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Lunatique · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2001 6:48 pm

Ok art ppl, there is a John Singer Sargent exhibition going on now: http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/Exhibitions/Sargent/default.htm

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area and wants to go, I'm planning on a trip(flying, probably). I've already asked a few artist friends in the gaming industry, and they are trying to work out their schedules.

I'm planning on doing this sometime towards the middle or end of Febuary. I will go by myself if no one is going, but it would be cool to attend the exhibition with fellow artists. The show ends around middle of March.

AliasMoze · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2001 8:50 pm

Aaaaaargh! My dad is going to Seattle and was begging me to go with him, but I said I was too busy. Damn it!!!! I would kill to see some Sargent paintins up close.

Lunatique · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2001 8:52 pm

Doh'!!!!

Duckman2 · Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2001 4:47 pm

Yeah that's the great thing about living an hour away from New York City. I can go to the Metropolitan and see whoever I want to, including Sargent. When I went a few weeks ago they had about 15 out. I just couldn't stop looking at them, and as soon as I got home that night I wanted nothing more than to hop back on the train and see them again.

nova · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2001 12:40 am

wow.. i should go. that museum is there close by, but i never have the opportunity to. one reason is i'm getting my license probably next saturday (gee, i'm 17). i guess i also don't often have a reason to go

i should go, i really should.

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Lunatique · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2001 12:45 am

Dude, you live there and you don't go?! Grrrrrrrrrr! Go! You REALLY should. I'm spending hundreds of dollars to fly there and stay at a hotel just so I can see Sargent's paintings in person. Man, you REALLY REALLY should go.

Grrrrr!!

nova · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2001 2:32 am

I'll take your **recommendation** into serious consideration

maybe i'll stop by the next time i go to seattle (that i know of so far) march 3rd, when pedro the lio is playing the the Paradox.. hmm..

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Cooter · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2001 1:58 pm

Wish I lived in Seattle, I would seriously go... Uh oh, no, wait a minute... I DO live in Seattle, and I'm going next week.

Lunatique · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2001 2:03 pm

I just booked a flight for Feb 17, and a hotel for that night. Will fly back the next day. Man, I can't wait!

Well, if any of you will be there during that weekend, and spots some asian dude with realy long hair, wearing lots of black, and drooling at one of the paintings, say hi and don't run away. . ..

nova · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2001 4:08 pm

let's see if Nova can grab some friends and go that day.. hm.

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-nova

Lunatique · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2001 4:11 pm

Yeah dude, grab your buds and we'll hang after the show. Party down in Seatle! Woohoo!
Who else wants to come?!

Flinthawk · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2001 4:52 pm

Man, I might haveta postpone my visit to friends in Seattle to coincide with this little art excursion. Sounds like it'd be worth it to wait an extra week before driving up there for the weekend. The 17th you say? Yet another reason why I should be looking for a job up that way... must.. update.. portfolio/demo reel hehe.

[edit] pssst, Lunatique...Nova's a dudette

Just incase you didn't know.

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Lunatique · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2001 5:34 pm

Flinthawk-- Hey man, let's do it. No pressure though. No wild, good time is guaranteed. After all, we are a bunch of stuffy artists that sits around all day doodling.

Nova--So sorry for referring to you as a "dude." My bad. Shoulda checked out your webby first. Well, if you don't mind hanging out with boring artist guys and drooling over Sargent's paintings, definitely come and hang, ok?

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nova · Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2001 11:31 am

Lun: nah, i get that a lot

Shore, i'll talk to people as soon as i can. I don't see Darrin till about friday, Scrapper i'm not so sure, but i'll see what i can do. I think mebe Blitz and Skeezer may be able to come. Haven't talked to any of these guys, so i'm making assumptions..

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-nova

nova · Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2001 6:32 pm

Nevermind if you read my rage before the edit. My parents were planning a family vacation to Canada starting on the 17th, so i negotiated a little, and we're leaving the 18th. Whew. now to get there

-nova

btw.. hehe, a few of my cousins live in San Mateo.

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Lunatique · Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2001 9:35 pm

Hey, nice! Good move. Now you get to see Sargent!

Well, just curious, the people that might go: do you guys actually want to meet(for example, 1:00 pm at the front entrance of the museum, or something silimar), or do you guys just want to "let's just see if we bump into each other."?

Well, you guys know what I look like(read a few posts up), so if you want to do the latter, I'll be easy to spot.

Cousins in San Mateo, huh? Do you visit them here?

Rob M · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2001 12:26 am

I'd love to head over to see the exhibition, but I probably won't find the time.

Lunatique · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2001 12:46 am

Hmmm. Maybe this could also be the first "Sijun's West Coast Digital Art Gathering"? It's just a thought.

On my side, I might have a couple of guys from Savage Frog and 3DO, but nothing's confirmed on their side. I might very well go lonewolf after all.

Well, basically, the more the merrier, right?

nova · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2001 8:21 pm

i think it would be best if we all met in one place at a certain time. my friend is probably going to be coming to see the sho, but she needs to figure some plans out before her (and my) plans to go can be confirmed.

i was just thinking.. it'd be neat if Dhabih just so happened to show up.. he does live across the lake after all..

Cousins? well, not as often as i'd like. my family and i are going down there next year i think, and i'm thinking we will visit

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-nova

Lunatique · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2001 8:37 pm

Dhabih lives across the lake? Hmm, maybe he'll check the forum soon and make plans to come?

Well, let me know when you and your friends decide on a plan--sometime before I actually head on out to the airport, I hope.

Well, if I still live here by the time you visit your cousins, we'll hang, ok?

Man, I actually turned down this girl, who wants to fly from San Diego to visit me, so I could go see the Sargent show. Not that I care more about art than my love life, but the truth is, I've loved Sargent's work for many years now, and I've only known this girl for a few weeks, and never even met her face to face. So, there. Sargent wins.

nova · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2001 11:28 am

Ok. news so far:

Two friends and i are heading over there and arriving about 1:30-2:00. My ride says we'll be there at 1:30. But I'll confirm again.

This is going to be so neat..

Lun: Sure, we'll hang out.. if i can manage of course

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-nova

Lunatique · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2001 1:19 pm

Cool. Well, I'll be arriving there around 11 am, so I guess I should meet you guys at a certain spot? Since Nova's arriving around 1:30-ish, we should meet at the main entrance to the Sargent exhibit? Not the art museum entrance, but the entrance to the Sargent section(I don't know the layout of the floor plan there, but I assume there is one MAIN entrance to the Sargent exhibition?). If there's more than one entrance, I'll kinda walk between them, and chances are, I'll be spotted(remember, asian guy, very long hair. If you must see a pic, go to my website and you'll find one: www.arcanum.net/~lunachild

Woohoo! Neat indeed.

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nova · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2001 3:01 pm

whew, taking a break from work for a minute here.

Mm.. not so sure there's a certain entrance to the exhibit, but we'll watch for each other. I'll be with two other people, a guy and a girl. Chances are I'll be wearing something darkish, with a long black coat and carrying around a sketchbook. Pic is somewhere in here (i'll update it tonight with a recent pic): http://nova.digitalart.org

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-nova

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Lunatique · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2001 3:07 pm

Um, Nova? I'm going to keep an eye out for a 7 yr old little girl?

Quite mature for your age.

Well. uh. Ok. You should be pretty easy to spot also.

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nova · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2001 3:55 pm

sorry about that.. just updated the image

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-nova

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Lunatique · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2001 10:38 pm

OMIGOD!!

You grew so much in a day! I barely recognized you!

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nova · Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2001 9:17 pm

yay! it's been confirmed.

i wonder if anyone else is going to be there.. alo? well then, you have all the details alredy

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-nova

Gambit · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2001 1:16 pm

Sounds like a great exhibit.

Thanks for the link Lunatique. Neat read and it was nice to see more of his art work...

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Sap · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2001 12:10 am

I live in downtown seattle like 2 blocks away.. and I ain't going ... Muhahahahah

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Lunatique · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2001 3:47 pm

Well, I'll be on the plane tomorrow morning. If you are going, I'll see you there! (The actualy meeting time and place is posted above somewhere.

If you live in that area and won't go, then SHAME ON YOU. Sargent is considered worldwide as one of the most amazing painter that ever lived. From his formal portraits, impressionistc experiements, landscapes, figures, to his completely mastery of oils and watercolor, he is second to none. It doesn't matter if you are a digital artist, 3D artist, traditional artist, comic book artist, cartoonist, or animator; seeing original works of Sargent up close in person will be one of the highlights of your artistic existence. If you think I'm exaggerating or you just couldn't care less about all this "academic" stuff, I hope you'll keep that point of view all your life. Because if one day you do realize what you missed out on, and there won't another Sargent exhibition planned for another 10~20 years, you'll have to travel all over the US and Europe to see this many Sargent pieces all at once.

Ok, off the soap box now. . ..

See you there tomorrow!

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