Words and Whimsy--Come support Aly!!

Here's the info: The show is called Words and Whimsy. It's Alyssandra's first solo show, and it's a coming together of her art and poetry (she's kind of a Jane-of-all-trades!). She's going to release a chapbook at the reception. It's going to be a fun night. There will be a dj, a jazz trio, some poets, and her band performing. The reception is on Saturday, April 11th, from 6-10p.m. The show is already up, and will be up until May 3rd, if anybody wants to check it out. It's at the Viento y Agua coffeehouse, 4007 E. 4th st. Long Beach CA 90804, cross streets 4th and Termino.

MIXED MESSAGES ART SHOW IN SAN DIEGO!!!

This is an exciting opportunity for us to spend time with our fellow san diego kamaniacs. If you have any questions, please ask Liz!!!

ART SHOW!!!!

COME SUPPORT ALY AND BRANDON!!!!!

The Annual "LOVE/HATE" Art & Poetry Exhibit

Love and hate are two of the most passionate emotions a person can feel.

They can both cause strong out comes, sometimes even insanity.

Most everyone has felt either the intense hurt or that profound happiness because of love.

February, the Valentine month, will be a great time to share these emotions.

Through paintings, sculpture, photography, poetry/spoken word or song,

various artists are sharing their feelings through art.

Artists: Abraham Castillo, Abraham Sproul, Alyssandra Nighswonger, Angel Acordagoitia,

Augusto Marin, Brandon Lynch, Bree Suzanne Servoss, Chris Langlais, Cora Ramirez-Vasquez,

Dana Wyss, David Garcia, David A. Martinez, Deborah Griffin, Denise S. Cortes, Fabiola Gamboa,

Gabriel Leon, Lupe Flores, Maria Ramirez, Mavis Leahy, Miguel Cuautle, Morgyn Owens-Celli,

Nancy Mendez, Nancy Webber, Pilar Grother, Temoc, Zareh

Reciting Poets: Anotonio Cortez Appling, Azure Antoinette, Belén Ortega, Deborah Griffin,

Leslie Morones, Mary Kay Barton, Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin, Yesenia Pastran

ARTIST RECEPTION: Saturday, February 7th 6pm - 9pm

Poetry Recital @ 7:30pm

Free Event

also

Hand-made one of a kind items available by

Liza Theval - LT Creations - handmade jewelry

Lee Janson - Janson's Journeys - silver jewelry & textiles

Jamie Badore - fantaztik creations - gentleman knitter & spinner

Exhibit runs January 31st - February 28th, 2009

Location:

PICTURE THIS

Gallery & Custom Framing

4130 Norse Way

Long Beach , CA 90808

For more info, please contact us

Email: PictureThisGallery@gmail.com

Phone: 562.425.4861

www.PictureThisGallery.weebly.com

Please feel free to share this information with anyone who would be interested.

Thank you so much for all your continued support, we appreciate you very much.

Marisol Gomez

PICTURE THIS

Gallery & Custom Framing

4130 Norse Way

Long Beach , CA 90808

562.425.4861

Hours: Tue-Fri NOON-6pm

Saturday 10am-4pm

www.PictureThisGallery.weebly.com

Kaman's Writer's Group

This Tuesday, February 3rd, the Kaman's Writer's group will be back at it again, consoling one another for not being on Oprah's book of the month club again, mostly due to none of our books being complete.
The group is intended as an open forum for anyone who fiddles around with writing, and to allow for discussion of our current projects and to support one another in keeping at it. If you're working on a short story, poetry, if you write songs, graphic novels, haikus, whatever, you're welcome.
We'll be meeting at the Borders coffee shop at the Block at Orange at 7pm. Bring anything that you'd like t read or have read, or just show up and be supportive.

T-SHIRT DESIGN CONTEST 2008!!

DEADLINE EXTENDED to Jan. 20th, 2009

To celebrate 2008, Kaman’s Disney is asking its talented artists to participate in a t-shirt design contest. The t-shirt may be any color the artist chooses, and may have up to 3 colors printed on it. The theme is the artist’s choice- it does not have to be Disney-oriented. The only other guidelines are keep it tasteful, and be sure to include every operation (don’t forget hair and henna) in one creative way or another. Also, don’t make it about one specific person, as this shirt is to be for EVERYONE. Here are some past samples from other parks:

"KA-MEN"(Comic Book theme)

iPod/ iKAS

"How I spent my Summer Vacation"

Kaman's for Dummies

Dark Knight

"Behold the Wonder"



…submit your entries to Dan, or to anyone else from leadership. You may also leave them at either DD FP, or Fantasyland in the black folders that our tally sheets are turned in to at night.

If you prefer email (which will probably be easier), send your entry/entries to Dan831@gmail.com in jpeg format by January 20th, 2009. Low resolution is fine (72-150), just please maintain a high-res copy in case your design wins!!

Good luck, and thanks for all your hard work this year!

Art Institute Graduates 2008!!!

On the 17th, some members of our team completed their coursework at AI, and showcased all of their hard, and impressive work. Kalen, Memo, Hayley, and William proudly stood in front of monitors displaying their stuff. Congratulations guys!!!! We got rained out this day, so we Dan, Eder, Randy, Manny, Kara, CeCe, Xavier, and myself checked it out and snapped some shots of the only artists in the room we gave a crap about.

Kalen and Memo's gigantic head. Kalen had impressive digital illustrations, while Memo's Head had some amazing 3d renderings.

Hayley and her animation work

Will and his digital magic.

Yep!!

Kaman's End of the Season Employee Party

Edge of Shaun, Kyle-Ruben, Jose-Ricardo-Werito, his girl, Dude #3, Lindsey, and Amanda

Ummm...it's dark, but Shawn, Bonnie, Kirsten, Kara, Randy, Julia, Jordan, Jade

The lady who actually goes out in public with me, CeCe, and Bonita with her fanciful flower. (We had a sitter for Xavier, but as you can see, we weren't able to leave son #2, Brodie Fawkes Holt behind.)

Kathy said I was dressed like a Catholic Priest. So I blessed her.

We drew names for stuff with the Kaman's logo on it, notepads, pens, calculators, water bottles, and the coolest one, a messenger bag. Serge anticlimactically won it after I found out the name for the next item had already been called. Dastardly.

Nobel poet laureate Aly, EZ, Jac, Mike, Randy, and Kara

Edge of Brick, Jaclyn, Eder, Randy, his wife Kara, Val, and Memo's head.

Our District Manager Kathy, Kim, and I.

Memo's head, Eder, Erika, and Brick.

Shellee, Jodi, Val, her husband, Parnaz, and her dude.

Will, Serge, Jac, Kim and Erika (?), Debbie, Rory, and Manny

Coleen, Ami, Ami's dude, Gehl, Liska, and Magaly

Athena's cop-dude, Athena, Jess. Meredith, Mary Christina Meyer, Rachel, her dude, Jensine, and Tanya

Fake-happy Randy, Julia, her dude, Shaun, and a hand that is pretending to fire a small handgun

Jade, her son Jordan, his pet dolphin, and Memo's head

People standing in awe and admiration of equally spaced out green squares on the table. "How'd they do that?" one says. "Witchcraft." replies another. Meredith looks on in disapproval.

So...our holiday party was really nice, and very well attended. It was nice seeing you guys dressed in human clothes, and I'm proud of how the overall event went. Special thanks again to the House of Blues for helping us out-it's amazing how far a contract written in human blood trading your soul will get you. Hope you enjoyed it, since Kimberly, Dan, and I will be spending the rest of eternity with Jake and Elwood in the hot place. Here are pictures CeCe (part-time receptionist, full-time wife) took of the festivities. If anyone else has pics they would like posted, please send them along, I'll put them up too. Oh, and the Flash on the camera was being lame, so a few pics are pretty dark. Sorry!