Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

From the Lovely Molly of Bickett Gallery:

Dear Bickett Gallery patrons,

This is the last weekend at Bickett Gallery. I hope that you will be able to attend at least one of our events. They are all going to be very special. We will be celebrating the gallery with multimedia events, food and drinks. Please stop by and enjoy!

Friday, May 18th

Renay Aumiller and Bickett Gallery present “I Bickett Fluently” a multi-media collaboration featuring independent choreographers, musicians and writer Eric Amling, who will read from his new work. Presenters are from Raleigh, Greensboro , Chicago, and Louisville , Kentucky. I Bickett Fluently consists of six works from active members of North Carolina’s dance world, as well as Laura Chiaramonte, a Chicago-based dancer. Cost is $6. Doors open at 8pm with the performance beginning at 9pm.

Saturday, May 19th

Bickett Gallery presents a night of melodic Indy music featuring Zachary Gresham of the critically acclaimed Athens Ga. band, The Summer Hymns, Raleigh’s Bowerbirds, who performed first at Bickett Gallery and has just released a new record, under Raleigh label BurleyTime Records, The Never of Chapel Hill (Trekky Records) and Deleted Scenes from Washington, DC . Doors open at 7pm. Performances begin at 8pm. Cost is $7.

Sunday, May 20th

Bickett Gallery will have an extended day event opening at 4pm. The afternoon will begin with a screening of Who Gets to Call it Art? a film by Peter Rosen about curator Henry Geldzahler, The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first contemporary art curator.

Featuring Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Jackson Pollock, Larry Poons and many more mid-century visual artists. The film also features The Velvet Underground. The film depicts the New York art scene of the 1960’s and the man who made it POP! Screening is at 5pm.

Performances by a number of local musicians will begin in the evening. Charles Latham, *Sons, Heads on Sticks, Monologue Bombs among others will play. 7pm. Cost: $7

Speaking of Web 2.0, I’ve had 3+ not necessarily unwelcome, but unprepared for run-ins this week. One was on the street, “IRL” as we say on the internets. The other 2+ were online. People who live nowhere near me popped up in a way I wasn’t expecting, and I wasn’t ready for it. This is one of the both fortunate and unfortunate aspects of life in the small town that is the internet. I can run into exes I don’t want to see, or long lost friends I’ve wondered about for years. I think that on the whole, I like it, but it makes social negotiations awful tricky. I have to set my filters, friend levels, contact lists, etc, so that I’m not running into people I don’t want to run into when I’m least prepared. And sometimes I don’t like the ways I have to set them, because I’m filtering out more than I want to…

As always, the cardinal rule is “Never accept an invitation to go crazy”. If a repeated run-in is causing me undo stress, gotta do what I gotta do. As my friend Jason has always said, “It’s just the internets”.

Via Ro

Just bringing the rest of you up to speed! We’ve been busy!

In addition to just being awesome, they have nice people at the top.

(This is in regard to that “whole thing” I mentioned at the end of the last post.)

I can’t spend too long on this because I have a study schedule to stick to, but if you’ve been living under a rock… or if you just don’t spend your life on Flickr (same diff, no?!), then there was a huge upset in the photographic world yesterday. JPG Magazine, which is a print magazine comprised of themed submissions from “regular” photographers, was created by Heather Champ and Derek Powazek. Used to be (2 days ago) that when you went to JPG Magazine’s “About” page, you got this. That link tells of how Heather and Derek (a married couple) founded the magazine. Well now the site contains no mention of either of them and no longer contains the contents of the first 6 issues on the site. Flickr people are pissed, and we’re all deleting our JPG Magazine accounts.

Like I said, I don’t have time to write it all out, but here are some more detailed descriptions of what has happened:

• JPG Delete
• Digital Photography Goes To Hell For A Day
• Metafilter Discussion

And then there’s this whole thing.

Good grief!