Sunday, October 18, 2009

Passing



I'm here to promote my awesome friend Joe who is a wonderful photographer.  I'm proud to say that he's currently got an exhibition up at Gallery 825 called "Passing." If any of you are in the LA area, you really need to check this out.  Here's the blurb from the website:

"Joe Notaro's Passing exhibition of contemporary photographs captures the randomness and intimacy of everyday chance encounters by investigating the everyday action of walking in public. By capturing this moment, Notaro's camera creates the illusion of intimacy in a scene we recognize as merely another random passing. Noses seem to touch; eyes meet; an arm follows the arc of its natural movement — casual visual information that both greets and challenges the viewer."

Gallery 825 is located at 825 N. La Cienega Blvd. Los Angeles, CA  90069.  The show runs through November 13th.  For more info check at LA Arts Association at http://www.laaa.org/

Go support art!  Go have a night of culture!  You'll totally dig it.  Yay for you Joe!  I'm so proud of you!

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Blog Action Day: Stop hitting the snooze button and wake up!

I am not an activist.  I didn't start this blog to voice my opinions about what is right and wrong in the world.  I simply wanted a place to go to vent my frustrations, to document my observations, and to amuse myself and anyone else who cared to come along for the ride. But if I were to deliberately avoid speaking out about the elephant in the room; if I deliberately turned the other cheek and said I don't want to talk about an issue because it's too scary, too big, too political, too whatever...well, that would not be cool. 

Today is Blog Action Day and the topic is Climate Change.  I have been prompted by this event to talk about Planet Earth.  The timing is perfect.  I'm smack dab in the middle of a project that deals with this very issue.  I've been researching all things global warming and the truth is my friends, it is a very scary issue indeed.  But to do nothing, to say nothing, to remain apathetic would be the worst thing of all.

The news is bleak.  The numbers are alarming.  But the good news is, that the fat lady has not yet sung, and there's still time to do something about it.  Yeah...YOU!  You can do something.  WE can do something about it.  I am the type of person that gets overwhelmed by the big picture, and I won't lie...this is overwhelming to me, and I thought, "What can I do?  Little ol' me?  This is something that needs to be tackled by world leaders and people with important titles after their names." Wrong.  I am learning that helping out even on the smallest scale will have an impact.  If EVERYONE pitches in, the work it will take to clean up this mess will get done. 

One step at a time. I have to keep telling myself that with all things I try to accomplish.  But I can recycle.  I can reduce my water usage.  When I can, I'll walk instead of taking the car.  I can change my lightbulbs to the more energy efficient ones.  I can make these adjustments.  You can too.  It's not as hard as you think.  Yes, you can leave the big stuff to the big guns.  But in the meantime, stop taking for granted the beauty of this planet.  You'll miss it when it's gone.  You really will. 

Thanks for listening.  And now we will return to our regularly scheduled programming.  Peace.