truckShow: Dressed Up

First Friday Art Truck Show I was Dressed UP! Friday September 4th we had an art truck. We had costumes. Some people put these on and were photographed. This is the proof. Check them out at MENSK's new FLickr Page.

Have the fun till next month!

Pointilli.sm

MENSK is proud to announce our partnership with Pointilli.sm a new marco/ micro community blog from our friend Max Cohen, currently chilling out in Iceland. Max teamed up with MENSK to register with the Country of San Marino to register the uper-cool .sm domain name. In order to accomplish such a feat, you have to be a registered company or organization. Max being neither, did the next best thing, and got MENSK to sponsor his project. That's about as much as our control or involvement extends, the rest is up to Max and his talented group of writers (mostly Mainers) to keep on keepin' on and make their project thrive. We wish them the best of luck.

Pointilli.sm

The Phoenix also Rises

MENSK got a nice spot in this week's edition of The Phoenix

Sometimes the biggest stumbling block for our fantastic ideas is a small, seemingly insignificant hurdle — a missing piece of paperwork, a logistical snafu, one degree of separation too many. These tiny troubles can "crush all the forward momentum you have," says Andrew Lyman, who was recently appointed executive director of MENSK, an art-activity umbrella organization in Portland. "The most important thing that I felt this organization could do . . . was to identify what those stopping points were and to do everything we could to fill those gaps."

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Thanks Dierdre Fulton

Gallery of Dark Arts Truck Show

08.07.09



See everyone's work, tag your work, and have the fun.

Dark Arts Truck Show

Thanks everyone who participated in the Dark Arts Truck for last night's First Friday. Drawing in the dark is no walk in the park, especially under a one minute time constraint, but our brave and trusting artists produced excitement again and again out of the void. Check back Monday for a gallery of all the pieces.

Until next month!

Eli's Road LES Travels

For those interested, MENSK's founder, Eli Cayer, will be having a personal introspective Art exhibit
the upcoming First Friday August 7th, 2009 5pm-midnite @ the Arm Factory &
Maine Mead Works. Both are located at 200 Anderson ST. in Portland's East
Bay Side.

The show, titled "The Road LES Travels" will be covering the last 20 years
of creation, collaboration, and collection.

This event will be bookended by our own Truck Show.

RoofTop Film: Back to the Beach (1987)

Bring your beach blanket, board shorts, and bikinis! Join a party of beach-goers at the top of the Spring Street/ Free Street Parking Garage. Free Music! Free Movie! Free Popcorn! Free Fun! Another installment in MENSK'S RoofTop Films Series.

Surf music from 8:30 until it gets dark. Movie at 9:00

This month: Back to the Beach (1987)

Frankie and Annette are back! (to the beach) via the 80's via the 60's!

PLOT (if that kind of thing is important to you):
Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello are husband and wife living in Ohio — far from the surf and sand of their earlier lives together. Heading to California to visit their daughter Sandi (Lori Loughlin), Frankie and Annette are appalled to learn that she has been making time with surfer Michael (Tommy Hinkley). In time-honored fashion, our hero and heroine set about to make the beach safe for fun-lovers everywhere by driving out Michael's unsavory friends.

Along the way, Frankie faces a challenge to his title from the younger surfers, and nearly ruins his marriage by dallying with Connie Stevens — one of several pop-culture icons appearing in the film, including Fishbone, Don Adams, Bob Denver, Alan Hale, Jr., Edd Byrnes, Jerry Mathers, Tony Dow, Dick Dale, Stevie Ray Vaughan, O.J. Simpson, and Pee-wee Herman.

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