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Wow, what a night! Saturday was fantastic, thank you everyone who showed up to Aubergine to support local artists. I don’t have the numbers yet, but the turnout was phenomenal. Doors opened at 6, and by 6:30, it was nearly full, and remained so for the duration of the evening. I met new artists all the way from SF (attending CCAC no less) down to local professionals and amatuers in LA and SD. I’ll see if I can post some snapshots of the event soon.

Quicky sysnopsis: although sales were slow – it seemed to be more of a browsing audience than a purchasing one – the exposure and critiques were fantastic. I believe I may have been interviewed by a local college newspaper (it was rather off the cuff) and an asian-centric art magazine (which is funny, being a gaijin and all.) I also received an unsolicitied email in my inbox the next day issuing a call-for-entries for a juried photography competition; I can only assume the curator(s) were present and thought I had some potential, as I the email came directly from the show’s contact address. About half the business cards I displayed were consumed, so that’s a good thing, and the traffic’s been reflected in my webserver logs.

Oh, I may also have a date with one the local artists I always see around, as well as another girl that I met at the show who emailed me the next day asking if I was single. Damn, that’s cool. Never thought it’d work out that way.

Schweet.

Again, thanks everyone.

(Will return to regularly scheduled styling shortly ….)