I took some time this weekend to address and mail out my holiday card. I felt a quirky, 5″ x 7″ card would be fun and a little different from the normal holiday fold over card. As well as it gave me an opportunity to promote to different groups and businesses who and what is Cleis Design.
I had a blast coming up with fake holidays as well as researching real holidays. I’m ready to kick off 2010 with a bang!
Events
1. UFOs: Another Big Curiosities event presented by Big Car.
Thursday, November 5
Indianapolis Central Library
Clowes Auditorium
40 E. Saint Clair St.
Admission: FREE
7pm
2. La Vida Variety will be performing it’s eclectic program at Radio Radio.
Friday, November 6
Radio Radio
1119 E. Prospect St.
Indianapolis, IN 46203
Cover: $8
Lineup:
9:00-9:30 – barbershop quartet Smilin’ Through
9:30-10:15 – members of the Blue Monkey Sideshow
10:15-10:45 – belly dancers/poi spinners Molly Wyldfyre & company
10:45-11:30 – The Last Domino (solo)
11:30-12:30 – zombie folk band Harley Poe
3. PRIME: Dean Johnson Gallery and AIGA Indy have partnered to present the award winning design pieces submitted by local designers/groups. Support you local artists and check it out, then go have a beer at Radio Radio while watching La Vida Variety.
Friday, November 6
Dean Johnson Gallery
646 Massachusetts Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Admission: FREE
5-9pm
4. I’m jumping ahead a couple of weeks so you fast talkers can get ready for Pecha Kucha: The Next Indianapolis and it’s $10,000 award. If you are smooth talker, a visionary and ground shaker-get registered and compete.To be a presenter check out the Pecha Kucha site
Thursday, November 12
The Indianapolis Museum of Art
9:00-11:00 pm
Admission:Free with Spirit and Place Ticket
Part of the Spirit and Place Festival
QuickLinks
1. The fading of print: I love magazines, but they are starting to disappear from American bookstores.
2. On the other side of the print/magazine argument: It’s Nice publication has actually sold out it’s first issue.
3. I’m going to keep going with magazines, by gushing over my fave magazine of all time: Lemon
The biannual will be coming out later this winter, if you see it at a Borders snatch em’ fast.
4. In honor of the 2008 pres/election anniversary:The open source and design culture of “Obama”.
5. On the side of electronic media-I wish I could experience the HBO Cube in the Meat Packing district of NY, but the experience online is pretty swell.
6. Get it in writing:the freelance contract
7. Free ebook on finding work through social media.
Whewww, I better get back to work. Good luck!
EVENTS:
1. Big Curiousities: Last night, Big Car Gallery hosted a lecture with prominent Big Foot specialist, Jeffrey Meldrum at the Central Library of Indianapolis. Now feast your eyes on the drawings of Sasquatch as captured by hundreds of people. I imagine there will be a lot of Harry and the Henderson’s family renderings.
Friday, October 2
Big Car Gallery
FREE Admission
1043 Virginia Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46203
2. The Indieana Handicraft Exchange (Fri. Oct.2 and Sat. Oct.3)-Music, functional art, craft mania, rollergirls and local support will be flowing for two days at the Harrison Center for the Arts. Come out and support local artists and live a little greener!
Friday, October 2 & Saturday, October 3
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. (F)
10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. (S)
FREE ADMISSION
Harrison Center for the Arts
1505 N. Delaware St.
Indianapolis, IN 46202
3. SAY MY NAME-the IMA brings the voice of the female rapper hard and clear in this documentary on R&B/Hip Hop and the female perspective. Erykah Badu is one of the featured artists of the film, and that’s all I need to know to motivate me to go!
Thursday, October 1 (tonight)
The Toby
$9 Public / $5 IMA members
Students FREE with ID (available on site only)
4. The Rape of Europa: Another film showing at the IMA Toby Theatre, based on the Nazi looting of art in Europe during WWII.
Saturday, October 3 at 1:30 pm & Wednesday, October 23 at 7:00 pm
The Toby
$ 9 Public / $5 IMA members
Students FREE with ID (available on site only)
QUICK LINKS:
1. Where did the web browser come from? A brief history.
2. Copyright-Freelance switch breaks down what it really means and what your freelance clients own once they purchase your “work for hire.” As well as Life hacker breaks it down for collaborative usage of Creative Commons.
3. Free Wallpaper-I’m such a fan of Grace Bonney and Design Sponge blog. They always leave me salivating with visual treats and design diy projects.
4. Score-the website to help you network and gain local & online guidance for business start ups.
Kudos to This American Life for taking the bull by the horns for a second time (see past show on the sub prime lending debacle). This time Ira Glass and Alex Blumberg dice out the economy swill and explain it so we can all filter through some of the mass confusion. I am still leary about why the tax payers have to fit the bill that all the multi-trillion commercial paper pushers (the banks and Wall Street) f*#cked up. I’m starting to understand what’s going on right now. I still believe there are a few financiers that need to serve some time or pay some heavy duty penalties for this.
The economy is a pretty scary place right now.
In the meantime-do yourself a favor and check it out.
