Sloe Times

In 35 hours I will begin the roadtrip from Chicago to Indianapolis for GenCon. I'm starting to get pretty reved up about it and the fact that some inconvenient mess with hotel rooms has gotten us a free night and a half for lodging is a major plus. Basically it just means more schwag. Last year I got a couple of posters signed by their respective artists. The posters never made it off of the plane when we landed in Chicago. Damn you American Airlines! Fortunately, neither artist died over the past year (that I'm aware of) so I'll try again. Unfortunately I had some fairly low numbered prints (this is important for some reason, but I can't fathom why exactly) that I'll probably not be able to come close to again. My only concern is that there won't be any more prints available of the ones I had/want. Of course the other problem is that it's been a year, and I'm not sure 100% which ones I got. I think that this Elmore print is one of them, and the other just escapes me at the moment. I can't even think of the artist I got it from except that he had another print there that was an original that I wanted very badly but was going to wait for the series of lithos to come out to get. *sigh*

As an aside, there was a print that I saw at a Cirque du Soleil show. It was a gorgeous black and white photo of an contortionist doing a cross-armed hand stand (Not work friendly, even if it is art). I didn't buy it (though I would like to own it at some point) because apparently that print was number #12 out of 50 and because it was so low, it was priced at something like $1700 and only going up as more were sold (In doing the research for this piece, I found it is currently going for $2150). Hmm, I like the picture sweetheart, but not that much. I'll never make it as an art snob.

Time to crash so I'm not any more useless than I'm already going to be tomorrow (day before vacation).