Grad School

Well, we started grad school last week. We had to go to campus to register for our classes. That was awful. I can't believe Miss. College makes you register in person. The chair of the art dept. told me they might wake up to the 21st century soon and do telephone registry! Telephone registry? The telephone is so early to mid 1900s. What happened to internet registration? Anyway, not much else to tell except we are excited about going back to school. I'm looking forward to all of the new art stuff I'll be learning. Anyway, that's all I can think to say for now. I'll try to post some pictures....again.

Richard

The Spoils of Dumpster Diving

So there used to be a silk screen T-shirt shop across the street from the gallery. You know the type. It's literally a sweat shop because the owners are too cheap to pay for air conditioning and about all they make are T-shirts for the local little league teams. It closed about 9 months ago so all the equipment has been sitting in there until the owner found a new tenant to rent the building to. Well it seems he has found another person to open...wait for it....another T-shirt shop. So of course he promptly hires somebody to bag up all of the supplies and trash in the store and leave it on the side of the street for the city garbage men to clean up. Naturally, Wyatt Waters and I are watching him the entire time to see if he's throwing out anything good and waiting for him to leave.

Once he's gone, Wyatt and I venture across the street to see the goods. Mostly trash, cardboard boxes, and other various useless crap. But I was able to find a lot of leftover silk screen ink that I will hopefully be able to make good use of. I also found a stamp the old T-shirt shop used to put their logo, phone, and address on envelopes.

Now remember before you go dumpster diving that the rules are much the same as they apply to 4th Amendment searches and seizures. If the garbage is under the curtilage of the house (basically the roof, front porch, immediately around the house) you have no rights to it. However, if the garbage is beyond the curtilage of the house, say in the street or near the street, then it is most likely fair game.

Well, until next time, happy dumpster diving!!!!!! (I am in no way responsible for anything bad that happens to you in the process of dumpster diving ranging from tetanus from that rusty nail to the guy with the shotgun who changes his mind about throwing out those old TV guides. However, if you come across some primo goods like some golf clubs or hip retro furniture, I expect my fair share!)

Richard
PS- Hopefully some photos from our honeymoon show up (Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Studios Orlando)

Thad Cochran came to get me!!!!

So I guess ol' Thad Cochran saw my post about framing him because he showed up at the gallery today. I was just minding my own business reading 'the boondocks' when these black SUVs with tinted windows pull up out front. Then these big guys in suits jump out and come in and check everywhere, holding their hands to their ears to listen in on their mics.....wait a minute!!!!....those are Agents!!!! Where's Morpheus when you need him?! Just kidding. There were no SUVs and suits. Just Thad in a rental car. And he didn't come to see me, he just came to get some prints of the portrait that Wyatt had painted of him. He hadn't even heard of me and my framing of him (I know b/c I asked....not really). But I still got to meet Thad Cochran, one of the most, if not the most powerful Senator in Congress. He's in charge of appropriations (appropriations = money = power). I may not agree with him politically but he was a nice guy. He talked about his grandkids and how he hated to see LSU beat Ole Miss in football.

Hmmm...I just tried to post some pictures but it "couldn't find the server." I'll try next time.

Bye

Thad Cochran

I framed Thad Cochran today. Ha ha! Republican party fear me!!! I've got the dirt on ol' Thad. Nah. I work for Wyatt Waters and all I did was frame a portrait he had painted of Thad, but it sounded fun!

That sounds like a good start to our blog. Welcome. Hopefully we will keep up with this and not let it get covered in the digital cobwebs of the internet. If anyone doesn't know Emily and I, we are a newlywed couple living in Ridgeland, MS. We live with our young puppy, Tobey.

Our new apartment is great. There is lots of running room for Tobey and a fireplace for Emily to hang her bridal portrait. It's funny how people put some of their most expensive and treasured items at the place that receives the most fire damage if the fire gets out of control. We also have separte sinks so she doesn't have to put up with all of my toiletries...and vice versa.

Both of us are starting grad school on August 23rd. Emily is getting a Master's in Education and I am getting a Master's of Fine Arts. We are both excited about going back to school. We both plan on teaching after those degrees are completed in about 2 years.

Well, I'm going to end this here and try to post some pictures.
Bye.

Richard and Emily