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Deep Ellum Art Festival is This Weekend

This year’s festival is here and its it’s full of snow cones, music, and art of all sorts.

OUT FRONT OUR STUDIO IS DOING A FREE PHOTO BOOTH

Check back here after the weekend for a link to all your images.

My Friend and fellow Photographer Carissa broke my heart… with this news about PICASA

From Photography Review Online:
http://www.photographyreview.com/cat/digital-photography-software/browsers-viewers-and-printing/Google/PRD_348284_3080crx.aspx

It’s dishonest to call this software free when the license states that Google has a right to use anything you create, forever, in whatever way they want and whoever they want to give it to.

If you take an amazing photo and save it with Picasa, Google can do whatever they want with it. So it’s free to download, and then you give them the right to exploit you. Maybe that would be a fair trade…except for the fact that you cannot take back that right, even long after the software/service is obsolete and gone. Any semi-serious photographer should be wary about using Picasa!

From the license, read starting the 2nd sentence:

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

11.2 You agree that this licence includes a right for Google to make such Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those services.
Strengths:

Good software.
Weaknesses:

You retain copyright but give Google permission to use your content to make more money. Forever.

WIRE BENDING PARTY

George Fowler, one of Hal and Cash’s greatest friends, needs more of our friends to help out with a huge installation Friday night.

Free Food and Beer to any who come, the party starts at 7.

Please come out for this fantastic, magical thing that’s happening in Space.

Thank you!

George Fowler Show

George Fowler was born on the kitchen floor of a small ranch house in east Texas. In his younger and more formative years George frequented primeval wilderness areas around the world. This caused much of his notions concerning spirituality and awe to be closely associated with the natural world. George believes in the Constructivist notion that art should be based on spiritual expression. A practical background in mechanical engineering can be seen in much of his work. George frequently visits the theme of mechanical elements made beautiful. This is his first solo show and his third year as a professional artist. George has been seen earlier throughout the year at Kettle Art, Space Studio, Studio Fling, Town Square and with the Dallas Nomads.
Two main themes in my work are the synchronicity of disparate elements as well as the contrast of beauty and relative permanence metal affords the sculptor. The piece “Blood in the Resin” incorporates both of these principals. Several layers of metal wire interlace to create the form of a beautiful but intense female representation. Any one of the layers alone would be random abstraction. Seen as a unit, they transcend their humble origins for a loftier goal. The final layer of acrylic resin resounds the negative space and breathes life into cold metal. The metal and thus stable nature of the piece stands in stark contrast to the fleeting illusory beauty of the young woman. In this way the alchemical transformation of base metals into illustrative gold is achieved.

We’re having a party to celebrate George’s amazing work and his first solo show. Come out and see Hal, Cash, and George, December 19; 6 pm until 10 pm.

HOLIDAYS ARE HERE

Happy Holidays!

December has been here a minute! Space is expanding as Hal and Cash are having their friends come in for Holiday portraits.

There’s a holiday promotion where you can bring in your self, hats, kids, dogs, friends, and family for an hour with Hal and Cash.
For $100, Hal shoots it you own it. This will enable you to create cards, gifts for your friends and family, refrigerator magnets, computer mouse pads, anything you want.

You bring the ideas, and we’ll make them happen.

Want to throw a holiday party? Come by and check out space. We have Space available for Holiday parties, weddings, baby showers, bachelor/ bachelorette parties, kids birthday parties, swimming trials, you name it.

Give us a shout at (214) 334-4481

This Thursday’s Birthday Party

I’m having a party.

It’s Thursday. (this one)

I know. (now you do too… please help me in spreading the word)

I suck at getting these announcements out… especially when there is something really big happening.

DETAILS:

Its my official B-Day party and we are having a very special musical guest TARTUFI (top friend) come through from San Fran and they are A-M-A-Z-I-N-G live. I spent some time in their home town with them this fall and they are absolutely beautiful people to be around and I am super excited to introduce them to my friends.

“Tartufi VOTED BEST INDIE BAND of 2007 by the San Francisco Bay Guardian based on their superb ‘06 release, Us Upon Buildings Upon Us, the duo of Lynne Angel and Brian Gorman hew a rich, fractured world out of looped guitars, keys and voices, shape-shifting time sigs, and crashing percussion. They can go from Slint-inspired explosions or Built to Spill epic to Joan of Arc-like baroque or Breeders chug in a measure or two, the shifts revealing unassailable logic as they unfurl. Nine out of 10 buzz bands don’t deserve it; Tartufi does.”-A. Schacht, Creative Loafing (Charlotte, NC)

This is a list party. Its free and BYOB.

We are also TAPING for a TV Show that Time Warner is doing about SPACE. It will be a weekly show that talks about the art, culture, and music in Dallas and around our world in SPACE. You are subject to be on the show with us if you come to the party so be ready to sign a waiver at the door.

This is a list party. Its free and BYOB.

Next- My beautiful angel like friends from Holy Diver will take us through the party hours and spoil us with good times, make your cheeks hurt, teeth white, and wanna dance all night.

Free photos, cake, and candy will be handy. Twizzlers!

You can wear a costume or not.. It’s HAL-O-WEEN EVE so,… just bring your own reality and love.

LILES will DJ at 8
TARTUFI @10p
HOLY DIVER @11p
HOW DO YOU GET ON THE LIST?….

email halism@msn.com
subject : YEP
body: include your name as it reads on your id in the email
one email per guest and the space is limited

Thank you for your support and another miracle of a year.

please contact me if you have any questions.

peace to you.

Hal

Wedding Reception in SPACE

Eric and Deva got married in Cancun several months ago.. and wanted to have their reception in SPACE… so we helped’em out. Their old stomping grounds was Deep Ellum so they decided to cellebrate this momentous dealeo with us tonight.

It was cool to see this happening here…

Have fun in Georgia!

Peace to you.

what does this mean?

Dallas Observer Music Awards Photographs Are Up!

From the showcase that featured 30 bands, the shoot in Space Studios for the 20th anniversary issue, the awards ceremony live shots to the shots of the attendees on paper at Granada… Here are a few.





The rest-600 plus, can all be found at Hal Samples.com on the store or by going to this link.

http://hal.exposuremanager.com/g/2008_doma_awards

The last few are uploading now and will be up by early wednesday. Thank you to the Observer, the bands and all who were a part of the 20th anniversary. We were extremely grateful to be a part of it.

Peace,

Dylan and Hal