Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Art Auction for the Gulf

BlogHer is holding an art auction to help clean up the Gulf of Mexico. Proceeds benefit the Nature Conservancy. I got to see the art in person during the BlogHer community gala. Each piece of art is inspired by a blog post in the BlogHer 2010 Voices of the Year collection.

These were my favorite pieces of work (less a few pieces that I couldn't get a recognizable photo of.) Please excuse the giant flash marks.

If you're interested in bidding, go here. The art work will go up for auction in sets over the next few weeks.

This one made me laugh and laugh:

"Slosh" by Karen Parr
Inspired by "Oh Six-and-a-half year old
you always know what I'm REALLY Saying"
Alice Bradley, Finslippy

I don't know if this was a photo of a collage or completely generated digitally, but I liked all the visual textures:

"Note to Self" by Alex Asher Sears
Inspired by "Blogging Outloud"
Eden Riley

This caught my eye from across the room. It looks much better in person when the flash is not in the middle of the purse:

"Untitled" by Maggie Mason
Inspired by "FTC Regulates the Red Carpet"
Liz O'Donnell, Hello Ladies
(I got to meet Liz at BlogHer. She is classy and smart)

I love this bird and the little laptop!!

"She Does It All" by Amanda Conley, Bijou Girl Designs
Inspired by "An Open Letter to the New York Times about
Mom Bloggers, Women Writers and the Universe"
Joanne Bamberer, Pundit Mom


"Do Not Seek Without It" by Shannon McKarney
Inspired by "Top Ten Ways to Find Inner Peace"
Kate Inglis, Sweet Salty
(Kate has a great set of blogs. I love the opener for her blog Daytime Kate: "As opposed to night time Kate who writes about pirates."



"Untitled" by Robin Epstein
Inspired by "The Power of Rich White Folk and Why Gandhi Was Only Half Right"
Britt Reints, Miss Britt

"Crows in Rows" by Meredith Winn
Inspired by "No Need for Refugees in the Modern World!"
Sharon Casey, Humanity vs. the Apocalypse

3 comments:

Asianmommy said...

That's funny--I saw the little bird, and I liked it, but I didn't even notice the little laptop. :)

ljc said...

Loved the cheerios and birds.

fourthbreakfast said...

Asianmommy: I didn't notice the laptop until someone pointed it out to me!

Ljc: :)