My friend Patrick Alexander curated a show at the Gallery in the Kansas City Kansas YWCA. The show featured a group showing of David Goodrich, Jason Sierra, Jennifer Field, Ankur Desai, Luke Rocha, Aaron Sutton, Jessica Manco, Dave Michael, Davin Watne, Tim Goodwillie, Mandy Durham, Jack Rees, Maria Gonzalez and Dan Dakota. The theme of the show was the way in which different cultures honor their dead. Also in attendance was the KCK community orchestra...
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Full Time Excuses In my last post, I complained, among other things, about how busy I am. So I am now just getting around to posting some pictures from Octobers first Friday Artwalk in Kansas City, Missouri. Everybody takes a picture of this graffiti in an alley off 19th and Wyandotte, so I thought I would too. Restless Breed I love the abstract lightbulb piece in the lower left corner of the photo.. Alexander Austin Noshaba Bakht More Alexander Austin Katrina Wilson The Keyhole Tima the Art Blog Dog Crowds on 18th Street in Front of YJ's Bill Drummond and friend This awesome band playing surf music at 18th and Baltimore by the TWA building The board says Sundog Surf Band, so follow the link here... Whoop De Doo
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Look for us now at www.SvobodaKC.Blogspot.com September was the birthday for SvobodaKC. Actually, September 18th to be exact. How did I celebrate? I celebrated by being too busy to notice. Ah, the life of someone who works full time and barely has time for life, much less blogging. I was so busy, in fact, that I didn't notice that my domain, www.SvobodaKC.com, lapsed. If you click on that link, this is what you see.... That is not the SvobodaKC page, and I don't know who that girl is. Further clicking reveals that my site is worth a whole whopping 69 dollars -- whoo Hoo!. I'm too cheap to pay to buy back what is essentially my work, so therfore, I'm reverting back to www.SvobodaKC.Blogspot.com. That domain name is free. Oh, and my links to my past posts are screwed up now. When I find time, I will fix that. Google analytics has been really helpful. I've gotten over my funk about traffic when I started reading the reports and finding that my little nothing blog actually generates decent traffic, depending on what I put in as content. I have to thank publicly Tony Botello of Tonyskansascity.com for that. He updated his links to my new domain name, and so the dry spell that I had by going Tonyless is over. I have to explain. If your web page is listed in his links, he gets so many hits that people click on your link as well, thus generating traffic for your site. If Tony mentions something you wrote in his blog, well, your hits go through the roof. So I thank him profusely for all the interest he generates not only for my little corner of the blogosphere, but for the Kansas City Metro area in general. Now, what have I learned in the past year? This blog is still an active experiment in the making. I started out touting myself as a multi media blog about the arts. I intended to be a hyperlocal news site on the local arts scene in KC. I have learned that doing such is a full time job, and as I already have a full time job, I've had to downgrade SvobodaKC to a part time hobby -- one of many. I started out with much energy in September and October, and even into January. I shot, edited and posted many videos. I was really looking forward to the Mardi Gras season in Kansas City. Then, I was invited to a loft party for a Mardi Gras crewe. I even dragged my poor wife along kicking and screaming. I was going to take some still pictures and talk about how great the local artists were for putting on such a fine party in a normally grim part of the year in Kansas City. My wife insisted we bring cookies and not come to a party empty handed. So we stopped by the grocery store and brought some sweets. We went to the top floor of a west bottoms building via freight elevator. We walked in, and sat down, and.... nothing. We got ignored. We took the cookies up to the counter, and put them with the rest of the food, and the people who were there looked at us like they were sniffing onions. There were two friendly dogs who came up to us and licked us and offered their backs for scratching, but other than that, no one even bothered to come over to as much as say hi. My wife, got pissed, I got depressed. FUCK Mardi Gras in Kansas City! I trucked on, but the wind went out of my sails. I experimented around with livestreaming with the Here! In My Car!!! program -- the world's first talkshow in a car. I met Jeff and Jessica of the Keyhole Gallery through my friend, Bill Drummond. But I let the Mardi Gras thing get me down, and frame my whole vision of the arts scene in Kansas City. Eventually, I even quit the blog for awhile in April. Then I realized that there was much more that I really loved about the arts in KC, and that many of the people who act like they are much better than everyone else aren't all that. My friend, Ken and I began voyages to communities in the area through our daytripping program, which we often do on Thursdays, usually streaming and posting as we go. We have found many unique creative things in the villages and towns that surround the Kansas City metro area. I have begun and experimental live streaming rig that I hope will allow me to stream on foot and upload visions of what I encounter almost instantaneously. So, in addition to holding a full time job, I do all this because I like to. I'll just learn to ignore the shadow people.
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I looked like some sort of weird spaceman for some. "What is he up to now?" Some thought it was cool. Many phones came out and pictures were taken. I have yet to see any of those, but I'd like to. I didn't get to get a picture of my new rig. What is it? First off, I started with a drum carrier, and then I attached a table for a laptop and my magic arm for the camera. All of it was too heavy and the battery on my laptop kept dying. I have to keep experimenting. Oh, yeah, what it is is a portable rig for livestreaming and recording events. It is a cross between a marching band and an android. The first vid I shot was of the Keyhole, where co-curator, Jeff Helkenberg took us on a tour of the gallery live....
Then we attempted to get Kansas City Missouri Mayorial Cadidate, Sly James to talk about his candidacy and the local art scene. My battery died before I could complete the interview, so we re-did it on tape. Oh, the higher quality of HD....
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Ken and I went to a part of south Kansas City known as Waldo. For ever, it was known for the Country Club/Dodson line of the Kansas City public service railway -- back when Kansas City had a light rail system, before it dismantled it in the 1950's for cars, parking lots and sprawl. We found more stores open that we went into than anywhere else we've been, plus the trolley trail, which is the old Dodson line right of way.
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