Stillwater

I was driving out to my dad's house in Stillwater. The river near the road had just been about a foot over the road for a few days. This was this was the first day it was passable. A strange, small storm had just passed through and as I was passing this farm I saw the rainbow. It was still raining and all I had was my point and shoot camera. But I couldn't get everything in the shot, so I ended up taking 2 similar shots and merging them together. If you look close, you can see the ends of the rainbow.

While I was in Seattle my sis printed a really large version of the image. It looks really cool!

Lola loves nachos

Lola loves nachos, originally uploaded by rrgelder0129.

Price Tower Art Center

Price Tower Art Center, originally uploaded by rrgelder0129.

Graphed judging

Graphed judging, originally uploaded by rrgelder0129.

Its monday!

Its monday!, originally uploaded by rrgelder0129.

HammerPress

HammerPress

This highly renowned little printing company in Kansas City creates “various hand printed ephemera” with a slightly irreverent approach to the traditional craft of letterpress. Their work has appeared in logolounge, Typography 25 and 26, Masters of Poster Design and more. Don’t miss them:

Thursday, February 21
Tulsa Little Theatre
1511 S Delaware Ave
6:30 - 7:30 Social
7:30 - 9:00 Film
Members Free | Students $10 | Non-members $25

more info at artdirectorscluboftulsa.org

Helvetica Film Screening, January 17th

Art Directors Club of Tulsa

The First 50 Attendees Receive a Free Limited-Edition T-Shirt

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which is celebrating its 50th birthday this year) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. For more information about the film visit www.helveticafilm.com

Join the conversation and see the film with fellow designers and art directors for this special show. Be among the first 50 and receive a limited-edition ADCT-designed Helvetica T-shirt.

Usual day, usual time, different location.

Thursday, January 17th
Location: Circle Cinema
10 South Lewis Avenue (Lewis at Admiral)
Social 6:30 - 7:30 pm
Film 7:30 - 9:00 pm
Members: Free | Students: $10 | Non-Members: $25

quarterlife

Stephanie Cole got me addicted to this show. They release a new one every Thursday and Sunday night. They are pretty short, only about 10-15 min long.

www.quarterlife.com

I got this info from the website...

quarterlife is the new online series from Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the creative team behind “My So-Called Life,” “thirtysomething,” “Legends of the Fall,” and “Blood Diamond.” It is the first time a true, network-quality series has been produced directly for the Internet. And it’s the first time an independent project of this distinction has been owned and controlled by its creators.

Known for their incisive portrayals of relationships and experience during life’s key passages, in quarterlife Herkovitz and Zwick take on those crucial years between 20 and 30, when so many of life’s important decisions are made. quarterlife tells the ongoing stories of six creative people in their twenties. As with their earlier series, at the center of quarterlife is a commitment to realism, the recognition of universal human themes through the truthful depiction of the way young people speak, work, think, love, argue, and just goof around.

Starting with Dylan, a young woman whose overly truthful video blog (on quarterlife.com of course) spills the closest secrets of her friends, the show’s characters – filmmakers Danny and Jed, actress-bartender Lisa, geek-extraordinaire Andy, and still-tied-to-her-parents Debra – chart the sometimes excruciating, sometimes comic, often emotional experiences that comprise coming of age in the 21st Century.

Favorite Music of 2007

By far my favorite album of 2007 was LCD Soundsystem's Sounds of Silver. I also decided to list my favorite songs of the year. I had to list them alphabetically because it was too hard to decide an order. Here they are:

Beirut: Elephant Gun
Bishop Allen: Flight 180
Black Francis: Threshold Apprehension
Blonde Redhead: 23
Caribou: Sundialing
!!!: Heart of Hearts
Cloud Cult: Chemicals Coliide
CocoRosie: Werewolf
Dan Deacon: Crystal Cat
Deerhoof: The Perfect Me
Deerhunter: Spring Hall Convert
Dr Dog: Heart it Races
Edit: Certified Air Raid Material
Flight of the Conchords: Business Time
Grizzly Bear: Knife
Iron and Wine: Boy with a Coin
Jens Lekman: A Postcard to Nina
Jose Gonzales: Killing for Love
Junior Boys: In the Morning (Hot Chip Remix)
Kevin Drew: Frightening Lives
Kings of Leon: Ragoo
LCD Soundsystem: All My Friends
LCD Soundsystem: Someone Great
Los Campesinos!: You! Me! Dancing!
Low: Breaker
Maps: Liquid Sugar
Menomena: Muscle 'n Flo
M.I.A.: Paper Planes
Modest Mouse: Dashboard
Muscles: Ice Cream
Of Montreal: Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse
Of Montreal: The Past is a Grotesque Animal
Panda Bear: Bros
Pela: Waiting on the Stairs
Pinback: Good to Sea
Radiohead: Reckoner
Rogue Wave: Lake Michigan
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings: I'm Not Gonna Cry
Spoon: You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists: La Costa Brava
Tegan and Sara: Back in your Head
The Broken West: Down in the Valley
The Clientele: Bookshop Casanova
The Field: Over the Ice
The French Kicks: So Far we Are
The National: Fake Empire
The National: Mistaken For Strangers
The New Pornographers: Myriad Harbour
The Octopus Project: I Saw the Bright and Shinies
The Shins: Sea Legs
Tokyo Police Club: Your English is Good
Travis: My Eyes
Tunng: Arms
Vampire Weekend: A-Punk
Vampire Weekend: Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
Vampire Weekend: Walcott
Voyager One: The Good You Do Not Do
White Rabbits: The Plot
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: IsIs
Yeasayer: 2080

Baby Lee and V

Janet and I hosted a baby shower for Vanessa and John on Saturday at Kilkennys. Here is the tattoo from the shower. It was such a fun invite to do. I really enjoyed creating it. If you know Vanessa, you would know how perfect it was for her. Both she and John have ALOT of tattoos and they are also not finding out what sex the baby is. It's going to be a surprise, which I think is so fantastic :) We had a great time.

Woodward Tent

John and I went out to Woodward Park here in Tulsa a few weekends ago. This is the first photo I took with the Mamiyaflex Twin Lens camera my grandfather gave me. He used it for thirty years as the chief photographer for Boeing.

Johanna @ SELF Gallery

Friday, October 12 7-10p
SELF gallery 2012 e 11th st tulsa

JOHANNA BURTON: recent work in a variety of media

As always, we aim to provide an alternative visual arts experience everyone is always welcome and we always have a great time! See you friday night!

Missy, Will and I

When my mother married Randy in 96, Will was working for Randy at Slocoms Restaurant. That didn't last long, soon after Randy started Randy's Pier 61 and moved to another location in Anacortes. Will was one of our first friends in Anacortes. So every time I visit I go see him at The Brown Lantern.

Cool, foggy morning in Skagit Valley, WA

Denver Art Museum

I took this during our visit to the Denver Art Museum on Saturday. V & P had already been there, but it was my first time. I spent a good thirty minutes photographing the building. This is one of my favorites from the group.

We Won Gold!

Denver was great! We went to the dinner on Friday night, our flight was delayed a bit so we got there just as the presentation was starting. John and I won 2 Gold medals for his identity system and the small books we did. I met lots of Denver creatives and spent some quality time with good friends. Also in attendance were Jimmy (D & P's other partner) and his wife Nicole who is always so fun.

ADCD Awards

ADCD Awards

Friday I am heading up to Denver with my good pals Vanessa and John to visit Paula and Dallas and go to the awards show for the Art Directors of Denver. A series of promotional books that I did with John have been accepted into the show. Other things on the agenda for the weekend is the Clifford Still Exhibition at the Denver Art Museum and a walking tour of loDo (lower downtown Denver). Will take plenty of pics!

Break-Ups

I just love this radio show. I listen to it religiously. I can't wait till Monday every week. I sit by the computer barely able to sit still while my iTunes downloads the podcast. The stories are incredible and the latest show has to be my favorite in the last few months. It's all about break-ups and how awful they are, though everyone goes through them. If you think about it. Every person has broken-up with every person they dated until they got married! That's alot of breaking up. It is always hard, most every single time it happens. Download the podcast here

Memorial

I took these at the OKC Memorial a few weeks ago...

Oklahoma City

I took this in Oklahoma City at the building that replaced the Murrah Federal Building. This one stood out for its simplicity.