365 Day 127 (a day late)

past, present, future

This post is a day late. I was waiting on the notification email for the show I submitted these three collages to -- West of Center -- at Northville Art House. Alas, they didn't make the cut. Ah well, there is always next year! And I am excited to go to the show and see what DID make it.

The other reason I didn't make my midnight deadline yesterday was that I went to see the Detroit Derby Girls Travel Team take on the Indianapolis Tornado Sirens -- DDG won!
It was an incredibly exciting bout. Juana and I were sitting in a perfect spot to be able to see the jammers move through the pack...it was AWESOME! I love DDG so much!

Anyway...here are the collages. They are all hand cut paper (no digital images) and are 11"x14".
You can click on the images to get a slightly larger view.






"Past"






















"Present"












"Future"

Detroit Derby Girls talk about Whip It

Big Day Tomorrow: Art-o-mat® + Detroit Derby Girls

Tomorrow (Saturday, Aug. 1) Opening Night festivities for the NEWEST Art-o-mat® machine in Michigan! It will be located at Tiny Studio in Kalamazoo. Read the article here. Arto-Founder and Bureau Chief Clark Whittington will be on hand, too! I am SO excited!

AND it is the 2nd Women's Tug O' War at the St. Andrew's Highland Games in Livonia, Mi. A re-match between last years winners -- our very own Detroit Derby Girls -- and women's football team The Detroit Demolition. Make sure to arrive early for this...Tug O' War begins at 1p.m. but allow at least a half-hour for parking/shuttle and making your way in to the games area. Tickets info here. This is a pic of the two teams from last year...DDG is in the red shirts.


And ... tomorrow morning (before I leave to go get Juana for our trip to Kalamazoo) I will post finger puppet #50 in my Arto-series "All Ears". (You can see #49 in the post below this one.)

Early next week I will be packaging them up and sending the series in to Artists in Cellophane for distribution to machines across the country!

Whew!

August 1 -- Detroit Derby Girls back for more Tug O' War!

Come out and cheer on the Detroit Derby Girls “Tug O’ Warriors” for the tug o’ war grudge match against the Detroit Demolition (women’s football)! http://www.detroitderbygirls.com/

The Tug O’ War takes place at 1 p.m. on Saturday, August 1 at the St. Andrew’s Society Highland Games...held at Greenmead Historical Park (Newburgh Road between 8 Mile and 7 Mile in Livonia).

Get your tickets early and arrive early -- the place gets PACKED! There are several shuttles to the Park, information is at their website. Detroit Derby Girls will have a merch/info table on the main road into the site...stop by and pick up cool swag...chat with derby girls...take pics...JUST COME OUT AND SUPPORT DDG!

Here are some photos from last year -- DDG won the FIRST EVER Women’s Tug O’ War trophy!

Oooh, finally -- "WHIP IT" movie trailer!!!

Oooooh -- the trailer!!!


(Look for Detroit Derby Girls Black Eyed Skeez and Sass Knuckles in the clothing store!)

Detroit Derby Girls & "Whip It" news/pic!!!

SO exciting!

Take a look at this article from USA TODAY about Drew Barrymore's new roller derby film "Whip It". Several of the skaters on the derby teams in the movie are actual derby girls from Detroit Derby Girls and Grand Raggidy Roller Girls. Also within the article is a link to the article "having a derby name is like being a super hero".

This is the photos link from the article and here are the DDG members who are in the pics:

1/8: Summers Eve-L (red helmet on left)
5/8: Sass Knuckles (far red helmet), Sarah Hipel (formerly known as Killbox...red helmet, plaid skirt), Vega Vendetta (red helmet, black & red tie)
6/8: Jackie Daniels of GRRG (Michigan "mitten" tattoo, plaid skirt, behind Ellen Page), Sarah Hipel (red hair, plaid skirt), Racer McChaseHer (braided hair, white socks with black stripe)

All of the DDG links will take you to the skater's team profiles at the DDG website. Within their profiles you can click on "next photo" to see more shots of that skater.

oooh -- big time DERBY action tomorrow!!!

Hey -- this is so exciting -- check it out!

Detroit Derby Girls vs Windy City Rollers

Day Eighty-Four

Today will be a busy day for a couple of reasons.

#1 -- yep, it is a wonderfully dark and rainy morning...art abounds!

#2 -- this is the Wednesday before a Detroit Derby Girls bout -- and a Travel Team bout at that. (A little more prep to welcome the visiting team and their staff + supporters.) This is also the evening of an Events Committee meeting. So I will go to practice, catch up on stuff with some people, then go to the meeting afterwards. I also begin work on my various lists and start getting things ready for bout day. I probably put more into it than I need to, but I enjoy doing it and it helps to make things run more smoothly for some of the bout jobs. Cool beans!

So...cleaning up after Mr. Pickle guy. And a reminder to listen.

This is block #27 in the Kettle + Took collaboration series "KT Goodlove" for Art-o-mat®.

Detroit Derby Girls mentioned on the Today Show

The Detroit Derby Girls were mentioned on the Today Show today by Shanon Thomas, who will be trying out to skate with DDG. Shanon was a contestant on The Biggest Loser: Couples.

(There may be a commercial first)