http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXIQSH-M_kQ

Youtube... no...

Guys Love Giraffe Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6yBzErQZYo&NR=1

So that was a pretty fun night. Director of the local art gallery came to me and asked me to volunteer at the Midsummers Eve of the Arts, this big huge "Art Auction to benefit the Gallery" thing that has like a $50 entry fee and auctions off things at averages of $300 - $3000. So pretty much I was with the silent auction crew, set things up, everyone asking me "so what do you think of how these arts are arranged on the table?" and me saying "It'd look better like this." and them going "you're right!" me not... not really knowing why all these strangers are defering to me, but thinking it's pretty cool anyway.

So the night comes around - I get there about an hour early to help finalize things, and there's about... 30 of the local resteraunts and wineries from around the whole region there - one of the resteraunt booths has a very large bbq, and there is half of a pig on it. About four wineries, and two breweries, a couple 'gourmet catering' and other sorts of places - two live band sorts of things, classical type, violins, a tuba, couple clarinets and flutes - so I'm pretty impressed.

Then 6:30 rolls around, the doors open, and a *wave* of humanity fills the place in an instant, ignoring the art for - did I mention that all the food, beer and wine is free?

So after about an hour of looking after my silent-auction tend with a couple others (there's two tents for silent auction art) I'm spelled for a break - and the food people were also wise enough to have people carrying around trays of food. There's about fifty of those fruit and vegetable snack tray things  you can get from Safeway or wherever, laying on tables beside the lines - there's lineups for just about every resteraunt booth thing - and those trays are mostly being ignored.

So for the rest of the night, every time my mug of beer or glass of wine (every single person there got a free wine glass just for the heck of it, and i mean everyone) - every time my glass was empty, someone refilled it, every time my other hand was empty, it was filled with roast pork, or shrimp shishkabob, or sushi, or some indian food thing, or something else delicious.

All in all, from just the $50 cover, the gallery raised about $30000 in that single night - and about $40000 from the live and silent auctions combined. Also, the director of the museum and I got to random talking, she lamenting that the guy doing the "Ghost Tours" of the city was retiring, and mentioned that I'd have a good face to continue his work.

...

All in all, a good night.

http://www.whirled.com/#whirleds-t_1411

Jes       on Jun 21, 2008 12:56 PM

Here's the recipe!

1000g milk
1000g cream
750g egg yolks
625g sugar
6 strips of cooked bacon

Method of procedure:
-Thoroughly cook bacon, keep warm.
-Bring milk and cream to a boil.
-Add bacon to the hot dairy.
-Cover and infuse for 4 hours.
-Strain out bacon.
-Bring baconed dairy back to a boil.
-Whisk yolk and sugar together.
-Temper hot dairy into yolks mixture.
-Pour back into the dairy.
-Cook over low heat, stirring with a wooden spoon till it reaches
nappe (coats the spoon).
-Cool over an ice bath.
-Spin in an ice cream machine.

:O

... wait, I can kinda predict some of

:O

Wait, but... I know this archetype, so...

:O

But... wha..

:O

Buh

:O

But higgidey bhoo

:O

:O

:O

But

:O

HOLY CRAP

:O

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...

This is... unexpected.

Is there... I don't watch TV news at all really, haven't been paying attention to much outside of art lately, but...

Is there something going on down there in the USA that I'm missing?

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/489771/what_happens_when_you_ask_a_little_girl_about_monsters/

Ahaha, I can only hope my own future daughter will be as ass-kicking as this.

And all clean, no problems.

Except that, apparantly, he doesn't have any frontal sinuses.

He doesn't have any frontal sinuses because they are FILLED WITH BRAIN.

Which, y'know, kinda freaked out the doctor - no problems, just, he'd never seen or heard of that before.

Also may explain a few things; given that I take after him, it makes me wonder what I've got up there.

Damnit, this better not mean I get to be zombie bait.

...and I'm back.

Thought about continuing the old numbering scheme, which would have meant that what here is '1b' would be '65', but I decided that'd be dishonest. This is all about seeing how many consecutive days I can upload four new art pieces each day; continuing the numbering from my last point of failure would be dishonest.

So! Now that I've gained confidence in pencil and graphite, I've moved over to pen and ink, markers, calligraphy pen and bottle of ink, and it really is a lot of fun. The tactile feedback of a knife-edge calligraphy nib vibrating against the surface of the paper as it bleeds black ink behind its path is something just not found in the smooth silken slide of soft graphite or charcoal.

1b) Crest



Small thing here, getting used to drawing with a calligraphy pen and bottle of ink, along with a few permanant black in markers of various sizes and a regular ball point pen.

2b) Thing in a Box



Thing in a box. Practicing angles, construction, lighting - my angles are off a bit, but I've sinced learned how to correct that, I've got a painting of something like this somewhere around here I'll upload later on, angles corrected.

3b) Mountain Meadow



This was fun, all of this was done with calligraphy pen, various nibs, and a bottle of ink - I smudged it in the bottom right there, the ink isn't as black as I'd like, but it flows well, and it's convenient for on-site sketching like this.

4b) Dead Tree



Big old rotten dead tree. Background was added artificially to give it a sense of scale, if I remember correctly this was in the corner of an old gravel yard. Was fun messing with the angles and perspective here, and I'm glad the flowers worked as well as they did. Drawing with various pens, markers, and ink doesn't exactly leave any room at all for erasing.


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So, usually I'm posting this over at http://lbassett.livejournal.com/ http://lukebassett.blogspot.com/ and http://lbassett.deviantart.com/ ; it's just here this time as well to announce that it can has be arts tiem now. Future updates in those other places!

Check it out, I'm still somehow keeping up with 4 new art stuffs a day.

http://lbassett.livejournal.com/

How is this possible? If I knew, I would totally bottle it and give you some.

Oh yeah:

To randomly celebrate the 16th day of this project, and to make up for da's rando maintaniance denying me my 14th, have four paintings:

http://lbassett.deviantart.com/

There's fun in line, shape, mass, and texture, certainly, especially with variances in tone, but to add hue and chroma to the mix adds two entirely new dimensions to the play. What is that, seven dimensions now?

The Avatar is back!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khymznm-DzU&feature=user

To save the day!

:D

Ack, spider season again. I don't mind that they're in my bed, I just wish they weren't so ticklish when I'm trying to get to bed early.

There is 4 inches of snow outside *right now* and it is still snowing.

Wait, is it Febuary again? Did I miss a year or somehow go back three months? I'm not sure anymore.

See, seeing stuff like this is what drives me and keeps me motivated to keep painting every day.



























You know what those are pictures of?

Paintings.

Acrylic paintings - not photos, just paint on canvas.

I've got a long way to go yet, and seeing just what *can* be done... it helps me keep going.

Giant Strongbad game on the Wii?

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/32796.html

o.O

What happened to this world while I was away?

Can't believe I've been updating four new things a for the past 9 days, even a full painting the the past couple sets. Hnnn, and it still feels as if I'm just getting warmed up - haha, I can't wait to see what I've been together from this, ten years from now.

Usual places:
http://lbassett.deviantart.com/
http://lukebassett.blogspot.com/

Which all point to:

http://lbassett.livejournal.com/

Really, the more I do this, the more fun it is. Crazy, eh?

Usually places:
http://lbassett.deviantart.com/
http://lukebassett.blogspot.com/

And make sure you friend me over at http://lbassett.livejournal.com/ for all the crazy art style goodness!

Only week, a small milestone, but a milestone nonetheless.

http://lukebassett.blogspot.com/
http://lbassett.livejournal.com/
http://lbassett.deviantart.com/

Day Five already? That's way too fast. Well, it's not even a week yet, but even so, I'm going to have to improve my time usage here. Hmm...

As always, http://lbassett.deviantart.com/ is where the action is, though it'd be more useful to friend me over at http://lbassett.livejournal.com/ or http://lukebassett.blogspot.com/ if you don't have a DeviantArt account.