David was going to show me how to blog, but then he started bleeding and said “I’m bleeding, I’m bleeding, I’ll be right back.”
Now that he is back, we can continue this blog experience.
So today I learned how to post things on etsy.com and flickr.com, though it was a process of trial and error, and I did fail a few times.
When I finally finished, I succeeded in posted such lovely things as:
Oh, BTW, my name is Amanda Beard. I am Cranky Yellow’s newish employee. I am not actually a new employee, I am just being paid now. I take photographs for the store of the merchandise and sometimes of the events. I helped take a lot of the photos for the Crammed Organisms book. I am a photography study at Webster University and will be getting a nice new digital camera sometime during the fall semester, so look out for a great improvement in the quality of photos around that time! Anyway, you’ve probably seen me around, but to put a name to a face, I am on the right in the picture below. That is Casey Jones on the left, this was at Indie Valentine in 2008.
Hey look! We have shirts! We also have a new shirt model! His name is Eddy. He likes shirts. Do you like shirts? We all like shirts:
Fran Lakato’s shirts have the ability to bend time and space. Or…maybe…force you to tilt the camera at odd angles.
Eddy Ohlms, our model, is pointing to the future! The future of Cassette tapes (of which he is a huge fan). Thankfully, Emily Heimeyer’s Wounded Bird collection has provided him with a 100% cotton manner of expressing his love for Salt ‘n Peppah and Terrence Trent Darby.
Okay, so it’s about time I tell you losers (yeah, losers) about the tea party Angelo organized that EVERYONE missed out on. I don’t CARE what your excuse was, you should have been there! What ‘prior commitment’ tops peach tea, banana chips, walnuts, a strange orange vase thingy, Alice in Wonderland/Little Bo Peep/teatime type dresses, my sweetie pie little sister, and Angelo’s hilariously dark Tarot card readings? That’s right…nothing! I think we can all agree that Cranky Yellow’s April 26th, 2009 was better than your April 26th, 2009. Definitely.
Don’t worry, Angelo may decide to pour hot water over dried leaves again some future Sunday afternoon. If you want that to happen, you best be on your crankiest behavior! Make sure to stop by for Crap Glued to Crap and I Feel this Friday and Dali’s Liquid Ladies this Saturday. We won’t tolerate comments like “Two nights of partyin’ in a row is too much!”… Madness is essential for the ideally harmonized cranky soul. Let’s make stuff happen.
Check out my handmade costume and custom decorated unicycle. I was working on that shit for 3 nights solid. I think the pink tights pulled the whole costume together.
This was all put together with love for the People’s Joy Parade on Cherokee Street for the Cinco De Mayo celebration! It was amazing… all of the artist costumes were so awesome. I couldn’t believe I was a part of it. I’m still at a loss for words. Eeeeep. I’ll leave it at that!
Tomorrow our home base, Cherokee Street, will be rocking a HUGE Cinco De Mayo party!
Live music on two stages, authentic Mexican food and drinks, a parade starting at 1:11pm, live art demonstrations, an artist village, a mechanical bull, and over 40 vendor booths. Wowza! It’s going to be a great time! Come down and have some fun!
Be sure to visit us to see (and buy) amazing junk like:
Plus tons more! As always we have a huge collection of handmade goodies from independent artists from… well… all over the damn place!
Be sure to stop in at the other great local shoppies on our block, including APOP Records, Binge & Purge, and Firecracker Press! There is lots more to see and do on Cherokee too… GO explore!
Kill Taupe, the explosively nice guy behind the art we’ve been obsessing over for like EVER, recently snagged some great press in the Detroit Metro Times. I’ve been personally meaning to post this since I read it… but I’m only finding time now.
Anyway… head over and read the write-up. It is sure to get you geared and orgasmic about the upcoming Meth & Hotdogs show going down here, at CY, in Aug.
