[Fmpro] Day Jobs New Artist Recruiting

Sat Jul 26 23:03:22 GMT 2008

well if they ever haul you down again call me! Dayton is not far from Pitts
and I will come down and me a solid character witness! :-)

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Christopher Kennedy Alpiar
Cinematic Composer 
1280 Lytle Lane 
Dayton, OH 45409 
310.339.9603 (Los Angeles) 
937.294.0900 (Dayton)
877.294.0912 (Toll Free)
chris at alpiar.com
www.alpiar.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmpro-bounces+chris=alpiar.com at nxport.com 
> [mailto:fmpro-bounces+chris=alpiar.com at nxport.com] On Behalf 
> Of bipcress at comcast.net
> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 5:55 PM
> To: fmpro at nxport.com
> Subject: Re: [Fmpro] Day Jobs New Artist Recruiting
> 
> Dave, your wonderful response got me smiling! I can only find 
> joy in thinking that artists usually are all around us, but 
> they can sometimes be hard to spot - like that butterfly with 
> wings that looks just like the leaves of the tree it lives 
> on. There is a reason artists tend to stay inside the arts 
> community! Often if artists allow themselves to be publicly 
> noticed it can lead to grief. About 5 years ago I got 
> permission from a neighbor to paint a simple black-on-green 
> mural on his large, street level retaining wall. The mural 
> was abstract expressionism so as not to offend anyone by 
> imaging anything specific. Even as I was working on the mural 
> I was running into trouble. Certain people would yell 
> comments as they drove by: "That looks like shit!" / "I'm 
> calling the police!" / "What the hell are you doing?"  I kept 
> my mouth shut and finished the wall. A month or two passed 
> and I got a summons in the mail to appear in court. Another 
> neighbor filled a complaint against me stating that I had 
> painted "gang and drug related imagery" on a neighborhood 
> surface. The wife and I appeared in court and I had the 
> opportunity to speak with my accuser and a presiding judge. 
> The judge was sensible, the woman was nuts. She had 
> interpreted abstract marks to be guns and hypodermic needles, 
> which wasn't really a problem. The trouble was she insanely 
> refused to believe even the artist (me) that she was only 
> having a very unique interpretation of non-specific marks. 
> I showed the judge photos of the mural and he saw no such 
> imagery. What really saved the day was the surprise 
> appearance of the local official whose specific job it is to 
> locate and identify graffiti, gang related or not. He stepped 
> forward and introduced himself. He explained who he was and 
> then made clear that my wall was not graffiti, but rather 
> fine art. What fun! I'll not be making anymore public murals. - JohnB
> 
> David Vogel wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----
> >
> > From: "bipcress at comcast.net" <bipcress at comcast.net>
> > To: fmpro at nxport.com
> > Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 2:41:00 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Fmpro] Day Jobs   New Artist Recruiting
> >
> > if not for an uncle leaving me a very modest inheritance, 
> and my wife 
> > having a full-time job (which fortunately she loves), I'd 
> probably be 
> > living under a bridge and typing these words at the local 
> library. I'm 
> > not a bum, I work at being an artist. I worked extremely hard all 
> > through my 20s and 30s, including triple-majoring at University, 
> > running local arts organizations (no pay), teaching 12 hour course 
> > loads, and creating art related situations and events within the 
> > Pittsburgh community
> > --------------
> > Pgh? That's my home town!! I lived there for 18 years. I 
> was raised in 
> > USC and then left for school at IU-Bloomington and then 
> came back and took a ton of courses at Pitt while living in 
> Friendship. My brother Dan (29 yrs old) and 2 of his friends 
> run the Art Academy of the South Side (ASS ;D) for painters 
> (http://www.myspace.com/academyofthesouthside ). He was a 
> student of Ned Garnhart in USC in highschool. My friend Ollie 
> Southgate is also a painter and lives in Friendship. Also Jim 
> Storch (Burnout Warcry: http://www.myspace.com/burnoutwarcry) 
> is a musician and works at the Borders in the South Hills 
> where I worked for about 3 years. You can get to all of their 
> MySpace pages from mine 
> (http://www.myspace.com/djdiplodocusmusic). Also, there is a 
> publishing company which promises a 100% keep of your profits 
> which you might want to check out: "InnerCircle Publishing" 
> (http://www.myspace.com/innercircle). Also, Frank Eisenreich 
> was my other brother's  trumpet teacher and the director of 
> the jazz band while I was one of the drummers in it in 
> highschool. I don't know if he is still there but he was the 
> principal trumpet player for the Pgh ballet (formerly with 
> the Pgh New Music Ensemble at Duquesne) at the time and you 
> can see him conducting one of my pieces in the video "The 
> Phoenix & The Seraphim" at 
> http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&V
> ideoID=17608297. That's not the recording I kept (you can 
> find that at my trig page: http://trig.com/dave_vogel).
> >
> > I feel for you about your financial worries and I agree 
> that it is a serious bitch to make ends meet in this 
> business. Get in touch with some of them and see if they can 
> get you some better opportunities.
> >
> > Best regards, Dave
> >
> >
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