Who wants art?

tumbleweed — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:38:01 GMT

If the 1st five people that post here keep this chain alive...I will send them something Tumbley! But, you have to post here, then post on your blog that you will send the first 5 posters on your blog, something arty. Do you get this? Well, figure it out then, we'll get to trading info.

I've been tagged!

tumbleweed — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 08:10:55 GMT

I was tagged by Cheezy like a week ago, and I'm just getting around to doing it. The rules are that you write 8 things about yourself in a blog entry, that you name 6 people to do the same, and no tagbacks. 1) this is only the second time in my life that I've blogged. 2) I still don't get why dimes are more valuable than nickles. 3) I can touch my tongue to my nose. 4) I still have dial up. 5) When I was 7, I saw the real tooth fairy. She was about 4'' tall, and flying around my room, topless and wearing jeans. I swear! 6) I play on-line scrabble....every day. 7) I used to live on a commune. My son Journey was born there. 8) I don't wear makeup.

Not a Cornfield

tumbleweed — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:04:04 GMT

One day while looking out a window on the 39th floor at 350 Grand in downtown LA, a lawyer pointed out a 32 acre cornfield planted as an art project. When the court reporter failed to show up, the lawyer suggested a walk through the cornfield instead of our schedueled deposition. Untill that day I had avoided downtown LA. I grew up in the country, so for me, downtown LA was way to crowded and congested, along with the traffic getting there. But that day in the cornfield changed my feelings for the city. I've gone back several times to visit with friends. We've parked at the cornfield and walked to Olvera St. and on into Chinatown, and ate at a great Vietnamese restaurant across the tracks from the cornfield. I now love downtown LA! But the cornfield itself is like pure magic. When you walk through it it transports you to a different reality. It's peacefull and full of color! When you peel back the husks and look at the corn, each one is differnt and colorful. Blue corn, golden orange, bright red, and multicolored. If you havn't already gone to check it out, I suggest you do before it gets harvested. The harvesting began today, but there's still a lot to go as it gets hand harvested over the next couple or so weeks. They are also looking for volunteers to harvest. I'm going this friday to help. Hey, how often do you get the opportunity to harvest corn in downtown LA?! Yall come on down now and help me harvest that corn! It's also a great place to take pictures! “Not A Cornfield is a living sculpture in the form of a field of corn. The corn itself, a powerful icon for millennia over large parts of Central America and beyond, can serve as a potent metaphor for those of us living in this unique megalopolis. This work follows a rich legacy of radical art during the 20th century on a grand scale. I intend this to be an event that aims at giving focus for reflection and action in a city unclear about where it's energetic and historical center is. With this project I have undertaken to clean 32 acres of brownfield and bring in more than 1,500 truck loads of earth from elsewhere in order to prepare this rocky and mixed terrain for the planting of a million seeds. This art piece redeems a lost fertile ground, transforming what was left from the industrial era into a renewed space for the public. The California Department of Parks and Recreation is currently designing the historical park this site will become. This design process has taken several years so far and is a difficult process both because of the many communities adjacent to the site they would all like to serve and because of limited funding. By bringing attention to this site throughout the Not A Cornfield process we will also bring forth many questions about the nature of urban public space, about historical parks in a city so young and yet so diverse. About the questions of whose history would a historical park in the city center actually describe, and about the politics of land use and it's incumbent inequities. Indeed, "Not A Cornfield" is about these very questions, polemics, arguments and discoveries. It is about redemption and hope. It is about the fallibility of words to create productive change. Artists need to create on the same scale that society has the capacity to destroy.” Lauren Bon. July 20, 2005

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