connecting*the*dots

It’s move in day.

Man, check out the colors in the room the former owners left me for an office:

Can you picture getting any work done in that hot mess? I wanted to get them to paint it, but the market is so hot for property in downtown Greensboro I had to suck up the cost or risk losing the property. No biggie. Thanks to master painter Jay Ovittore, all the painting is finished (and looks great).

I’m about to go get the U-Haul. If you need to get in touch with me over the next few days, try my cell phone, as cable (and Vonage) won’t be up until Monday afternoon.

As the curtain went down on Greensboro’s Child last night, it also marked the final performance at The Scene on South Elm. The space is now officially in the process of being converted into an artist’s studio / gallery.

Best of luck to Lowell and to Dale, who is moving on to teach high school math and science Carsboro, North Carolina.

I also want to thank everyone who showed up to support Andy, including local bloggers Ben Hwang, Chewie, David Hoggard, Bruce Burch and Ndesanjo Macha. Andy is now looking for distribution and to supply copies of the film to local schools. We’ll keep you in the loop with all the happenings.

That great statement was captured in the front room of the elsewhere artist collaborative, right next door to The Scene on South Elm.

I just started going through some of their writings… interesting stuff. From organizational thoughts 2:

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Politics is inherently artful and art is a manipulation of medium. To combine art and politics is to make the medium people and the property medium. Elsewhere’s political notion of collaboration is the balance of individual and community, where the individual is given full rights to application of the common property so long as use of such property is not distructive[1] to the community. The individual is the depleater[2], abuser, and the one to be feared, thus the community must protect itself from abuse. Abuse is about individual disregarding the needs of other individuals and disregarding the community needs as defined by the individual perception. However, in the jumbled state that this iterates, the individuals are disregarding and subjecting the environment by their ill perceptions of its maximus[3] capability. A fully applied concept does not insure that the individuals will produce great art as individuals, but a community governed by a thoughtful populace, an informed and informing populace, is partaking in the conceptual framework that directs the space. If there is constant flux in conceptual ideology issued by well-expressed discussion and submission of idea then everyone is participating in collaborative art.

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I’m diggin’ my new neighborhood.

w00t!

The closing is in just over a month. A big shout to Ed for introducing me to the neighborhood and walking me through.