Author: Hggns
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Checkin’ the List
Sun breaking through the clouds after a gray morning; shimmering on the lake, shining on dry fallen leaves. I’m on my second pot of coffee, catching up on blog and Facebook posting, and sorting work for a group show at Zip37 gallery. Last year at this time, I didn’t have a lot to do, so…
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An eventful fall around here, not you all might be expected to know it, from reading the World’s Worst Blogger! Here’s a quick recap of what I’ve been up to: *Two workshops, an eight-week and a one-day, completed this Fall. They were well attended and a lot of fun. The next one begins early in…
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I’m shocked- SHOCKED! to learn that I was off pursuing important projects in education , art marketing, and social networking, no one has bothered to update this blog. Eyes will roll! I thought I’d made a pretty savvy hire for a support staff, millions of monkeys armed with millions of cast-off Remington Selectrics, working for…
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I’ve learned one thing at my temporary job: not all workplaces are the same. The University of Denver Bookstore has none of the negativity and management bullying that is practically unwritten policy at Safeway. Thus the customers get experienced help and a genuine human interaction when they walk in, as opposed to Safeway, where they…
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The Art Students League is Richardsonian, referring to H.H. Richardson, prominent early 20th Century architect who had a big influence, though most of his actual projects are in the east (the state asylum building near the Albright-Knox in Buffalo, for example). I’m working at the University of Denver bookstore in their receiving department. It’s for…
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Catching Up
The sun has gotten gold-tinged, the temps have plunged into the 80’s. I had a week recently to try and collect my thoughts after a long brutally hot summer, and I’m thinking life is good. Last year at this time, things didn’t seem quite so sanguine. I’d had an unprecedented run of shows with no…
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another long break between posts. It does appear that launching oneself in the creative economy, and blogging about launching oneself in the creative economy, are two very different, and possibly mutually exclusive things. Like the year I spent 47 days walking a picket line, telling myself to keep a diary so I could write about…
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In the middle of August around here, the heat loses a little of its edge. Especially in Wyoming where I combined a little business with a quick road trip up I-25 past the splendid rocky mesas near Chugwater, and into the
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Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Here’s a quick follow-up on the last post. The Tea-Bagger beat the plagiarist. Apparently Colorado GOP voters are more worried about the U.N. /bicycle conspiracy theory than whether their children receive quality education, or their seniors, health care. But politically, bicycle batallions are the least of their worries. In addition to the third-party Immigration Nazi,…
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Purple Haze
I haven’t commented on politics too much lately, but the GOP Gubernatorial slate aren’t really practicing it, anyway. More like slapstick. Yes, I know the conventional wisdom is that the Dems will suffer losses in the mid-term elections because of Tea-Bagger activism, but you couldn’t prove it here in Colorado. As those who are paying…
