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Stay off the freeway!

That when I told the girl I’ve been dat­ing for like a year that I was going down to Bal­ti­more for Meow Meow, the first thing she said was, “Is Brad Troemel going to be there?”

Lis­ten, Brad. Fuck you.

There I said it.

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Peter Voelker put on a pretty ter­rific show yes­ter­day. His Meow Meow house gallery was packed wall to wall with peo­ple at the peak of Shake It to the Ground last night and I think it’s safe to say a good time was had by all.

I got to meet a whole bunch of photo friends from the inter­web includ­ing Pete (of course), Andrew, Coley and Daniel. But the list goes on and on.  think the Bal­ti­more City Paper may have popped by for a visit.

The whole thing was a resound­ing suc­cess and has inspired me to do some­thing along the same lines. I hereby announce the cre­ation of Secret Gallery. Shh, don’t tell.

© Eliz­a­beth Weinberg

From today’s New York Times:

No mat­ter how much they try to kill it, the Polaroid is still beloved by art stars and ama­teurs alike. Tonight, as part of the party crew LVHRD’s ongo­ing cul­tural bat­tles, three artists — Jonathan Har­ris, whose work is cur­rently hang­ing in MoMA; Joseph O. Holmes, a street pho­tog­ra­pher rep­re­sented by the Jen Bek­man gallery; and Eliz­a­beth Wein­berg, who spe­cial­izes in shoot­ing indie rock­ers —will stitch together their Polaroid shots in a live-​​action photo mon­tage com­pe­ti­tion. Because the event cel­e­brates the old-​​fashioned art of visual sto­ry­telling, the crowd is — some­what ambigu­ously — encour­aged to dress like grand­mas. Also, there’s an open bar

“Shake It to the Ground”

March 29^th 2008, 7:00 pm
2304 Druid Park Drive
Bal­ti­more, MD 21215