I just got back from a great thunderbirds hockey game. It was really close. We won against the silver tips 1-0. The tips have an awsome fan base. There were more of them than us on our home turf! It was our last game of the season. Mariners season is coming up in two weeks!

Here is an interesting article about Judy Scott, an artist who knows not that she is an artist. Click though to see some more of her art. Something about her sculpture is very satisfying to me.

update Just read this other article that clarifies some things about people with down’s syndrome

Last year I started my art business as an official business. I haven’t made much money, but I’ve bought a bunch of equipment so I need to figure out the whole deduction thingy. I’m going to a workshop at SAM to help artists do taxes.

Then I’m off to a thunderbird’s game.

I have a few new ideas popping around in my brain.

Ok, in my last post, it may have sounded like both NYC and Sea-town are both full of crap art… I didn’t mean that, I don’t like all art and even though I expected to find more art that I liked in NYC, I found that the ratio of good art and bad art are the same in Seattle and NYC. I can say that Seattle’s art scene is great and I know it because last night’s Seattle artwalk was great.

I stopped by at COCA on my way to the international district and saw the electricity show which had some highlights. It’s worth seeing. Stopped into 911 too, but didn’t see anything interesting. Would have stopped into Conworks, but saw it already and it’s worth seeing if you haven’t.

Daniel and I go to artwalk together. We’ve been doing it every month for the past 4 years. At 5:15 every first Thursday, we eat at the schezuan noodle bowl (because we order the same thing every time we now just order by the price… “We’ll have the $13.70.”) It is good and we catch up as friends for the past month. Besides designing gardens, Daniel is an artist. If you are lucky enough to visit his house, you are in for a treat. Just the way he piles and stacks stuff is enough to make you go ga-ga for his work.

We have a way of doing artwalk that works. If we don’t like it, we don’t go in. I usually only like about 25% of the art I see, so avoiding the art I don’t like makes for a good evening.

After dinner we walk to pioneer square, except that we skip the square. We walk past the James Harris gallery and go to Greg Kucera. We dodged in to see Brian Ohno’s gallery which had great stuff by a great artist all ink and bicycles. Then we are off to the Tashiro Kaplan spaces. G. Gibson recently moved in and she’s one of my favorites along with SOIL and Platform.

Then we go to the Gallery4Culture at the smith tower. We take a moment to appreciate the pretty marble above the staircase. We can rely on that marble for visual satisfaction. Then we go up the block and check out Howard House which right now has the same guy who’s at the Frye. It’s cool light painting poppy stuff. Howard House is a good bet. I saw the same artist’s show at the Frye earlier in the week. The Frye is always worth going to.

Then, if there is anything at SAM we go through there. Usually there isn’t, but last night there was. The Chinese Contemporary show is brilliant. They have like 15 or 20 video art pieces which is my favorite medium right now. Good stuff too. Definate must see.

Then we are off to Benham. Which was good last night too.

Then we go off to the main part of the artwalk, which now isn’t so hot. It used to be that artists would sell their art there, but with the gestapo of the City of Seattle making people get business licenses, that has scared off most of the emerging artist there. Now it is mostly crafts and I don’t want to buy candles on first Thursday.

Then we usually look through the windows at Davidson and Grover-Thurston and Foster-White because they close at 8.

Tonight Jennifer and I are off to Priceless Works in Freemont to see the show with Erik Borgeson’s work in it. Chauney Peck is curating. It should be a treat! The “Dead Girls” show we saw a few weeks ago there was brilliant.

Last night we also got tickets to go see Kings of Convenience next weekend! Hurray!