Sail Away

On exhibit - Saturday 9 July to 24 September 2022 Call to Artists http://client.smarterentry.com/coosart Submission deadline: 6 May 2022 Hello Artist! Welcome to the 28th Annual Maritime Art Exhibit at Coos Art Museum. Coos Art Museum cordially invites you to apply to this exhibition, the finest of its kind on the West Coast. You were chosen because of your artistic caliber and we hope you consider taking the time to respond to this call. All entries are made online. Please use the above url to participate. We are looking forward to an in person exhibition and lively opening weekend events.  Looking forward to seeing your work in the museum! Sincerely,  Leah Ruby Executive Director Coos Art Museum Click here to submit Copyright © Call for Maritime 2022 Coos Art Museum, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: www.coosart.org Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

Better Post It

SO IT GOES COFFEEHOUSE PRESENTS:

THE POST IT NOTE ART SHOW BY GADZOOKS_BAZOOKA 

Artist and illustrator Grant Hoskins has a double life. 

Internationally he is known as @gadzooks_bazooka, a self-taught artist whose work can be found in galleries, zines, music album covers, and on the streets of Southern California. But by day he works a soul-sucking job and wiles away the precious hours drawing on Post It Notes. This expression of his inner life reveals a shattering editorial eye with a penchant for absurdity, existential dread, quesadilla pirates, and the conundrum of human interaction.

186 of these Post It Notes will be exhibited at So It Goes Coffeehouse in Coos Bay, Oregon from March 11th through the month of April.

@gadzooks_bazooka can be found on Instagram.

SO IT GOES COFFEEHOUSE is Coos Bay’s old school coffeehouse featuring killer coffee, 

full bakery, live music, bad poetry readings, used books, and occasional small theatrics. 

190 Central Ave, Coos Bay, OR, 97420. Open 7 days a week, 7AM-2PM plus events. 

Second location in North Bend Medical Center 1900 Woodland Ave, Coos Bay, Monday-Friday.

Contact: soitgoescoffee@gmail.com  www.soitgoescoffee.com  @soitgoescoffeehouse

 

 

 

 

Local Color

 

 

 

So It Goes Coffeehouse will show the latest work from local artist Nick McCullouh at the downtown location through the month of February, beginning February 4th. The downtown location is located at 190 Central Avenue in Coos Bay. A satellite location is in the North Bend Medical Center at 1900 Woodland Avenue. 541-808-9333 soitgoescoffee.com FB, IG

Eyeing Art

 

Thu, Dec 30 at 8:46 AM

View this email in your browser Call to Artists Photography Show – “Eye and the Lens” February 1 to February 26, 2022 Accepted Works: Photographic works, excluding video. No specific theme. Each piece must be wired and ready to hang on the wall (please - no saw-tooth if possible). Maximum Size Limit: 16” x 24” overall, with or without frame Art Delivery: Sunday or Monday, January 30th and 31st, between the hours of 10:30 am and 3:30 pm. Deliver 1-3 pieces of art, together with completed entry form and appropriate feedback to have Art by the Sea Gallery & Studio, 145 Fillmore Street SE, Bandon, OR 97411. (If you cannot deliver during these hours please contact the gallery to arrange a different time.) Also, please attach a copy of your biography (if available), which will be included in the Photography Show binder. Entry Fees: First entry - $10. Second and Third entries - $5 each. All art must be for sale and priced. Please note that the Gallery will charge a 25% commission fee on work sold so please price your work accordingly. Application forms can be downloaded at: Artbytheseagallery.com Awards: Judge – Archi Davenport Prizes will be $50 first place, $25 second place, $15 third place, plus Honorable Mention ribbons. A People’s Choice Award will be decided by public ballot, the winner to receive a one month exhibition as Featured Artist at Art by the Sea Gallery and Studio during 2023. Artist Reception: (masks required) Saturday, February 5th 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm. We hope you will come to the reception. It’s always more fun when the participants are present. The judge will be commenting on the strong points of the works and about photography in general. Artwork Pick Up: Sunday & Monday, February 27 and 28th - 10:30 pm - 3:30 pm. Artists who have sold work will be paid at the end of the show at artwork pick-up, February 27 and 28th. Copyright (C) 2021 Art By the Sea. All rights reserved. You are receiving this email as a member of our art community. Our mailing address is: Art By the Sea 145 Fillmore Ave SE Bandon, Or 97411 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe

Eat, Drink and Be Healthy

SO IT GOES COFFEEHOUSE ANNOUNCES SECOND LOCATION IN NORTH BEND MEDICAL CENTER

The new location is slated to open in November

It has been six years since the doors opened at So It Goes Coffeehouse and in that time the downtown Coos Bay favorite has become a mainstay of local cafe culture and an engine of the arts scene. This November a second location will open right inside the main doors of North Bend Medical Center. 

The second location will be an express version of So It Goes Coffeehouse featuring an expanded lunch menu for customers on the go. The So It Goes team will offer locally roasted Bridgeview Coffee drinks expertly prepared, loose leaf teas, real fruit smoothies, grab and go breakfast, fresh So It Goes bakery including their signature New York style bagels, and a chance for North Bend Medical Center staff and patrons to take a breath in an awesome environment.

There will be slightly fewer punk rock shows in the new location.

So It Goes Coffeehouse  541.808.9333  190 Central Avenue, Coos Bay   

Coming soon to North Bend Medical Center 1900 Woodland Dr, Coos Bay   soitgoescoffee@gmail.com  www.soitgoescoffee.com  FB INST 

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John Beane

So It Goes Coffeehouse  

541.808.9333 www.soitgoescoffee.com     

www.facebook.com/soitgoescoffeehouse 

Giving the Razberry

 

 

 

Carlie Philene is a full- time, local artist in North Bend. Her love for vibrant colors and self expression, fuels her creative passions. While it be painting, digital illustration or sculpting - you can definitely feel the love! Check her out on Instagram for more: @savagerazberry 

So It Goes Coffeehouse will show the work through most of October. 190 Central Avenue, Coos Bay, Oregon 97459. 541-808-9333 soitgoescoffee.com

 

The Shadow of the Fat Man

 Wanna know how to write a mystery? Read Hammett.

Hell you can even just watch John Houston’s The Maltese Falcon. It was his first film and he did what so few directors bother with, he followed the novel almost exactly.

Which is why the novel and the film have become the absolute lodestone for mysteries.

Now you can’t hurt yourself reading any of Hammett’s novels. In just five books he established the iconic plots and characters for mysteries for generations. The Thin Man sets the standard for couples sleuths, the Red Harvest is the inspiration for every Stranger Comes to Town Things Happen story and The Dain Curse is the most complex mystery every plotted. (Spoiler: The mystery is solved by the end of the first chapter). The Glass Key establishes the basis for political intrigue but it is the Falcon that makes murder magnificent.

And even though we love Sam Spade, (Ably brought to life by Bogie), it is the cheerful, jovial menace of Kasper Gutman (unforgettably played by Sidney Greenstreet) which establishes the one unbreakable rule of any heroic adventure. The hero can only be as heroic as the villain allows him to be.

No think about that for just a minute. Could Clarice Starling be as compelling without the ominous presence of Hannibal Lecter? Would we care about Nakatomi Plaza if Hans Gruber and his merry men hadn’t come along? (Made Bruce Willis a big star in one film) Would Bogie be Sam Spade without Kasper Gutman?

No, of course not. Oh we’d still love Sam Spade cause he’s Bogie after all, but would he be instantly memorable?

Take a look at the legacy left by Kasper Gutman and his alter ego Sidney Greenstreet, cause it was Greenstreet who gave Gutman his lingering menace.

There have been dozens of tries at making another Maltese Falcon, some even with the same name, (Anyone remember the 1931 or 1936 versions?) and television has done it endlessly, the good, Hawaii Five-O F.O.B. Honolulu, with Wo Fat as the jolly fat man, the outstanding Art Carney TVM with Lily Tomlin, The Late Show and the bad, Star Trek the Next Generation The Big Goodbye, with the lamentably named Cyrus Redblock ghosting Mr. Greenstreet.

And the one thing remains constant, the image of the jovial fat man as a deadly opponent and terrifying villain.

And Mr. Greenstreet did it all without a single bit of violence, sure he threatened and connived, but no physical intimidation. And that is why to this very day, in the next century, the image of a jovial fat man strikes an immediate chill, it’s Kasper Gutman come to get us.

And because of that reaction, rather like seeing snake, a spider or a great white shark we know things are going to get tough for the good guys. And they need to.

There’s nothing worse than an under employed hero. The poor guy sits around twiddling his thumbs, whistling Dixie and tiddling his winks without so much as a shadow to jump at. No unless some rotter comes along and makes things bad for all and sundry there’s no reason to have a hero. Might just as well be a Hallmark romance with everything working out peachy for the happy couple.

So to be a great hero you have to have a villain. And all the better if he is a really loathsome, degenerate, perverted monster. It’s hard to get your cape to flow if all you are doing is keeping girl scouts from be short-change on a cookie sale.

No you need carnage, destruction and the Four Horsemen, that’s the spirit and so much the better if there is no way anyone can fix the problem. That allows the hero to be clever too. Enter the next generation hero, the Hacker, the nerd scientist, even, shudder...a girl.

Yeppers, a girl can shrug out of her heels and stockings and sharpen her martial arts skills and become the hero, (Thank you Honor Blackman, Dame Diana Rigg, Dame Linda Thorson and Dame Joanna Lumley, the Avenger girls who taught every lady it’s okay to put up a fight), trading snappy come backs and lightning blows with the best caped crusader skill and vanquishing evil just like the tough guys.

But they still have to have that guy(or gal) with the mad on for everyone. Give me a villain and I promise a hero won’t be far behind.

So what? I hear you asking.

So this, you want to write a great or even a passable mystery, you have got to have a bad guy. You have to spend as much time on the bad guy as you do on the hero, maybe not the same amount of space, but the same amount of thought.

You have to remember, the foulness of your villain indicates the studliness of your hero. (Okay so ladies do not want nor actually have the reason to be studly, but they can be paragons with good manners and a highly developed passion for shoes.)

If you aren’t getting the answers you want from agents and publishers, maybe the catch isn’t in your writing but in your villain.