I went to Artomatic on Friday 5/4/07 for the Meet the Artists night. It was a great experience - so much art, music, interesting people to meet. And it is all free (though donations are accepted) and near the metro and I-395 freeway. If you like to drink wine with your art they have a bar. You can also buy pieces that you like. This is not your normal artshow - Artomatic is open to all artists to exhibit at (well at least all ones with the $75 exhibit fee and 15 hours of volunteer time available to help run the event) so you get to see a much wider range of art that you would at a museum or gallery.  There are 600 area artists and performers in 90,000 square feet of space that used to be a US Patent Office building. Some artists decorated the walls and space as well as hanging pictures, photos and sculpture. There is also poetry, film, pottery, music and dance in different rooms.

The event runs every day except Mondays from noon to 10pm or 1am depending on the day. It closes in two weeks on 5/20/07 and normally the event is only every two years. Don't miss out!

Artomatic opens on Friday.  It's located at 2121 Crystal Drive, 6th & 8th floors. 
To learn more about Artomatic, visit http://www.artomatic.org. 
There's great art, music, films & more!

You can take the Metro to Crystal City and then walk underground through
the shops and exit after you pass McDonalds.

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With the spider card, the octopus (kind of like a spider) and the spider bites I was getting in my bed last week I think there is a spider totem in my life right now. I looked up spider totem in my book and it says that it is

A spider totem teaches you balance --
between past and future, physical and spirit,
male and female.
She is strength and gentleness combined.
She awakens creative sensibilities
and reminds you that the past is always interwoven
with the future.
 
Tarantulas (and all spiders) are the keepers of the primordial alphabet
and can teach you how to write creatively.
Her body is shaped like the number 8 and she has 8 legs,
which is symbol of infinite possibilities of creation.
Her 8 legs represent the 4 winds of change and the 4 directions of the medicine wheel.

Spider's message is that you are an infinite being who will continue
to weave patterns of life and living throughout time.
Do not fail to see the eternal plan of creation.

Those who weave magic with the written word usually have this totem.

From  http://www.linsdomain.com/totems/pages/tarantula.htm
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So I am contemplating this. A name for my new business that combines Spiral Dynamics with Web technology, honesty and Whole Brain came to me:
  Spiral Web.
Not sure if that is my final name but I wanted to share with you. Relates to spider spinning a web. And the infinitity of creativity. oo that is the void too.

Also the mystery letters on my posterboard (structure of my emergence) fit in with the primordial alphabet stuff above.

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