You can get a pretty nice look at The Cathedral of Junk in this promo video from Austin’s 7 Towers Theatre Company for an upcoming production of ‘Tis a Pity She’s a Whore. WOW. See their IndieGogo campain page for more information.
‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE – Promo Spot from Matt Latham on Vimeo.
This authenticity – stripped of pretension – is what my artist colleagues, at least, love about Scranton. It’s been a long slow fight, but I suspect that the tyranny of inferiority that has ignorantly insisted “it can’t be good unless it comes from NYC,” is slowly loosing its suffocating control over our creative horizons.
We are artists and we want to live here. You’d think the city natives would understand that but it’s been a hard sell. It’s simple, there’s more to life, and especially art, than money. -ag
(Richie) Piiparinen recently referenced this trend as “Rust Belt chic” in a post on the blog Rust Wire, describing its allure as “the warmth of the faded, and the edge in old iron and steel … part old-world, working culture, like the simple pleasures associated with bagged lunchmeat and beaten boots in the corner. And then there is grit, one of the main genes in the DNA of American coolness.”
via <a
href=’http://www.salon.com/2012/05/12/rust_belt_chic_declining_midwest_cities_make_a_comeback/’>Rust Belt chic: Declining Midwest cities make a comeback – Dream City – Salon.com.
After putting all that time and work into developing the process of creating the abstract architecture tile series last fall it would have been a shame never to pull that trick out of my sleeve again. Especially as I still have a decent amound of acrylic gel medium left.
These images are of two series I’m donating to the First Friday Scranton Art Auction on May 11.
For the first series of images all shot along or near the Lackawanna River trail at Providence Square, I used two six-inch tiles that I’m especially pleased with.
The second series of four four-inch tiles were all shot at my sister’s house in the Quicktown area of Madison Township, just outside of Moscow, Pa.
-ag
Stumbled across these gorgeous beads by Two Glassy Ladies of British Columbia by accident this morning searching for a Riverdance pic to run in the paper. They’re insanely gorgeous!
I’d love to get my craftly little hands on some.
-ag
The idea that any woman is speaking for her entire gender every time she opens her mouth is idiotic.
Men don’t speak for all of mankind- they speak for themselves.
that they were brave enough to speak as women without speaking for the whole gender is admirable and nearly impossible in a society that demands ideological consistency from women who self-identify as feminist or otherwise.
via Time to Catch a New Wave?.
The fact of the matter – no matter how much it may infuritate and frustrate – is that we are judged by our appearance with an unjust weight. The day a woman can wake up, throw on yesterday’s suit and run out the door for work with no make up on and not be treated with scornful, questioning sideways glances, or doubts about her ability once she arrives at the office, is the day we can say that cosmetic concerns are trivial.
This is something that we’ve been forced to struggle with as we watch our teenage daughters spend hours of their precious youth applying completely unnecessary and too-expensive makeup and hair product.
The double standard smacks us in the face with each year we age — as the number of men who find us a sexual option decreases, will we be taken more seriously or will we just be ignored, assumed to be out of touch and unfashionable because we’ve learned comfort is more fun than the constant pressure to always be desirable?
All tastes and political inclinations and goals and dreams aside — this is what unites us.
If you’ve chosen to live to live outside society’s judgement, I commend and envy you. Unfortunately, I learned to too late that life really is a popularity contest, that is, if you want to make an impact in the world. And this is true for men and women alike (although what makes men “cool” is significantly different from what makes women “cool.”) My colleagues and I can make theater that no one will see or can cultivate support for our work. In a town like Scranton, that means surface likeability — the first impression that makes people want to be associated with you — backed up second by substance that matters. -ag
Gregarious Expressions 