Bradley Beach 5k 2014

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Not entirely happy with my 5k today. Was hoping for under 23 minutes but my official time was 23:07, 131st of 771 runners. A few months ago I suffered an MCL injury and this is only my second race since the injury (the other being last week). I guess I should be happy that I didn’t further injure it even though there is slight soreness. Here’s the digital certificate:

Bradley Beach 5k results 2014

However, all runners were allowed free access to the beach after the race. I took advantage of that and a beautiful day to enjoy my lunch by the sea.

Picnic by the sea

R.I.P. Robin Williams

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In the very beginning of Andy Kaufman Plays Carnegie Hall (1979) he said that he always told his grandmother that someday he will perform live at Carnegie Hall and when he does he will give her the best seat in the house. Before the show started he introduced his grandmother and told that story. She then took a seat on the actual stage and didn’t say a word but watched the entire show. The show consisted of his usual routines, Elvis impersonation, wrestling, Tony Clifton, etc. as well as a number of special guests. After the 2 hour show was over Andy began to thank all of his guests for performing and then he thanked his grandmother, Robin Williams. Robin Williams sat on the stage dressed as an old lady for the entire performance and not a single person at Carnegie Hall knew that. It was absolutely amazing. RIP Robin Wiliams. I hope that this is another one of Andy’s pranks. 🙁

HUN-ted

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3 opening receptions at Artworks Trenton this Saturday, August 9th, 2014
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Main Gallery
August 2nd – August 30th, 2014

Opening Reception:  August 9th, 2014 ( 6-8pm)

The Hungarian artist has developed a characteristic – photo-based, computer-inspired – compositional principle that reflects the existential struggle of the person who is seeking for order in the fragmentized reality. His painted art is a unique (self-) therapy practice: a trauma loaded past, the dreamlike rereading of the subjective memory. A recurring theme in Endre Kis’s work is the Balkan war; from this cataclysm he reveals either the break-up of family ties or the post-traumatic symptoms of the falling apart of the ex -Yugoslav community as it was experienced as a child, interspersed by stylistic quotation primarily taken from the German expressionism, or occasionally from pop art. This pseudo-reality denotes at the same time the reference framework for his own worldview: the artist conveys his self-portraits a temporary identity when he uses the emblematic portrait works known from the history of art as a kind of mask or layer to overwrite his own self-portrait. In the Roadkill series the artist examines the negative impact of the human civilization from his own perspective. The compositions built on the combination of three symbolic motives (natural environment, concrete and the animals falling prey in between) deal with the tragic side of the human development.

Community Gallery
August 2nd – August 30th, 2014

Opening Reception: August 6th, 2014 ( 5 – 7pm)

 Featuring the works of CYO Summer Camp students of Mercer County

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ArtLab Gallery
August 2nd – August 30th, 2014

Opening Reception: August 6th, 2014 ( 5 – 7pm)

Artworks’ Open Studio Program provides studio space, art supplies, and professional guidance to talented, economically disadvantaged, marginalized artists in a communal workshop environment.

The goals of the Open Studio Program are to help each person reach their highest level of artistic achievement, encourage personal and professional growth, foster self-esteem and build positive relationships between themselves and with our greater community.

Migrated blog to WordPress

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Just installed WordPress on my server and am now using it as my blog instead of RapidWeaver. I was surprised how easy it was to import the old blog. I just imported the RSS feed. I lost my theme and I’m sure links to the RapidWeaver blog are no longer functional but so far it looks like it works! Great!

Happy Mother's Day

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Happy mother’s day to all the mothers out there. My grandmother recently found this old photo of my mother during Halloween. I found this picture interesting and had to share it. My mom is the one on the right, the hobo.

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Earth, Air, Fire, Water

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2 opening receptions at Artworks Trenton this Saturday, May 10th 2014, 6 to 8pm.

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A forest of large painted and individually collaged prisms will be literally hanging throughout ARTWORKS in Trenton May 10 to June 7.

This massive interactive installation is the centerpiece of a one man show featuring local artist Alan Goldstein. The show features work relating to 4 natural elements; Earth, Air, Fire and Water. Goldstein has based much of his life’s work on nature’s inventions and processes.

The forest was inspired by the trees the artist has studied for over 30 years walking to his Bucks County studio. “ My trees are a part of my life and I see them age and die like my friends, like myself.  Slowly they loose twigs, branches, leaves and bark until they stand like ghosts waiting to fall.”

Goldstein spent most of the 1960s in New Jersey.  He taught at St Bernard’s School for Boys, the Summit Art Center and the Morris County Art Association in Morristown.  An invited artist to the International Summer Seminar at Fairleigh Dickenson, Goldstein has been shown at the NJ Visual Arts Center and the Newark Museum.

His work was regularly shown at the Lacework Gallery in Lambertville, New Jersey and he has many works in the permanent collection of the Michener Museum in Doylestown Pennsylvania.

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“Alpha Genesis” will be the first official exhibition for Allegory Lab Art Collective.

Allegory Lab Art Collective is comprised of four, self-representing artists: Melody Saccone, John A. Saccone, Bobby Bates, and Addison Vincent. The four artists decided to collaborate and form the collective in March of 2013.

“Alpha Genesis” is the first exhibition in a four year, four part series of works which will culminate into a massive body of works by 2017.
“Alpha Genesis” will showcase 5 works by each artist, and their personal styles for the 2014 season.
“Beta Genesis”, 2015 season, will showcase collaborative works as the artists pair off to create 8 works per pair.
“Omega Genesis”, 2016 season, will showcase 8 collaborative, large scale works of all four artists.
“The Genesis Series”, 2017 season, will be the culmination of the past three years, and will showcase a total of 36 works, ranging from personal works, to full collaborative works.

The purpose of working in yearly segments is to foster growth as artists through both personal and collaborative exploration and experimentation. Since each of the artist’s work in their own style and medium, the outcome of the collaborative works should be nothing short of spectacular.