May 28, 2008

• Art prowl

  So Saturday was the Great Lowell Drop-Off, in which we brought four of my graf abstraction photos up to the Washington Ave Arts Association for their upcoming show. That place is so neato, it’s a bunch of converted art lofts and studios housed in an ancient industrial mill structure. One of the interesting things about Mass. (and Lowell especially) is that it is the birthplace of the American industrial revolution, so there are all these ginormous old brick buildings everywhere. My father, for instance, worked for a large electronics company which had its headquarters in one such building; everything was brick and wide pine planks, and you can still sometimes see the cast iron machinery leftover from its heyday.

  Tres Steampunk, dont’cha know.

  And since it was such a lovely day, and we were in the mood for some exploration, we decided to check out the rest of Lowell. They’ve got quite the arts scene going on.
   
   
  These are from the Revolving Museum.

  

  The Owl Stamp Company. There’s not even an actual owl in this picture, but it is still so awesome.

  Then we checked out “Found”, which is the penultimate tchotchke collectible junkus store on the planet. Right up our alley.

  
  (Photo from Venks)
  
  And I found this bowl, for around ten bucks, thinking it would be nice for displays. After doing a bit of research on the internet and a lot of hackneyed italian translation, it turns out it’s actually contemporary murano glass from italy, and worth about ten times what we paid for it. Huzzah.

  

  And then we got run over by a locomotive. So sad. The end.
   

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