Stewart Creations

so I think I’ll go to ‘first Fridays’ with some pals this weekend and stop in to see Norm’s show at Space 55 gallery. It’s downtown Phoenix and First Fridays is the big night for them.
Actually, they have live theater every weekend night at 636 E Pierce. It’s just south of Roosevelt on 7th Street. There is a coffee house at the same location called 7th Street Cafe. It’s quite a find, gallery, theater and coffee. very funky atmosphere.
Last week I was so tired from setting things up for Norm along with the school stress, that I didn’t well sleep for a couple of nights in a row. A friend gave me some sleeping pills she uses, she has a lot of pain and takes pain pills and these little blue things regularly for her health problems, so she said she takes two or three, I though ok I’ll take two and see how it goes.

I slept 15 hours!!!! and the whole next day, Saturday, I was sleepy, too. Took two long naps and still slept hard on Saturday night. Pretty funny. Just the opposite from taking something like diet pills.
I heard about alli diet pills , seems they work real well to keep you from being hungry without causing jitters. Something to look into if I ever decide to get rid of all this extra weight.
I started seeing a tutor for Spanish today. I can get free tutoring at school, and a gal in my class wants to get together to practice conversation with me, too. Maybe I can actually catch on. Hope so, I need the grade.

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Here’s another poster, problem is, they are Adobe Illustrator files, I saved them as PDF and JPG, the jpgs go here, but I can’t get the computer to believe me when I say I want a ‘thumbnail’.  Oh well, here’s another one in all it’s glory, we go see the pic tomorrow night, picking Norm up on the way.

Illustrator is so great to work with, but I’m always a little intimidated by the great work the ‘kids’ in my classes put out.  It’s pretty inspiring, these youngsters with the body jewelry and tattoos really crank out the good visual ideas.
I hope to get that good someday, meanwhile, I’ll help Norm by making posters with his cool pics.

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Norman Pedersen's Nixon

Norm Pedersen, the great photographer is having a show at a new gallery downtown at Roosevelt and 6th Street called Space 55.
I am honored to be a friend of Norm’s. He’s been an Arizona treasure since the 40′s. He worked for the Phoenix Gazette and the Republic, photographed Nixon for the paper and the Supia Indians down in the Grand Canyon for Arizona Highways. He had a commercial studio where he did work for grocery stores (those big pics above the vegetable counter, huge murals of meat, some of those are his to this day), he shot saddles, whiskey, baby clothes, Sun City pieces for Del Web.
I had the honor of doing some posters for him, let’s see if I can get one out here for you to see.
He’s quite a guy, and starting on his third childhood and at least his third career. You go guy!

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I’ve been riding my bike to school because the parking SUCKS!!! There isn’t enough parking, and I end up circling the campus several times before parking. I live close enough to where I could walk, been looking at those MBT shoes shoes. Soon as the weather cools down a little I’ll be walking.
I like riding the bike, but bikes are not allowed IN the campus, you need to tie them up out on the edge of campus, so when I have a class deep in the heart of the campus, I may as well have walked there in the first place. The yoga class is in a building complex out away from the main campus, so I can park right in front of that one, it’s sweet.

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