100° Studio Loft Party

I've obviously been neglecting this spot for some time now. Mostly due to the amount of things I'm working on—as life goes in waves, so does blog writing. Usually during the end of the day I don't have any brainpower left. At the beginning of the day I'm hunting for freelance gigs on the side. On the weekends I make a conscious effort to relax as best I can as possible—and if that doesn't work, I'm usually doing something for Proteus Creative or doing Javascript and JQuery tutorials.

So the neglect comes from a couple of important dates August has seen and passed:

-for awhile now I've had my own studio in the Arcosanti lab building. I totally cleaned he space and made it my own, and it's more or less my second home nowadays.
-I have begun painting again, with three to my name and a fourth in the works (I took a break for a week or two).

Now, Arcosanti has some great spaces for parties, and I've been to a few. It's a way for the whole community to unwind and relax. When Friday hits the usual question is: "So, what's going on tonight and tomorrow?"

Well, when I cleaned out the studio space my first thought was that it would be a great thing to have a party in there. Specifically: a wine and cheese party, with two huge paintings on either side of the room.

So that is pretty much what I did.

6 bottles of wine (ratio of 5 red to 1 white, of course), 5 different types of cheeses, some crackers, olive tapenade, sweet peppers, a huge knife that I found in the studio that ended up being the cheese knife, and one data projector later, I did "my turn" and gave back to the community. Here are the recordings of such (thanks to Alfonso, since these are his pictures: www.alfonsoelia.com )





Paint Splatters on the floor.



Peter contemplates the second painting.



Cheeses.







Signatures.



I have pictures of the new paintings as well. I'll be putting them up here soon. But in this shot you can get a bit of a look at the second one.



Shadow people.