I don’t normally blog about music – but I think this song is worth it. My dance company, The Fourteenth Ward, has been looking for a chill veil song. Our music up to this point is intense and psychological, and we wanted to lead our audience down a more introspective path at some point in our set. Here is the song we chose, by Trevor Hall.
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Which Way do you Fold your Origami Crane
February 23, 2012Beans and Macaroni
February 21, 2012
I miss the days of making art from glue, paper, macaroni, beans and pudding.
Tammy Faye
The other day, I was chillin and thrillin with my pal, Princess Kennedy and she told me about a friend of hers who has gotten famous making art out of all of the above (except pudding.)
Jason Mecier is known for celebrity bean portraits. He also makes yarn art, macaroni art, candy art and art out of items found in junk drawers.
Here are a few of his portraits – and also a business tip I learned from him. As a pop artist, he loves to replicate the image of the likes of Dolly Parton and Farah Fawcett. Somehow, the artists often end up buying his portraits of them. I think I’ll do a fillet crochet portrait of Ellen Degeneris or Bobby McFerin and see what happens! Check out Jason’s website at http://www.jasonmecier.com for more info.
Charlie's Angels
Divine Love
February 7, 2012
The Fourteenth Ward of the Rubber Room School of Dance and Flexibility will perform at an event called Divine Love on Saturday night. The show begins at 5 p.m. at Lumenas Studios, located at 625 south 600 West in Salt Lake City. It’s a family friendly event that closes around 9 p.m. for kiddo’s bedtimes.
We are excited to dance for a great cause, the $10 tickets will be donated to the Utah PRIDE Center to keep great programs going to serve the GLBTQA community.
This is the Fourteenth Ward’s first belly dance showcase event, which will be all belly dance all the time. The event’s line up looks amazing and includes:
Oryantal Dansi
Sofia Featherwood
Arcana
Kita Zira
Gypsy Flame
Rodrigo (song)
Marta Reeder
Claudia
Myada
Megan
14th ward of the rubber room
Ian of Dustbloom (music)
INTERMISSION (15 mins with Dj good-e)
Tabla Arabia
Maren Lacy (poetry)
Elizabeth charlesworth (poetry)
Myst
Claudia
Arcana
Habibi Habibi
Rodrigo (dance)
14th ward of teh rubber room
Amanda Borba
Claudia
Dayna Mckee
Antigua tierra (music)
Oryantal Dansi
And bring your money because there will also be a silent auction.
Colt Bowden’s Last Show as a BYU Undergrad
February 2, 2012
Please head out to the BYU library to see my friend, Colt Bowden’s last show as a BYU undergraduate student. He is pretty much the best. You won’t regret it. Here’s the poster, the show opens on Groundhog’s Day and closes on Valentine’s Day.
Don’t Let Your Style Go to the Groundhogs
January 31, 2012
Every day, when you head out the door, does your hair look exactly the same as the last? Boring pony tail, half-finished bun, or just hanging there?
Megan Moore from Moore Hair Design gave us a primer on how to keep our hair from getting the winter blahs. So get out of your rut with these looks.
First up, we have a retro 1970’s wave. Megan used a 1 inch curling iron and center part to get this fun look for model, Venice. She let each curl cool before teasing it gently with a comb and then setting it with hair spray.
Pony tails are great, practical, professional and. . . well, boring. That’s why Megan’s style team took the pony tail up a notch for this fun look on Karlie. Karlie’s cute bangs add a nice touch, and a braid, three elastics concealed by teasing the hair and a cascade down the side make this a pony that doesn’t look like you just rolled out of bed.
According to Megan, braids were big in 2011, but they aren’t going anywhere for 2012. She did this style in Emily’s chin length bob by doing two French braids on each side and then securing with safety pins. Letting the ends fly free keeps this look loose and casual, great for a day at the office or a date after work.
To get these looks or learn more, visit www.moorehairdesign.com
It’s PR, Duh!
January 26, 2012
I’m working hard at a career offering freelance PR. In fact, this, plus getting really sick explains my absence from the blog this week. PR is a form of marketing that focuses on getting your work covered in the news. Why should you be doing PR? PR can tell your story more deeply than an ad, make customers feel they know you as an individual and offer a credible endorsement from someone they already trust.
I’ve done PR for 14 years for everything from the Utah Department of Health to art, craft, food, fashion and haunted houses. It’s exciting to build my own business, artduh.com/pr. If you need PR, who you gonna call?
Fill the Recipe Box Project!
January 24, 2012
I have my grandmother’s recipe card box. About 1/3 of the recipe cards inside are blank. I’d like to ask my readers to mail me a 3 by 5 handwritten recipe to add to the box. Any recipe will do – new or old. I’m gonna fill this effing recipe card box up and pass it onto the next generation FULL! Please write your name on the back.
If you want to participate, send me an email at artduh@gmail.com – - cuz I don’t wanna give my home address to just anyone.
“It Would Be Impossible to Keep House with Only 36 Doilies”
January 12, 2012
I’ve been making doilies since high school. Are they old-fashioned? Yes. Out-of-fashion? Never.
Giant doilies will grace the walls of my show. Join me to see them, and so much more.
My Dead Friends
Ulysses
629 South State Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Jan 15 to Feb 19
Wake and Last Rites, Jan 15, 6 to 8 p.m.
The Nectar of Death
January 10, 2012
My first solo show is on Sunday, 6 to 8 pm. I know you want to come see the art, but I know it is WAY more important to you that I have some decent food and drink.
Here’s what we have going.
The food and drink will follow the vintage theme – everything in the show is meant to represent my grandmother’s era, when people cooked, cleaned, kept house, embroidered samplers and in the 40s, everyone was shocked to discover that ladies could, in fact, build weapons.
On the food side, I’m going to prepare my grandmother’s tomato cheese mayo jello mold. I’ve never made a jello mold before. I’ll also be making her patented soda cracker pie, which has GOT to be a depression era recipe. With the state of the economy, I’d probably get good at making pies and other edibles based on soda crackers.
We will also have a few snacks that actually taste good. Grandma’s coconut cream pie is on my list.
On the drink side, we will be serving Keystone for the cowboys in attendance, and Dead Orange Blossoms (gin and o.j., shaken with ice) for the lovely gentle ladies who would enjoy a nip or two.
Food is art, art is food.
See you on Sunday, and by the way I’m supposed to put tuna in the jello mold, and also make a banana carrot stir fry to prevent strokes. But I just cannot go that far, not even for art.
Bullet in My Shoulder
January 5, 2012
blood running down my vest
For hmm at least four years now I’ve been paying tribute to my cowboy/pioneer heritage by mixing textiles with spent bullet cartridges. It all started with The Bullet Bra – a costume I was asked to make out of industrial materials. If bullets aren’t a useful industrial material, what is?
I became interested in wearing bullets on more than just my bra, and I’m now refurbishing denim cowboy style jackets with bullets. I’m calling this series “Bullet in my Shoulder” after an old Frankie Lane song I listened to as a kid.
I don’t want to give all the pieces away, and in fact, some of them haven’t yet been made. But here is my favorite, a mating of a pioneer girl and an old school cowboy I like to call “Blood Runnin Down My Vest.”
Oh and guess where you can see them and maybe take home one of your very own? The My Dead Friends Show, Ulysses, opening Jan 15.
