Wed 23 Jun 2010
I know. It’s been a long time. I haven’t just been sitting around. I’ve been traveling. A lot. And working quite a bit. I also just finished a print piece for The Flippen Group. The designer of this piece is Jason Madding and he did an incredible job–don’t you think?
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Wed 7 Oct 2009
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On that fateful February 19, 2009, Katsola and Carlos Hernandez sent out a call to a random collection of local artists they didn’t know and hadn’t ever worked with. “Meet up with us tonight—we’re starting a sketch group!” They gathered at Big Star Bar that night. Red Neck Mother played in the background, Diablo took a crap on the wall, and Carlos bought the first round of Lone Stars and whiskey.
Exactly 39 minutes and 42 seconds into the casual meet and greet, that arbitrary congregation of artists became…the Sketchy Neighbors. And they had a mission. They wanted to do what no group had done before. They would meet twice a month over the year. At their first meeting of every month, everyone would put their suggestions for a theme and media/material into The Hat—whatever was pulled from The Hat would be what each artist would work on that month. The second meeting would be a Show & Tell—they’d present their sketches or piece and critique each other’s work. And at the end of all this hard work, they would have a big show. Josie the bartender did the honors for the first round: Life is…on underwear. This. Was going to be. Fun. 10 Artists Come to the show and sale–don’t miss the chance to see what your intrepid Sketchy Neighbors created! |
Wed 22 Jul 2009
You know it’s been a long time since you’ve updated your blog when you can’t remember the password.
Despite all appearances on this blog, I’ve been busy this year. I’m doing some tech writing for Harris County Flood Control through ITNexus.com. I’ve done press releases, re-messaging, and Web copy for Charter Franchise Group through MichelGodts.com. In my “spare” time, I’m the voice of a new arts group in Houston called the Sketchy Neighbors and have helped them to put on an incredibly successful group show. And somewhere in there, I also did some more work for the European-Union/African Caribbean Pacific States microfinance program. And I continue to write the Houston destination guide for AirTran Airways inflight magazine and syndicate content through WCities.com.
Instead of writing about it here, I’ve been tweeting. (@globalwrites). Though I have started setting up a fan page on Facebook, I have yet to publish it.
Blogging made it far easier to keep my site updated. Great tools–like WordPress with it’s highly customizable templates, tagging, and categorizing–have made site maintenance a pain of the past.
And then came Twitter and Facebook. Talk about immediate gratification.
I’m around, folks. And I’m still writing. But you might want to follow me on Twitter to get the latest until I learn how to balance all this out.