Slots and Doilies

So we went to Vegas, we had a wonderful time, saw Christina's family, had some yummy food, and of course lost some money. Yes we played the slots, we were on a quarter machine and Christina did not have the hot hand, fortunately we only lost 8 large, dollars that is. It is a strange city, looking out from the 14th floor of the Golden Nugget you can see how the town is surrounded by nothing but desert (one s not two). Talking to a number of locals we got the sense that Vegas has been hit pretty hard by the recent recession, and we noticed that this was the least number of people we have ever seen there. One thing that was kind of fun that we did was go to a little "local" bar, I think it was called beauty, or something similar, anyhow it was closest thing that I have been too that reminds me of the local bars back home in Athens Ga. It was decked out in 50's and 60's salon parafenalia, in fact I sat in one of those big "perm" dome chairs. The DJ was playing 80's music, and it provided a nice backdrop for a trip down memory lane.

So we were there for about 3 nights, and we managed to get back on Sunday, in that we were very lucky because all of the flights were soldout, we had the air travel gods looking out for us because we managed to get the last two seats on the last plane out, flying stand by. Most lucky! So I shot about 4 rolls of film while we were there, and I am looking forward to getting them processed and sharing some images, again it is a very strange place!

Once we got back to Baltimore, we got directly back into our routines, Christina at SWA and myself teaching down at MC, MICA, and holding down the fort at the crib. But on Thursday I was able to break away from the norm to have a little studio visit with Seth Crawford. He is a 2nd year MFA student at MICA who just took down a wonderful thesis show, and is about to start thinking about what next. I saw Mr Crawford's show before we went to Vegas and I asked if we could meet to discuss the availability of a piece from his show. It is an image of Charles Bronson, of Death Wish fame, printed on a Doily. The image is spectacular and I fell immediately in love with it. Long story short it has been added to our collection and we look forward to visitors dropping by having some tea and pondering the importance of Mr Bronson's impact on American Cinema.

Hope everyone is well and enjoying the lovely weather that has been brought in by the season of Spring...