Week Wrap-Up

It’s been a busy week over for me, so busy I wasn’t really able to post much, so here is a little recap below the cut.

Saturday March 1st: Get up at 6am, get to JFK, get on a Virgin America flight to LAX. Nothing special here, but I was a bit excited about my first flight on Virgin’s domestic airline. The plane was new and clean, but their seat-back selections sucked, you have to pay $7 a pop for movies, and movie theater prices for snacks and meals. A crappy wrap was $9 and totally killed my stomach. Plusses: free seat-back DOOM.

We stopped in to Gallery1988 to unpack a bit and make sure all of the artwork arrived in one piece. Luckily I packed the CRAP out of everything and it was all fine, despite FedEx’s best efforts!

Sunday March 2nd: Time to get started on the gallery walls! String proved to be the ideal solution to lay out the flame / wave design I wanted. Many thanks to Ms J. for the painting help, especially while donning a cheesecloth hazmat suit with booties (her idea). That suit lasted about 10 minutes. I started on the dividing wall skull and Ms. J did most of the base coats on the wall. Benjamin the dog made sure all went as planned. Painting took all day and hurt like hell the next.

Monday March 3rd: I finished up the giant skull and then we started with the darker orange. At noon I grabbed the laptop and put up the preview / pre-sales page, then Jensen and I sent out a quick newsletters to our mailing lists. After lunch the walls were done and dry enough to start hanging some paintings and drawings. We stayed pretty late Monday night to finish hanging and install fabric draped panels from the light supports.

Tuesday March 4th: After realizing that my prayers to the Customs Clearance Gods were to go unanswered, it was time to work on the final touches and clean up. We hung the skate decks and toys and set up the one ALTAR that made it on time. We were done a little early so we took a drive down Melrose, did some shopping and swung by Munky King.

A few hours later it was Opening Reception time!
Here are pics from the reception (and work):
My Flickr
Pinguino’s Flickr
Juxtapoz’s Site
LA Weekly Site
Vinyl Pulse

Wednesday March 5th: Back to LAX for a morning flight to NYC. Virgin America again. This time that awesome seat-back entertainment thingy that automatically overcharges for bad food was broken. The flight was fine though.

Thursday March 6th: Who needs to rest? Thursday eve it was off to the opera at Carnegie Hall where my father was performing with the Opera Orchestra of NYC. The fattest lady sang about 1/3 of the way into the program, confusing everyone and prompting some to gather their coats. I’ll admit it was a bit tough to get through, but enjoyable nonetheless.

Friday March 7th: Swung by MyPlasticHeart to see the Parskid/Huot show and chat with Vin. Later that afternoon I tried to catch up on emails and world events. I failed miserably.

Saturday March 8th: A new friend arrived, time to get back to work…