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Fall Festival Review….

12 10.07

2 days in the shade, lot's of compressed air, screenprints a flowing, our artwork on display, a whole bunch of people and a great time had by all. I didn't get to see that much of the festival myself but I did a lot of airbrushing and talking to people that stopped by our booth ( that's Kevin Corcoran and I ).I'd like to personally thank everyone we met for hanging out with us and for all the positive feedback that you gave on the artwork. It was a great experience. The following is a list of 7 things I learned over the weekend at the Fall Festival in Huntington….

  •  1. The sound of a festival is confusingly soothing. Since I was outside the park on vendor row with my back to the festival I didn't really get to see the festival with all the rides but I did get to hear it…..It was interesting to hear just the sound of it without the visual. It was soothing in a chaotic sort of way. For optimal effect ( Turn the sound off above in the slideshow window by clicking the word "sound", then hit play on the window below…….You'll want to listen to the track below while you read the rest of this blog post…
  • 2. People love t-shirts….If you've ever been to Threadless.com you'll see that it must be true. Threadless has been very successful due to that very principle….I was able to design a bunch of tshirts over the weekend and was fortunate enough to sell most of them. Here's a picture of a happy customer with one of my favorites from the festival….
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    •  3. You can pack a lot of stuff into the back of a pickup truck....Here's Kevin with our best "Pack your truck like Sanford and Son" rendition. This is what the truck looked like on our way to set up the festival on the first day. I promise that by the end of the second day we had packing that truck down to a science. There are no pictures to support this so you'll just have to take my word on that....

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    •  4. If your airbrushing at a festival and you run out of CO2, compressed gas to airbrush with there's a company on Long Island that runs an emergency CO2 delivery service. Can you imagine that? They saved my weekend twice...Thank you "Long Island Beverage"......for all you do this pimpin ride's for you.....

     

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    •  5. People will ask you to paint them some interesting things.....On this particular occasion I was asked to bring someone's vision to life for them. She called it "The 4 Elements." Jenna talked me through her vision while I painted. It was awesome to be able to bring her vision to life and she really loved it which was the icing on the cake. Thanks Jenna for trusting me with your vision and for snapping some great shots of the shirt in progress.....

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    • 6. Screen Printing's cool.....Kevin and I made our first successful efforts towards making screen prints and I intend to exercise my right as an artist to explore it in many forms from here on out......more on that soon....Here's the first screen print Kevin and I made. Can you say lot's of t-shirt designs coming real soon boys and girls?

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    • 7. And finally I leave you with this........I learned that Anything you do that makes a child happy, ( even something as simple as airbrushing their name on a t-shirt ) is worth more money than the world has to offer. There were numerous children that I had the honor of painting for over the weekend and each one of them brought a little bit of beauty to the day. The joy it brought to their faces to have something special made just for them was nothing short of PRICELESS. I can't wait to do it again. Viva la festival........
    About the author

    Bragino - I'm an artist, a musician, a seeker of dreams, believer in clarity, and a product of the earth. I think I'll make the most of my time here. I know I'll be trying to inspire you....

    2 Comments
    Jenna 12:40:12, 14/10/07

    I LOVE IT! (It = the shirt/vision you brought to life with/for me)
    Thank Y O U, Pete!

    Steve Mills 22:41:33, 15/10/07

    Awesome designs, with we had Halloween here in Australia.

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