Val Gal

Before posters   The arts in a poor community   When I moved into the downtown sector the plateau Montreal was a very poor community   Although the community was very poor it was densely populated. There were a lot of dry goods establishments mixed with a fair amount of family tolerated prostitution. The police sergeant had taken it upon himself to clean up the area so there were a lot of sponsored artistic establishments Mostly beginning dressmakers. These were young designers that needed a lot of cheap space and fast and they were willing and able to physically fight for their career.  They had many ethnic grocery stores that promoted regional fruits and vegetables  four different kinds of cooking needs. You had Portuguese you had English you had Chinese etc. These culturally diverse grocery stores exist to this very day. You also had a lot of temporary space that could be rented very cheaply for performance. It is from these performances can I tak...

Update: I have been trying to put subtitles on my Youtube films.  they are filmed ad hoc and I do not always clearly.  I have some friends that will be putting in the subtitles for me (and hopefully translating some stuff into some other languages like French and Japanese).  But I have to add some captions myself to get the ball rolling.  Its hard to understand a personal way of speaking unless somebody does that.   I am not very good at it and the work is slow so I have been trying to fugure out ways to do the subtitles as fast as possible. You used to have a choice as to whether you want to put the subtitles on with timing or just as large transcript.  But the subtitles have already been started and there,s no place to  put the whole transcript in.  I sgarted just dictating into word to make one large transcript and had to stop because I didn't know how to place into the subtitles.  So here is some of the work I did. (I might just co...

I did some dictation straight into the Iphone.  I don't have the audio transcript but please feel free to enjoy the text below. This is Kathy (K.F.) Fabian speaking to you from the residence. The Blue Corridor Gallery has been freshly painted and has been out of commission for 15 days now approximately. By request of the administration, I am starting to place the Blue Corridor exhibit. The exhibition pieces have been put in storage in several places in the residence. Bright and early this morning I started to place the pieces that were on the floor in the spots I would like the nail to be hung. I am having breakfast now and when the meal is finished I look forward to placing the rest of the works and they have been hidden in my locker. I have to go fishing for them now. The plan is to put a nail in the wall in each potential place for a work of art. I figure to get my art out early so that I could have my choice. I will be having a selection of places with good lighting varie...

LInk:  http://valuablegallery.blogspot.com/2017/06/update-june-1-2017-summer.html Big Changes with the Art Fabian Gallery.  Because a magnificent new yellow coat of paint has dramatically changed the Valuable Gallery a change of name has become appropriate.  Henceforth instead of calling the outer gallery the Blue Corridor Gallery we will be referring to it as the Sunny Gallery.  We started putting up our exhibits ad hoc. Since we are functioning solely we have had very little expertise as to how to choose images from the web so as not to hassle with copyright issues. It has taken a fair amount of time to find the filter application int the Bing.com site.  Finally, we have found a site that filters out problems with the copyright. If we choose our images within the public domain we are free to share, use commercially and modify these images. And the creative commons filter has a section in which the artist permits us to do all three. Pinterest has more image...