Tonight.

I went to the opening for 20/21, which is an anniversary for the contemporary museum of Honolulu. Do you care? well maybe you should care more. Despite it seeming like some sort of ivory tower exclusive organization at the top of a mountain in Makiki (hoighty toighty district in Honolulu), The Contemporary Museum has been an arts advocate for twenty years now. YES, I AM BIASED. YOU WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OF IT? GOOD, PLEASE DO SO.
Anyway, it was sort of an interesting idea for their twentieth anniversary show. They took artists who had participated in biennial shows, and asked them to select five Hawaii artists who deserve better exposure, and then sent those choices to be juried by some other folks. honestly, that's where I lost a little interest, I guess those people were important too, being that they were all unbiased and stuff. (hey, it's a small town here in Honolulu). Anyway, the artists were selected, and the show was curated, and you know what? it looks pretty damn good. I got to go and we brought the boys to the museum for the first time. To me, that was sort of intense. I talked to them about it, but i think they were distracted by all the new faces.



Image courtesy of ryan higa/the contemporary museum, Hawaii

Hey all you lurkers...

What's up. It's February Friday the thirteenth. Auspicious. Things are fun. Just had the house vaccinated and the boys have been fumigated. The tides are up and the wind is blowing. I hope all y'all out there are safe and using either your scarf or your sunscreen.
In the news, I went to an opening today for my fellow dude May Izumi.
She is quite excellent and some of her pieces won awards and stuff. So I am very proud, especially cause I got to help work on some of the pieces. it's like watching a precious baby cyclops you taught in kindergarten turn into a monstrous cyclopean horror and destroy a city! So go see this show! (unless you're like a scum-ass dirtbag or something.)
If you don't like monsters and dogfish, then go for the surfers and tree cozys. You'll thank me!

Here's my anyways;

Cousin James Roster FWDed us this "ha-ha FWD message" about our great nation's current economic hurdle...Read on:


"This year, taxpayers will receive an Economic Stimulus Payment. This is a
very exciting new program that I will explain using the Q and A format:

Q. What is an Economic Stimulus Payment?
A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.

Q. Where will the government get this money?
A. From taxpayers.

Q. So the government is giving me back my own money?
A. Only a smidgen.

Q. What is the purpose of this payment?
A. The plan is that you will use the money to purchase a high-definition
TV set, thus stimulating the economy.

Q. But isn't that stimulating the economy of China ?
A. Shut up.

Below is some helpful advice on how to best help the US economy by
spending your stimulus check wisely:

If you spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China .
If you spend it on gasoline it will go to the Arabs.
If you purchase a computer it will go to India .
If you purchase fruit and vegetables it will go to Mexico , Honduras , and
Guatemala (unless you buy organic).
If you buy a car it will go to Japan .
If you purchase useless crap it will go to Taiwan .

And none of it will help the American economy.

We need to keep that money here in America . You can keep the money in
America by spending it at yard sales, going to a baseball game, or spend it
on prostitutes, beer and wine (domestic ONLY), or tattoos, since those are
the only businesses still in the US."

I said to myself, you know what this "ha-ha FWD message" needs to do? Tell the TRUTH.
The truth is, everyone out there should go out and buy some AMERICAN ART It's like baseball, prostitution, tattoos, and booze all rolled up into one pretty picture (or sculpture, If that's the way your tastes roll)! What better way to stimulate the economy and keep the money within our country than to support those who represent America with a salmon smoking a pipe, sharing a sundae with a bearded woman in a bikini? Make American artists proud to be American again! or at least proud to make rude social commentary! No one does rude social commentary better than artists!(like any comedians read this blog, right?)
And for goodness sake, buy contemporary American Art! it's not like Jackson Pollock needs the cash!
Anyways, that's my anyways for this month. Stay foxy, lurkers.

Oh snap i forgot to mention...

Here's the bench I was working on for The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu. Kind of a neat lil' thing, tho I admit benches are really not my forté.

Manzorz...

So yeah, It's getting closer and closer to Roctober. It's getting crazier and crazier in the house. Sadly, (so very sadly) we are losing our EPIC houseguest Baci(who I nicknamed the Goblin and Leia nicknamed Batman) the cat to a more permanent and capable pet owner, but he was an awesome guest who made sure we were made aware of his digestive abilities, and that we were warm and furry every night.
The library has been stripped of books, the garage sale has come and gone. now comes the exciting demolition, construction, and painting phase of the creation of the babeh room and Leia's new office space in the house. plus I will finally be getting bookshelves in my computer area, which will make for nice easy reference and probably a lot less exercise running up and down the stairs. yay!

Other news of interest;

The biennial is being de-installed this weekend. thanks to everyone who checked it out and for all the nice things everyone said! I enjoyed the experience thoroughly, and everyone at the museum rocked their socks making it a good atmosphere and an educational experience. Many thanks go out to the Installation crew for all their patience and late nights, Quala Lynn for the education, and walk/talks, and of course Inger for curating. Thanks to the other artists for being bad ass and interesting too!

I may be doing a show of my skateboard decks at the end of the year. It's still in discussion phase, but I am stoked!
I dunno what else is going on.
I started a group in flickr.com for homeless robots! Yay!
and ummm oh...yeah Facebook. BLEAH.

Went to the..

Denver Museum of Natural history today. Was choice.
saw some of these guys... Giant prehistoric pigs built life size. By life size I mean effing eight feet tall 1500 pound kind life size. They did all kinds of excellent dioramas like this. Pretty unreal. Also went to the Denver Lego outlet. Pretty hawt. Going to Sonoma Tomorrow for the lady's birthday. Yayz.

Welcome to my stuff.

By now you might have guessed that I'm Cade Roster. Good. moving on, here's what's up with my junk.
I recently participated in the 2008 Biennial at the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu. Pretty fun. Do I have pics? yeah I have a few. One of the pieces I built for the show was a series of characters based off of a single mold. Not unlike the Munny/Dunny figures. I used a basic form with an anthropomorphic edge to it, for heightened cuteness. (Fig 1) I then took the basic form, made a silicon mold, and cast the form in several different materials including plastic(Fig 2) and resin.(Fig 3) I also pressed paper clay in there to see if it would work. Awesomely, it did.(Fig 4) These images are a few of the series that I did. I also made a larger scale installation piece based on characters that have been lurking in my head since about 2000a.d.(Fig 5)
So yeah, that was the art thats been on display so far this year. You can also check my flickr page for more pictures of my work. It might be easier than re-cataloguing everything here hehhe. If you click on the "picha picha" section on this page, it will take you to my photostream. Awfully damn convenient, no?
for more information regarding the Biennial you can always take a peek at the museum.
anyways, I will be posting more adventures as soon as I have them.