District Gallery Opening

The Phoenix series art opening is a celebration of another year of work completed. Stop by and wish me a happy birthday, ask me impossible questions like “What is art?”  SuTRA Midtown yoga and their District Gallery will be hosting the opening exhibition for Phoenix 22 on May 7th.

There is a buttload of stuff happening Friday night but this will be THE place to be. We have the tunes of dj ekb* and all the trimmings of an art opening. (including free beer and kickass hosts.)

RSVP

Let us and your friends know you’ll be there. Pick your poison: Facebook, Eventification.

Opportunity

Heather Capri and Rachel Ryle out of Boulder,Colorado have a service called Tweety Got Back. The service easily updates your Twitter background with a designed and beautiful new theme that you select from their site. I’d become aware of Tweety Got Back when Natasha Wescoat was a featured artist and I knew that it was something I wanted to do. I reached out to Natasha who got me in contact with them and got the ball rolling to become a featured artist. As an independent artist who spends a lot of time on Twitter I thought it was a perfect opportunity to get some more exposure and help out a great company.

Featured

Now you can go to Tweety Got back and see Phoenix Series work designed into great themes for your twitter. I couldn’t be happier and found collaborating with Heather and Rachel the easiest thing in the world.

Represent

See the work in the flesh at my open studio April 2, 2010. Event details have been posted to Facebook for a week now. But I thought a quick post about it here was appropriate.

Deets

Starts at 6pm

At my studio.

See work, buy work, drink wine, BS about art and have fun.

You know those ideas you get when you’re in bed and can’t fall asleep, normally I forget them by morning. This time I didn’t.

Originally I sent this message out to 12 friends:

Crazy idea, sharing my twitter w/ couple peeps. Have fun, do what you like just don’t change the PW: f0od&po153ning

I didn’t really know what to expect nor did I have any real reason for doing it. I was following my own advice: Action over planning. I knew there were some questions I wanted to pose and some problems I wanted to create but with so much control going to the participants I became more of an observer. The first experiment degraded within an hour to the point that I shut it down and let the cat out of the bag. I wasn’t as brave as I thought.

The next day, undeterred, I started the second wave. I sent out this message to 12 friends (which over the course of the week became 57):

0ri6ina1#^2 <– Access to my account.
#1 don’t change the PW.
#2 keep it fun and clean.. :)

I added one rule, and that seemed to save the day.

Thoughts

I’d love your thoughts on the project. I’ll flesh out this post over time but feel free to drop your thoughts here or link to this post if you want to blog about your experience with #thecrosbieexperiment

Phoenix 22 - 12 by Tyson Crosbie

Hello

I know you’re there.

Why not say something. Say anything, as it were.

I just won a barista jam, latte art competition based on taste alone. (cause I only pour hearts.) There was lots of awesomeness. So I’m leaving the commentary on this image to you.

Do your worst.

How to participate

Buy a print of this image. Leave a comment on Flickr or Facebook. Follow me on Twitter and share your thoughts about the image below.

Win stuff!

Those that participate the most will win stuff! Up for grabs: a signed copy of Phoenix 22, a Tyson Crosbie Photography Tshirt (morse code), and several signed 5×8 prints.