Mobile Expression #6 - Antioch Church

What a great day! Wonderful people enjoying their Sunday in what better way than expressing their faith and ideas on my car. Even though I may not share their enthusiasm, I am more than happy to share my car as a canvas. The folks at Antioch Church are very welcoming and happy.

As irony would have it, I went and saw Religulous last night.

mikey

Another great night!

A beautiful night in Kansas City. Great people, great beer, and wonderful conversations. Thanks to everyone who came out and took part. It seems like the weather will most likely turn cooler in the next few months, so I wonder if tonight was one of the last times for the year.

Interesting tidbits for the evening:
my grandmother's dog, Benny, tagged along and had a great time greeting artists who came by.
My friends, Tommy, Brian, Sasha, Erin, Joel, Audrey, Susan, and family Susan and Sarah all came out.
There were an amazing amount of visitors from other countries out tonight. I saw Japanese, German, and someone wrote "Vote for Obama" in Hebrew.

Another great night. Thanks so much, see you next month.

Oh by the way, a lot of you were taking photos and I would love to see them. you can email them to me and I can put them on the blog, or you can post them in a comment.

And if you read this, leave me a comment so I know someone reads this.

thanks,
mikey

OCTOBER!!!

Well, October is a great month. I like because it usually marks the beginning of hoody weather. Some may call it sweater weather, but I prefer hoodys. I wish they made business casual hoodys for men like they do for women. Maybe I can get one from SAFEHOME.

Oh well, there are already 4 events scheduled for October. 3 of them in a row! There is still an open invite to anyone who wants an art car car at their next event.

Quick! before I start charging!

JK!
mikey

Rain, Rain, Go away!

Nothing is worse for a chalk board car than insensate rain. (I hope I am using that word right?)
It has rained for the last few days pretty hard and all of the FF mural is gone, except for a little bit of the whale.

I look forward to the next event. I am thinking of setting up an events calendar so people could know where I will be.

Maybe no one cares though?...

Mikey

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Last night's mural may have been the quickest lived one yet. I finally left around 9:30 and after waking up this afternoon around 2, it is all gone...

The rain took it away as I explained to so many people last night. Fortunately I took 113 pictures of the evening, so if you wrote on the car you probably have a picture of yourself doing so.

Check out the photos and don't be afraid to leave comments.

Weird stuff that happened last night:
An anarchist(not that there's anything wrong with that) (who might have also had some mental illness issues as well) decided to "draw" all over everyone's art, supposedly in an artistic way? Very peculiar. I felt like intervening, but at the same time, I felt that this is what you get with public art: public artists. Everyone is invited: from McCain supporters, Obama supporters, sweet little kids who want to spend 20 minutes drawing their masterpieces much to their parents dismay, to the socially awkward anarchists that to a socially and civic-minded person seems very unfortunate, everyone is invited.

I met an art teacher from Blue Springs named Dennis who seems like a great guy. We talked for a bit and he drew on the car.

My aunt, sister-in-law, wife, and about 6 friends came out to hang out.

No weird lady's from Wichita this time though!

Thanks once again to everyone who drew on the car. Without you, it would just be a black car!

mikey

No Bueno!

So, last night some kids put some pretty harsh racial graffiti on the car. Pretty sad. I came out to the car as I was rushing my wife to school, so I quickly wiped off some and marked over other, with chalk. After dropping my wife off at school, I decided to go by the Middle school to talk to the art teacher about the mural project I am working on, and the janitor told me I couldn't have the car on school property. I guess I left an area that said, "SUCK MY". I had erased what to suck, but in my morning stooper, didn't erase that. My bad!

So I ran home, washed EVERYTHING off, put on my work clothes and went back to the school to see the teacher. Hopefully everything is alright, but we all know how middle school gossip can turn into a mountain!

Other than that, I am looking forward to the upcoming First Fridays down in the Crossroads. I think I will once again park at the Leedy-Voulkos. There was such a good turnout last time, I can't wait to see what happens next week.

Thanks,
mikey

Black Dog Coffee Shop

So, i met with Angel Dew this evening at Black Dog Coffee Shop to go over mural related stuff. I decided to drive the Metro out and park it in front of the shop. I told a group of people outside if they got incredibly bored that they should write on the car. They seemed pretty excited and actually drew some pretty great artwork. Probably the best the car has seen as of yet.

People keep asking me how I came up with the idea. I usually tell people about how I used to work at Home Depot and always tried to come up with interesting ways to utilize the 500 million different things they sell. BB paint was always a favorite for its potential...