Pottery. And I have always liked pottery and ceramics as one of those arts and crafts things. And besides, pottery is beautiful to look at and behold. And clay is such an earthy material to work with when it comes to sculpting, forming and painting it. As clay seems like it is one of those materials from the earth itself. And as far as I know, there has been many schools and educational facilities devoted to nothing more than the crafting and sculpting of pottery and ceramics. And if you happen to be looking for those pottery and clay supplies to do some crafting of pottery yourself, you can find them at AMACO/Brent. AMACO.com is a website where you can find majolica glazes, pottery supply, slump molds and more. They are a place where you find supplies for potteries, education and crafts and you can also find lead free glazes, potters wheels, ceramic, self hardening and air dry clays, modeling and mold making supplies, brushes, tools, kilns, glass products and more for the artist in you at their website. And the photos and colors of some of those pottery designs that they have on their website are really beautiful to look at. With AMACO.com, finding those pottery supplies you may be looking for is just a website visit away.
The Headlines Again
And so I find myself attempting to continue that post of headlines of the day from long lore ago that I started posting from the other day from that stack of news clippings piled up in one of those folders that I wanted to get around to blah blogging about some day, if ever. And so again, I find myself blaghing the titles of those headline news with one or two sentences commentary instead of some really long commentary because, hey, it’s less writing sometimes in my attempt to maintain content for this blog whenever possible:
1. DoubleClick to sell Web ads through online exchange. Something about DoubleCLick letting advertisers sell ads on the internet. Is that another one of those get rich internet quick things?
2. amNY.com readers speak out about a Connecticut town’s proposal to van baggy pants: Something about young people wearing their pants below their butts, with a readers commentary of “Next time you will be telling us how we can comb out hair or the type of shoes we can wear.
3. Beloved 91-year old dies in a truck horror. An article about yet another casualty of the mean streets of New York that seem like they are designed for cars only and are not friendly towards pedestrians or cyclists. What would Times Up! and Transportation Alternatives have to say about this and making the streets of New York safer for pedestrians and cyclists. Enough of the ghost bikes already.
4. Van drags dead man 20 miles through city. From Queens to Corney Island, driver never noticed accident victim. Repeat commentary same as above number 3. And all too often, drivers of vehicles are never even given a traffic tickets for the casualty of its victims as roadkill. If only the streets of New York could be made more pedestrian and bicycle friendly as elsewhere throughout the country and Europe.
5. Read all about him. Obama-Mania! The English Lauguage Barackafied by the editors of Slate. An ad in the Daily newspaper about books that tell the president-elect’s story. I must have found this article interesting for some reason or another as I have saved this clipping.
And again, this folder of saved articles finds itself too big for me to post at the moment and it seems to be passing my by as I hope to continue this list in another posting one day in my blogahoicness, if ever. Have a great headline news day.
Speek
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Hey Bloggers, ever heard of Speek? And that word sound like it can almost be like to speak. And from what I gather by visiting their website is that they are about all communications all the time, as they are a free web based teleconferencing system that dials out to cell phones. And welcome to the world of space age high technology everything where one can now talk over the internet and computer to landlines, cellphones and voiceover internet applications just like the telephone. And now you can register for private beta. And from what I recall doesn’t beta have something to do with the testing of websites to see that they are working correctly before they are released to the general public or something like that, maybe. And now you can try Speek for free. Free you say? Well if it’s free than it’s for me. And what better way to communicate on one of those telephone calls than for free where one does not receive one of those mysteriously seemingly outer space like astronomical phone bills at the end of each month where the amount of ones bill almost seems as if it has be made up. With Speek.com, speaking to another person on a teleconferencing system is just a website visit away.
An Email
Hey Bloggers, or whoever could be reading this blog, as so I received this following announcement from a friend in my inbox the other day and I thought to post it on this blog because hey, it’s less writing sometimes in my attempt to maintain content on this blog whenever possible. And this event art rocks.:
1) Thank you all so much for making November’s first ever Hell’s Kitchen Artists in Studio Tours such an amazing success.
2) I’m happy to announce that our NEXT Hell’s Kitchen Open Studios will be May 21-23. And I’d love for you all to be involved.
HK: ArtiST was enormous, wonderful, and FREE. 50+ locales, largely homes & studios, art sponsored by and in many local businesses, media attention, some sales. Follow our art and exposure: Artists in the Kitchen. So many more performed: Theater, dance, music, song, comedy, video, murals…All who joined us to celebrate at the opening & closing parties. Plus so many helped beyond sharing your Great Muses and art: meetings, volunteers, encouragement-coloring the Festival with your unique spirit, much altruism, cooperation and joy. I am very grateful for all of it. It was the best (1st Midtown West) self guided art tour we could ever want.
Our next Open Studio will be May 21-23. And annually now: each May. I would like all artists from our 1st event back again! Plus so many I have met or were referred: join us! Thursday 2-25 at 6:30 PM is an open meeting at the Renaissance Diner, 776 9th Avenue, just south of 52nd St. I would love to see all, but know many will not be able to attend. So here is an indication of what we plan, & you will all get regular updates. And what I need from all participants, which will not take great effort, but will help us get so much more attention & success in promoting our art, fortunes, and neighborhood as a gem like art destination:
If you want to show work or perform: Please hit “reply” to this E-mail. Tell me what you would like to do with us: what type of art or performance. If outside Midtown West, tell me, I will find a local venue to show your talents. include a link to your Web Site or some web presence or art photos, if you are new to us, or have new info this time around!
Everyone, artists, and all who just LOVE art and want a fun, easy way to nurture this surprisingly original and skilled art scene in the midst of the greatest ‘art city’ in the world:
please do 2 ‘lil things for us:
1) Just promote us in general. Put our info & Web site (artistsinthekitchen.org) on all your social media/Facebook like sites. Send out this info, you can cut ‘n paste the above, to all your contacts. Tell all to check out our many superb artists on the Web Site, see much of the press and listings we had last time: & if any are in media or have such contacts: get a story done on us! Refer any & all artists & volunteers to me, & re: E-mail lists: please send me every E- address you can for my list/publicity. Artists groups you know: please refer them here, we will cross promote with them to get more visitors and possible patrons/clients.
2) I ask everyone to press reply to just pick one thing to tell me you would like to help with. As much or little as you like. Some can be done just sitting at home, other stuff are simple occasional walks around your area. The main categories to choose from: fliering. Web Site or tech help. Recruiting Press. Getting new sponsors. Outreach to block associations. Contacting hotels/concierges/tour buses to promote us. Printing. Help organizing our parties! Craigslist and other online ads. Getting new venues. Raffle. And even celebrity recruitment: good at getting contact/your/my foot in the door? I have a few BIG names and artists who live here…
Lastly, I had to finalize plans with my core group, inc. superb consultants. So soon I will tell you of idea(l)s like: when we may may get separate non-Profit status, like with a Board, (now we have non-profit status under fiscal sponsorship of Fractured Atlas) and give possibilities of how we may expand, get grants or public funds, etc. Now some want my notes to not be a book,Smiley_face and some are wary of attachments. So if you want to receive the projected vs. actual budget and time line for last year or this one, just ask! For our 1st event, I was about $1,700 in the red. This year I would like to break even. When we start making $, it will all go back in the event: I will never take any profit from it.
Thank you all so much again. I look forward to your great help with this amazing community of artists.
Namaste,
Mike
Founder/President
artistsinthekitchen.org
The Vacation
I need a vacation, a such and such vacation. And so the lyrics to that song goes I have heard somewhere before. And everyone seems as if they could use one of those vacations sometimes for some fun in the sun and the opportunity to be one of those tourists or what not, maybe. And do you happen to be looking for one of those vacations? Well you can find an all inclusive vacation at Breezes Resorts. You can also find a Caribbean vacation and an all inclusive vacation package and more at their website. With Breezes Resorts, you can be on the way to Jamaica, Brazil and other destinations. You can also find resorts in Panama, Bahamas and more. And what better way to relax on that vacation that in one of those spas to be found at their website as well. And those photos that they have on their website of those hotels and sights around town seem relaxing and fun indeed. And if you are in that social media mode, you can follow them on Twitter and Facebook and subscribe to their YouTube channels as well. With Breezes Resorts, finding that vacation you may be looking for is just a website visit away.
Random Thoughts
Hey Bloggers, and here it is again on this day another day of the Sun here on planet earth, that day of rest. And for some reason, I find myself blah blogging random thoughts on this blog a lot lately in an attempt to maintain content on this blog whenever possible for some reason or another. And so that bloggers block of what to write about, if anything arises. And so I find myself with this folder of all these news clippings From New York City Newspapers and beyond that I wanted to blah blog commentary on in my blogaholicness at some point in time. And instead of blaghing commentary about each of these articles, I thought to blagh those headlines and a sentence or two of commentary, because hey, it’s less writings sometimes:
1. More people “going green”. Something about safe alternative non toxic cleaning products.
2. Prevent H1N1 Influenza. Get vaccinated. This Weekend. Is that media hype and publicity campaigns to benefit the pharmaceutical companies, or is it real? War tactics on instilling fear gets votes.
3. H20hhhh, No You Don’t! Something about natural gas drilling and causing toilets to explode.
4. Some store color advertisement with and ad for summer fun, water bombs and an image of a yellow and pink water gun. Innocent subliminal fun and guns are the worst invention ever.
5. Another Sunday paper advertisement from some sporting goods store with an advertisement for rifles, pistols and shotguns as hunting and outdoor equipment advertised next to gold clubs. Guns considered as a sport? The local paper mind you. And guns are the worst invention ever again. If only guns can be banished from every human being on planet earth.
6. Pols struggle to save mom-and pops. Something about rents get so high in the East Village of New York and elsewhere that even the yuppies can’t even afford to pay the rent.
7. Big stink over Brooklyn plant. Odor could stunt growth in Greenpoint. Something about that Newton Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Greenpoint that seems as if it wants to turn Greenpoint into a waste dump.
8. Tom’s cruising ahead. Something about the actor Tom Cruise’s film “Valkyrie” or Scientology being political and actually having a real message to say other than bubblegum. A seemingly rarity in Hollywood.
9. Pol: Houston Street medians are “tragedy waiting to happen”. Something about pedestrians being killed just crossing the street in the City of New York and cars having the right of way even when pedestrians become road kill. Will those streets ever become bicycle friendly. Will those Department of Transportation and other traffic laws ever change to become safer and pedestrian and bicycle friendly. Too many white ghost bikes chained to those light poles around town already.
10. Prozac pacifies pets,too. Something about the big pharma pharmaceutical war industry drugging up the dogs and animals too. Even the animals are now exhibiting symptoms of depression. Will the water be next. Oh, I think I have read somewhere that the drinking water is even now full of psych drugs to. How does the insurance companies profit from that one? Will Nazi Germany and mass murderers in white coats ever end?
11. Multi ‘million-dollar’ blocks of Brownsville. The cost of incarceration vs. investment in community. Something about the inner city poor, people of color and minorities make up the majority of the prison population. A Rockefeller Law maybe. Not sure what to comment on this one except no one is free when others are oppressed.
12. Pol: Ditch plastic bags. In proposal large stores would have to use paper. This seemingly utopian would be great for the environment if it ever happened. I think it may have happened somewhere in Europe maybe, a more socially and environmentally conscious country.
13. Watching your steps. Council OKs cameras at dance club doors as part of nightlife safety crackdown. Another one of those big brother is watching you headlines. The loss of civil and human rights in the name of security.
14. Sundance comes to B’klyn. And I think that Sundance Film Festival may have came and went to Brooklyn by the time this post is finished. Though it may make its way around again.
15. China using Web to spy on enemies. Researchers: Computers turned “listening devices”. I always seem to think China is that world economic superpower for some reason or another. Everything in the USA seems as if it in now made in China. Is everything in China made in the USA?
And this folder seems to still be stuffed with those articles that I thought I would get around to blah blogging about someday. To attempt to be continued another day, maybe. Have a great day of the Sun.
The Floor Plan
Hey Bloggers, do you find yourself as one of those human beings dwelling here on planet earth in need of one of those basic necessity shelters called housing? And do you have one of those houses? As homes can always be fun to have and decorate, maybe. And if you happen to have one of those houses, or if you happen to be looking for one of those houses, does that question of how am I going to design this house ever arise? Well along comes the house floor plans. And at HousePlansandMore.com you can find those house plans. cabin plans and more that you may be looking for. They are a website where you can design the house of your dreams. You can find house plans, home plans, floor plans, blueprints and more in many different styles such as country house plans, lake house plans, mountain home plans, ranch house plans, southern house, rustic house, contemporary house and just about any kind of house plan and design you can think of. HousePlansandMore.com can design that house for you in that home style you may be looking for. And from the photos that they have on their website, they have some really beautiful styles of houses to choose from as they are all house planning and more all the time.
Time Out New York Style
And on this day finds itself another one of those Sundays that has rolled around. That day of rest, the Sabbath. Or is that Saturday. And yet I find myself blah blogging away in my blogaholicness for some reason or another. And Time Out New York, that really cool all New York all the time magazine, has a really cool issue titled Most Stylish New Yorkers in their last weeks edition. I know, because that copy of it I came across says so. And it seems to be a stylish and coloforul tabloid like fashion plate of people around town dressed up in fashion statements indeed. So much, that I thought to blah blog about it on this blog. And in particular somewhere on page twelve through page twenty six or something, there they are, or at least most of them are according to Time Out New York. The stylish New Yorkers of Eleanor Friedberger, the musician in the Fiery Furnaces, Rio, financial analyst, Starrett Zenko, marketing director for Jonathan Adler, Victor Vazquez, musician in Das Racist, Elizabeth Spiridakis, style blogger, Ill Will, actor, artist, promoter and member of the Retro Kidz, Miss Frankie Rose, musician, Kid Cudi, musician, actor, vampire, Jeralyn Gerba, Daily Candy editor, Cale Parks, musician, Zewiditu Jewel, blogger, student and store owner, Michael Macko, fashion consultant, Chuck Guarino, proprietor and designer for TheCast, Cheryl, disco shamans, Christian Joy, costumer-fashion designer, Coco, makeup artist, Heidi Rosenau, head of PR for a museum, Shien Lee, founder-event producer for Dances of Vice, Josh Peskowitz, freelance editor, writer, stylist and consultant, Jared Joseph, actor in Dreamgirls, Golden Triangle, Brooklyn Band, Frank Tell, fashion designer, Robert James, owner, designer and creative director of By Robert James, Mary “MZ.Skittles” Seats, rapper-singer, student, fashion guru and stylist, Ryan Turner, menswear designer, Ouigi! “The Bearded Man” Theodore, DJ Cassidy, DJ and producer, Rajni Lucienne Jacques, fashion features editor at Nylon, Justin Reese, Topman sales adviser, Kelly Framel, stylist, jewelry designer and fashion blogger, Leah Taylor, managing editor of Flavorpill New York, Ruben Sanz Ramiro, sommelier,Jessica Delfino, twisted minstrel and subversive artsy lady, Louise Ingalls Sturges, photographer, painter, blogger and vintage vendor, Cats Mcdaid-Kelly, M.F.A. student at Parsons, Timo Weiland and Alan Eckstein, fashion designers for Timo Weiland and a host of about fifteen or so other most stylish New Yorkers dressed up or down stylish. And sometimes that city of New York seems as if it can be all about fashion, style, trends and more style, fashion and trends. Have a great fashion Sunday day.
A Hotel
The hotel. And what can I say about those hotels that has not already been said. You know those hotels don’t you, those shelters for human beings to dwell in here on planet earth that one usually pays for a temporary stay for a vacation or what not. And from what I can recall some of those hotels to be found across this world are really super fancy with all sorts of amenities like jacuzzis, spas, gyms, massage, swimming pools, bars, room service and more. And some of those hotels are so fancy that one would just want to take a vacation to the hotel and never go anywhere until of course it’s time to check out. And then there are hotels in Charlotte. And I have heard of that state of North Carolina before, as that is that state that is to be found in that country of America. And North Carolina can be a cool state to visit as one of those tourists, and what better way to see the sights that state has to offer than in staying at one of those hotels to be found in North Carolina. And there are also great museums, art, music and other culture to be found there. And in Charlotte, North Carolina I imagine there are no shortage of hotels and hotel rooms to choose from for ones stay there to be the Charlotte, North Carolina hotel vacation.
The Musician
And every so often I find my self blogging about music and events on this blog, as music seems as if it can be one of those things that makes the world go round. And from what I see, being one of those musicians can be fun, the idea of playing music for all to hear. And then there are Musicians Friend Promotional Codes. And I am not exactly sure what the musicians friend promotional codes could be, though they seem like they have something to do with coupons for saving money on musician items such as acoustic amps, sound gear, DJ gear, lighting, drums, percussions, guitars, keyboards, recording equipment and all that other music gear a musician could ask for. And usually just about any kind of product one can think of to buy there can be a coupon to be found for it for items like food, electronics, computers, jewelry, shoes, clothing, movies and more from all kinds of different stores. And what better way to save on an item than with one of those coupon codes anyway, as coupons can always be the way to go when it comes to saving money.
No Police State 