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• please WATCHLIST me @ my new gallery called migaloomagic
  by Karin Taylor

  please watchlist me migaloomagic please watchlist me!! MY NEW RED BUBBLE GALLERY SHOP I…

  please watchlist me migaloomagic please watchlist me!! MY NEW RED BUBBLE GALLERY SHOP IS CALLED MIGALOOMAGIC….please don’t forget to WATCHLIST me over THERE / I’ve been busy with a new concept…. / I wanted to bring parents something special to help them connect with their children… / I am busy creating a series of digital wall art, especially for children…for their bedrooms. My new gallery on Red Bubble is called migaloomagic / So far, i only have one piece of art there….but I am excited to show you anyway!! This is a gallery which I hope will provide gifts for children, for their bedrooms, for their birthdays…...I hope that it will bring parents closer to their children by helping them remember to tell their children stories, you know – the old fashioned kind of stories….the ones you just make up on the spot….. When the kids say….’tell us a story mum/dad/aunty/uncle/guardian/carer” i hope that you as a parent will gain an inspirational thought or two, from glancing up on the wall and seeing these whales or some other little idea from my artwork…to help you along :D Hugs to all, / Karin :D

• Gallery 26 "Mountains River Sea"
  by Sara Lamond

  *A new exhibition featuring artists from Gallery 26 – and lots of redbubble members! Come meet us at the opening, May 24 1:30 pm. The…

  A new exhibition featuring artists from Gallery 26 – and lots of redbubble members! Come meet us at the opening, May 24 1:30 pm. The exhibition is open May 16 – June 1 / Braemar Gallery / Springwood If you needed another excuse to visit the Blue Mountains – this is it! www.gallery26milsonspoint.com /

• Gallery26 Braemar Gallery Show up and Running - Take a look!
  by Marilyn Brown

  Gallery26 is a group of artists formed primarily of Redbubble artists and is the creative collective of Steve McLaren aka bodymechanic..

  Gallery26 is a group of artists formed primarily of Redbubble artists and is the creative collective of Steve McLaren aka bodymechanic / The show was hung on the 14th of May, 2008 and its doors opened on the 16th of May. Just take a look at how brilliant it looks!! If you would like to join us for drinks to celebrate this fantastic exhibition and meet the artist’s responsible for the work you can do so on the 24th of May at Braemar Gallery, 104 Macquarie Road, SPRINGWOOD at 1.30pm.

• G26 exhibition at braemar gallery springwood
  by bodymechanic

  if any one is interested, i have acquired space for an exhibition of all art at braemar gallery springwood nsw, from 16th may til 1st jun…

  if any one is interested, i have acquired space for an exhibition of all art at braemar gallery springwood nsw, from 16th may til 1st june 2008, / its called G26 mountains rivers sea -a group show of greater sydney artists. / ive got a venue so if u wanna exhibit contact me. / the gallery has 3 large rooms and is a well know space on the blue mtns art trail. / steve

• G26 exhibition at braemar gallery springwood
  by bodymechanic

  just to let u all know that the show is up and running a braemar gallery springwood / it would be worthwhile to take a drive up the blue m…

  just to let u all know that the show is up and running a braemar gallery springwood / it would be worthwhile to take a drive up the blue mtns this weekend and have a look / if not come up nxt sat 24th may for the official opening and catch up with a lot of / red bubblers and take in the atmosphere that the lovely historic braemar gallery / and the blue mtns has!

• Royal Photographic Society
  by Jurgen Dabeedin

  I am pleased and proud to have recently joined the Royal Photographic Society, as Associate member. I’ll be working for my Fellowship nex…

  I am pleased and proud to have recently joined the Royal Photographic Society, as Associate member. I’ll be working for my Fellowship next, so wish me luck!

• Cataloging Flowers by Color
  by Stephen Mitchell

  Now that Fabulous Flowers are allowing members to submit images according to type, colour, et…

  Now that Fabulous Flowers are allowing members to submit images according to type, colour, etc, I’ve picked my best images to add appropriately and accordingly . Over the appropriate period of time (2 per day), I intend to add these images and then submit to the appropriate forum. Q: Why? What makes categorising any artwork on Redbubble so important? / A: One word: Marketing. OK, let me make that a few more words: The best way to show off ALL your uploads to Redbubble is to spread them around, like a good hand in a game of poker. Show everyone how many ACE-shots you have, and maybe you’ll win a few hands. Q: But why show them all in advance, before added to the Fabulous Flowers Group? / A: Because I like to keep a clear record of all my works, because this is MY hand in this grand-game of poker. These are my current ace shots in each of the colours and criteria specified … and because I want you to have easy access. Enough with the 20-questions, go check out my collection of flowers to add to their Color-Forum ... RED ( Y ) / / Spanish Dancer ORANGE ( Y ) / / On Fire II YELLOW / / Tree of Life GREEN ( Y ) / / Stripped in Layers BLUE / / Brothers PINK ( Y ) / / Mistique PURPLE / / Purplicious BROWN / / Imminent BROWN II / / Fire Sticks BLACK / / Budding Talent WHITE / / Softly Spoken TWO COLOUR/COLOR / / Siblings CHAOS / / Wait, A Moment MINIMALISM / / Shrouded Persona (Y) = Now on Fabulous Flowers .

• DRIVING BACKWARDS ON ROUTE 66
  by Patricia Montgomery

  After leaving Tucumcari, we headed east to San Jon, our last stop in New Mexico. San Jon is another small town on Route 66 with abandone…

  After leaving Tucumcari, we headed east to San Jon, our last stop in New Mexico. San Jon is another small town on Route 66 with abandoned motels and businesses. The photo below shows a rusty sign that once glowed neon for the Western Motel. That is a 1960’s Plymouth sitting in the yard. Doubt that it runs, but someone did put a modern sun shield in the back window. As we edged into the eastern side of Glenrio, we saw our first town on the route in Texas. The first sign that there had once been life in this town was an old metal sign leaning at a 90-degree angle, almost obscured by overgrown trees and bushes. All of the signage had been blown out, but the guide book showed that it once read “Deep Rock”. Further down in the abandoned town we discovered one occupied home sitting back behind the ruins of Glenrio’s business district. Now it is surrounded by a junk yard of remnants of the once thriving town. Nearby is the Morel Café and Last Motel in Texas. In its heyday if you had driven into town from the west, you would have been that the sign read the First Motel in Texas. As you can see by the photo below the sign is barely there, probably a victim of the ravages of the storms and hail that recently hit Texas. Next stop on Route 66 was Adrian, which claims by its signage that it is the mid-point of Route 66. From Adrian it is 1,139 miles east to Chicago and 1,139 miles west to Los Angeles. I must note that the next town on the route is Vega, which disputes that and also claims to be the mid-point. However, Adrian is the one with the great looking mid-point signs and The Mid-Point Café, home of the Ugly Crust pies. We came through town right after lunch and were too full to try one of the pies, but we heard they are the best! The old town of Vega was the last cruise-through for today. We didn’t have time to stop at Dot’s Mini Museum which is touted to have a great collection of Route 66 memorabilia. There were several old signs and The Vega Motel looked like it might still be in business. A cool photo op just off of Route 66 and closer to downtown was a restored gas station from the 1920s with a green & white Magnolia Gasoline pump in front. The photo below is colorful Roosters, a Mexican restaurant. I would not recommend starting out on a Route 66 drive without a good guide or map to direct you down the road. We have two books, one with good maps that showed clearly whether the road was running on the north or south side of I-40 or if the road no longer existed. The other book listed all the towns in geographical order and recommended points of interest for each. All the guide books and maps on the market for Route 66 start in Chicago and direct you west toward the Pacific Ocean. I assume that is because this is the way that The Mother Road started out after she was born and where she finally matured out west on the Santa Monica pier. But if you are driving east on Route 66 as we are, then you have to learn to read backwards. Just kidding! But you do have to flip pages backwards in the map/guides to see which town is next on the eastern route. When we first started east, I was having a bit of a hard time figuring out where we were going next. But I soon became adept at flipping pages backward and then reading forward. If I can do it, anyone can! RECOMMENDED TRAVELING COMPANIONS (besides your loved ones): “Route 66 Adventure Handbook” (3rd Edition) by Drew Knowles / This book directs you to points of interest and attractions. Without this book, we would have missed so many amazing sights and side trips. Throw this one into the convertible before you leave home! “Route 66 Traveler’s Guide” (Collectors Edition) by Tom Snyder / This book has good maps showing where the road is in relation to I-40. It also indicates where the road no longer exists and will recommend alternate routes. Both these books can be purchased on www.amazon.com

• gallery 26 invite
  by bodymechanic

  dont forget ,this tues 19th feb, gallery 26 is having a new show, chocka block full of red bubblers everywhere. / 26 alfred st milsons poi…

  dont forget ,this tues 19th feb, gallery 26 is having a new show, chocka block full of red bubblers everywhere. / 26 alfred st milsons point, nxt to the harbour bridge, come 1 come all / support art!

• The Night the Lights Went Out …
  by Patricia Montgomery

  We were cruising down Route 66 in eastern New Mexico to our next stop, Tucumcari (pronounced too-come-carry). We were really looking for…

  We were cruising down Route 66 in eastern New Mexico to our next stop, Tucumcari (pronounced too-come-carry). We were really looking forward to this stop because we had heard that there was a section in the east part of town with hotels and curio shops that were still well-preserved right down to working neon lights on the signage. It was later in the evening for a night shot than I would have liked. Once it gets what I call “black dark”, it is much harder to good a good exposure on neon lights. Those types of shots usually turn out much better when taken at dusk, once the sun has gone down and there is still a hint of blue in the skies. As we drove slowly down The Mother Road through Tucumcari, it was just as I had hoped – about a mile or so of neon signs, some flashing. The first one we came to was the Blue Swallow which had a sign with a big blue swallow that flashed on and off. There was a vacant darkened lot next to the motel so we pulled in there. I knew that night shots probably would not be the best, but in my excitement I wanted to try. We pulled out my father-in-law’s heavy-weight tripod that he had bought in the late 1960’s. We brought it along, thinking that its age was fitting for a road trip down Route 66. After attaching the camera to the tripod, I snapped my first shot. I could see on the digital screen that the light from the neon tubing was flaring outward in a soft glow, giving the impression that it was not a sharp image. Monty stood beside me with his little pen flashlight and I changed settings to bracket several times, getting about four more shots. I was not satisfied with any of them. I knew it probably was not going to get any better, but thought I would try for one last shot. As I was composing for the sixth try, my husband remarked that a man had stepped out of the motel office and had peered around the corner of a vehicle, clearly looking at us. Then he went back inside. About 10 seconds later, we watched as the flashing blue neon tubes around the bird went out. We continued staring at the sign and then caught sight of someone pulling back the corner of the curtains of the motel office. He was standing back at the edge of the window but the outline was still clear of someone looking out toward us. The curtains closed and then a few seconds later, the neon lights that formed the words “Blue Swallow Motel” went out. Now the sign was totally darkened with only the tiny orange “vacancy” sign still lit. The curtains came back again in the same place and we saw the outline of a person staring out the window toward us. This all happened very quickly. After the second set of lights went out, we immediately packed up and left. We looked at our watches and it was only 8:30 pm. I was very upset by this incident because up to this point we have met only nice business owners who encouraged us to take all the photos we liked. Even one of the tourist guide books commented that we should keep our camera handy and use it often because so many roadside business/attractions have quickly fallen to ruins and now are completely disappearing as a victim of the bulldozer. Even though we have been traveling in the off-season, we often circled old 66 roadside attractions along with other tourists, also with their camera in hand. So I was very upset that it appeared the owner or a clerk of a Route 66 icon like The Blue Swallow would deliberately turn out the lights to prevent a tourist from taking a photograph. After we checked into a room nearer to I-40, I surfed the internet and found an email address for the Blue Swallow. I sent a message asking point blank why he turned off the lights. I received what I considered to be a rude reply. He didn’t deny anything, just said that everyone turned off their lights along Route 66 at 9:30 pm every night and that he doubted I was a true Route 66 fan. It may be true that the business owners don’t leave the neon lights on all night, but he said everyone turned them off at 9:30 pm. We had looked at our watches and the clock in our vehicle – the lights went out an hour earlier at 8:30 p.m. I also don’t think it is very wise of a business owner dependent on tourism to insult me by questioning whether I am a true fan. I quite taken aback and have since formed a negative opinion of this motel owner. I researched the history of the Blue Swallow Motel afterwards and found that these people are not original owners and have bought it more recently. The motel was once run for quite a long time by a very nice lady, Miss Lillian. I believe that Miss Lillian would never have been so rude as to turn out the lights on a tourist. I think that if she had seen us in that parking lot, she would probably have waited until after we finished taking the photograph before darkening the signs. The next morning we drove past The Blue Swallow in the light of day. In my personal opinion, the place does not have much going for it except for the spectacular blue neon sign that flashes at night. In the glaring light of day, it didn’t appear to have anything to recommend it except for two nice vintage vehicles parked in front. But that is only my opinion. About one block east on the other side of the road, we stopped at Teepee Curios. The front entrance is in the shape of a teepee and is a nice photo opportunity. When I went inside, the bearded man at the cash register did not speak to me. I browsed around and finally eased over to the counter and said “Good Morning.” He did respond, but was not very friendly. If these two business owners are representative of Tucumcari, then I was not left with a good impression of the town. That said, I would still recommend that if you are ever in New Mexico driving Route 66 approaching Tucumcari, don’t miss the drive through town. There are some very nice vestiges of the old road still worth seeing and photographing. However, I cannot recommend The Blue Swallow as a Route 66 photo op or as a place to stay. After two days to consider everything prayerfully, I decided that I must forgive the owner of the Blue Swallow in order to find peace. I’ve done that and now have been able to laugh with my husband over how a woman with a camera shot out that bird. It was the night the lights went out in Tucumcari…

• Blue Shift Gallery arrives in a Red Bubble
  by Jurgen Dabeedin

  Hello everyone! This is my 1st entry on RedBubble. I was surprised to see kind comments about my work minutes after I’d posted it! There’...

  Hello everyone! This is my 1st entry on RedBubble. I was surprised to see kind comments about my work minutes after I’d posted it! There’s a lot of great work work out there. I’m looking forward to adding more work soon!

• New Book From the Blue Shift Gallery
  by Jurgen Dabeedin

  I’ve been working on a ‘coffee table’ style art book which features some of my favourite work from the Blue Shift Gallery collection. It …

  I’ve been working on a ‘coffee table’ style art book which features some of my favourite work from the Blue Shift Gallery collection. It is titled ‘Life in a Different Light’ and you can preview (or order a copy, if you’re so inclined!), from www.blurb.com. Follow the link from my website Events page or copy and paste this link into your browser: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/346971/

• Forthcoming Exhibitions
  by Jurgen Dabeedin

  I know that most of the people on here are not from the UK… but, / For those that are, and for those that like my work, here is a list o…

  I know that most of the people on here are not from the UK… but, / For those that are, and for those that like my work, here is a list of events where you can come and talk to me and see my photography at first hand. / I’ll be showing a wide range of work, so there will be something new to see at each show. Please come along if you can! Wyllyotts Centre / 2nd February – 1st March / A selection of work from my Open Edition collection. / Potters Bar / Hertfordshire EN6 2HN / Tel: 01707 645005 / / Adam Street private members club / 4th February – 2nd March 2008 / 9 Adam Street London WC2N 6AA / Tel: 020 7379 8000 / www.adamstreet.co.uk / / Williams Art and Antiques / ‘5 @ 5.6’ Exhibition of photography / 5th March – 5th April / No5 Dale’s Brewery / Gwydir Street / Cambridge / CB1 2LJ / 01223 311687 / / Lauderdale House / 31st March – 14th April / Light Sculptures exhibition / Highgate Hill, Waterlow Park / London N6 5HG / Tel: 020 8348 8716 / www.lauderdalehouse.co.uk / / Wyllyotts Centre / 3rd – 31st May / A selection of work from the Gallery / Potters Bar / Hertfordshire EN6 2HN / Tel: 01707 645005 / / Artshed – Hertfordshire Art Fair / 3rd-5th May (Private View 2nd May 6.30pm) / Westmill Farm / Ware, Hertfordshire SG12 OES / 01920 466446 / www.artshed-ware.com / / Untitled Artists fair – Chelsea 2008 / 30th May – 1st June 2008 / Chelsea Old Town Hall / Kings Road / London