Hitchhiking across the galaxy...

I just finished reading The Restaurant at the End of the Universe and now I am itching to read the next book. Spags let me borrow his anthology so now I can finish reading the whole series. Only problem is I may do nothing else and as if the book wasn't enough I just realized that you can play the original hitchhiker game on Douglas Adams' website! That game is one the first video games I ever played. I never could get very far in the game but I still loved it! Now I am obsessed with it and need to beat it once and for all.
On a different note but still relating to space...go see Star Wars! It was great! Lucas saved himself. It is tons of fun and filled with plenty of light saber action. The flick rarely ever slows down it is just non-stop Jedi action. The best part is the extremely smooth transition into retro 70's Star Wars style we all know and love.

Hitchhiker Game

Saturday = workday

Got to the ceramics studio at 10 this morning and didn't leave til' 5. My mini Volkus came out of the kiln and it looks great. I also remade the portrait cup for the third time and hopefully the last. I finally made a successful teapot for my mom. It was supposed to be a Mother's day gift but it is a bit late. I used the colored porcelain and it came out pretty well. The green and blue swirled together quite nicely. I also printed the cowboy screen onto some porcelain and it is VERY cool. I want to make a tall mug with the cowboy on it. Going to see Star Wars late tonight, super excited!

Mini Volkus
My mom's new teapot


The cowboy and a flat portrait cup.

Rebuilding the Kiln

In the summer of 2002 there was a kiln building workshop at NCC. During the summer of 2004 we finally got the kiln installed and hooked up to gas but It would get hot enough. The gas running in the pipes isn't enough pressure to get the kiln up to temperature. So instead of having new pipes installed we decided to shrink the kiln so it will get up to temperature. Eric Mirabito, the Artist in residence at Lill Street art center came down to direct the job. We had plenty of help and it went very smoothly. Lets just hope it all works. Aurora unlocked the art department's storage garage and I found some old silkscreens from the 80's. One in particular of a cowboy I am very excited about.


Our now smaller gas kiln and Eric.

Momentum

I was up at six this morning to finish coloring 20 prints but now all my work is done for the show and it feels great! The show opened tonight and it went really well. There were a bunch of people there and I sold one piece and two other works were bought. That's pretty good for a student show opening. Hopefully I'll sell some more pieces before the show comes down on June 13th.

Momentum view
My work in Momentum
My prints in LAC


The senior artists in all our glory!

Trey in Chicago

Trey tonight at the Auditorium Theatre downtown Chi town.
We ran into Alex and his friends from the Acadamy of Art outside the show. They were too cool to go to the show, dispite the free tickets we were offering. And boy howdy did they miss out. Trey was on fire tonight! The acoustic Brain and Robert was really cool.

Set I:
Dark And Down
Will It Go 'Round In Circles (Billy Preston)
Night Speaks To a Woman
Burlap Sack And Pumps
In The Light (Led Zeppelin)
Mr. Completely >
What's Done
Dig A Pony (The Beatles)
Drifting
Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel)

Set II:
Oz Is Ever Floating
Cayman Review
Sand
Goodbye Head >
Space Oddity > (David Bowie)
Black
Love That Breaks All Lines*
Brian And Robert**
Back On The Train**
Happy Birthday Skeeto
Mozambique^
I Am The Walrus (The Beatles)

Encore:
Sitting In Limbo (Jimmy cliff)
46 Days

*Trey on acoustic, Peter on bass, Ray on piano (No Skeeto or Les)
**Trey solo acoustic
^Skeeto's birthday song choice "for your dancing pleasure"


Trey on acoustic gee-tar.

Mother's Day and Milwaukee

Happy Mother's Day to all da Ma Ma's!
Trey in Milwaukee at the Rave tonight.
Great show! Tons of energy down on the floor.
Double encore was huge! We wouldn't let 'em leave till they played walrus.

Set I:
Night Speaks To A Woman
Burlap Sack And Pumps
Cayman Review
Dark And Down
Sitting In Limbo (Jimmy Cliff)
Low
Mr. Completely
Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel)

Set I:
Will It Go 'Round In Circles (Billy Preston)
46 Days
The Way I Feel
Push On 'Til The Day
In The Light (Led Zeppelin)
Drifting
Space Oddity (David Bowie)

Encore I:
Come As Melody

Encore II:
I Am The Walrus (The Beatles)


Trey thinks he's a walrus.