After The Hunt…

Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on November 7, 2009

The First Red­bot Hunt…

After weeks of think­ing about what a Red­bot Hunt would be like, and sev­eral long days this last week bring­ing it into exis­tence, Fri­day evening arrived and the small Red­bot Street Crew went to work…

Tania and I along with Ryan Smo­lar from GLOBAL hit the street just before First Fri­days began, hunt­ing for metal sur­faces to post the Red­bots (there is a lot of alu­minum sur­faces in Bixby Knolls) while also post­ing fliers on shop win­dows and poles, as we trav­eled from the Bixby Knolls Busi­ness Asso­ci­a­tion office, to Dis­trict 8, and down the length of the First Fri­days Art Walk.

Din­ner Break…

We fin­ished just before 6:30 and headed back up Atlantic to go have din­ner with Ryan and our friends Tina and Noel at EJ Malloy’s and lis­ten to local musi­cian Jesica Specht.

After food, drinks and music, our crew headed back up to the large group show: Gallery Expo @ Expo and the “Dia de los Muer­tos” exhibit. At the exhibit they also had some painters cre­at­ing works in a large open stu­dio area, where I was very for­tu­nate to see Jonathan Bueno.

Jonathan is a Long Beach artist who was born in Mex­ico City. Tania and I met Jonathan sev­eral years ago, but hadn’t seen him since. I love his work, he’s one of my favorite con­tem­po­rary artists. If I col­lected art I’d be buy­ing up all his work I could… here’s a photo of one I really loved.

But mean­while…

…out on the street, a Red­bot Hunt still con­tin­ued and by the end of the evening 25 new Red­bots went home with new own­ers who had redeemed their Red­bot Own­er­ship Kits at Dis­trict 8…

…and Tania and I went home to relax and talk about the hunt, art, love and Red­bot until it was time for lights out and some well-deserved sleep.

After a Red­bot Hunt…

This morn­ing I went back up to Bixby Knolls to remove all our Red­bot Hunt signs… my brain hum­ming with new ideas since we got home last night…

So this after­noon I cut out seven new Red­bots and went for a bike ride through the alleys the Bluff Park area of Long Beach, post­ing the Red­bots and tak­ing pho­tos on a lit­tle project for the day called “7 for the 7th”…

Note: If you hap­pen to find one of today’s Red­bots, let me know and we’ll arrange for you to get your Own­er­ship Kit.

The ride was a excel­lent chance to unwind, enjoy the col­ors and tex­tures of the alleys, take my time plac­ing my Red­bots and pho­tograph­ing them, and let my head clear…

The hunt had pre­sented many new chal­lenges to me, and some project direc­tions for the future.

Red­bots are GO!

PS. Four peo­ple went home with one of the mul­ti­ples of a piece called “The Man Says You Bet­ter Lis­ten” — Con­grat­u­la­tions on the find!

PPS. The Red­bot Own­er­ship Gallery and Fea­tured Red­bot Owner sec­tions are get­ting major over­hauls this next week — or so my sched­ule says…

Going on a Redbot Hunt

Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on November 5, 2009

The First Orga­nized Red­bot Hunt…

Red­bot Loves You! (and GLOBAL) is bring­ing a Red­bot Hunt to Bixby Knolls for First Fri­days tomor­row night, Novem­ber 6, 2009

What is a Red­bot Hunt?

This is the first “orga­nized” ver­sion of what I’ve been doing with my Red­bot project — con­densed and col­lected into one area at one time.

Instead on mak­ing a num­ber of Red­bots over time and post­ing them on the street when­ever the desire to “post Red­bots” strikes me, this event has forced me to approach my work in a dif­fer­ent way, and basi­cally, I’m not sure what’s going to hap­pen — this is where the fun begins…

25 new Red­bots from the Red­bot Army are ready to be posted on Fri­day evening with Own­er­ship Kits avail­able for all the lucky Red­bot find­ers at Dis­trict 8… “Join the Red­bot Hunt” signs will be posted on street signs at the event.

View Google Map Here To Dis­trict 8 and First Fri­days

I’ve been imag­in­ing an “Easter Egg” hunt kind of thing, but it will only be a small piece of a much big­ger event, with lots of music, art and things to see going on, that it could get lost in the rest of the First Fri­days cel­e­bra­tion… I pre­fer that it blends well with the big­ger celebration.

More infor­ma­tion will be posted on Friday.

Redbots Are Go!

Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on October 6, 2009

Red­bot Has His First pARTners!

Red­bot is Going GLOBAL*

Red­bot Loves You! is proud to announce it’s new part­ner­ship with The Arts Coun­cil of Long Beach and GLOBAL — The Greater Long Beach Arts Lab.

We (Tania and I) will be at the GLOBAL art party — The Danke Schoen Soiree on Thurs­day, Octo­ber 8, 2009 with some Red­bots and Red­bot Own­er­ship Kits… and because Red­bot is all about giv­ing — FREE Red­bot Loves You! but­tons to give away!

On Novem­ber 6th, 2009, we’ll be at the First Fri­days in the Bixby Knolls neigh­bor­hood of Long Beach with Red­bots and FREE but­tons to give away…

More infor­ma­tion com­ing soon as plans develop…

* GLOBAL — The Greater Long Beach Arts Lab