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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Bzzz, The Sound Of Pi

Posted in Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Art, bottles, cool, flight of the bumblebee, fun, geekdom, geekery, music, pi, sounds, video on March 12, 2011 by ssstephg

Well, the numbers are kind of animated. Enjoy!

and yet another non-cartoon with a fun musical theme.

-StephG

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Optical Illusions

Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags animated, Art, cartoon, fun, illusions, nifty, optical, video on March 5, 2011 by ssstephg

Nifty! N’est-ce pas?
a bientot,
-Steph

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Animated Paint

Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Art, Artist, fun, Holton Rower, paint, Painting, poured, process, sculpture on February 26, 2011 by ssstephg

As so often is the case, today’s cartoon is not a cartoon. It is, however, art and eye-candy! This video of artist Holton Rower’s process has been circulating around the interwebs for a while now. If you haven’t seen it, take a look. If you’ve watched it but haven’t checked out his website, get clicking! He has a number of interesting projects to see there.

But Is It Art: Diggin for Fire

Posted in "But Is It Art?", Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags diy, fire, fun, stephg on November 20, 2010 by ssstephg

That’s what I’ve been doing. I’m making a fire pit! I spent the week digging the hole and removing the sod. Today, we laid out the landscaping fabric and started laying stones on the patio. Here’s what it looked like this morning.

and a proper soundtrack…

Love & Flames,
-Steph the all-time fire starter cuz i called it first!

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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Oh, you know, bipedal elephants and life.

Posted in Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags animation, Art, ART1cooL, fun, life, stephg, the way things are on October 23, 2010 by ssstephg

Maybe it’s just the state of my life right now, but this is hands down the best damn animation I’ve ever seen. Ever.

big love,
-Steph

Come to The Great Holyoke Block Party!

Posted in events, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Art, blobk party, event, fun, Holyoke, KPAO! on September 4, 2010 by ssstephg

More food! More music! More art! than you can shake a stick at!

KPAO! will be setting up a table and drawing on the sidewalk at the block party. We’re also bringing the chalk character boards–FUN! Come join us! There will be live music all day! My friends’ band, Span of Sunshine, is playing in the morning–11 am! I know that sounds early, but Span will wake you up and make you glad you came! There’s even going to be a Klezmer band!!!

Lots of fun stuff going on all day.

Veteran’s Park

from 11 am to 8 pm
tomorrow–Sunday September 5

See you there!

-StephG

p.s. Did you know, the block party poster was designed by KPAO! this year? It’s a WABU – Bodart collaboration! Innit lovely? I think it’s beautiful!

KPAO! Art Party in the Park

Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Art, crafts, festival, fun, Holyoke, Kennedy Park, KPAO!, mural, stephg, teens on August 21, 2010 by ssstephg

was a bit fat hit! Even the Holyoke Canal Creature came out for the day!

Remember I told you about how I was organizing an arts festival in our local park? Well, I did. And it happened. You may have noticed my unexplained absence last weekend. Aheh, sorry. Saturday I was busy hauling tents and tables and chairs and art supplies and answering questions and directing wonderful volunteers and happy kids. And Sunday I was busy returning tables and chairs and tents and various things and stuff. And the previous week was spent frantically doing all manner of last minute organizing and procuring and whatnot. And it was all worth it! The party was tons of fun and loads of people came and made arts and crafts and listened to music and ate hotdogs and complimented us on the fabulous event and suggested we do something similar every couple of months. Handmade buttons and origami and BEARDS and painted faces as far as the eye could see! HATCHAH! D’Arte Board’s own Toni Tiller even made a very much appreciated appearance! Thanks, Toni you sweet little lady! It was great to see you! The photo below is of the handful of us leftover after the fete and before the cleanup. Follow the jump to see more photos from the day!

So what next? Now that the festival is over, what will become of Kennedy Park Arts Outreach? Well, we’re going to continue meeting up and being creative, of course! We have tons of projects we haven’t even begun yet! We still have dragons and pinatas and juggling sticks to make! We have more Haiku to write and more parties to plan! To find out what we’re up to or to get involved, email Artspit@gmail.com. You can also find us online at the following URLs:
www.iheartkennedypark.blogspot.com
www.holyoke.ning.com/group/KPAO
AND
You can “Like” KPAO! on Facebook!

More pics after the jump! Read more »

Sunday Sidewalk Doodles: WABU Chibi + High Pollen Count on Shrooms

Posted in Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Art, Bodart, chalk, character, chibi, Drawing, fun, mushrooms, sidewalk, stephg, WABU on June 13, 2010 by ssstephg

Today’s temporal gallery consists of a trio of sidewalk drawings snuck in between downpours. None of these lasted longer than a day. Such conditions precipitate an itchy trigger finger–Ol’ Quickdraw Gerolimatos–that’s what they call me round these parts. And so, from the growing archive:

by WABU

by StephG

by Bodart

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Breakfast

Posted in Stephanie Gerolimatos, video with tags breakfast, cartoon, fun, LeLe, silly, video on March 13, 2010 by ssstephg

Cuz you know, breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
Breakfast by LeLe

Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Melvins Visit Pancake Mountain

Posted in Miscellaneous, Stephanie Gerolimatos, video with tags cartoons, fun, pancake mountain, the melvins on February 13, 2010 by ssstephg

Alright, it’s not a cartoon and the sound quality sucks harder than Punxatawny Phil, but it’s got a puppet, The Melvins (doing karaoke!) and a buncha little kids thrashing to The Melvins. See now, I was right–even tots love these guys.

Potassium, Balance & Things That Don’t Suck

Posted in Links, Miscellaneous, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags banana, Chiquita, fun, help i'm bored, how to waste time, stephg on November 28, 2009 by ssstephg

Like most normal people*, I LOVE bananas. As part of a balanced diet I eat upwards of four a day. They’re a good source of potassium in a neat, tidy package. They come with their own durable, biodegradable wrapping in a lovely cheery yellow and are the perfect snack matrix for peanut butter–the greatest food invention ever. And bonus of bonuses, they come with stickers! Stylish stickers that will stay in place on your sleeve for days and days. If you’re a banana fan, you’re no doubt as excited as I am about Chiquita’s recent sticker line expansion–so many delightful new designs! But have you visited their website yet? It’s a fun waste of time where you can design banana stickers, alter photos and waste loads of time doing other time-wasting nonsense! I’m really diggin it since (due to my lack of balance) I’m all laid up with a fun new injury.

*I realize not everyone loves bananas. I once had a startling conversation about fruit with my pal Karen who I’d always considered normal (ok that last italicized bit is a lie which just proves my point). She explained that her favorite fruit was the orange and that her least favorite was the banana because it’s so inconvenient. She complained about the messiness of peeling them, having to remove the damn stringy bits and pull out the “little black buttplug” at the bottom. Funny thing is, I have all those complaints about oranges… except for the buttplug, with oranges it’s the white bellybutton thing where the segments meet at their ends. And then there’s this nutjob I know from the hardware store around the corner who actually hates bananas. Just goes to show, people are freaks.

Quite normally yours,
-Steph

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New Art: A Gift From Mr. Brown!

Posted in Art, Miscellaneous, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Art, children, fun, gift, Painting on September 12, 2009 by ssstephg

Remember a couple of weeks back when I posted that awesome colored pencil drawing given to me by my friend, WABU? Well, WABU’s delightful younger brother, Mr. Brown, came over the other day to paint a Fimo sculpture that he’d made on a previous visit. ‘Cept he never got around to painting the sculpture because while we were collecting the supplies from my studio to set up a painting station at the dining room table (current studio condition = chaos) Brown noticed a big ol’ piece of nice white matboard. The lure of a flat painting surface was too much and plans were modified.

Brown didn’t title it but since he gave it to me I’m calling it “Sun Obscured By Sky”.
16 x 18 inches
acrylic on matboard
Check out those expressive brushstrokes!

Thank you, Mr. Brown!
-StephG

Sunday Sidewalk Doodles: 9/6/09

Posted in Art, Miscellaneous, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Art, chalk, doodle, Drawing, fun, sidewalk, stephg, temporary on September 6, 2009 by ssstephg

by StephG

the following by MarkB, Sir Edwin and MarkB respectively:

It was a prolific week for sidewalk art on our sweet street. It was back to school for all the neighborhood kids and they were more than happy to step outside and play after long, grueling days of classwork.

Purple squirrels, eyeball sticks, sailing ships and more after the jump! Read more »

Morph Thing: What Do You Get When You Cross A Rabbit With A Clown?

Posted in Miscellaneous, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags bored, bunnie, clown, face, fun, gimmick, morph, stephg, thing, toy on August 29, 2009 by ssstephg

Morph Thing is a fun site where you can combine two faces into one–not unlike those science museum contraptions where you and a friend sit on either side of a screen and adjust a knob to see what your children would look like. You can upload your own photos or chose from a selection of celebrity photos. Yeah so if Ms. Tiller and I ever decide to procreate we’ll all know what to expect.

-Steph

Sunday Sidewalk Doodles 8/2/09

Posted in Art, Miscellaneous, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Art, chalk, doodle, Drawing, fun, sidewalk, stephg on August 2, 2009 by ssstephg

More sidewalk drawings from this past week. Newest neighborhood artists include Tony and Little. Enjoy!

by MarkB and StephG

Seven more drawings after the jump!

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Sunday Sidewalk Doodles 7/26

Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Art, chalk, doodle, Drawing, fun, sidewalk, stephg, temporary, Western Mass on July 26, 2009 by ssstephg

by StephG

Despite the fact that the rain inches are stacking up at such an alarming rate as to tempt even the most stout-hearted atheist into ark-building mode, we’ve continued to adorn the sidewalk with all manner of temporary ornamentation, and have even succeeded in recruiting a few enthusiastic participants. We draw while the sun shines. The rain washes it all away. The sun returns. We draw again, ad infinitum (or at least until something more entertaining comes along).

Below drawings by WABU, MarkieB and Mr. Brown respectively.

Even more from this week after the jump! Read more »

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Sunday Sidewalk Doodles

Posted in Art, Miscellaneous, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Art, chalk, doodle, Drawing, fun, Holyoke, sidewalk, stephg, temporary on July 18, 2009 by ssstephg

We spent alotta time eating chalk out on the sidewalk this week… made a few drawings, too.

by StephG

Seven more photos after the jump!

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Sunday Sidewalk Doodles

Posted in Art, Miscellaneous, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Art, chalk, doodles, Drawing, fun, sidewalk, steph gerolimatos on May 17, 2009 by ssstephg

So we’ve been playing with sidewalk chalk at my place this spring. We doodle on the walk in front of the house and leave the chalk out for passers-by to use if they feel like it. The chalk has only been stolen once. Most people just walk by, but a few people have drawn a little or left covert messages. One day, two of the little girls who live a couple of houses down actually spent quite a while covering our walk with cool drawings of things like clouds and sunshine, cool environmentally conscious phrases and messages about equality. That was pretty rad. Anyway, I decided the other day that it might be fun to start documenting some of these temporary images. Above is a doodle I made and below is one by my pal, Mark.

Hopefully, we’ll convince more people to join in. Stay tuned.
-Steph Gerolimatos