The Bard » Octopus http://maki.page8productions.com The listless crooning of a highway minstrel. Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:32:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Buck’s Rock Camp Arts Exhibition at the Art Director’s Gallery! http://maki.page8productions.com/archives/858 http://maki.page8productions.com/archives/858#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:59:06 +0000 Maki http://maki.page8productions.com/?p=858 Hey folks, I’m showing some prints this weekend as part of a HUGE group exhibition from Buck’s Rock Camp. For those of you who don’t know, Buck’s Rock Creative and Performing Arts Camp is a summer camp for teens which provides a creative environment for both personal and artistic growth. I worked there for three summers as the head of the Sculpture department, and it was without a doubt the most enriching period of my life.  Buck’s Rock is not only a great camp, but a veritable cornerstone of the social universe. It has connected me to people from all over the world and to Kevin Bacon by 2 degrees. The show (which opens Sunday) will feature the works of campers, staff, and even alumni. Here’s the official blurb:

The Buck’s Rock Camp Arts Exhibition is a celebration of creativity inspired from the 67 years of providing teens with learning and growing opportunities within the creative and performing arts. The show features over 400 works of art, including 270 works from over 130 campers from the summer of 2008, and 150 works from 60 alumni, spanning a 43 year period of Buck’s Rock Camp’s creative history. It will show the world the unique experience Buck’s Rock can provide for teens and teachers, and the influential effect the summers spent there have continued to have on their lives as they have grown older.

Over 100 pieces of art are for sale, including Glass, Ceramics, Paintings, Jewelry, Drawings, Prints, etc.  The artists will receive 80% of the proceeds, while 20%  will go to the Buck’s Rock Scholarship Fund.

The Art Directors Gallery: 106 29th Street (btwn 6th and 7th Aves.) 212 643 1440
2008 Reunion: Sunday, December 7th, 2 – 430 p.m.
Art Exhibition Opening: Sunday, December 7th, 5 -7 p.m.

The exhibition will also be open from 10am – 6pm, Monday Dec. 8th through Friday, Dec. 12th. I will be showing Octopus Jesus, Gibson Girl, and a piece from a collaboration with Snoozer Loozer! Images coming soon once I get a chance to breathe.

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I was recently informed by my friend Lauren that when you Google ‘octopus jesus’, my page comes up first. VICTORY!! All hail our squishy eight-armed savior!!

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Do you have a moment to talk about the Lord/Destroyer?

  • Have you been saved/mercilessly slaughtered?
  • Have you felt the loving/crushing embrace of his eight squishy arms? Have you felt the warmth/blinding pain of his sacred heart rays?
  • The Lord Giveth and the Lord Taketh Away, but mostly he Taketh and then Giveth something less good.
  • Salvation/damnation lies within the folds of his eight curling arms.
  • Submit yourself to him and he will forgive…himself for what he might do to you.
  • Meet his warm gaze and –WAIT DON’T GAZE INTO HIS GORGON EYES!!
  • He is the Lord, your savior/destroyer.
  • He is Octopus Jesus. Love him, as he Loves/Hates you.

Amen.

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