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…

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Redbot, and this site — Redbot Loves You! has grown from my love of street art…

That includes both the art posted by artists with stickers, stencils and other means, and also the art of the street, the random and anonymous works I photograph — the chance works and other details which I find and rework — appropriation born of appreciation.

Here’s a Gallery of graphics I’ve made from images I’ve photographed here in Long Beach — I call this group Street Work

Street Seen

This next Gallery is of various photos I’ve taken around Long Beach of others art work, many of them from back in 2007 at Taqueria La Mexicana on 4th Street when people could put stickers on the windows… Enjoy!

PS. I made and posted the Dick Cheney sticker on the Lost Dog flier…

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Your host, Jon, onehumanbeing, along with his beautiful wife Tania and her family, had a great time at the Soundwalk this evening in the Art’s District of downtown LB.

One installation that really impressed me was a guy sweeping the sidewalk with his broom hooked to a microphone that got fed through some effects and then played back to headphones attached to the sweepers waist.

Soundwalk sweeper — photo by tania

A very straight-forward piece — just grab some headphones and tune in to the wonder of sweeping sounds… seemed like something Wayne from The Flaming Lips would use on-stage. Unfortunately I don’t know the name of the artist crew that did this piece.

Another cool piece was by a crew called HOLLOW BODIES that created a mesmerizing sound blend with numerous effects, tape machines and interactive sound boards — met Nolan from this crew — would love to see more of their work…

Hollow Bodies at Soundwalk 2009 — photo by tania

The piece that Tania, Derek (Tania’s brother) and I wish we could have stayed longer at was the piece by the Hop-Frog Kollectiv that was a 5 hour spiritual cleansing mediation of sound performed in a U-Haul truck in a parking lot — if you like long meditative drones that get under the skin and into the supernatural frequencies you would have loved this piece…

Hop-Frog Kollectiv at Soundwalk 2009 — photo by tania

Several Redbots got posted along the way…

…and I got to give away a number of the special edition buttons that I’ve made to celebrate Long Beach arts and artists this month…

I’ll be carrying a supply of buttons with me this month — so hit me up for a freebie if you see me around — one of my great joys is giving away my buttons…

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