Welcome to the New Season - It's Time for a Change!
The kids are going back to school, the grass has slowed growing, and there can be a hint of fall in the evening air. It's a great time to take a look at all that's happening at Off Track Art.
Off Track Art is proud and excited to welcome five artists to our collective:
Phil Grout, photographer and storyteller
Thomas Sterner, using paint & wood to query dimensions & ideas
Darlene Freas, photographer with digital inclinations
Melissa Little, emerging artist in oil & acrylics
Gail Martensen, interpreting nature in oils & acrylics
Our website has been updated with many more images than could be included here. Please check out all our artists on www.offtrackart.com.
Second Saturday Salon Group
September 12 through November 7, 2015 Opening: Saturday, September 12 5:30-7:30
The word “salon” is familiar to many as it refers to people joining together to discuss and promote art, music, poetry, and literature. It was in this spirit that the “Second Saturday Salon” was created: A group dedicated to sharing creative efforts in a wholly supportive, nonjudgmental environment. The Second Saturday Salon meets in an atmosphere of camaraderie and good fellowship, and its members’ work is made stronger by friendships, mutual encouragement, and gentle feedback. Please join us at 5:30pm on Saturday, September 12, which is Second Saturday in Westminster, for the opening of “Works by the Second Saturday Salon Group,” and partake in the generous and vibrant spirit of “salon!”
For more images from the Second Saturday Salon, please look at the OTA website under "Special Events."
Trending in Westminster – Second Saturday Events
Westminster has joined the growing number of communities creating events to bring people into town to enjoy the many dining, entertainment, and shopping opportunities that thrive within the city limits. Downtown is alive, vibrant, and anything but cookie-cutter!
On September 12, the Second Saturday Pop-Up Art Market opens in the Sentinel Parking lot adjacent to Off Track Art. Juried artists will displaying their wares from10am to 3pm. Come to see pottery, fiber art, paintings, photography, and more. Off Track Art is open for your perusal, and it’s only a short walk to the Downtown Farmers Market, where the bounty of Carroll County gardeners, bakers, coffee roasters, and hops growers are available for your own farm-to-table experience. Make it a fun day and come back for the Salon Opening that night.
Please mark your calendars for these upcoming events:
Midnight Madness – It's not a Second Saturday, but lots of fun during Fall Fest in Westminster. On Friday, September 25, 6pm to midnight, shoppers at Off Track Art will receive a 20% discount throughout the gallery. If you’ve had your eye on a special piece, you know when to shop! We'll have musicians playing classic rock and several of the artists will be in the gallery to help you make your selections--and there's so much to choose from! It's a great night to visit Off Track Art
Oyster Stroll – Saturday, October 10, 12noon to 4pm. Off Track Art will be hosting an oyster farmer shucking fresh oysters on the half-shell in front of the gallery. Off Track will have fun specially priced oyster & pearl jewelry and the Second Saturday Pop-Up Art Market will be in full swing. This event is in cooperation with Coastal Conservation Maryland; all the oyster shells will be reserved to start to build a “Westminster” reef in the Bay. Full event schedule here.
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Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem. “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson:
“That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!”
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Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art www.kevindayhoff.com: Travel, art,
artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalists
and journalism, reporters and reporting, music, culture, opera... Ad maiorem
Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem. “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson:
“That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!”
- See more at: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/#sthash.4HNLwtfd.dpuf
Visiting with Gail Martensen at Off Track Art on Thurs. Sept. 3, 2015. Off Track Art looks great. Stop by 11 Liberty St. In historic downtown Westminster sometime soon.
“Hurt” performed by
Johnny Cash in 2002, and released on the album, “American IV: The Man Comes
Around,” just before Mr. Cash died September 12, 2003.
“But I remember
everything, [Chorus:] What have I become, My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes
away, In the end …” “Hurt,” originally by “Nine Inch NILS,” in April 17, 1995…
“But I remember everything, [Chorus:] What have I become, My
sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away, In the end …” “Hurt,” originally
by “Nine Inch NILS,” in April 17, 1995… “Hurt” performed by Johnny Cash in
2002, and released on the album, “American IV: The Man Comes Around,” just
before Mr. Cash died September 12, 2003.
August 31, 2015 / KED
Long before there was Trent Reznor and "Nine Inch Nails" or Robert Smith and “The Cure,” there was
Johnny Cash.
I just heard “Hurt” performed by Johnny Cash yesterday for
the first time in several years. I was at the Country Music Hall of Fame and
Museum in Nashville, Tenn.
It is haunting. Awesome performance by one of the premier
artists of the 20th Century. Dad introduced me to Johnny Cash in the late 1950s
on AM radio when I would ride along with him on his Watkins Vending route all
over Carroll County, Md.
According to the YouTube post: "This poignant
performance of Nine Inch Nail's, "Hurt" is almost haunting, as it was
recorded just prior to Cash's untimely death. Whether or not a Johnny Cash fan,
this performance is powerful and deep with emotion. Produced by Rick Rubin, The
Man Comes Around is the fourth and final Grammy Award-winning album Cash and
Rubin have collaborated on"
Find the Nine Inch Nails' version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR4DjYczINM
The Nine Inch Nails original is awesome.... I prefer the Johnny Cash version. Find
the NIN version here:
JOHNNY CASH LYRICS
"Hurt"
(Originally by Nine Inch Nails)
I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything
[Chorus:]
What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here
[Chorus:]
What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way
Speaking of “Nine Inch Nails,” of which I am, along with
Johnny Cash and “The Cure,” a devoted fan; one of my all-time favorite stories
of the days when I was an elected official was being interviewed by a Carroll
County Times reporter who had an attitude and tonality that indicated that she
clearly perceived me as a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal. An old sick, and
homeless lead character with no redemptive qualities from Ian Anderson’s Jethro
Tull’s concept album, the fourth album the band released in 1971, “AquaLung.”
At one point she asked me, “What was the last concert you
attended?” To which I responded that I was really a cyborg and that in order to
give me human-like qualities, I was programmed to be a Trent Reznor fan and I
went to see “Nine Inch Nails.” That I knew very little about electric sheep,
butterflies, or woodpeckers, but I got my instructions from a package of camel
cigarettes. I usually get all my frustrations out on people with my keyboard,
but that night, I got out all my frustrations in the mosh pit. She was quiet
for a while….
“Sinking” by Robert Smith
"Sinking" “Head on the Door” 1985
I am slowing down
As the years go by
I am sinking
So I trick myself
Like everybody else
The secrets I hide
Twist me inside
They make me weaker
So I trick myself
Like everybody else
I crouch in fear and wait
I'll never feel again
If only I could remember
Anything at all
Music Cash Johnny, Music Country, Music, Music The Cure,
Music Nine Inch Nails, 5 easy, "Five Easy Pieces", #amwriting, #KED, US st TN, US st TN Nashville, US st TN Nashville
20150828_0902
Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art www.kevindayhoff.com: Travel, art,
artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalists
and journalism, reporters and reporting, music, culture, opera... Ad maiorem
Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem. “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson:
“That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!”
- See more at: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/#sthash.4HNLwtfd.dpuf
“But I remember everything, [Chorus:] What have I become, My
sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away, In the end …”
August 31, 2015
Just heard this yesterday for the first time in several years. It is haunting. Awesome performance by one of the premier artists of the 20th Century. Dad introduced me to Johnny Cash in the late 1950s on AM radio when I would ride along with him on his Watkins Vending route all over Carroll County, Md.
According to the YouTube post: "This poignant performance of Nine Inch Nail's, "Hurt" is almost haunting, as it was recorded just prior to Cash's untimely death. Whether or not a Johnny Cash fan, this performance is powerful and deep with emotion. Produced by Rick Rubin, The Man Comes Around is the fourth and final Grammy Award-winning album Cash and Rubin have collaborated on"
Checking out all the pretty flowers (and hot babes) at Birdie's in Westminster; where the coffee is always great, the conversation enlightened and the scenery is awesome.
I love visiting my friend Steve Allgeier, the county hoticultural University of Md extension agent. His office is awesome and Steve is always so much fun. I always learn something.
Photoshop keeps asking me to register every time I start it,
even though I have already registered Photoshop. This recurring "Register
Photoshop" problem is a known issue with Photoshop CS2 when installed on
Windows Vista. In the following simple solution, I'll show you how to remove
the Register Photoshop prompt or notice once and for all and get you working
again without the annoying nag to register.
Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art www.kevindayhoff.com: Travel, art,
artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalists
and journalism, reporters and reporting, music, culture, opera... Ad maiorem
Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem. “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson:
“That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!”
- See more at: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/#sthash.4HNLwtfd.dpuf
Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art www.kevindayhoff.com: Travel, art,
artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalists
and journalism, reporters and reporting, music, culture, opera... Ad maiorem
Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem. “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson:
“That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!”
- See more at: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/#sthash.4HNLwtfd.dpuf
This video captures daring, if not heroic and death-defying aeronautical
acrobatics by English firefighters from the Hampshire of the Basingstoke Fire
Brigade, in their flying machines.
Daring rescues by aviation emergency medical personnel and
amazing fire aviation fire suppression tactics are all breathtakingly
demonstrated in this heretofore lost but fortunately recently found – and
rediscovered video. Not for the faint of heart.
Take your tongue in cheek and dare to walk on the wild side
and enjoy “The Red Sparrows,” in action.
Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art www.kevindayhoff.com: Travel, art,
artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalists
and journalism, reporters and reporting, music, culture, opera... Ad maiorem
Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem. “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson:
“That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!”
- See more at: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/#sthash.4HNLwtfd.dpuf
I do not care for the new Gmail “contacts preview.” How
revert to google contacts old version… In the left-hand menu, click “more” and
then “leave the contacts preview”
It seems that when Google Gmail “helps me” and automatically
puts information in the name fields – it invariably puts the first, middle, and
last name in the incorrect fields – and then when I look it up in my Droid
phone, I cannot easily find the contact alphabetically – by last name… The new contacts
preview does not seem to allow the user to input the name fields.
Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art www.kevindayhoff.com: Travel, art,
artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalists
and journalism, reporters and reporting, music, culture, opera... Ad maiorem
Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem. “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson:
“That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!”
- See more at: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/#sthash.4HNLwtfd.dpuf
