Tony Luna Creative- Update- 4-30-2020
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ZOOM SchmoozeFest!-
You are invited to join us in the first ever ZOOM SchmoozeFest! on the evening of May 14 from 6:30 to 9:30 Pacific Time. Talk about “social distancing!” No matter where you are in the world (time zones permitting you to be awake) you are welcome to join in on our SchmoozeFest! fun thanks to the wonders of ZOOM’s digital distance communication platform. We are no longer limited to four walls as we cross this threshold into the future. There’s virtually no limit to the number of attendees so let your “creative” friends know they are welcome too.
If you wish to present your latest work please send an email to tony@tonylunacreative so we can schedule your time to present. We won’t be able to physically mill about and schmooze in the same way we have in the past but we will still be able to trade ideas, bring up provocative questions about the future of art/design, and we will see the incredible work you are creating. The best way to log on will be for you to click on the URL below “Join Zoom Meeting” and then enter the Password if asked. Looking forward to a very special ZOOM SchmoozeFest!
Tony Luna is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting; a ZOOM-SchmoozeFest!
Topic: SchmoozeFest! Thursday May 14, 2020
Time: May 14, 2020 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
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You may lock down your registration for any of the exciting classes before they are filled. Sharpen your skills, learn new technologies, or take that class you always wanted to take by checking the catalogue of intriguing classes that can expand your world and your creativity at: https://www.artcenter.edu/acn/coursedescriptions.jsp
Then follow up by contacting Art Center Extension, 626-396-2319 and talk to one of the informative counselors.
For general information you may also click on https://www.artcenter.edu/acn/
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Crafting a Meaningful Career-Part One- Discovering the Dream. We’ve all heard the phrase, “I’m living the dream.” Well now’s you chance to find out what that dream is and how to make it happen by registering for Crafting a Meaningful Career-Part One. Take a deep dive into what you love, and what you don’t love, about your current (or last) job and design your own career destiny. See the course description above which is a screen shot from the Art Center Extension web site.
Our online class begins Tuesday, May 19 at 7:00 PM. Classes are three hours long during which you will be presented with assignments designed to help you create your own career destination. This class is fourteen weeks long ending on Tuesday, August 18, but that is just the beginning as you will become a part of our creative community to provide support for you to live your dream. For more information on how this class has helped others you may contact Tony Luna at tony@tonylunacreative.com.
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- Laura Elliott, Ghostwriter- “How are things in your world? When the Corona virus scare came to a head, I was away from my home by the beach in California, and now find myself sequestered in the snowy mountains of Idaho! Not a bad place to be stuck, all things told but I'm sure I'm not alone in using this forced slow-down to take up projects that have long been on the back burner.
One of those projects was starting a newsletter! I'm writing to you today to invite you to sign up for my mailing list. I'll be sending out a newsletter every once in a while full of creativity tips, writing inspiration, and updates on some of the projects I'm working on too.
‘Get Some Magic In Your Inbox’- https://astounding-producer-6585.ck.page
Your go-to-ghost,”
Laura
831-521-8933
elliwrite@yahoo.com
www.laurasmagicday.com
http://www.laurasmagicday.com/blog/
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- Robert Gallagher, Photographer- “There’s an army of undocumented farm workers tending the fields in California’s Central Valley, the main agricultural center in the US, and in this time of Covid-19, they’re still working hard to get food on your table right now! It’s a strange irony that the Department of Homeland Security has deemed them essential workers, even though it’s hard to do safely and most will get no government support, health care or stimulus check.
For many life here can be harsh. Some have no option but to live in shanty town-like labor camps, physical exhaustion of unregulated manual work and the constant fear of deportation and abuse.
So it’s a strange position they find themselves in, particularly with this Administration, but I believe they deserve our thanks for their hard work and sacrifice. Whoever they are.”
Photographed for the personal project Working in the Shadows, https://www.gallagherphoto.com/galleries/working-in-the-shadows
Contact: robert@gallagherphoto.com
(310) 592-5409
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Commercial Representation: Congress Management
Syndication: Contour by Getty Images
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(Editor’s note: Rev. John Anderson recently lost his web site due to malware infecting his computer and a job reassignment have set him back creating his exceptional art. As a result he has had to start over with his artwork. The following are excerpts from a series of emails he sent as he has tried to rediscover his artistic voice. They are presented here so that anyone who would like to give him a word of encouragement and suggestions on where to showcase his art may contact him. I believe he would appreciate your feedback. Thank you.)
- Rev. John Anderson, Retired Lutheran Minister, Photographic Artist- “Tony, A while back someone got into my web site and destroyed it with Malware beyond repair. It was a discouraging moment for me to say the least. At the same time the Bishop called me back to active duty as Priest in Charge of a Parish which lasted two years and following that I had another year in service as interim to another parish which left me little time to focus. I haven't promoted my art much and I have so many pieces left I don't know what to do with them so I think whatever I do now will have to stay virtual until someone has interest. The cost of redoing a web page is prohibitive so I may have to explore one of the other ones I can do myself or with a little support. To be frank the destruction of my web page really hit me emotionally and I think took away my creative sense for awhile. I was very discouraged.”
“I guess one of my real pains is that my work is no longer where it can be viewed. I also have so many prints I don't know where to put them... I recently presented the new LBGT center a piece and I love sharing my art. The one thing that has always inspired me is that my collectors have all been serious art collectors. I still have the images lost on web page and hopefully can create a less elaborate web page to display. I simply can't afford to create a professional page on retirement income…
…I also learned we have to be driven to create art. I was so deflated by what happened it took my drive away. Hopefully I'm in process of recovering that now. Being an artist: like many other things is a calling. I think we are compelled to create and hopefully this will be reborn in me…
…I am feeling compelled in this time of crisis to again try to create meaningful art. I think sometimes we have to go through a desert before we can find the inspiration to create again…
…The hard thing in creating in this moment is the tension between the despair and sadness of what's happening and the hope and confidence for the future. Somehow I feel capturing this tension is the difficult and challenging aspect of creating are in these times. Blessings John+…”
“…Tony: here is my first attempt to do something. I titled this ‘Turbulence’ as I believe that captures a sense of what we're going through now…”
Thanks. John +
Rev. John G. Anderson
912-232-9062
janderson448@gmail.com
The following is a quote by John Anderson from a Savannah Now/Savannah Morning News article, October 10, 2010: “‘Art is not just a representation of things that we paint. It’s connected to the deeper inner spirit of what we do,’ said the Rev. John Anderson, a volunteer pastor at St. Paul’s. ‘When people look at art, hopefully they have an emotional connection, a spiritual connection, as well as the artist who created it.’”
https://www.savannahnow.com/article/20091010/NEWS/310109811
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Sandra Noll
- Sandra Noll, and Erv Nichols- Naturalists, Photographers, and Friends of Tony Luna Creative: “Hello again at long last! Isolation has given me both time and incentive to revive my nature related photo-journal posts. I’ve missed creating the posts and the interactions and conversations they generate. My long hiatus relates to difficulties in switching from using my computer-like MacBook to a more phone-like IPad. It’s been a difficult transition.....
I want to acknowledge that some of you have been personally impacted by the Covid 19 crisis and to you I express deep sympathy. For those fortunate to maintain health, I hope the economic struggle has not been overwhelming. Let me know if I can be of help. These are difficult times. My intention in posting today is to provide one form of re-connecting with nature and the joy and sustenance it gives.
Erv and I have emerged from self-quarantine after returning from sandhill-crane related travel and group exposure and so I decided to bring you the wonder, beauty and delight of cranes! Although sandhill cranes are the species with which I have the greatest connection, I realize I’ve never devoted an entire post to them. Hope it brings you the joy and hope these wonderful, ancient birds always bring me!
We’ll start in the middle Rio Grande valley of New Mexico where 10-15,000 greater sandhill cranes (and several thousand lesser sandhill cranes) spend the winter. Photo above - cranes in early morning light - taken in January at Crane Haven, a lovely bed and breakfast near our home, where the Barclays have been feeding and providing habitat for the birds for 20 years. Two cranes in foreground are colts or young of the year. Notice they have a less developed red skin patch on crown and brownish feathers. Colts are protected and educated by their parents for 9-10 months after hatching. If they don’t join a juvenile group by the time the parents return to nesting areas in Spring they will be driven away to join their peers. Cranes generally pick mates between 3-5 yers of age and the mated pair stay together year round for the rest of their lives.
I have experienced cranes most intimately in New Mexico at Bosque del Apache NWR near our home and where we are guides and speakers at the Festival of the Cranes each November. Check it out at Friendsofbosquedelapache.org
In late February and March the cranes begin migrating back to nesting areas further north. The Rocky Mountain Population of greater sandhills migrate on the west side of the Rocky Mts. and stage (rest/eat for 3 weeks or so) near Alamosa, CO where they gain about a third of their body weight In preparation for reproduction/egg laying and to sustain them on nesting grounds in ID, MT, WY, UT ,CO. that may still be frozen with few food resources when cranes arrive.
I delight in experiencing cranes against a back drop of snow-capped Rocky Mts. when we work with the Monte Vista NWR and the Friends of the San Luis Valley NWRs at their March Sandhill Crane Festival. Check it out - all the refuges are great places to visit!
You can see that Nebraska weather varies greatly in March. Sunny days with great sunsets/sunrises on the river, rain, snow, wind, fog - you never know what the day will bring. We’ve been volunteers for Rowe Sanctuary for 14 years now and hope to continue making the full spring crane circuit - NM to CO to NE as long as health and stamina hold. Perhaps we’ll see you at one of these great crane conservation areas one day. Hope so!
With all best wishes, Sandra”
A must see video about the work of Erv Nichols and Sandra Noll documenting migrating Sandhill Cranes: http://www.WER4theBIRDS.com
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