tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54422651566590122762024-02-19T00:25:41.971-06:00Gallops, Finds, and Tales...Reacquainting ModalitiesSane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-60519369868228224302011-10-19T11:40:00.004-05:002011-10-19T11:50:58.256-05:00Sane Artworks is undergoing a Metamorphsis...Hey everybody! Sane Artworks is undergoing a metamorphsis into something super great... keep up with what I've been up to in the meantime at my active e-zine LOCAL TROLLEYThis message was long over do... I fully intended to stay regular, ahem current with my art blog portion of my schitzo schism that took place all the way back in February... Essentially, I wanted to separate the things I was Sane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-64262541707260570142011-03-23T00:59:00.003-05:002011-03-23T01:41:33.923-05:00SXSW tears down, scene for next yearThe rapid growth of SXSW media expo is pushing its limits as cutting edge experience. Like all great perennial events there comes a point of cliche and possible sell out. I came across an interesting piece by tech industry entreprenuer Mark Suster questioning reasons to go to SXSW, as if SXSW is an abomination of a former experience. I'm willing to bet it is.Without question there is fun to be Sane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-81082607003237197262011-03-15T22:47:00.003-05:002011-03-15T23:00:52.513-05:00Leah Smithson, splashing in the Bay AreaClearly not new to art Leah Smithson's work is getting notice and praise. Later this month Smithson's will exhibit her art in Hotel Des Arts in San Francisco, CA.Sane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-74017855911217625852011-03-15T22:13:00.003-05:002011-03-15T22:21:31.443-05:00From the sidewalk to the stage, Riverwest: A Rhapsody!What happens when you stop thinking in terms of good and evil, and deal with what is... Riverwest is a neighborhood in Milwaukee, and now there is a play about it... Riverwest: A Rhapsody!Sane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-18350112307929845942011-03-10T23:56:00.002-06:002011-03-11T00:01:42.469-06:00Keeping it local, Riverwest Currents BenefitRiverwest Currents is the neighborhood monthly paper in Riverwest. The 6th annual Riverwest Follies supported its continued circulation. You can always count on some craziness in Riverwest, but mellow works fine too.Sane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-53048692552865531092011-03-04T18:50:00.004-06:002011-03-15T23:19:09.910-05:00August Wilson production brings more than the BluesAugust Wilson published 10 plays during his heralded writing career. One of them, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom currently being produced by the Milwaukee Repertory Theater.Sane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-53147671877238626162011-02-28T23:57:00.004-06:002011-03-15T23:15:56.834-05:00MIlwaukee's Downtown is Dark but not Drab...To be a class A city, Milwaukee's Downtown completely fills Sunday nights with silence. This past weekend I tried to capture the stillness. Milwaukee streets softly illuminated by gentle street lanterns. Picture Milwaukee, Downtown City Scapes on Local Trolley Sane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-27000941715680926542011-02-25T08:08:00.005-06:002011-03-15T23:13:33.208-05:00People's Books Co-op Home to Creative ConservationPlastic shopping bags can be put to work... The hosts of the People's Books Co-op "Do It Together" showed me how.Sane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-56261157012551910642011-02-17T21:58:00.003-06:002011-02-17T22:14:09.708-06:00Local Trolley Goes MaterialNew York artist Chakaia Booker defies waste through On Site: Chakai Booker at the Milwaukee Art Museum. On to Local Trolley Blog now...Sane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-34234826289163997732011-02-13T21:55:00.003-06:002011-02-13T22:00:48.356-06:00Latest From Local Trolley: Funk BabyLocal Trolley is the new home of Sane Artworks adventure related posts.Check it out: Funk, e'Lectrick Warbabies do it, to it Sane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-85265514030149940822011-01-26T00:09:00.028-06:002011-02-13T23:20:11.472-06:00Gallery Night Milwaukee: Green Gallery, Patricia Terry, Berkeley and other splashesThe winter edition of Gallery Night in Milwaukee took place Friday and Saturday this past weekend. I took the A.V. Club's lead on a couple of art exploits seen on Friday night, but ended up off the the trod path and left one destination on my to do list.The Green Gallery is somewhere I've wanted to check out for a while. I heard of this space a couple of years ago, recognizing the name of Sane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-61260765913342403682011-01-10T20:56:00.016-06:002011-02-13T22:04:14.760-06:00Borgs and Ugly Sweaters"So there was this cool cat with an autotunes guitar who went to the bar to tune his guitar... the bar tender asks if he wants a tune-a-sandwich..." If you walked in at this moment of the performance with a blindfold on you might have thought a stand up comedian voiced a futile introduction to a terrible joke. If, hypothetically, you were thinking that, with a blind fold on, you would have been Sane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-20970699994380119492010-10-01T19:57:00.040-05:002010-10-20T23:48:51.759-05:00Post Summer Posts: Public Service ArtThis past summer in Milwaukee, a mother smothered her child while "co-sleeping" or in other words sleeping with the baby in the bed. In response, a public art exhibition served as a public announcement to raise awareness of the precarious nature of "co-sleeping" with infants. The issue has social implications, as it is thought that those impoverished may be more inclined to "co-sleep" in the Sane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-65180954702908602742010-07-19T23:32:00.014-05:002011-06-29T00:00:23.321-05:00Summer Soltice Season Reprise: Pitbull Show RecapIs it June, I mean July 19th already? I have gotten the most out of the summer outdoor (and indoor) concert / fest season while it has lasted. I was not going to post this a month later but I am anyway. It's worth sharing. I think I am still recovering from the damn Pitbull show, and I think his web managers are too. They have only posted one story since the show at Summerfest on June 28th. The Sane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-8607387809891925752010-06-29T09:18:00.010-05:002011-06-28T23:05:02.861-05:00Soltice Season Part 1: Summerfest Shows - Public EnemySummerfest is the biggest thing going, in the world they say. The Milwaukee masses come together and do what they can to forget about the winter that past and the one that's coming.I covered the PE concerts as a guest writer on MKE Wired. Finally I'm back in the sphere... follow the link Public Enemy Wrap: Not out of the cross hairs yet.Sane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-44238520019731356192009-10-14T00:08:00.007-05:002009-10-14T00:32:28.760-05:00I must break you...There are all these t-shirts I have personally wanted forever and now with my new found love of t-shirt making, it's happening. This is not threadless style where everybody has to like it. No I'm a dictator! This is the first in series I plan to do of unsung movie moments. Most people don't know who this is... but the die hard (that's not a hint) corny action movie buffs will appreciate this oneSane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-16227355350333684592009-09-17T20:24:00.031-05:002009-09-17T22:06:01.119-05:0045 minute Patterns ExcerciseIf you look through my school notebooks, binders and books throughout the years you'll see just about as many doodles, sketches and scribbles as notes. I've always been into street art style letter graphics. Every now and then I pick a few letters to string together in some graffiti style sketches. As my adopted artist name, Sane now appears on many of my free-time free-hands.Wild Style is an Sane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-52346100125326583272009-09-16T10:22:00.007-05:002011-01-31T01:41:18.374-06:00Really? Brew - Tang ClanWu - Tang Clan karaoke y'all. This past Saturday night at this spot called the Highbury in Bay View these local Milwaukee Hip - Hop heathens, using the moniker Brew - Tang Clan, played the Wu- Tang instrumentals for eager Wu - Imposters to bring the vocals to. One catch separated the real from the faulty... no lyrics on teleprompters. It was a nice touch for weeding out johnny come new Wu - Sane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-45563439048422271102009-08-12T23:56:00.008-05:002009-08-13T00:18:30.266-05:00Go CartingSo you ever wonder what happened to those old shopping carts with the instructions on the kid seat? Well I was helping a friend move and low and behold in the basement of her building was this shopping cart with the most absurd illustrations how to use the shopping cart with child in tow. Being the stickler for blatantly obvious opportunities to ridicule such non-sense I took it upon myself to...Sane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-87447951251452001622009-07-27T13:11:00.019-05:002011-02-03T20:44:11.381-06:00Gallery Night Milwaukee: Endangered ConcernAll around Milwaukee you can see physical changes taking place, clean-cut mixed-use developments, fragrant plantings in the boulevards. The streets are even getting paved after ten years of neglect. Some of that same rejuvenating energy is being released on the social scene too. Gallery Night is not a new invention and it's nice to see creative outlets taking root in Milwaukee.One of my favorite Sane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-13855009307079617122009-07-19T23:00:00.026-05:002010-10-01T22:25:01.661-05:00Ashes of AnarchyWhen accomplishment overwhelmed my senses at the conclusion of 2 months of rehearsals and 10 straight days of performances, I found myself nearly shaking from feeling the energy that was stored, in the now empty space that was our small black box performance hall. My appreciation radiated in a very genuine moment, my liquid friend Carlo hadn't started kicking my arsenic at that point.Partaking inSane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-22262795277446927512009-07-16T17:06:00.007-05:002009-07-23T03:05:29.103-05:00Love Sick Moon PhasesLast week the full moon was really intense, some kind of special moon astrologically that was supposed to open up a time portal allowing the ancient beast Biroc to take a bath in the Big Dipper or something. Well anyway, it kept me awake for 4 nights in a row. I'm putting my heart back in my pocket these days, and it's taking longer than usual, especially since there's been two months since I Sane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-29637965829007830242009-07-08T01:26:00.009-05:002009-07-23T03:52:50.209-05:00Step into the A.M.: Resurrecting Tennis ShoesI just finished my Air Flight 89 refurb project Nascar style. This project took way too long to finish. They are painted and airbrushed. I left my air brush at a friend's house for months thinking I would airbrush them. Then in the absence of my airbrush, I started playing around with paints and found the mixed-media to be pretty cool and easier to work with. I always had this obsession, as a kidSane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-66192390220223810402009-07-02T01:00:00.003-05:002009-07-02T01:08:02.669-05:00E - jackersSo in the wake of my first e-commerce success I find out that Red Bubble, keeps 99% of the sale... on a $23 shirt I get $3... that's not a fair trade for international exposure! I changing channels to etsy!!! Duh!I love my new shirt, just printed this early today (now yesterday)...Now that the school year is over I am fully embracing the artists clock, it has 16 hours! Acting took me there, now Sane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5442265156659012276.post-383490122648714492009-06-30T23:20:00.005-05:002009-07-23T03:07:23.509-05:00My First Hit!So I have an artist page which the "Never Can Say Good Bye" post's images are available as T-Shirt graphics. I put them up today in the wee morning, and some one liked the Smooth Criminal dance image enough to put it on there body! This is my first... aaaahhhh... sale!!!My artist page is http://saneartworks.redbubble.com/worksTake a look!Sane Artworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04421946314045283358noreply@blogger.com0