business more art business?

Just wanted you to know that the Business Council for the Arts just had a meeting here at the firm and David spoke about how great the experience was to have your art here. I am hopeful the name recognition will lead to more Now Showing interest. Later. - King Tim

Commisionner & The Lateness

just found out the other day that in my insanity to move and such in june/july, I missed the application to the unplaza art fair .. a bit chagrined about this becuase it was a very nice festival to be a part of .. but, they got my new coordinates - so next year will work out fine .. also, I think I may be on my way to doing another commissioned piece of work for the school district I work in .. it's a thing called 'circle of courage' .. i enjoy the paint and pleasure of the commissioned work - we'll see .. the work continues to begin again .. cheers ..

New Mexico Drops

Are you still accepting folks who want to leave art wherever they travel? We're going to Santa Fe, NM and Albuquerque Weds for 5 days and would be proud to drop off/document your project. - B

Vote 'Yes' For My Art

I have finally produced and uploaded what I would consider a well-rounded overview of the travel photo.paint project via video/sound/pics. This piece has been posted on http://www.current.tv/ for consideration to be aired nationally .. in the meantime, you can vote on this piece by clicking on this link - Click here to view and vote - and in the meantime, i'm readying myself to rid this self-imposed exile from the easel and begin throwing some paints around .. stay tuned and thanks for your continued support .. cheers ..

Show Feedbacker ..

Hey Joey - Finally got down to Coffee Girls this weekend. The show looks amazing! This skyline series is (as you said) T-A-S-T-E-E and it's so fun to see them all in a nice row - like taking a giant postcard tour of the city and beyond. Hope you and your familia are doing well. Hi to you all - judi

Art Alternate

I got word from the Westport Art Fair coordinator that I'm an alternate for the fair that is coming up in September. Kind of feel like I'm back on the baseball team and the starter might come down with the stomach flu and i'll come flying in with all my paints and canvases. So, gear up, I'm selling baseball shirts with a smudge of paint for the low price of sixty cents a piece. Odd and interesting, this art world in KC is ..

Travel Paints in Hawaii

I am A Friend of Dan's Here on Kauai. I Wanted to let you know that I am A PROUD owner of one of your paintings:) I love my painting it is beautifle and Abstract, Just my Style! Thanks so Much. Heidi

iowa travelin' home

my trusted confidant, inspector beaudoin, deposited several of my paintings up at a ball field in iowa during some rock and roll shows .. here's his report:

Hey man,
Your art has now traveled to Des Moines, Iowa and Principal Park. In the first picture, I posed your piece of art near an empty Iowa Cubs kiosk. In the second, we use the Jumbo Tron as a backdrop. I dropped off your piece in left field GA during the first show, Collective Soul. By the time Third Eye Blind came on, it was gone....hopefully in the hands of someone not gouging their eyes out because Third Eye Blind was playing.

This is just the beginning, Joe.

Just the beginning - jfb

the quaintness

quiet on the showfront on friday, but the small group that came out to see the show was very nice .. good work .. the show is still up for another 27 days or so and there's only dibs on one piece .. so, tell your pals and enjoy the drying paint in the window frame .. cheers ..

Coffee Girls Show - LIVE for First Fri.

the coffee girls show was officially hung last night and it might be one of the tastier ensambles i've had in a long, long time .. so, come on out on friday in the early to mid evening to get a taste on the tongue and eye ball .. i have a gallery on my site of some interior shots - click here to see them all - otherwise come out in person .. please remember to drive fast and talk back to the cops .. enjoy ..

july coffee girls mix-up

just wanted to drop a quick line to everyone that the july 6th first friday at coffee girls has been postponed due to a scheduling screw up to august .. it's likely one of the very few times that i will tell a televised audience a lie, but that is the way it is .. no sweat .. we are moving and vacationing well in july and that is more important than anything .. enjoy the heat out there .. cheers ..

nyc skyline escape

if i can't go there anytime soon, i'm gonna paint it .. here's the new NYC skyline .. it'll be in the new coffee girl's show for all the kids to see .. i'm gonna get the family up to the finest city on earth some time in the next 5 years, i'm hoping .. cheers

American Skyline

a new window pane painting has been finished and posted .. getting all the pieces polished for the upcoming coffee girls show .. that show will be on the first friday in july - the 6th .. enjoy ..

Post TV Thoughts

i told my loverly wife caroline before this TV interview that my perception of what was going to happen and what was to actually happen was going to be huge .. and it was .. i thought i was going to interviewed on my 'photo.paint travel' bit, but it turned out that i was being interviewed about my upcoming coffee girls show and my youngest son miles .. i ended up taking control of the interview and it all turned out to be good publicity .. also, i got yelled at a bit by the producer for missing my pre-interview bit .. this was becuase she was poor at communicating exactly where I needed to be .. those poor people in network news are so nasty, overworked, under-paid and waiting for the big 'paris' dream to fall into their laps .. it's hard to talk to them about their reactions - but, it all happened .. click here for a rather low rent look at the interview and a cleaner copy will be done soon .. thanks again for everyone's continued support ..

On TV Tomorrow - June 9 @ 8:30 a.m.

I just got final word that I will be on KCTV 5 tomorrow, June 9th, during their 8:30 a.m. morning segment .. I'm going to discuss the travel project that is growing and spreading around the globe .. tune in, DVR it or watch later for a rip that I will put up on the site .. cheers ..

Final Film Posted

the weeklong taping of my 'kc bridges' window painting is finished and fully edited .. there are two versions .. click here for version #1 with Moby music .. click here for the Patrick Watson music mix .. it gives all a good view of the very beginnings and final end of a painting done in the photo.paint series .. enjoy ..

Kid Art at Autism Clinic

this morning, i donated a stack of 'kid art' to the autism and behavioral therapy clinic i take miles to every thursday .. the idea is to laminate these and decorate the blank walls for the kids to smile a bit more .. these are my favorite sorts of donations .. good luck out there ..

taping the time lapse

been spending last weekend and this week filming quite extensively the stitching together of one Kansas City window painting .. from picking out the canvass, to sketching to painting .. it's coming together quite well .. I plan on hopping over to Moby's web site for some quality music to layer within the short film .. I'll post as soon as it's done .. by the way, i'm trying to get some slide film developed for a submittal i'm doing for the westport art fair and not having much luck .. these old school folks need to graduate to the 21st Century and leave the archaic and expesive slide film alone .. it's a completely uncool request these days to make folks spend 9 bucks for a roll of 24 and about 10 bucks to develop them, if you can find a photo mat that will do it .. let's graduate to 2007, judges .. bye bye .. joe

time lapsed painting construction

for a good long time now, i have been wanting to speed up a time lapse of me doing a fairly large painting from start to finish .. the next big piece i do will be the one .. should be good times .. in the meantime, i'm considering applying for the westport art fair and attending a conference for disabilities this summer .. still waiting for some responses on some other things to keep the summer thunder rolling all smooth like ..

Nightime Skyline & Parkville Gallery

just put the finishing touches on my first nighttime skyline piece .. i'm content with the outcome .. also, I just put 5 pieces in the 'river's bend gallery' in downtown parkville, missouri .. the plan is to have these pieces on consignment for about 3 months .. so, hop on your horse and head to the charming downtown parkville to see this workin real time .. it's up the hill on main street .. cheers ..

another peppermint stack

i had to do the peppermint stack in a window frame .. it had to be done .. these windows are really unraveling well .. i'm going to parkville tomorrow to meet with a gallery owner to discuss hanging possibilities .. also, i'm going to send my application in for a summer art festival at the hyatt downtown .. cheers

los angeles in acrylic

can't tame my california dreamin' .. put LA down in paints on my newest window frame piece .. need to find a good summer gallery home for these .. possibly parkville, mo? cheers ..

student travel piece is siezed

i have started to teach computer classes again to students in the school district i work for .. been doing this for about two months now .. well, this weekend miles and i dropped off a piece at a local park .. we have been putting them on pic nic tables in park areas .. one of my students asked me what my full name was today and smiled wide saying he picked up my piece over the weekend .. he's gonna take this sucker to california for a nice photo.paint travel ride .. feel like i won the lottery in a small way .. cheers ..

newphew art winner

my nephew, nick, won 1st prize in his entire school for a very cool sleek black sculpture he put together .. also, he won a 3rd prize for a replica of van gogh's starry night .. they are both quite impressive .. several times i have tried to sit down with nick and show him a thing or two, but he has it within him .. he's aiming for a career in the video game arts and he's on his way .. good work, sir .. cheers ..

koi kash in a klip

went in today to pick up the last of my publicly displayed artwork at the blu koi .. while there, a manager handed me a wod of bills in a paper clip .. felt like i was involved with some underground bullshit as i slipped the wod into my front pocket .. it felt nice in that illegal, legal sort of way .. so, i'm officially hanging no where and am currently drumming up business .. keep your eyes open for new shows .. cheers ..

auction silence

haven't heard anything back from Our Lady of Peace School or KCPT on the most recent auctions that went by .. in the art world, no news is good news .. if you get a call, it's to pick up your stuff that didn't sell .. so, for those who own these new pieces and are reading this - hang the piece well and recommend my stuff to your enemies .. i'll gladly take their money and ensure they aren't as much a pain in the ass as they are now .. cheers ..

donkey art: jackass style

there's a donkey down the way here in grandview that the kids and i feed regularly .. his name is ebeneezer and months back i painted up a piece .. then, more recently, i met the owners, ben and victoria, to do a story on the donkey in a local publication .. click here to read the article - also, i just posted a video out there that is a compilation of the donkey's scream when we approach the fence to feed him .. click here to watch - that's our story and we're sticking to it .. other than the donkey, i'm trying to drum up some new shows for the rest of the year .. maybe in parkville, maybe in lawrence, maybe in a shop nearst you .. cheers, joe

long week and one sign

it's been a hugely long week and i was fixing up loose ends .. not a lot of paints flying in the studio .. what did happen was .. : i painted a sign for miles' occupational therapists that says 'massage' with a bit of a pond flower at the end, got the mile's MRI pics/paintings framed, cleaned my studio up a bit, took down the cerner show and talked with a local reporter about the travel photo.paint project that will be profiled in print here in the next coupla weeks .. she is actually going to be a part of the venture when she takes a coupla my pieces to colorado - by the royal gorge - to drop some off and report on it .. in the meantime, a new travel photo.paint picture gallery is posted - click here to enjoy - and get some damned sleep, people .. joe

haggle for kc in paints

last night, several neighborhood fellas came by for a nip of drink and some laughs .. somehow, they ended up in our bedroom talking about a painting over kansas city from the kck riverside .. one of my better pieces .. they tried to barter the piece for beer, but i told them i didn't drink .. then, they said, 'why are you drinking that beer?' and i said, 'hmm, i forgot' .. sure, let me think up a quantity that would befit this piece and i'll get my receipt pad .. they left later forgetting they asked anything about anything .. i'm wondering through the dean morriarity style insanity of their talk if they even thought about making a valid bid .. cheers ..

skyline series

the tradition of skylines continue with a new one of chicago .. i'm going to do a series of window panes with newly strewn canvass as the weeks unravel .. enjoy the city out there and tip one back for me .. cheers ..

auction weekend approaching

the spring auction brigade is in full swing .. i will be in a weekend, televised auction for KCPT .. click here for more details .. also, i will be in zen boy's school auction at our lady of peace on april 28th for a fundraising dinner .. in that auction are 3 sets of photo.paint greeting cards, along with a wood cross painted and emblazooned with a pic of the church .. i used wood from their reconstruction project to garner my goods .. click here for more on that one .. other than that, i'm just painting in the garage .. cheers ..

finally the sun sets

i think i'm finally comfortable with a sunset via watercolor .. been a while and i've tried oil, acrylic and watercolor to capture a cool dusk shot from the winter time .. no damned way i could ever capture the essesnce of this particular eve, but it was worth a hat trick to come up with something i dig .. cheers ..

surprise koi sale

over the weekend, i went over to the blue koi in the 39th street district to pick up some food and had a bit of a surprise .. about 4 of my pieces were hanging in the back of the restaurant for the last 3 months and one of the pieces sold .. it was the italian umbrella piece and it was purchased about a week ago .. no one got in touch with me becuase they said they didn't have my contat information .. makes me wonder what would have happened to the pending check and existing pieces if i never made it back by .. ? enjoy the mysteries out there ..

brain scan art

it's a long time coming with this - but i finally sat down and got some watercolors of mile's mri brain scans from the summer - click here to view the gallery - i want to try to get these up in a hospital or another sort of adventurous spot .. cheers ..

ouija arts

some months back, i got an ouija board for zen and i to give it a spin .. we did it several times successfully and got a fella named 'hewig' .. it was and is rather odd to potentially channel spirits, but better zen does it with dad than strangers .. now, the experiment is over and converted into art .. enjoy

more art explosions?

if you need another alternate take of the recent staging of performance art via fireworks, click here to watch - it was from my nephew's cell phone and it's rather nice .. cheers ..

the art thief named todd

figures it was a todd that ripped off artwork, eh? so, i came across this article (click here) about some guy that decided to rip off the artwork of others to mold it as his own .. he's quite the cowardly sort .. not sure what i would do if i saw my stuff either mimiced or ripped off, but it would not be something i could easily let pass .. here's to originality on this rainy and cold kansas city day - cheers ..

tech village

several weeks back, zen boy and i constructed a couple of tech villages to mimic what towns look like from 20,000 feet up in the air from an airplane window .. several of these were made and i'm looking for a couple of good walls to hang these .. cheers ..

art & political rallys

a good friend of mine, jfb, runs a couple of newspapers in Iowa and recently attended a town hall meeting with barack obama .. the photo.paint venture was a part of the adventure .. here is what jfb had to say .. "Yeah, I was pretty impressed with the whole event. It was run like a true town hall forum with anyone in the crowd able to come up and ask a question. ...at one point, I even screamed out 'Joe Dimino dot com!' .. I thought they were going to throw me out."

short lived painting

the other night, i swapped out a painting for a bio i had hanging at the cerner install .. well, that painting promplty sold that evening .. i barely had the painting over a week .. i'm very glad it's going into good hands .. enjoy it, jim .. cheers ..

artist reception at cerner

several nights ago, we had a very nice eve at Cerner Corporation talking to a nice group of employees .. they were full of hospitality and made the group at ease .. it was one of the best places i have ever had an artist reception .. good work, cerner and thanks to dawn and the vision center .. if you want to take a look at a condensed version of the speech i gave to the group about my work, click here .. cheers ..

Every Earth Event from Yesterday

This four-minute video recaps everything that happened on earth yesterday.



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final postcard/business card

last week, we got the new load of postcards and business cards in the mail .. dean over at august hour did a solid job capturing the photo.paint feel .. i'm putting some proofs up here for posterity .. soon, i will also have them on www.joedimino.com .. cheers ..

the vision of art

a friend forwarded over to me an article about how the artist vs. the non-artist scans a painting when they are on a good look over some pieces in a gallery .. click here to read the full text .. quite interesting how much the eye darts and what sticks in the brain .. also, once i get a week long shuffle of web issues resolved, i will post the new designs for my post cards and business cards for promo purposes .. both are quite sexy .. both were produced by our friends at august hour productions .. check them out by clicking here cheers ..

kc in paints

i finally captured what i would consider a solid painting of the downtown kc skyline .. it's a part of the permanent private collection and we like it in a free frame courtesy of the grandview school distirct .. enjoy

the planet in the sky

the other morning on my way to work, i saw a sun that looked like a new planet had mushroomed into our galaxy .. it was so nice that i had to pull over immediately and try to get a good picture .. when i did, a motorcycle cop pulled up beside me and asked what i was doing .. i told him that i was taking a picture of the sun .. at that, he looked forward and said 'what sun' to the slowly shrinking miracle sun behind a cloud of gray .. and he said, 'oh, i see it. i thought you were taking a picture of my officer down there.' at that, i finally saw a motorcycle cop with swirling cherries and lamented that i didn't get a better shot of a sun that a digital picture would do no justice for .. cheers.

numbers and sketches

as i write this out, i'm thinking that i'm one of the few that looks at this blog with any regularity .. unless most don't provide feedback .. also, i think i produce too much stuff .. came across some sketches from an unknown period of time in my life .. i've attched one for your viewing pleasure .. thank you for reading .. bye-bye

portable & royalty free

i was thinking today that i have been painting a lot of images of places i would like to visit or live .. in fact, most have been places that i have briefly visited from time to time .. i was also thinking that i would like to embark on a new series called 'royalty free' and extolling the notion of immortalizing the already immortal copyright free imagery available to us all .. i found some NYC skyline shots and an attractive lighthouse that would be nice to etch with paint .. enjoy the warm sun out there .. cheers ..

travel web upgrade

i just updated the 'travel' web portal on joedimino.com - click here to view - this includes a map of existing and future drop offs, along with a page of feedback on the project .. enjoy

textured jazz pic

in the span of 24 hours, i have relcaimed the coveted photo that i never took .. karen over at KCPT was nice enough to snap a pic of the 'textured jazz' piece that will be up in the new spring acution .. cheers

auctions and lost pics

on saturday, an individual from KCPT came out to pick up a piece for their spring auction .. it's a long ago piece that has an old saxaphone with wiring coming out of the end of it .. after the piece was picked up, I realized it was one of the very, very few paintings I have that does not have a picture of it .. i was going to post it for your viewing pleasure, but no such picture exists .. instead, you can see it when the auction is aired on the television during their spring drive during April 27 - May 5 .. in the meantime, I'm working on getting an auction employee to send me over a pic .. for now you can see the tax receipt and just imagine .. cheers