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This past Saturday, I attended the opening reception for an exhibit entitled “On Paper” at Gallerie Citi in Burlingame, California. The show features five artists who work in paper-based mixed media. I was there to support one of the artists — my mother Irene Zweig — who creates captivating pieces through deconstruction and reassemblage.
If anyone happens to be in the San Francisco Bay Area and would like to attend, the exhibit will be open through June 15th.
For more information, please visit…
irenezweigart.com
gallerieciti.com
facebook.com/GallerieCiti
twitter.com/GallerieCiti
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Copyright 2013 by G. E. Gallas
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What, another award!?!?!?! Many many many many many thanks to the incredibly talented Kiki Lanbac (laofli.wordpress.com)!!! She has a wonderful aesthetic and a wicked sense of humor. 
Check out a sample of her amazing work below.
This image belongs to Kiki Lanbac!
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Rules
- Post the award pic on the blog.
- Tell everyone about who gave you the award with a link to their blog.
- Nominate 15 more of your favorite blogs.
- Tell 7 interesting facts about you.
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Nominations
- sarahpetersen.wordpress.com
- pauldonnison.wordpress.com
- witchesbrewpress.wordpress.com
- october-moon.net
- thehumansarah.wordpress.com
- ateliercreatie.wordpress.com
- mdlillustration.wordpress.com
- paintblotch.wordpress.com
- parisdreamtime.com
- likeamagnet.wordpress.com
- clareemilyobrien.wordpress.com
- thegirlrach.wordpress.com
- creatingmiranda.wordpress.com
- filofaxlove.wordpress.com
- tinawan.wordpress.com
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Facts
Check out these other posts for more than seven facts about me!
- A Bit More About Me
- Very Inspiring Blogger Award
- Reader Appreciation Award
- Liebster Award
- Liebster Award: 2nd Nomination
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Bonus
Here, have an adorable photo of my shiba inu Nikki!
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Who says comics can’t be educational and hilarious?
Today, I’d like to share a very special online comic I admire very much! Please, let me introduce you to…
Raine Szramski is the awesome (and, not to mention, super nice) artist/illustrator of Pre-Raphernalia as well as another amazing series called Heaven & the Dead City, which can be either read online here or purchased here.
Pre-Raphernalia centers around the Victorian avant-garde artists known as The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including the likes of John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. These artists were quite eccentric, even by today’s standards, and lived oftentimes rowdy and scandalous lives.
What’s so wonderful about Pre-Raphernalia is that Raine takes the true historical events/relationships/facts and depicts them to the full extent of their eccentricity. When reading, I often find myself laughing out loud! Furthermore, she takes the time to write a full historically-accurate explanation of each comic, thoroughly detailing the backgrounds of each individual involved.
I highly recommend Pre-Raphernalia for anyone who wants to learn a little bit of history while having a fun time doing so. 
Below are a number of my favorite images/pages from Pre-Raphernalia.
The following images belong to Raine Szramski.
For more Pre-Raphernalia and Raine Szramski, please check out the following websites…
preraphernalia.blogspot.com
thewatchertree.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/raine.szramski
rainesz.deviantart.com
www.co2comics.com/pages/co2_heaven_and_the_dead_city.html
www.lulu.com/spotlight/co2comics
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10 comments | tags: 19th Century, Accurate, Admiration, Admire, Amazing, Art History, Artist, Artists, Avant-Garde, Awesome, Background, Blog, Blogger, Blogging, Cartoon, Cartoons, Center, Centers, Comic book, Comics, Creative, Creativity, Critics, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Depiction, Depicts, Detailing, Details, Drawing, Eccentric, Eccentricity, Educational, Era, Events, Explaining, Explanation, Extent, Facts, Fun, Funny, Gentleman, Graphic Novel, Heaven & the Dead City, Hilarious, Historical, History, Illustration, Illustrator, Individual, Introduce, Introduction, Involved, John Everett Millais, John Ruskin, Laugh, Laughing, Learn, Life, Links, Lived, Lives, Museum, Nice, Oftentimes, Online, Period, Pre-Raph, Pre-Raphaelites, Pre-Raphernalia, Purchase, Raine Szramski, Read, Reccomend, Reccomendation, Relationships, Rowdy, Scandalous, Series, Sir, Sketch, Sketchbook, Special, Super, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Very Special, Victorian, Victorian Era, Victorian Period, Website, William Holman Hunt, William Morris, Wonderful, Writer | posted in Graphic Novel, Illustration/Design, Links
On December 8th, I attended the EBABZ (East Bay Alternative Book & Zine) Fest in Berkeley.
I found out about the EBABZ when I picked up a postcard about it at APE (Alternative Press Expo) in October.
EBABZ was a small but interesting Fest and I enjoyed walking around, checking out what other people were up to, chatting, building my zine library, and getting some advice.
＊ Milk & Carrots #2
Milk & Carrots is an anthology featuring a number of artists with vastly different styles of illustration and storytelling. I think this is a good start for anyone who’s just getting into the world of zines! Printed by Keness.com. For more information about Milk & Carrots, please visit www.ebbandflood.net.
＊ Between Here and Here by Brendan Monroe.
This zine is a dream-like abstraction filled with science, sexuality, and emotion. Might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but anyone can see that Brendan Monroe is insanely gifted. Check out his amazing paintings, sculptures, and comics/zines on his Tumblr!
＊ Murder Dollhouse No. 1 by Teppei Ando
Murder Dollhouse is a completely bizarre but wonderful little zine! This volume includes The Man Who Lived In Their Attic (part 1 & part 2), the full-color and delightful short She Made Me Feel Four Inches Tall, and a number of fun extras. If you like a good pulp fiction, then this is the zine for you!
＊ Melancholy Rainbow: A Sitcom, “Tastes Like July” Issue One by Nina Kim
Melancholy Rainbow feels to me like a mix between Daria and The Book of Bunny Suicides – a perfect blend of sarcasm and sadism. This is an autobiographical affair and, judging by my brief interaction with the artist, a pretty accurate one at that. Read Melancholy Rainbow for yourself at www.melancholyrainbow.com.
＊ 1984 Printing
Also, I discovered this wonderful local printer. Their products are really beautiful, high quality, and fairly priced. They gave me their very useful pricing list as well as a cute free notebook. I’m seriously considering using them down the line, whether for a small zine or possibly a bigger project.
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After stopping by the EBABZ, Wes and I ended up at this great soba restaurant called Ippuku. The whole experience was very authentic and I’d love to go back sometime.
Then, somehow, we ended up in Haight-Ashbury. We visited some of Wes’s favorite stores like Super 7, Kidrobot, and Amoeba Music, which were all a lot of fun.We also went to The Booksmith and proceeded to drool over all the gorgeous Penguin Classics hardcovers.
So, all in all, it was a very exciting day!
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What!? Another award!?!? Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Thank you so much to Denise of Photos and Vibes by Deni for nominating me for this award!
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Rules
- Post eleven facts about yourself
- Answer the questions the tagger has set for you and create eleven questions for people you’ve nominated
- Choose eleven people to give this award to and link them in your post
- Go to their page and tell them
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Eleven Facts about G. E. Gallas
I’m going to cut corners a little bit since I already answered a ton of questions about myself for other awards. So check out more than eleven facts about me on my posts Reader Appreciation Award and Very Inspiring Blogger Award. (^-^;;)
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Denises’s Questions
1. What makes you laugh?
I laugh at any number of odd things, especially at awkward situations I may find myself in. Oh, I can keep myself endlessly amused.
2. How do you like to spend your spare time?
Spare time? What spare time?
3. What’s your favourite book?
This question is impossible to answer. Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces is practically my bible (I mentioned I’m a Jewish atheist, right?). I’m also quite fond of Robert Graves’s I, Claudius, Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo, Yukio Mishima’s Spring Snow (Haru no Yuki), E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime, etcetera, etcetera. My bookshelf looks frighteningly like a Penguin Classics library!
4. What inspires you most?
Artists who are extraordinarily dedicated to their work inspire me the most.
5. If you could change one thing in your life, what would it be?
Wouldn’t change a thing!
6. Has blogging an impact in your real life?
Hmm, let me think about that one — not sure yet.
7. Would you meet in your real life someone you’ve met on the internet?
I have already met in real life a number of people I’ve met on the internet.
8. What do you find annoying?
Hypocrites — they are the bane of my existence.
9. Do you blog often?
Yes, I suppose so.
10. Which place of the world would you like to visit?
I would love to visit all over Scandinavia!
11. If you win, how are you going to celebrate on the blog sphere?
A celebratory post?
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Nominations
- randomheadshots.wordpress.com
- twistedworldofgravitation.wordpress.com
- lichtyears.wordpress.com
- hopethehappyhugger.wordpress.com
- lunajoonok.wordpress.com
- anelephantcant.me
- ohmyomiyage.wordpress.com
- terabia.wordpress.com
- creatingmiranda.wordpress.com
- angrygaijin.wordpress.com
- sommerstein0411.wordpress.com
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My Questions
- What is the strangest dream you’ve ever had?
- What is/was your favorite subject in school?
- When you were young, what did you want to be when you grew up?
- Who is your role model?
- What is your favorite holiday?
- What is your least favorite vegetable?
- What is your guilty pleasure?
- Are you an optimist or pessimist?
- What are your short-term goals/New Year’s resolutions?
- What did you last eat?
- Do you have any special and/or bizarre talents?
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Copyright 2012 by G. E. Gallas
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Just wanted to organize some images that have inspired/continue to inspire me of late.
Images in chronological order.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of these images!!
(Click on images to enlarge.)
“Antaeus setting down Dante and Virgil in the last circle of hell” (1827) by William Blake
“Symphony in White no 1″ (1862) by James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson (1887) by John Singer Sargent
“Landscape with Green Trees or Beech Trees in Kerduel”
(1893) by Maurice Denis
Actress Barbara Stanwyck (1940s)
Japanese author Dazai Osamu (1940s)
“Mahoning” (1956) by Franz Klein
“Tet” (1958) by Morris Louis
Poster for Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” (1958)
From Ingmar Bergman’s “The Magician” (1958) starring Max von Sydow and Ingrid Thulin
Actress Sarah Miles in “Vogue” (1964).
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4 comments | tags: 1800s, 1827, 1862, 1887, 1893, 1940s, 1956, 1958, 1964, 19th Century, 20th Century, Abstract, Actress, Alfred Hitchcock, Antaeus, Art, Artists, Author, Barbara Stanwyck, Brainstorming, Chronological, Comic book, Comics, Dante, Dazai Osamu, Drawings, Famous, Film, Franz Klein, Graphic Novel, Green Trees, Illustration, Images, Inferno, Ingmar Bergman, Ingrid Thulin, Inspiration, James Abbott McNeil Whistler, James Stewart, Japan, Japanese, John Singer Sargent, Kim Novak, Landscape, Mahoning, Maurice Denis, Max von Sydow, Morris Louis, Museum, Organize, Paintings, Photographs, Photography, Portrait, Poster, Research, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sarah Miles, Screenplay, Screenwriter, Symphony in White, Tet, The Magician, Vertigo, Virgil, Visual, Vogue, William Blake, Writing | posted in Brainstorming, Research
