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Monday, September 12, 2011

Visual Art NEPO 5K: The Monday After

Posted by Jen Graves on Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:40 PM

By Dan Bennett
The glorious Seattle performer Mike Pham during NEPO's 5K Don't Run on Saturday.

People loved themselves some NEPO 5K on Saturday; I saved up my energy for the nighttime party, and by the time I got there, it was so packed that we couldn't actually use the bathroom to do the intended interviews-from-the-bathtub thing because the bathroom needed to be, you know, used as a bathroom for all the post-non-runners. (We'll be doing the bathtub interviews during a winter NEPO party instead.) Next to the tub on the floor were underwear, all pretzelly, having been just taken off. Not! They were ceramic art by NEPO-head Klara Glosova.

The Beacon Hill house party felt more like a carnival than a NEPO House art event (with the exceptions of a jawdroppingly gorgeous, large pencil drawing by Amanda Manitach and drawings of blanketed lumps by Joey Veltkamp), making me wish I'd skipped the night party and seen the 5K instead. Dan Bennett has a Flickr set spanning the whole day.

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“Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.”
- Eric Hoffer

Posted by alpha unicorn on September 12, 2011 at 2:55 PM

yeah, so you are only cool if you shop at wallmart and read usa today because only then are you nonconforming by conforming see....ummm, get your head out of your tuchus dude.

Posted by soggydan on September 12, 2011 at 3:10 PM

Is that a Chrysler?

Posted by Joe Glibmoron on September 12, 2011 at 4:13 PM

One of my favorite moments of the walk was waiting for Sarah Galvin to do a theatrical poetry reading outside an abandoned house on 18th ave. An old post office delivery truck refashioned into an ice cream truck slowly crept up at like 2 mph. Everybody stared at it waiting for something to happen. It took us a few minutes before we believed it was actually selling ice cream and not just a mobile prop.
The reading was good too.

Posted by justin347

on September 12, 2011 at 5:48 PM

3 dear, That car is located next door to Chez Vel-DuRay! Perhaps you saw me on the veranda, sunning myself and enjoying a cocktail.

The car's a Plymouth. a 1961, I think.

Klara did an fantastic job on this event. She really is an amazing woman.

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay

on September 12, 2011 at 7:05 PM

This was awesome. My girlfriend and I ended up becoming artists on the spot - Beth at Cullom Gallery was supposed to hand out little art "refreshments" to participants but her artist was running late, so we pitched in and cranked out a bunch until reinforcements arrived.

Posted by wombatistan on September 12, 2011 at 7:21 PM

The poor event was in desperate need of an editor! Would have been much more successful as a 2k. But I do agree, it was a great party!

Posted by blue plastic on September 12, 2011 at 10:40 PM