artworks adventure related posts.Check it out: Funk, e'Lectrick Warbabies do it, to it

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The winter edition of Gallery Night in Milwaukee took place Friday and Saturday this past weekend. I took the A.V. Club's lead on a couple of art exploits seen on Friday night, but ended up off the the trod path and left one destination on my to do list.The Green Gallery is somewhere I've wanted to check out for a while. I heard of this space a couple of years ago, recognizing the name of

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"So there was this cool cat with an autotunes guitar who went to the bar to tune his guitar... the bar tender asks if he wants a tune-a-sandwich..." If you walked in at this moment of the performance with a blindfold on you might have thought a stand up comedian voiced a futile introduction to a terrible joke. If, hypothetically, you were thinking that, with a blind fold on, you would have been

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This past summer in Milwaukee, a mother smothered her child while "co-sleeping" or in other words sleeping with the baby in the bed. In response, a public art exhibition served as a public announcement to raise awareness of the precarious nature of "co-sleeping" with infants. The issue has social implications, as it is thought that those impoverished may be more inclined to "co-sleep" in the

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Is it June, I mean July 19th already? I have gotten the most out of the summer outdoor (and indoor) concert / fest season while it has lasted. I was not going to post this a month later but I am anyway. It's worth sharing. I think I am still recovering from the damn Pitbull show, and I think his web managers are too. They have only posted one story since the show at Summerfest on June 28th. The

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Summerfest is the biggest thing going, in the world they say. The Milwaukee masses come together and do what they can to forget about the winter that past and the one that's coming.I covered the PE concerts as a guest writer on MKE Wired. Finally I'm back in the sphere... follow the link Public Enemy Wrap: Not out of the cross hairs yet.

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There are all these t-shirts I have personally wanted forever and now with my new found love of t-shirt making, it's happening. This is not threadless style where everybody has to like it. No I'm a dictator! This is the first in series I plan to do of unsung movie moments. Most people don't know who this is... but the die hard (that's not a hint) corny action movie buffs will appreciate this one

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If you look through my school notebooks, binders and books throughout the years you'll see just about as many doodles, sketches and scribbles as notes. I've always been into street art style letter graphics. Every now and then I pick a few letters to string together in some graffiti style sketches. As my adopted artist name, Sane now appears on many of my free-time free-hands.Wild Style is an

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Wu - Tang Clan karaoke y'all. This past Saturday night at this spot called the Highbury in Bay View these local Milwaukee Hip - Hop heathens, using the moniker Brew - Tang Clan, played the Wu- Tang instrumentals for eager Wu - Imposters to bring the vocals to. One catch separated the real from the faulty... no lyrics on teleprompters. It was a nice touch for weeding out johnny come new Wu -

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So you ever wonder what happened to those old shopping carts with the instructions on the kid seat? Well I was helping a friend move and low and behold in the basement of her building was this shopping cart with the most absurd illustrations how to use the shopping cart with child in tow. Being the stickler for blatantly obvious opportunities to ridicule such non-sense I took it upon myself to...

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All around Milwaukee you can see physical changes taking place, clean-cut mixed-use developments, fragrant plantings in the boulevards. The streets are even getting paved after ten years of neglect. Some of that same rejuvenating energy is being released on the social scene too. Gallery Night is not a new invention and it's nice to see creative outlets taking root in Milwaukee.One of my favorite

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When accomplishment overwhelmed my senses at the conclusion of 2 months of rehearsals and 10 straight days of performances, I found myself nearly shaking from feeling the energy that was stored, in the now empty space that was our small black box performance hall. My appreciation radiated in a very genuine moment, my liquid friend Carlo hadn't started kicking my arsenic at that point.Partaking in

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Last week the full moon was really intense, some kind of special moon astrologically that was supposed to open up a time portal allowing the ancient beast Biroc to take a bath in the Big Dipper or something. Well anyway, it kept me awake for 4 nights in a row. I'm putting my heart back in my pocket these days, and it's taking longer than usual, especially since there's been two months since I

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I just finished my Air Flight 89 refurb project Nascar style. This project took way too long to finish. They are painted and airbrushed. I left my air brush at a friend's house for months thinking I would airbrush them. Then in the absence of my airbrush, I started playing around with paints and found the mixed-media to be pretty cool and easier to work with. I always had this obsession, as a kid

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So in the wake of my first e-commerce success I find out that Red Bubble, keeps 99% of the sale... on a $23 shirt I get $3... that's not a fair trade for international exposure! I changing channels to etsy!!! Duh!I love my new shirt, just printed this early today (now yesterday)...Now that the school year is over I am fully embracing the artists clock, it has 16 hours! Acting took me there, now

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So I have an artist page which the "Never Can Say Good Bye" post's images are available as T-Shirt graphics. I put them up today in the wee morning, and some one liked the Smooth Criminal dance image enough to put it on there body! This is my first... aaaahhhh... sale!!!My artist page is http://saneartworks.redbubble.com/worksTake a look!

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Here is my ode to a genius, legend, and a man way ahead of his time!!!The ultimate performer, almost larger than life.Time will always remember him. We love you Michael!!! - Sane

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I never imagined how much fun I would have partaking in the spectacle that someone else's dream built... but I did. The US Air Guitar Championships tour made an emergency stop in Milwaukee, between jaunts to Cleveland and Minneapolis. This is serious business and the faithful die hard. Luckily the Milwaukee stop was just an exhibition thus allowing me to mime a rendition of Devo's Whip It with a

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So I haven't been around for awhile, I've been busy not making time for things like everyone else, but a couple of weeks ago a rare piece of video was shot capturing the birth of a new intellectual highlight for us males (uh, what ever that means). It's really the aftermath of a cooking endeavor, gone terribly right depending on how you look at it. I was trying to bake a cake, a quadruple layer

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I bought an iMac in the spring of 2005 when Apple's stock was about $24 a share and have been loving it every since (minus the lack of RAM). But, if you're anything like me you are suspicious of all these software updates alerts you're hounded with every few weeks. Me being the stubborn technology user I am, refused to update iTunes for about 3 years. Recently, I discovered that every time I

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The verdict on the chili contest sponsored by WMSE is 3 thumbs up. There was plenty of room in the venue and lots of cool signs too, and of course, great variety in restaurants and chili styles. As one put it, "It's like meatloaf, same dish but everyone has a different take on it." How true, the simmering stews had everything from brats to green beans to seafood.My favorites were:1. Fuel Cafe's

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Experiencing the ultimate training on how-things-work in public education at the lowest level of stature, as a substitute, I'm gaining more valuable insight into the issue of public education then I ever imagined. Much of what I attained so far has to do with expectations. Any attempt to capture and do justice to the subject of teaching through cinema is tried and too often failed. This past year

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If the freaks come out on Friday night, the geeks and would-be Breakfast Club-ers definitely come out on Saturday afternoon, especially for a paper airplane flying contest. Red Bull is known for sponsoring bar drink-offs and real full-action stunt air-shows, but at this event having the skills to propel an aeronautically sound 80 gram paper flyer the farthest, will book you a trip to the world

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I think camera phones are super obnoxious, but ultimately great for capturing unexpected moments. Too bad mine is super low resolution, damn old skool razor phone. I still managed to digi-click this one. Maybe since I've been in a artsy mood things look different to me right now. Anyway, I'm in the UWM Student Union and on the landing of a stairwell is this guy sleeping extra hard. Understanding

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College radio giant 91.7 WMSE is hosting a chili contest fundraiser in early March. I [heart] chilli and I [heart] WMSE enough to don two bumper stickers on my vehicular, so I guess I will have to attend. Plenty of local restaurants will compete including mainstays like Beans & Barely and Milwaukee Ale House, but also local favorites like the Bremen Cafe, and unknown to me's like Hotch-A-Do. The

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It's a week past Friday February the 13th, the opening of the re-release of the killassic horror flick Friday the 13th. I made it out on the first night, and the diehard horror fans made a respectable showing. The fact that it was actually Friday the 13th and Valentine's Day weekend made it marginally cool. It was a multicultural, inter-generational affair. Even a obnoxiously-Fergie-fabulous

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There is a new comedy showcase in Milwaukee called Funny First Sundays, uh, at Comedy Sportz on 1st Street right south of downtown. You get a little taste of BET Comic View because its hosted by Damon Williams. What? You're supposed to know him. No not Damon Wayans, Williams. Okay lets be serious, you get a little taste of Comic View in Milwaukee. That means they could have used the pudgy referee

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Wanna stick it to the "the man"? What if I told you that you could do it in the comfort of your own home, on a park lawn, by yourself or with a crew of friends. What if I told you that you could and only reap the rewards of soul-inspiring fulfillment and not the affection of the INTERPOL. Sounding unreasonable? The United States premiere of the film Handmade Nation made believers out of a

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In plain view under a curved lamppost with a conical fixture beaming down light, sits an endomorphic body-type mannequin postured upright on a wooden chair at the far end of a 20-foot table; it ominously presides over the diorama scenes intermittently placed over the balance of the wooden surface. The main action of Waldek Dynerman’s Train Project lives here. Curious on lookers begin to meander

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