A NATIONAL JURIED FINE ARTS COMPETITION DEDICATED TO CANINE ART

The show's sponsors in Kansas are pleased to offer artists who produce dog-related art the opportunity to exhibit their work in a show de­voted exclusively to canine art. In addition, the competition will benefit The American Kennel Club Museum of The Dog as the Best of Show winner will be purchased by the Sponsors for $1,250.00 and donated to The American Kennel Club Museum of The Dog in St. Louis, Missouri.

All artwork must include a dog or dogs in the subject matter.  The competition is open to all artists 18 years of age or older. Works must be original and must have been executed solely by the person in whose name they have been submitted. All entered artwork must be priced & for sale.

Two-dimensional works MUST BE framed, matted and READY FOR DISPLAY! We recommend that Plexiglas be used on shipped works that require glazing.

Two-dimensional works may not exceed 48 inches on horizontal line, including the frame.
Three-dimensional works may not exceed 50 pounds in weight and must fit through a standard 32" x 80" doorway.

CD ROM, entry cards and fees are due January 13, 2010

Complete Details are here: http://artshowatthedogshow.com/Entry_Info.html

Friday, August 28th at 8pm.
Tickets are only $15.00 and will available at the door.
Love stories for grown folks! Interesting, provocative and just down right sexy stories mixed with timeless love songs at the Indianapolis Art Center. At the end of the program Deborah Asante, the great Indianapolis Storytelling Woman, plans to open the stage for "Love Shout Outs". Anyone wanting to shout out to their love, lost loves or wish-I-could-love-loves will be welcomed to the stage. It promises to be an interesting and entertaining evening.
Vocalists Include: Kila Adams, Keesha Dixon, Vincent Jordan, Allison Woolery and Marlena
NOTE: NO ONE UNDER 21 WILL BE ADMITTED.
The stories will contain language and descriptions of images not suitable for children.

This is an artistic prank on a "grand" scale. Over 200 people gathered at Grand Central Station in New York to pull off a "frozen in place" act.  The onlooking travelers who weren't part of the act were confused and wondered what the heck was going on!
[See the video here]

Chickus Magnetus Webcast Promotions was formed to offer performing artists a special service and tools to broadcast live performances over the Internet from their personal web page, blog or MySpace page.
On Monday June 4, 2007 at 7pm EST, Aaron Stout played a 30 minute live concert from Indianapolis, IN USA. It was shown on his MySpace page to his loyal fans around the world.
For more information about webcast services from Chickus Magnetus Webcast Promotions, go [here].
Rufus Chickus Magnetus is the Partington family's pet mutt. His personal web page is [here].

During the editing of a recent car advertisement from England, a film editor noticed something moving along the side of the car - like a white mist. The ad was never put on TV because of the unexplained phenomenon in the film.

Click here to see the ad. Watch the front end of the car as it clears the trees in the middle of the screen and a white mist will be crossing just in front of the new car. The mist then keeps following the car along the country road. You will hear the editor's comments in the background when the ghostly mist first appears.

Happy Halloween!

  The BBC on Monday reported that French caver, Gerard Jourdy, discovered a prehistoric art gallery in a cave of the Vilhonneur forest in November of 2005. Carbon testing and dating are being carried out in secrecy.
While the newly discovered chamber is in the same neck of the woods as the famous Lascaux cave reported in about every art history book ever published, the paintings of this new discovery are believed to predate the Lascaux cave discoveries by 10,000 years.
For a tour of the famous Lascaux cave found in 1940, go here.

Another interesting benefit of viewing and discussing art!  Would Elvis have been saved?

From The Sunday Mail QLD: Art relieves constipation: study
Stockholm Sweden 14oct05

Title: "Casual Constipation"

created by Booty Mountain Arts

VIEWING and discussing art not only soothes the soul, it also helps cure ills like high blood pressure and constipation, a Swedish researcher said today.

Britt-Maj Wikstroem of the Ersta Skoendal University College in Stockholm had 20 women of around 80 years of age gather once a week for four months to discuss different works of art.

"The result was positive. Their attitudes became more positive, more creative, their blood pressure went in the right direction ... and they used fewer laxatives," she said.

A control group of 20 women who met to discuss their hobbies and interests once a week instead of art did not experience the same effects, she pointed out.

"There was a significant difference between the groups," she said, adding that the art group had continued to show positive effects many months after their last discussion.

Wikstroem has been studying the effects of art on people in different settings since the 1980s, including a study of how museum art hung in offices impacts on the employees working there.

"It's all about using art in a structured way," she said.

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Google has a new beta site in place for searching only Web Logs (Blogs).
The URL is http://blogsearch.google.com/

Try it for accuracy. Search for  "indianapolis art center" or "partington" and then once your results are shown you can list your results by either "relevance" or "date".

Here is Google's statement on this new search service.

"Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs. Google is a strong believer in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by blogging, and we hope Blog Search will help our users to explore the blogging universe more effectively, and perhaps inspire many to join the revolution themselves. Whether you're looking for Harry Potter reviews, political commentary, summer salad recipes or anything else, Blog Search enables you to find out what people are saying on any subject of your choice.
Your results include all blogs, not just those published through Blogger; our blog index is continually updated, so you'll always get the most accurate and up-to-date results; and you can search not just for blogs written in English, but in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese and other languages as well."

Four years after planting our first grape vines, along with pounds and pounds of fertilizer, anti-fungicide, Japanese beetle spray and delicate pruning decisions, we finally had our first grape harvest.

Last year’s crop was hit with mold in the spring and the rest of the crop was consumed during the late summer by our local deer population. The year before that – in 2003, the plentiful fruit bunches just seemed to dry up in the mid-summer’s hot dry air.

 

Was it all worth it? Maybe - not sure - kind of I guess.
We’ll see I guess, next year.

 

Would I want a customer's name on my artwork? NO WAY!
Well one artist thinks so. A press release I found this week tells the complete story. This artist must not understand (or care) that his art will be around for years and years. Why would he want to share a signature with a customer who didn't put one brush stroke on the artist's creation?
Sell art prints instead - the customer can sign them anywhere they want to.
A flourescent green John Henry across the breaking wave in that beach landscape would look just great

Extend this article below to read the full press release and links to his website.

I found this article in a very informative blog named "JMG artblog". I added a link to their blog site in our  "Other Blogs". Here is the link to their article:
FBI Art Theft Program: $5 million Reward

 The Red Planet is about to be spectacular!

This month and next, Earth is catching up with Mars in an encounter that  will culminate in the closest approach between the two planets in recorded history. The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287.

Due to the way Jupiter's gravity tugs on Mars and perturbs its orbit, astronomers can only be certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth in the Last 5,000 years, but it may be as long as 60,000 years before it happens again.

The encounter will culminate on August 27th when Mars comes to within 34,649,589 miles of Earth and will be (next to the moon) the brightest object in the night sky.