E'tu faux le jaunt e poopant d'ART

My friend Fahreen and I went to the Bayou City Art Festival today. In the spirit of being artsy fartsy....

I'll write this post on the RIGHT!

So this festival won the 3rd best art festival in America in 2009. I HEARD it's #1 this year, but that was just hearsay. Anyway, I'm just trying to plug how awesome Houston is.

It was super fun! But it would have been more fun if I had about ten thousand bucks to spend, then I could have bought one, MAYBE two pieces of art. Seriously, some stuff was super cool and I wish I had some spare money to spend. But then there was the stupidest crap selling for like $1000. 

Retarded crap that would be like:

"Orange"

by Visual Visionaries

$890

JOKIN' ME?!

That's some bullhonkey! I can dookey stuff better than half the "art" there. Actually, I have made some pretty cool art. FUNCTIONAL art at that!

I have this piece I made over my bed for when the magic happens. And by magic I mean needing a nightlight so that I don't pee my pants. It's MAGICAL!

It only cost me like $50, which is like a $2530 savings. It started out as I needed more light for my room so I got this hanging lamp. But the only wires they had were white or black. The white would have been off white and it would have looked douchy, so I got the black so it would be on purpose. Then I noticed my wall was pretty bare, but there was a wire right in the middle of it, so might as well make it look I preplanned it all and made the wire part of the painting!

Now that I'm looking at this picture I took of it, one can try to put an actual meaning to it? Like how about:

"The Light"

Everyone ends up in The Light, but it's your choice how you get there.

Or better yet, I do have a dimmer attached to the lamp so it can be bright like the picture or darker. That could add another layer to it...

In your path through life, choose the amount of light to give. 

I don't know, I just made some stuff up off the top of my head. .......and it's 4am.

But I DO know that this is real art. The depth of its meaning, the magnificent subject, the shapes and strokes that cradle a most awe-inspiring face. 

"Keyan"

I didn't paint it, a good friend Sabrina painted it a few years ago.

Check out her work at

www.sabrinalaumer.com

All the art today made me want to make something artsy this month, so we'll see what I come up with.