Monday, February 26, 2007

Wanted: Rain barrel

I am in the market for a rain barrel. You know, this kind. Please contact me at maladrin AT gmail DOT com if you live in the area and have one you'd like to sell - new or used.

For sale: Claw-foot bath tub

From an email I rec'd over the weekend:
I am a neighbor over in Ybor. I have a new claw foot tub I want to sell. It is white cast iron with chrome feet and fixtures. I paid $2500+, and would like $1200 obo.
Contact Dennis Easters at easters3 AT msn DOT com or call 813-486-2937.

For sale: Claw-foot bath tub

From an email I rec'd over the weekend:
I am a neighbor over in Ybor. I have a new claw foot tub I want to sell. It is white cast iron with chrome feet and fixtures. I paid $2500+, and would like $1200 obo.
Contact Dennis Easters at easters3 AT msn DOT com or call 813-486-2937.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Thai Corner in the Trib

Ok, so it's not in Tampa Heights, I know, but it's darn close. This place deserves more night business, so check it out.

They have excellent Tom Ka soup, as well as the cucumber salad. The crab rangoon has a curry thing going on it it, and they are also delicious. Try the Hor Mok, soft-shell crab in green curry (my favorite), the eggplant in peanut sauce or the spicy scallops if you'd like to get something away from the whole Pad Thai/standard curry continuum. All good stuff.

Send me your Tampa Heights news and announcements!

Do you live in Tampa Heights? Got news on the 'hood, a garage sale, a home for sale or a property for rent, lost/found a cat or dog or just about anything else that related to neighborhood life? Email me and I'll post it here!

I can see the page gets traffic, I just may not be the most plugged in person as far as the neighborhood goes.

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Represent, Tampa Heights!

You may know I also run Jobsite Theater, and we're the resident theater company at TBPAC. We could really use some support this weekend as we have two shows running. There's the final two performances of All the Great Books (abridged) - which I am in - Sat. at 10p and Sun. at 7p. There's also 4 showings of This is How it Goes. Thu. - Sat. at 8p and Sun. at 4p.

In most critical need of support is the performance of TIHIG tonight, and the two shows on Sunday. Go figure, we're struggling against the SuperBowl.

Both shows are exceptional and have gotten high praise from both critics and regular patrons. Both shows have also suffered a lack of press due to Gasparilla, the run to the SuperBowl and other big events here from the monster truck pull to Spamalot. You can read all about the shows, read reviews and watch the TV spots by following the above links.

We're a very small company who critically depends on ticket sales to keep going. This month hasn't been too kind to us. If you could make it out to any show this weekend - one, you won't be disappointed and two, I'd really appreciate it.


If you have anything you'd like to see listed in the space, from a lost cat notice to a garage sale to a solicitation to help you with your yardwork, drop me a line and I'll get it up here.

Tampa Heights Porch Party

First Porch Party of 2007!
Friday February 2, 7pm
Hosts: David & Genna Krantzberg @ 314 W. Alfred Street
All residents of Tampa Heights are welcome to this unique on-going tradition of Tampa Heights.
Children are residents too and are most certainly welcome but please keep an eye on them at guests homes.

The host provides paper goods, sodas, ice, a covered dish and of course the porch.

Guests bring a covered dish (with any serving utensils) and own alcoholic beverages.

If you are interested in hosting a porch party Please sign up via email to Monika Schuler at remy@ij.net, or at the next civic association meeting (Feb. 22, 2007)

Click here to see the porch party schedule.

New Bleu Acier show

Bleu Acier is proud to open the winter season with CONTROLLED BURN, a solo exhibition of drawings and video by collaborative artists Robyn Voshardt / Sven Humphrey, formerly of Florida and now based in New York. In late 2005, the artists were awarded a Caldera Artist Residency in Oregon, where they made many of the works on view.

Controlled Burn refers to the forestry practice of eliminating undergrowth and invasive species, with the goal of mitigating disastrous fires in the future. The artists used this idea as a point of departure, inspired by a two week stay in a mountainside area decimated by a burn gone way out of control. The resulting large drawings use the the most basic materials derived from trees – paper and carbon-based ink – and the artists' own breath instead of a brush to make the mark.

When I Look Up, I Fall Down, 2006,
dvd video/sound projection, dim. variable, ed. 8

This series continues to influence Voshardt/Humphrey's current projects that explore issues of control and intent on an environmental and personal scale: such as controlled growth in urban planning, and the surrender of control over to chance in their selection of materials and process for making art. Also on view in the Project Room is their video projection entitled When I Look Up, I Fall Down, from footage gathered on location in an old-growth forest, with audio composed by the artists. Seen from a disorienting spin, the lush tree canopy no longer offers a sense of shelter, but creates a vortex suggestive of a larger ecological and personal conundrum.

Voshardt/Humphrey have been included in numerous museum exhibitions on the west coast of Florida and the Boston area. Their work is in the permanent collections of the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Tampa Museum of Art, Gulf Coast Museum of Art, and Pinellas County Arts Council. In 2006 they were also awarded a Florida Individual Artist Grant and participated in the Bridge and Pool Art Fairs in Miami, as well as Perpetual Art Machine at CinemaScope New York and Miami.

The artists will be present for the opening reception.

For more info contact Erika Schneider at 813-272-9746
www.bleuacier.com | erika@bleuacier.com

or Robyn and Sven at 917-407-3824
www.voshardthumphrey.com | studio@voshardthumphrey.com

When I Look Up, I Fall Down, 2006,
dvd video/sound projection, dim. variable, ed. 8


VIDEO INSTALLATION
DiVA STREETS in conjunction with the DiVA FAIR, NEW YORK
February 17-24, 2007, 12pm to 8pm
8th Avenue @ 24th Street, Chelsea
Subway C,E to 23rd Street

Bleu Acier is proud to present Voshardt/Humphrey’s new video When I Look Up, I Fall Down in this video container project, one of eight in various locations throughout Chelsea.

Voshardt/Humphrey’s action of transplanting footage gathered from an old-growth heritage forest to a commercial shipping container in the midst of Manhattan reinforces the mental disconnect between nature and its conversion to consumables. Experienced in such a confined, temporal space, the disorienting spin amplifies the larger ecological as well as personal conundrum even more acutely than a white-box gallery context.
www.divafair.com

The Fall, 2006, dvd video/sound, 3 min 42 sec, variable dim., ed. 8


EXHIBITION & ARTISTS' LECTURE
SOLOS: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Part II
February 9-March 7, 2007
Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art & Design
Sarasota, Florida
Panel and preview: Thurs, Feb 8 at 7pm
Opening reception: Fri, Feb 9, 5-7pm
www.ringling.edu/selbygallery

Voshardt/Humphrey will show, The Fall, a new video from footage shot on location in Nova Scotia. This exhibition features artists who have had solo shows at the gallery, where in 2004 Voshardt/Humphrey presented six works in a video/sound installation. The artists will talk about their work on Thursday Feb. 8th at 7pm in Selby Lecture Hall on the Ringling campus, Sarasota.


Tangle 2, 2006, ink on mulberry paper, 16 x 12.25 in., Private Collection

UPCOMING SOLO EXHIBITION
Voshardt/Humphrey are now represented in Sarasota, FL by Greene Contemporary, where they will have a solo exhibition in May.
www.greenecontemporary.com