There are many exciting things happening over at Vermont Community Access Media these days. Better still, it is homegrown and for this, I am proud: This video needs to be a PSA, for boys and girls the world over who are getting ready to get busy. In the meantime, here is a brilliant James Kochalka Superstar! music video, "Wash Your Ass" which was shot by local playwright Seth Jarvis. Plus, it gives me an excuse to meet cool artists and that is always good. My goal is to focus on local VT artists and musicians and bring more attention to all the hip and hot VT art happenings. I am in the process of editing this piece and establishing a concrete and simple format for the VT Vlogs (short-n-sweet). Plus, it turns out that the famous Spandy, who is featured in many of Kochalka's cartoons, is really not all that special after all - perhaps that is what makes her so special?! I am a card-carrying member of the Spandy Fan Club. I have yet to research this news but that does explain a lot. But don't bother throwing out your cat, once you got the parasite, it is there for life. I was nervous but he was very nice and is not really an elf after all - unless his ears are retractable!? James told us about a brain parasite in humans which is contracted from cats and makes us neurotic. I shot my very first VT Vlog at this fine event and was lucky enough to talk to James Kochalka - Vermont-based, internationally famous cartoonist/rock superstar! Without a doubt, the Helen Day was the happening place to be Friday night! The gallery has a lot to celebrate with a new Executive Director, Nathan Suter, and a new Exhibitions Director, Idoline Duke.
There were gigantic strawberries dipped in warm chocolate, assorted gourmet cheese platters and a hip art crowd buzzing around the artwork like honey bees. Although artists provide a very different sort of milk, no less nourishing as Friday night proved. Then again, the number of artists in Vermont may soon surpass that of cows, if it hasn’t already. Most of them are in the first camp - a remarkable fact, given the state’s diminutive size. The show’s central connection, of course, is Vermont: The featured artists live here either full- or part-time, or they were born here and moved elsewhere. Fine Toon: The Art of VT Cartoonists is an excellent exhibit with pieces by 13 artists with VT ties.
Last Friday night, the Helen Day Art Center in Stowe was bustling with activity as many fashionable folk in black streamed into its doors for a much anticipated gallery opening. And if you are in a January funk that is threatening to become a February funk, it might just light up your life with its 1979 vibe and its over eager children of the feathered hair and the intense pain and power poured into each note emminating from Patti Smith's mouth. You will have to watch this video to believe it.
Trying to imagine such unlikely couplings in 2007 is hard to imagine. Here is Patti Smith singing "You Light Up My Life" on ABC TV's "Kids Are People Too," making a statement that weird combinations are what pushes life forward. I love the content, editing and feel of Gregg's unique works of art. In fact, me thinks junk thieves and deadbeats may occupy the same genealogical tree - look closely, they are next to the sloths and the criminally insane. Gregg has the best of quirky tastes and I just know we'd be the best of pals. Gregg is a San Francisco resident in search of the perfect doornob who also puts together an amazing vlog called Junk Thief. Here is yet another reason to love YouTube and obsessed vloggers (takes one to know one!).
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