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Originally uploaded by Tariq’s Fantasy World

The 4th semi-annual Childbloom camp is an immersion into creative play and exploration of music, dance, visual art, and theatre for young people ages 7-11. Our week is a trip around the world, traveling through the traditional songs, rhythms, stories, and dance of the U.S., South America, India, Africa, and beyond.

A week-long exploration of music, movement, and story telling for young people ages 7-12
June 23-27th • 9am-2pm • University Congregational Church, Missoula, MT

Activities will include:
Storytelling, theatre, West African drumming, guitar, creative movement, singing, mask-making, and games to create a safe and creative environment.

There will be optional aftercare & recreation available in the afternoons until 5:30 p.m. (there will be an additional fee for this service). Please pack a brown bag lunch for your child. Campers are provided with a healthy mid-morning and afternoon snack.

Heidi Junkersfeld grew up training in tap dance, musical theatre, jazz and madrigal choir, and piano. She graduated with a degree in Physics and a minor in Dance. She has produced various multi-media shows that include artistic mediums such as dance, theatre, spoken word, music and visual art. In 2002 Heidi moved to Ecuador, and proceeded to travel, work, and study in 8 different countries in South America. During her travels Heidi studied Ashtanga Yoga, Capoiera, dance, traditional South American music, contact improvisation, theatre, and contemporary clown. She taught theatre and dance in several schools and Universities, as well as creating travelling multi-media performances all over South America. She now lives in Missoula, teaches yoga, works as the music and movement specialist at the Missoula Community School and the Missoula Community Resource Coordinator for the Missoula County Public Schools. She is part of the art collective Open Field Artists, and is one of the cocreators of the music duo Sueno Lunar.

Nathan Zavalney is a trained and licensed Childbloom guitar instructor. He has been director of the Childbloom Guitar Program of Missoula since September 2000, specializing in teaching guitar to young students. He has 15 years of experience with guitar in classical, jazz, and folk styles. He has performed as a guitarist, vocalist, and percussionist in solo and group settings, including the world music group Drum Brothers and the Mo-Trans modem dance company. During his musical studies at the University of MT. he focused on composition, jazz studies, and classical voice training. Nathan has taught music to students all over the northwest in educational assemblies and in-class instruction, including two years as the music instructor for the Missoula City International School. He has taught private lessons for the last 7 years in both percussion and classical guitar. Nathan also runs Burning the Midnight Oil Audio Productions, through which he has created a variety of music for film, television, dance, and commercial CD release.

Old Post Beers - Chalkboard Art 3Originally uploaded by love not fear

Ever since the OPP renovated the bar, one thing has bothered me and that’s the lOWERCASE ls on the beer signs. Now, I’ve always loved the artwork on the OPP’s chalkboard, don’t get me wrong. I think each panel is absolutely beautiful.

I remember, just after the remodel, wondering when the chalkboard would return. Finally it did, and WTF.

One of my favorites is the LAKE MISSOULA AMBER from the KETTlE HOUSE.  I mentioned it to some of my friends, and we had a laugh about it, ordered another round, and (they) forgot about it.

But I couldn’t. It was one of those things that was always slightly annoying. But I should just get over it, right?

Well, I found some other folks who think lOWERCASE ls are equally as absurd. I guess this validation is enough to let it go.(yeah, another restaurant post. This one deals directly with local art, so cut me some slack, eh?)

Check out more lOWERCASE ls here.

Why not buy me a MOOSE DROOl? Click below to buy me a beer. Thanks!

Art love on the Internet for December 26th:

• KompoZer - downloads - KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing. KompoZer is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive,

Art love on the Internet for December 21st:

• The Bureau of Communication - “Let that which is unsaid be said.”

Now is the time: Buy some Art

There are several ways to purchase Marc Moss’ art in time for the holidays. All orders of ORIGINAL ART are shipped FedEx at no cost to you. Prints, however, cannot be guaranteed for Christmas delivery.

Purchase Prints at Apollonova

Buy prints at the Apollonova Collective

Purchase Prints at ImageKind

If you see something that you like in one of the Galleries, or if you would like to commission a piece, please contact Marc directly via email: marc.moss.art@gmail.com

Flickr recently announced the introduction of Stats for their Pro users. Pretty sweet.

To view them, when logged into your Pro Flickr account, go YOU –> YOUR STATS. Here you will see displayed the top ten photo views for the previous day, and of all time. A table displaying the photo thumbnails also displays how many views each photo received, how many times each was favorited and commented upon, and, my favorite feature, a breakdown of where your traffic originated.

The “Other Sites” are further broken down as shown below.

Lastly, There is a breakdown of all photos you have uploaded. I’ll let the screenshot do the talking here.

I activated mine a while ago, but haven’t had the chance to look at my stats until tonight. The results were interesting, though not too surprising considering the title (and subject) of the photo. (and not that good of a photo) named Hot Upskirt Bike Action has had the most views. It’s tagged with:

upskirt
tourdefat
missoula
montana
bike
newbelgium

When viewing the photo as I wrote this post, I realized that one can also view one’s stats about an individual photo only without having to navigate to the Stats page. There is a “Stats” link on the main page for the photo being viewed, located under the ADDITIONAL INFORMATION heading on the right, below the tags. The photo in question was taken at the annual New Belgium Tour de Fat, held in Missoula and other parts of the NorthWest. I wrote about the Tour de Fat shortly after it happened, and it was a lot of fun.

Right. Not that great of a photo, eh? But let’s have a look at the stats for this particular image. It has the most views of any image I’ve posted to Flickr, including full blown nudes.

Wow.

So, the lesson here is: name your photos (or other artwork) well. Lesson #2: sex sells, and you don’t need any nudity at all.

Art love on the Internet for December 16th:

• FREEWAYBLOGGER.com - Free Speech: Use It or Lose It - Truth on the freeway.
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Art love on the Internet for December 15th:

• Francesco Clemente - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - His work shows both surrealist and expressionist references. He was self taught and studied architecture in 1970 at the University of Rome. He did some paintings in collaboration with Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat in the 1980’s. Since 1982, he has
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• Facebook - Illustrators beware :: Illustration - So that said, basically anything that is posted on Facebook can be used or sold by them to anyone. Yes, you do retain full ownership but you automatically grant the usage over to them. I just felt it was important to bring this to everyone�s attention.
• Download Free Vector Graphics at Vecteezy! - Vecteezy is an index of Free Vector Graphics available for download by some of the best artists around the world.
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Art love on the Internet for December 11th:

• WebUrbanist » Satirical or Strangely True? The Secret and Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal - Most would argue that graffiti removal is at best the elimination of vandalism or at worst the destruction of art, right? One award-winning film argues something quite different: that graffiti removal is the ultimate next step in the progression of modern
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