art in me hometown

just had an old friend drop me a line about getting my stuff into several places on the downtown avenue in liberty, mo .. it'll be nice to be back in the hometown to throw some wares up onto the walls .. one is a jewelry shop and the other is a new italian eatery .. more detais as they arrive .. and by the way, sometimes when i'm not sure what to do on a blank google splash page, i parooze Salvador Dali .. i have always loved the surrealist movment and Dali is a great story .. i have some ideas that would be much better served as a surrealist imprint, rather than an impressionism/abstract .. something to aspire to on some level .. here's a nice Dali site: click here - enjoy the cold leafed up sunshine ..

art got my art

a man by the name of 'art' came out to grandview yesterday to pick up my 'western auto' photo.paint piece for the televised KCPT auction that will take place in mid november .. last time around, someone bought my 'sunflowers' piece and the TV exposure was quite nice .. i think i liked the fact that a retired man named art had the gumption for public television pursuits to grab my goods for a well rounded cause .. so, tune into the auction - maybe your walls are needing a bit of the proverbial sprucing .. enjoy the mist out there .. cheers, matie

susieterrildimino

check out a bit of a pop op art ed piece i tossed together of my madre's high school yearbook photos .. click here to view .. i really like the digitized art scene .. dig those photoshop kids .. cheers

joedimino.com as a graph

there's a web developer out there that came up with a tool on converting any URL into a graph .. i plugged my site in there and got a system of dots with a clownish sort of face in the middle .. very cool site .. give 'er a shot .. click here to access the site .. and one more thing today - looks like our kids book 'bill painted the world blue' will be published and distributed by the holiday time .. click here to look at graphics of the book .. enjoy - joed.

leave with the leaves

gonna get some pics of the new window pieces here soon .. i really like the window frames as a framing option - cheap, cheerful, personal and can make any wall instantly have a window view .. i've attached a pic of my hand tossing leaves to get you in the fall mood .. i'm becoming a believer that if you live in the midwest that you should have several months off in the fall to catch up on the weather and your collective life .. here's to the falling embers of one of the coolest seasons going .. cheers ..

new 7.07 show & unplaza video

hello kids .. the kato and i solidified a july 2007 show at the high traffic blue koi restaurant on 39th street .. it's one of the best eateries on the strip and should be a show full of sweat .. also, i have posted a new video on joedimino.com from the unplaza art fair submitted by our very own brother in action - tony carboni .. and it was much appreciated .. click here to watch - enjoy the spokes of new sunlight coming down out there .. not sure how long they're gonna last .. until next time - cheers ..

window painting world

gonna pitch a new show idea to a cool spot in the 39th Street district .. this is the 'european view' paintings that are in glassless window frames .. several are done and ready to be shown to the owner .. they came out just fine .. i really like the whole window idea of framing things .. really adds some character to the piece and ensures that every view from your window of choice is guaranteed each time .. from my window to yours - cheers, kids ..

gift shop cards & more auction action

got approval last week to put some photo. paint greeting cards up in the st. luke's south hospital gift shop .. this came after a clear letter to a local arts organization about not living up to their committment to get me a hanging at the hospital .. i'd rather do the cards anyways .. they are a buck apiece or 4 for $4 .. the plan is to drop them off this week .. also, i have just committed to donate my 'western auto' kansas city piece to KCPT for their upcoming holiday auction .. good luck out there ..

paper foto fall

all this cold sunshine and fall color got me to buy an old 35 mm roll of 400 speed film the other day .. hard to stay indoors all day as the symphony of leaves fall collectively down without a lens eye to capture it .. STOP READING THIS & get out outside - - make a stack of leaves and throw your kid(s) or niece or nephew or the neighbor's kid smack in the center of that falling tree dust .. cheeeeers ..

waltzing toward the sistine chapel

while in rome back in 2000, i had the chance to parooze the vatican and the sistine chapel .. now, with these kinds of tourist jaunts, you want to get to the crux .. and to that end, i wanted a quick ushering to the sistine chapel to spend some time below the masterpiece .. it took an inordinate amount of time to actually get to the chapel because it's tucked in the back of all vatican art museums .. but, along the way, there were some amazing paintings and gallery rooms .. i had a hard time making my way to the chapel for enormity of art that was all over the walls leading up to the chapel .. take this link to view some of the work - Vatican Art Museums

a growing digitized dot

as i continue my pursuit to go completely digital, i realize that painting is one of the few things that will never be truly transposed into digital form from the inception .. later, some may be scanned or pictured and placed on the web, but it's one of the few things left that cannot be digitized from the beginning .. as i talked into a digital tape recorder on the way to work this morning, i waded through the enormity of our digital existence .. i really dig it, but it's all a bit sad that slips of paper, errant pieces of napkin and other tools of tangibility are leaving .. with the spirit of the pentax k1000 glaring me down .. in small ways, my tiny digitaized heart yearns for a real return to analog and it's gonna happen as soon as the digital seconds slow down some ..

@ now with anew thoughts

was thumbing through the pages of the 'best of .. ' in the pitch weekly for this past year and feel completely out of touch .. i noticed that tom deathrage of the 'late show' won an award for his home/gallery set-up .. well deserved for the craziest man raving about the kc scene .. stop by and check his shop out downtown .. i don't know his address, but if you stop around 8th street and listen for the strange sound in the background, just follow it and you'll get there .. more importantly, i ran into a very cool web site while jacking around a bit on the 'internets' .. the strokes have a nice set-up .. check it out: http://www.thestrokes.com/index2.html - that's all for now - joe d.

who is buckethead?

that's all i got today .. seriously, he's some guitar guru dude that's in with axl rose and the innards of guitar squadron? come on, let me know .. i'll give you a hug .. bye, joe d.

biggest art hoax i fell for

while cleaning up some emails off my machine the other day, i came across some for a program called 'CASH 4 BRASS' .. it was supposed to be a program where artists from around the world donated giclee reprints of their work with proceeds going towards replacing instrunments to musicians in new orleans .. it was a cool program that had a nice kick back, low overhead and a dude named 'GARCIA de San Juan' .. about a month after I sent over my hi-res images, their web site went off the radar .. the message said the following: 'you need to call accounts payable' .. and they didn't respond to their email address of 'imagesb4thestorm@aol.com' .. before they pulled their tent poles out of the ground, they had a lot of committed artists on their web site .. now, the site was fairly cheesy, but i liked the cause and fell for it like all the other artists dotted around the globe .. as of press time, there has been no response and nothing in the way of recompensation from the 'con artits' .. i had signed on for a year contract, but they had a lot of my high res images and nothing to account for what these guys were up to .. it was so good, they forwarded on this radio interview with San Diego public radio about the launch of their kindred mission: Listen By Clicking Here .. it's all over now and my wondering will have to linger like a scattered line without end .. and how can you trust someone that spells their first name in ALL CAPS and sounds like a south american country .. it was worth a shot and i hope they send me an anonymous royalty check if something good befalls their illegal pandering of my imagery .. cheers, joe d.

going across the US with Photo.Paint

about 6 months ago I spent some time trying to get into some other galleries around the US by sending out CD's to galleries .. here's a response I recently got below:

Thank you for sending the CD of your artwork for review. The work is very good but I do not think it is the right fit for Craighead Green Gallery. Good luck. Regards - Kenneth

gonna keep the candle flickered .. cheers ..

art in all our words

had a nice day off to find out what the hell happens during business hours .. and i was thinking briefly about where art is .. it's in plenty, but the following tugged my following: fart, chart, tart, BART (san francisco transit), dart, cart, heart, mart and part everything else .. diseect the words .. cheers, yes!

new 'window' series

in an attempt to keep the 'photo.paint' theme evolving and freshened, i'm currently working on a new window series .. about a year or so ago, i found some old paint chipped windows that were being tossed by a home nearby .. so, i loaded them up in the jeep and have plans on filling the windows with some images i took on several trips to europe .. should be a nice series .. my cohort in art promotion, 'the kato', has agreed to try to push for a local show that will display all of these pieces .. once they are finished, i'll post them for all to enjoy .. take care of your thusday - cause it's also my thursday .. cheers.

moon property & adopted penguin

my very delightful & inventive mother-in-law recently secured me an adopted magellanic penguin named po po mo jr. .. the penguin's name is a clone of the nickname i had as a kid growing up in the dimino household .. this fine specimine is living in the southern section of south america .. it's a cool gift and this penguin has found a good home .. along this same line, i got a hunk of moon property from dennis hope online about 10 years ago .. if things continue to go as they are in this volatile world of ours, i may have to buy a shuttle ticket, scoop up the family, fetch my penguin and blast off towards my lunar acre and live in zero gravity luxury .. i have attached a picture replica of my adopted penguin and here is a link to the lunar embassy in case you want to buy land on the moon or any of the other solar system planets - The Lunar Embassy - good luck space cadets - joe d.

the smell of dried paints

had to transport several large scale oil paintings downtown today for an auction they are going to be in on november 17th .. as they sat in the back of my jeep all day long, the heat seared the smell of oil paints around the car .. it was delightful .. i'd like to look into making some air freshners for both home and vehicle with that delightful smell .. if you don't believe me, get a tube of standard artist oil paint and smear it on a surface .. let it dry for some time and enjoy the lift it gives to a room .. cheers .. joe d.

'in' at the 'Un' Plaza Art Flair

finished the first full art fair in my young art career and it was a very cool experience .. after all the work, loading, unloading, logistics and such, it was refreshing to see all the faces peer through my artwork on several tables and easels .. the weather was perfect and the crowd was quite impressive for the companion to the enormous plaza art fair .. and the crowd was very cool .. there was not one snide individual that paroozed through the grass aisles of my tent .. there were some people that were completely perplexed by my work, but that's commonplace with a portion of my pieces .. the fan favorites were the assemblage pieces that had a stack of plastic army guys hoisting weaponry at a plastic spider and plastic pool shark head .. the shark head sold on Saturday, while the spider came home with me .. almost sold it in the last 10 minutes on Sunday, but no go .. overall, it was a very nice 'first time art fair' experience and i want to extend my thanks to everyone that helped, paroozed, purchased, gawked, loaded, unloaded, babysat, enjoyed and mingled .. click here for more pics .. until next year, keep up the good work - joe d.