http://transitlibrarian.com

This is a fun blog done by a guy I used to work with 15 years ago when I was going to school. CJ and I were Bussing Nazi’s at the Olive Garden. Too this day I can’t eat another single Andes Mint Chocolate candy (inside joke)!

IS FINISHED!

The cast and crew will have a private screening before the first of the year and I will do private screenings over the next year. It will be entered in several film festivals over the next year, and rules and guidelines prevent us from showing it for money or selling DVD’s.

for those of you who can’t remember what the documentary is about, here is a brief synopis:

 

The Color of Sound – Music Inspires Art was an interactive concert featuring local visual artists and musicians.
 
Four talented Sioux Falls artists, Hope Happeny, Eyob Mergia, Scott Ehrisman & Jamie Scarbrough, created several paintings on canvas while listening to the region’s premier Jazz and Blues Bands — Dakota Jazz Collective & Urban Blues. The five-hour event included three 45-minute sets of unique performance art.

“We have high expectations for this film as a public educational tool,” Sioux Falls musician Jess Christen said.  “The Color of Sound – Music Inspires Art was independently produced by the artists and musicians involved. We are very proud of this aspect.”  “This event exhibited the relationship between visual art and music,” Eyob Mergia said, “and hopefully evoke cultural awareness by presenting the artistic diversity in our community.”

DIRECTOR: Chris Carlblom
Ex. PRODUCER: Scott L. Ehrisman

Dakota Jazz Collective is: Jim Speirs, Chris Janzen, Matt Hackett, John Kelly, and Bobby Gripp
www.jazzsd.com

Urban Blues is: Jess Christen, Fred Epstein,  Dave Fermenich and Derek Snow
www.myspace.com/theurbanblues

Dedicated in memory of Razmik ‘RAZ’ Mkhitarian, Sioux Falls biggest Jazz Fan

After a very long stint the Argus Leader had one of their jokalists email me yesterday wondering if they could get any comments from someone who has been critical in the past of the Pavilion. They are doing a story on hiring a new director.

I told them ‘No Comment’ because I cannot trust my exact words would be printed. So I will answer the question here:

I never thought Steve Hoffman (former director) was the main problem at the Pavilion, I have even pointed it out to many Argus staffers (to no avail). I liked Steve, and at one time considered him a friend. He is a bright person who has an extensive knowledge of the arts. The problem with the Pavilion is the Board of Directors.

Want the Pavilion’s new director to be successful? Fire the board of directors and replace them with young, progressive thinkers, and make them an ADVISORY board only, and let the management company and new director do their job.

I’ve been fooling around with creating FAUX stencil art on the computer, here’s my first attempt:

Artist collegue James Starkey has done a short demonstration video about his traditional native flutes he makes:

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=wanbliwiwohkpe

Here is his site:

http://www.angelfire.com/indie/oyate