Crafty Supermarket

The Crafty Supermarket isn't your grandmothers craft show, or maybe it is depending on your age. I should say this isn't my grandmothers craft show. Crafty has curated a collection of the highest quality crafters in the area. The next one isn't until Nov. 28, so put it in your calendar right now. You can do all your Christmas shopping there because giving boring gifts is a crime.
After you go, just remember, you can also find everything all year long online or in local brick and mortars.
Its amazing how many people show up early, in the rain, to wait in line to get.

The crafts are terrific, but coffee first.



Lily in Flux is half natural history museum, half art gallery and half crafter.
I need these guys.
I've been buying cards from Ap loves design lately because corporate cards suck.
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Crafty Supermarket is the new black

The Crafty Supermarket is definitely not your grandma's craft market with knit dollies.
Hip, smart fine crafts, clothing you need for hanging out in the sudden fashion scene that OTR has become. Or artwork for placing ironically in your modern downtown loft even. I'm not making fun of it, the stuff was all sophisticated and well made.

Grace and her high tech Indie Craft Trend Generator and my little comment on whats hip.


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Exit Through The Gift Shop

It started simply enough, like anything else does, I had wanted to see the movie "Exit Through The Gift Shop" anyhow, and then the CAC tweeted a contest, the first ten people to reply would receive a free pass to the show. Winning a pass meant not putting it off and actually seeing a movie for once.

I didn't know what to expect and that's what I got, starting with an interview of Bansky stating he's really not that interesting and the movie is actually about Thierry Guetta, a guy addicted to recording everything with his video camera. He falls in with street artists who realize maybe the fleeting nature of their work should be documented. Theiry moves up the food chain of artists until he meets Bansky who knows that while Thierry has captured years worth of film, he has zero ability, and is maybe too insane to do anything with it. Bansky confiscates the film and sends Thierry back home.
Unknowingly Bansky has turned Thierry into a monster who copies everything he's ever seen anyone else do. At this point as events escalate and Thierry's situation became more over the top each minute I realized, is Bansky pulling one over on us?
His genre of graffiti is a glimpse into an alternate world, so why should the movie he made be any different?



If you love graffiti, there's much to like in this movie, there's even a glimspe of Cincinnati with a piece you can see looking east from the CAC, that was sweet, and a few names I recognized, a fast shot of COMA.
Worth a look and a laugh even if you know nothing of the street artists.
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just like a thousand tastants hugging my tongue with a huge high five from a Umami

As a total aside, Brodi3man and I got on the Mainstreet/Eden shuttle and I have to say, nothing can possibly make you feel older than the sturm und drang of a bus filling full of chatty 20yr old college girls.
I got a smile from one of them with that"hey its grandpa" twinkle in her eye.

DA-AMN that burger was good!
Now I have to go back to Terry's Turf Club to decide who has the best burger in Cincinnati.
The fact that Terry's serves alchy-hal is going to weight heavy, but until I try it again I'll have to go on the record saying five Guys has the best burger hands down.



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bebiendo tequila en Cincinnati

Fuimos a Jeff y había un infierno de un tiempo. Bebiendo tequila y pasar un buen rato. Jeff habló la mitad de la noche en español, así que esto es una especie de broma interna. (inside)

JEFF MEXICO!!

I think Jeff wanted us to drink all the 1/4 and 1/2 bottles of tequila he's had sitting around forever, and no one was complaining. Normally he's very photo adverse but his guard was getting pretty low after a half dozen margaritas.


I'm not a tequila fan, but Jeff made up for it with this Basquiat picture on the fridge. I'm all over street art.

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Streetscapes

Thanks weather!
The rain chased everyone into the CCAC Saturday, a shame, the last time I went there was a good crowd in Clifton for the event.
At least this year they don't have to worry about the Street Dept steamcleaning the art off the street and sidewalks.
Bonus I guess, they can take the art with them and display it, but The process and fleeting lifespan of sidewalk chalk are an art onto themselves if you see it that abstractly and that atmosphere was missing, but it was still a cool event.

Tools of the trade, homemade sidewalk chalk.


Poor Ami, she was inconsolable crying, her Mom asked what was wrong, her picture was horrible. I don't know, it doesn't come out in the picture but there was something there, me telling her it was awesome made it worse.
Yep, she's exactly like some of the artists I've known, their own worst critics.



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Cincinnati Pride 2009

I've been invited to a party in Clifton every year and finally this year was able to go. I had been to Pride in Columbus before so had a pretty good idea what to expect, of course this one had the advantage of tons of people I actually knew, straight and otherwise hanging out and supporting their friends which I thought really cool. The host, lives in this gigantic, beautiful historic house that is just mind-blowing and he had a super spread laid out, this was only a tiny part of it.

win a date with a rollergirl? where do you sign up for that?







There were massive crowds in Clifton

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