Wendy, Jade, Danielle and CB bag in the snapshot shantyWendy was here for a visit! Ahhh, it was so nice to spend some quality time with my girl, W.
We went to see the Art Shanty project on Medicine Lake before the bout on Saturday afternoon. What a beautiful day for it! I had been reading reviews about this little DIY, renegade art project for years now, and was so excited to finally make it out and take it all in. I LOVED it.
I think my favorites were the ice shanty where you were asked to leave something behind that was in your pockets, or purse, or whathaveyou, and they would catalogue it. The shanty was meant to be a commentary on the entire rooms full of junk that scientists will leave abandoned on the ice in Antartica with no thought to ever coming back to clean up the mess.
But several shanties were just hilarious. There was one on a bicycle-like contraption that took about seven people to peddle around a shovelled out course on the ice. It towed a person on a tobaggon behind it. One was meant to be a downed airplane with "survivors"--a bunch of guys, standing around, drinking Icehouse. There was a karaoke shanty. There was an artist who took three random words from passers-by and generated fun drawings for participants based on those words...(Wendy's was totally awesome). I guess NPR had been out doing interviews the week prior, and I have a feeling that this little "fringe" festival may be on the verge of blowing up into an Uptown Art Fair spectacle...and that would be too bad. Part of the charm is the very nature of these vagabond artists just creating their own little world out there on the ice.
One of the shanties was entitled "Snap Shot Shanty" and Wendy, Jade, and I got our picture taken there and found that they had a blog they were posting photos on.
http://thesnapshotshanty.blogspot.com
Such creative, weird, and fun people were out there and we really enjoyed ourselves.
I snapped a few pictures as well, and I'll post them in the next day or so.
If you want to check out the website for this funky little festival, I'll link it below.
http://artshantyprojects.org
2 comments:
Did you go in for the pneumonia x-rays, or did it start to improve? Hope you are feeling better!
I have barely had any time to reflect on my visit to MN, but smile when I think about it. Thanks for making me feel so comfortable. I had a wonderful time getting a short glimpse of what Danielle is up to these days :)
OH and I forgot...welcome to shelfari. Love it!
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