Kimmy's Oddball

Saturday night was Kimmy's Oddball, the first annual benefit for the Open Sky Fund. Open Sky is a wonderful charitable organization here in Portland that gets musical instruments to underprivileged kids. The Foo Crew, now in desperate need of naps and, perhaps, a decent meal, were also there to provide visuals and to document the festivities.

Jordan & Amanda Kaulbach with Zig Zag

The Barefoot Truth Dancers.

Amada Gervasi

The Beat Horizon

Kimmy gets a 40th birthday striptease, courtesy of artist Che Arajj. It was a really great time, despite being overtired and overworked, with so many great musicians & artists and assorted other oddballs. Many thanks to the awesome folks at Cow Pasture Productions for including myself and the other Foos in the festivities.

If you'd like to check out some of the other performers at the Oddball, click on my flickr link to the right.

http://www.openskyfund.org/

Midnight in the Valley of the Gods

Had an awesome time down at the Arm Factory Friday night, I threw up some blacklite deco for artist Heidi Moksha's blacklite art and WYREDFUX came out to provide the soundtrack......many thanks to Heidi, the Arm Factory & the rest of the Foo Crew for a great night.

for more info on the fine folks at the Arm Factory, go here; http://thearmfactory.com/

All Liz! All Weekend!

So, this part of the year is crazy as always....I'll be participating in no less than 4 events this weekend here in Portland, so a run down....first, I've submitted Murder Bear to the Sanctuary Gallery show - they'll have an opening tonight for First Friday, an Island of Misfit Toys themed event... they always have very fun shows, check them out at www.Sanctuarytattoo.com
The fine folks over at Cow Pasture Productions also invited me to bring some stuff over to an empty space they're using to show some local art and promote the first annual Oddball, which takes place tomorrow night at Port City Music Hall.....So they'll be an encore presentation of After Such a Fall as This for tonight's art walk along with work from some other very talented folks, so please head on over to the second floor of the State Theatre building to check it out during your art-walking. I volunteered my services as an event photographer for the Oddball, so I'll be there tomorrow night, camera in hand. The Oddball is a benefit for the Open Sky Fund, which gets musical instruments to underprivileged kids in Maine. There's a great line up for that event, which you can check out at www.portcitymusichall.com.
Later this evening I'll be over at the Arm Factory for "Midnight in the Valley of the Gods," which I was up late last night setting up for - Portland based artist Heidi Moksha has done a series of very awesome blacklite sensitive paintings, so I was summoned to throw up some of the Foo Crew's blacklite deco to really transform the place - and as of late last night it was looking really great. So if you're in Portland tonight I highly suggest after doing the art walk to head on down to the Arm Factory for the party - there will be food, live music, djs, coffee & cookies! Some very talented folks have come together to throw this party, it'll definitely be worth checking out, as is any event the Foo Crew decides to throw down for.

Sunday....I'll be sleeping, so don't call me. But I'm hoping to see y'all tonight or tomorrow somewhere around town.

cheers! Liz

Murder Bear

Sanctuary Gallery here in Portland does a few open calls a year, and for December the theme was Island of Misfit Toys. So I'm sending Murder Bear there, I think he may fit in.

With many thanks & sincerest apologies to beloved teddy and good sport "Honey"

Eoto

Eoto & Cyborg Trio played at the Port City Music Hall on saturday night. VJ Foo & the Great Noontide did the visuals for the show - so, in my role as art chick for the Foo Crew I grabbed my camera and headed down to document the festivities.

Eoto arrives & starts set-up.

Cyborg Trio warming up.

Michael Travis of Eoto - cleaning up after the show. This was the last shot of the night & also my favorite.


I got a lot of great shots, eventually I'll be putting more up....somewhere.

Pass the Hat

Album art for my friend Jeff's band Pass the Hat. It's meant to be reminiscent of the freemason symbol. The name of the band will be photoshopped into the banner before production. Ink on illustration board.

A side project....

Here in Portland we have a group of fire dancers that comes out and performs most friday nights in the old port - I've been going down and checking them out, camera in tow, the past few weekends. You can check some more of the shots I've taken by clicking on my flickr link to the right.