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LTD Tee – Mandy T-Shirt by Dean Yeagle
I think I might have to get this shirt! Check out more tees at LTD Tee
[E]lemental Wish List – Мишка Tokyo Exclusive: Bounty Hunter x Мишка T-shirt
I’m really feeling this shirt. Not so much because of the design (which is fly to me) but the exclusivity of it. I want it and I want it now.
See more shirts from Мишка @ www.mishkanyc.com
Peace.
[E]lemental Wish List: Forrest Bound Recycled Canvas Weekend Bag
It’s stuff like this that will step your game up. What’s crazy about this is that it’s simple, clean and stylish and probably cost the Forrest Bound a few dollars to make. And you know what I and others will do?? Spend tens of dollars more to buy it. Let’s make it happen.
Peace.
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From Forrest Bound
Sturdy, worn-in canvas salvaged from a WWII era military laundry bag has been turned into a durable unisex weekend bag.
The material used to construct this bag is over 60 years old but still in the most wonderful condition. Any discoloration of the fabric is the result of many years of natural wear and aging.
Fully lined with sturdy blue and white striped ticking fabric, this large zip-top tote is just the right size for carrying everything you need – your laptop, a change of clothes, library books etc. Its size and durability also makes this a great weekend bag. Two good-sized inside pockets can easily hold a cell phone, wallet, ipod, etc.
Please note: the zipper used for this weekend bag is a separating zipper – this means that when you zip it all the way to the end it will open, similar to a jacket. Intended for when you need to put something large inside and could use the extra space to fit it in.
Handles and adjustable/removable shoulder strap made from recycled military issue cotton webbing.
All hardware used has been recycled from olde military items.
Bag measures approximately 21 inches wide, 13 inches tall, 4.5 inches deep.
Much time and care is put into making every Forestbound bag one of a kind.
Canvas Pop – Print any photo on canvas with style
I came across this website today that will turn any photo you take into a canvas printed work of art. Can you imagine if Facebook got a hold of this? Cats would making artwork out of bad chicks they’re “friends” with.
Check out the reasons below for going with CanvasPop.
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We print on the world’s best canvas, bar none. We’re uncompromising. Your treasured photos deserve no less. Every CanvasPop canvas is matte textured 20.5 mil bright white, consistent poly-cotton blend. No additives. No agents. The result is a vivid ultra-high quality canvas that will last (and inspire!) for a lifetime. But don’t just take our word for it. Compare our canvas with others and see the difference for yourself.
If you’re not completely satisfied with your CanvasPop purchase when your canvas arrives we’ll either reprint it for you, or give you your money back. And we don’t stop there! We’re the only canvas printing company that offers a lifetime guarantee against cracking, fading or bubbling on our products—that extra peace of mind you can count on for your art pieces.
At CanvasPop, we select only the finest Canon-branded professional equipment for canvas printing. Using the giclee canvas printing method and archival quality inks, our colors come to life and stay that way. Here are more details for the technical minded among us. Using an innovative color configuration that further increases print efficiency, CanvasPop printers disperse eight colors of ink across twelve ink channels of the two print heads. This means better ink coverage with each pass and greater productivity without sacrificing image quality. Our printers (Canon iPF8100) features eight colors of LUCIA ink (i.e., cyan, photo cyan, magenta, photo magenta, yellow, black, matte black and gray) for a dynamic color gamut. Sounds fancy, right? It really is.
CanvasPop – http://www.canvaspop.com/
Three Peas Art Lounge
Three Peas Art Lounge has
New Hours
Monday-Wednesday
5-9PM
Thursday
12-10PM
Friday 5-9PM
Saturday
12-10PM
Sunday
appointment only
Gallery Opening
Numa Perrier is an artist, filmmaker, and entrepreneur working in Los Angeles. Her work deals largely with the female spirit and sensuality. She comes from a layered family mix of Haitian roots, Southern America, and a West Coast upbringing, which has developed a nuanced and textured approach to life and art. As a photographer, Numa has explored the experience of Ugandan sex slaves, bi-racial adoption, dolls as a microcosm for the state of women, and many more issues specific to her life. As a filmmaker her focus again explores the most intimate segments of womanhood dissecting mother/daughter relationships and abstractly defining La Petite Mort, the French term for the little death/orgasm.
Numa’s work on the AUDACIOUS! Betty Davis tribute comes at a time when she feels the wild woman is begging to be set free. She has imagined and created this “lost footage” as an honor to a woman who has personified the feral uninhibited nature that she would like all women to claim a piece of. Gallery Reception, Friday February 5, 2010 6-9-PM. Exhibit run through March 28, 2010
Check out the photos from January’s GOT DAM! event at the Zhou B. Art Center. More information about the next GOT DAM! will be coming soon!
Just in time for Valentine’s Day…
presents
Me-Time Stress Reliever
Spa & Networking Social
February 11, 2010
Three Peas Art Lounge
7-10 PM
Indulge in some of the following packages:
Sweetheart Package
Mini Massage
& Mini Martini
$25
Mi Amour Package
Mini Massage
Mini Mani &
Mini Martini
$40
Cupid’s Package
Mini Massage
Mini Mani
Mini Pedi &
Mini Martini
$45
For more information, please email profoundtouch@therapist.net or call 773-718-8388
Three Peas Art Lounge has new hours!
Mon-Wed & Friday 5-9 PM, Thursday & Saturday 12-10 PM.
Please check our website under events to stay informed about gallery closings due to private events.
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Michael Smith – Review
For the past week or so, KC had the Kansas City Restaurant Week (which ends today) which featured 40+ restaurants in the KC Metro area. This event was special because it allowed visitors to dine at higher end restaurants for a modest price of $15 for lunch and $30 dinner. What was even better was their commitment to donate 10% of the proceeds to Harvester of Kansas City.
I managed to participate in this awesome event by going to Michael Smith near downtown KC. The restaurant is located on the corner of 19th and Main, next to the chef and owner, Michael Smith’s other restaurant, Extra Virgin.
The food was AMAZING!! For starters, I enjoyed a roasted rabbit with gnocchi, the main course course was 8-hour roasted pork over rizzotto, followed by a coconut and raisin cake with ice cream. My dinner date enjoyed a deliciously tender fillet mignon with cream mash potatoes, followed by a flour-less chocolate cake. I may not be giving the menu justice in my description but it was truly a culinary experience.
Well….to have such an experience, you’re going to have to drop a pretty penny to eat there. This is the kind of place where appetizers start out at $15, but I will say you get your money’s worth.
With everything made to order, it’s important to give yourself a couple hours to taste this gastronomic event while sipping on a glass of wine or nice cocktail (I had a Maker’s Mark Old Fashioned)
Even though the event ends today, it doesn’t mean you can save up and splurge once in a while at one of these fine restaurants. Check out the Kansas City Restaurant Week website for all the restaurants that participated and definitely check out Michael Smith.
Peace.
Michael Smith – http://www.michaelsmithkc.com/
1900 Main Street in Kansas City, Missouri (64108)
Tele: 816.842.2202
Fax: 816.842.2206
Kansas City Restaurant Week – http://kansascityrestaurantweek.com/
[E]lemental KC Featured Artist: Freshbrew Creative Design by Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith is a guy I’ve known for a few years now. Early on in my budding stages as a would-be entrepreneur, Kyle was already doing it big by teaching himself graphic design and the technology behind it. Now, I don’t necessarily think you can “teach” a person design, but you can teach them how to make their designs and dreams come true. Kyle seems to be doing it all on his own. Go to his website and see more of his work. Maybe you can get a little design work done, too! I did. Just check out the Fountainhead logo below….
Peace.
Freshbrew Creative Design – www.freshbrewcreative.com
(Image Source: FreshbrewCreative.com)
(Image Source: FreshbrewCreative.com)
Golf in shock as Tiger takes indefinite break
By STUART CONDIE, AP Sports Writer
LONDON (AP)—Tiger Woods’ decision to take “an indefinite break” to repair his marriage was greeted with surprise, bemusement and even relief Saturday as golfers, fans and commentators contemplated the immediate future of a sport without its biggest draw.
John Daly sympathized as the worldwide media continued to pile up accusations of infidelity, Annika Sorenstam lamented a family tragedy and Colin Montgomerie noted dryly that golf’s big prizes just became a little more accessible.
These are tumultuous times for golf after Friday’s announcement by its No. 1 player that he is taking time out following two weeks of allegations of extramarital affairs. Woods and his wife, Elin, have been married five years and have a 2-year-old daughter and a 10-month-old son.
“There was an aura, and that wall, if you like, has been split slightly,” said Montgomerie, Europe’s 2010 Ryder Cup captain. “There are cracks, and I feel that it gives us more opportunity of winning these big events now.”
Next year could have been one of the biggest in Woods’ career, with three of the four majors played at courses on which he has triumphed by large margins.
Instead, golf is preparing for another spell without its biggest superstar. Woods’ absence from the PGA Tour for much of last season because of reconstructive knee surgery led to a drop in television ratings of 50 percent.
“Indefinite is a scary word,” former U.S. Open champion Geoff Ogilvy said. “That’s not good for us. But I’m sure he’ll get it worked out.”
Woods so far seems intent on doing so without help from his fellow professionals.
“He just didn’t want to talk to anybody,” Daly said at the Australian PGA on Saturday. “I’m in shock over it all, a lot of our players are in shock. I’m not happy with the way some of our players have responded—that’s their way of getting back because they know they can’t beat him at golf.
“They always say there is no one bigger in golf than the game itself. But Tiger is.”
Craig Parry was finishing his third round at the Australian PGA when he heard about Woods’ decision to step aside.
A friend of Woods who lives nearby in Windermere, Fla., Parry played alongside him for the first two rounds of last month’s Australian Masters in Melbourne—Woods’ final tournament before his car crash and subsequent accusations of infidelity.
“What he did was totally wrong,” Parry said. “And he’s got no one to blame except himself. You can look at other people, but he’s the one who’s got to look in the mirror.”
And in the newspapers, Saturday brought a fresh round of headlines all over the world.
Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport featured a cartoon showing a golf bag containing six bare female legs in high heels and two clubs.
German tabloid Bild continued to print salacious details of the scandal, but added on its Web site that it hoped “Tiger is as successful as on the golf course” as he tries to repair his marriage.
“For years to come he will be a figure of fun to comedians great and small,” said Peter Allis, the BBC’s chief golf commentator for more than 30 years. “We were told for years that his father stood by the side of the green throwing pebbles in buckets of water, shouting and blowing whistles to make him oblivious to all these noises.
“Now we have to see how strong his mind is.”
Although Michelle Wie refused to comment at the Dubai Ladies Masters on what she said was a private matter for Woods, former top-ranked LPGA star Sorenstam told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet she was saddened by the news.
“I think this whole thing is tragic,” she said. “We used to train together, but both myself and Tiger have been very busy lately and therefore haven’t seen, or heard from each other as frequently.”
Daly, who has been married four times, cautioned Woods and his wife, Elin, to remain together for the right reason. He said Woods should consider a television interview to limit damage to his image.
“If I was him, I’d go to Oprah, I would get on her show, tell the truth and it doesn’t matter what the media say any more, because it’s all out in the open,” Daly said.
Veteran British publicist Max Clifford agreed.
“Hopefully he can go on something like Oprah, maybe even with his wife, to show that they’re making a real go of it,” Clifford said. “The clever move would be for him to say, ‘I’m coming back when Elin tells me the time is right.”’
For now, Woods is communicating publicly only through carefully worded statements on his Web site.
Earlier this year, he became the first athlete to surpass $1 billion in career earnings, according to Forbes magazine. His sponsors include Nike, Gillette, AT&T, Gatorade and Tag Heuer.
Nike, which signed a multiyear contract with Woods in 2006, is standing by the player.
“He is the best golfer in the world and one of the greatest athletes of his era,” Nike spokeswoman Beth Gast said in a statement. “We look forward to his return to golf. He and his family have Nike’s full support.”
And it isn’t just golfers who are thinking about Woods.
“One thing people don’t understand is that we’re human,” Heat guard Dwyane Wade said in Miami. “You’re not born with a menu on how not to do things wrong. You’re going to make mistakes like every human being. It’s just unfortunate that you’re in the public eye so much and a lot of people get hurt by it.”
Bobcats forward Stephen Jackson wished Woods the best.
“Sometimes you just got to take time out to reflect on what’s more important, and that’s family,” he said after Charlotte’s 104-85 loss in San Antonio.
AP Sports Writer Dennis Passa in Coolum, Australia, AP Sports Writer Andrew Dampf in Rome, AP Sports Writer Tim Reynolds in Miami and Associated Press Writer Paul J. Weber in San Antonio contributed to this report.
My name is Julio de la Vego y Rodriguez, but you can call me Joe.
TAOS, N.M. – Larry Whitten marched into this northern New Mexico town in late July on a mission: resurrect a failing hotel.
The tough-talking former Marine immediately laid down some new rules. Among them, he forbade the Hispanic workers at the run-down, Southwestern adobe-style hotel from speaking Spanish in his presence (he thought they’d be talking about him), and ordered some to Anglicize their names.
No more Martin (Mahr-TEEN). It was plain-old Martin. No more Marcos. Now it would be Mark.
Whitten’s management style had worked for him as he’s turned around other distressed hotels he bought in recent years across the country.
The 63-year-old Texan, however, wasn’t prepared for what followed.
His rules and his firing of several Hispanic employees angered his employees and many in this liberal enclave of 5,000 residents at the base of the Sangre de Cristo mountains, where the most alternative of lifestyles can find a home and where Spanish language, culture and traditions have a long and revered history.
“I came into this landmine of Anglos versus Spanish versus Mexicans versus Indians versus everybody up here. I’m just doing what I’ve always done,” he says.
Former workers, their relatives and some town residents picketed across the street from the hotel.
“I do feel he’s a racist, but he’s a racist out of ignorance. He doesn’t know that what he’s doing is wrong,” says protester Juanito Burns Jr., who identified himself as prime minister of an activist group called Los Brown Berets de Nuevo Mexico.
The Virginia-born Whitten had spent 40 years in the hotel business, turning around more than 20 hotels in Texas, Oklahoma, Florida and South Carolina, before moving with his wife to Taos from Abilene, Texas. He had visited Taos before, and liked its beauty. When Whitten saw that the Paragon Inn was up for sale, he jumped at it.
The hotel sits along narrow, two-lane Paseo del Pueblo, where souped-up lowriders radiate a just-waxed gleam in the soft sunshine as they cruise past centuries-old adobe buildings. One recent afternoon, a woman slowly rode her fat-tire bicycle along a cracked sidewalk, oversized purple butterfly wings on her back and a breeze blowing her long, blonde dreadlocks.
The community includes Taos Pueblo, an American Indian dwelling inhabited for over 1,000 years, and an adobe Catholic church made famous in a Georgia O’Keeffe painting.
After he arrived, Whitten met with the employees. He says he immediately noticed that they were hostile to his management style and worried they might start talking about him in Spanish.
“Because of that, I asked the people in my presence to speak only English because I do not understand Spanish,” Whitten says. “I’ve been working 24 years in Texas and we have a lot of Spanish people there. I’ve never had to ask anyone to speak only English in front of me because I’ve never had a reason to.”
Some employees were fired, Whitten says, because they were hostile and insubordinate. He says they called him “a white (N-word).”
Fired hotel manager Kathy Archuleta says the workers initially tried to adjust to his style. “We had already gone through four or five owners before him, so we knew what to expect,” Archuleta says. “I told (the workers) we needed to give him a chance.”
Then Whitten told some employees he was changing their Spanish first names. Whitten says it’s a routine practice at his hotels to change first names of employees who work the front desk phones or deal directly with guests if their names are difficult to understand or pronounce.
“It has nothing to do with racism. I’m not doing it for any reason other than for the satisfaction of my guests, because people calling from all over America don’t know the Spanish accents or the Spanish culture or Spanish anything,” Whitten says.
Martin Gutierrez, another fired employee, says he felt disrespected when he was told to use the unaccented Martin as his name. He says he told Whitten that Spanish was spoken in New Mexico before English. “He told me he didn’t care what I thought because this was his business,” Gutierrez says.
“I don’t have to change my name and language or heritage,” he says. “I’m professional the way I am.”
After the firings, the New Mexico chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens, a national civil rights group, sent Whitten a letter, raising concerns about treatment of Hispanic workers. Whitten says he sent them a letter and posted messages on the hotel marquee, alleging that the group referred to him with a racial slur. LULAC denied the charge.
The messages and comments he made in interviews with local media, including referring to townsfolk as “mountain people” and “potheads who escaped society,” further enflamed tensions.
Taos Mayor Darren Cordova says Whitten wasn’t doing anything illegal. But he says Whitten failed to better familiarize himself with the town and its culture before deciding to buy the hotel for $2 million. “Taos is so unique that you would not do anything in Taos that you would do elsewhere,” he says.
Whitten grew subdued as a two-hour interview with The Associated Press progressed. He said he was sorry for the misunderstanding and insisted he has never been against any culture.
“What kind of fool or idiot or poor businessman would I be to orchestrate this whole crazy thing that’s costed me a lot of time, money and aggravation?” Whitten said.
Whitten should have dealt with the situation differently, especially in a majority Hispanic town, said 71-year-old Taos artist Ken O’Neil, while sipping his afternoon coffee on the town’s historic plaza.
“To make demands like he did just seems over the top,” he says. “Nobody won here. It’s not always about winning. Sometimes, it’s about what you learn.”
Abstrakt Art Gallery Events
Check out what’s happening at Abstrakt….
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A couple updates on Kennedy Yanko’s WU WEI show and ABSTRAKT.
Kennedy has added new pieces to the collection so feel free to stop by M-F 10-5. And a few upcoming events…
10/8: Rennell Parker/Kennedy Yanko – SPOKEN WORD EVENT – Rennell is musing b/o on impressions of paintings in the collection. Kennedy will paint live. May be some “human canvas” action going on. $10 CVR. Coffeehouse.
10/17: WU WEI Close. Also a fundraiser for Operation Smile. Last chance to see the full collection on our walls. $10 recommended dontaion. Cocktails/Appetizers.
10/22: CULTURE SURFER OPEN: Live Music – Javier Mendoza; Artists Featured include: Phil Jarvis, Jovan Hansman, David Langley, Jennifer Hayes, Laura Lloyd. Would love to see you there.
- Abstrakt Gallery
Saint Louis, MO, 63118
