It was all over this site
I sent out press releases to the local papers three weeks in advance. The Coaster put it in thier calender but Tri City News that bastion of creative and alternative ignored it.
I put up forty plus posters around town. Put it on
Craigs list for Jersey Shore and NYC
under artist, events and local news.
The week before I reposted. adding Philly, North and South Jersey.
I wrote all over Asbury Park in chalk giving time and date. It was on the city blinking sign in Sunset Park.
Not one single artist showed up. There was absolutely no support from the local art community, not even the local art supply store showed.
Not more than a half dozen people came to see.
I tried my best but you can only do so much with what you have to work with. (cultural pygmys)
Photography by
Anthony DeGanno
732 456-2985
It appears no one cared about all this nonsense.
ReplyDeleteI believe the "Chalk Fest" was a brilliant idea! However, I refuse to pay $15.00 to draw on the side walk. I also live on SSI, so my cash flow is limited.
ReplyDeleteIt comes as no surprise that The Tri City News ignored the Chalk Fest. The Tri City News has always viewed the Arts as the wheel to grease their capitalist vision of Asbury Park. Remeber folks, the publisher is a lawyer, not an artist and he promotes what he deems "Art". The only use I have for the Tri City News is to put it under the cat litter box.
ANONYMOUS...thanx for your input. I also live on SSI. The object of the fee was to create prize money. As for Tri City News, you are right about that...but there is more to it. I have some dirt on Dan "Tin Head" Jacobs and he knows it. Thats why he refuses to acknowledge my existence.
ReplyDeleteHe constantly bleats about how he supports the creative and alternative. By alternative he means gay and he wouldn't recognize creative if Vincent Van gogh sodomized him.
Reply to Anonymous 10/16/12...
ReplyDeleteWhether it is a child playing hopscotch, a Tibetan monk creating a sand mandala or an artist transforming the sidewalk with chalk into a work of art...These artistic expressions are not "nonsense". They speak to the spirit of play, the temporal nature of the Universe and liberates artists from a four walled box on Cookman Ave. ALF is pioneering a true alternative artistic movement in Asbury Park.
ALF makes an epic amount of "sense" to me.
It may make "sense" to you, but the statements I have witnessed from ALF come up as protests and the art secondary.
DeleteWhat puzzles me is...if you feel the art is secondary...What draws you to this site? Perhaps you could offer ALF creative feedback, solutions, ideas?
DeleteCan't have that now, can we ? Anonymous doesn't realize I know who he is and "if" he had any balls he'd use his real name. but he doesn't......so....!!!
DeleteUnfortunately, there will always be troll drones who will try to cast their black cloud upon those with innovative ideas. It's time for me to roll up my sleeves, contribute some of my creative ideas to ALF. Will e-mail you soon Capt. Flash. Keep up the good work, you are an inspiration!
DeleteI wrote I saw the art as secondary, as I see lots of complaining, protesting, rock throwing instead. I would suggest more positive promotion.
DeleteWho says I am a "he" ? I would be surprised if you knew who I am. It's a shame you started false accusation, claiming what I do and don't have.
DeleteA spark of life has appeared in AP. A debate has formed. "ALF is pioneering a
ReplyDeletetrue alternative artistic movement in AP" Hallelujah some support. Excuse me while I weep with joy