Last Saturday I had a wonderful opportunity to speak at Southern Exposure in the www.Stretcher.org consortium.

It was really great to sit down and speak about the myriad networks that are present in our lives. I got to meet a whole bunch of new people and perhaps will be able to collaborate with them in the future.

Working on the plan to keep art and track balanced in my life, there’s a new job posting in the media department at UCSD, I would love to be teaching/training down there, and I feel like the experiences I’m having now with the folks at MSAT are really going to work to my advantage.

I’m so very pleased with the progress of my students, and I love asking them questions. It’s so satisfying to have a 9th grader first answer your question with a passive “I don’t know” and then ask a few more questions and come around another way, and deduce the solution.

Very exciting.

Also planning on making another push for the Fulbright to the UAE and Dubai Media City. I have a much better plan this year, and a more developed understanding of my work and how it would promote good feelings and understanding. Sending excerpts of YUK may not have been the best move, as surely it could offend some folks.

Today the 3 drawings were passed back to the students and their favorite single drawing was selected out of the personal coat of arms, avatar, and caricature.

The selected drawings were then posted on the wall, and a semi-circle was formed facing the work. Each student was encouraged to select a drawing from the group and talk about its formal issues, content, and rendering.

Vocabulary:

formal, line-weight, expressive, tight, loose, realistic, abstract, placement, confluence, horizon, perspective, foreground, middleground, background, symbolism, balance.

To close the class, avatar discussions were made public, and we talked about browsing habits and favorites.

So I went to the SFMOMA today, and I really like the Eggleston show, I would like to shoot that transparency and neg film to get such saturated colors…other things I enjoyed seeing was the simple charcoal line drawing on the second floor, and of course the Ducati sport bike in the design show.

Other things, if one is going to do a contemporary installation with paint (i.e. the big burst on the second floor) don’t drip! It looks sloppy and un-considered. Also about P. Rist. It’s weird how her work looks like its from 1998.

I need to figure out a strategy to get in galleries, museums and the like. I’m so very pleased that I have the time to work, train and read this year.

If SF would just stay sunny and warm like the last week for FOREVER, and have more LA/NYC galleries here that aren’t non-profit experimental spaces, and not comercial giants…where are the ones that sell things *AND* are in tune with young artists?

Seems like they’re in LA and NYC only *grrr*

That’s an open call to the galleries in SF…for 49 Geary, get young artists, and don’t send us to the mission…and Mission galleries, sell work!

…getting off the soap box now…