Thursday, January 13, 2011
NEW Website *launch*
After the passing of our friend Aaron Curran who volunteered his time and expertise on creating our last website, we have been working hard to bring you the new, updated southaustinsoul.com. Visit our site, bookmark it and check back often to keep in the loop of happenings and how you can support your Austin arts community. If you have any feedback or technical issues, please email us at southaustinsoul@yahoo.com. Enjoy the new site, we've had fun building it for you!
Thursday, November 25, 2010
"Souls on the Road" heads out and leaves Austin TX to New Mexico
The start of the tour around the U.S. has begun with the traveling artists Alyssa Flores & Joaquin Allen on their Art & Film Tour. Filming and creating art and the lives of Artists along the way, these two start off leaving their home base in Austin TX with the art co-active organization at South Austin Soul.
I, Alyssa am filming this whole crazy gypsy adventure with my buddy Joaquin and it's been from the first minute we got into the car a week ago, an instant in pour of change to both our worlds. A destiny that not many people get to experience and wow I get to be in the passenger seat to the "Driver" Joaquin who gets geared into seeing it all starting with his past in Ojo Sarco, NM. As I transition my mind into spinning me around once more; Joaquin takes on the long stretches of the desolate roads out Austin and beyond Dallas all the way out to the flat lands, through wastelands, and mountainous freeze outs. Everything here from out is forward.
Joaquin hit a rush of passing on once we stepped foot into that cemetery to say goodbye to his good ol Marine buddy from his early manhood years. We walked around that cemetery searching over grave over grave over grave that then came to notice the fresh grass that lined out the graves of newly passed on bodies. All I could see was bodies everywhere near us in a different parallel. These new patches of earth made death seem more so visual to me by the earth caskets that lay underneath. My mortality became an ice bath to my senses that my life, Joaquin's life are moving forward into a new movement. Here I have to presume the untold story. Here it better be a moveable notion.
I walked by rows after rows of flowers and found a bundle of Yellow Roses that had the Virgin Mary painted on them that appeared so peaceful for whomever's grave they were for placed for. The statues of angels seemed more so giving off their sincere stares to all that came close to their footing and we never found his buddies grave.
It's an underling truth that I fear death and it's unsure ending of my life's chapters too soon. My waking days are a combination to strive to stretch out every minute to get me further into my future, which causes continuation of fulfillment. Perhaps to fool a mind into believing that it's living multiple changes of life in order to make our deaths more so worth it's burial it a foundation of most Artists. For Joaquin it was a symbol of good luck to his journey. He took each memory to his friends death at an important growth into his next journey. A journey as big as this one, as important as this one, it was a necessary parting or rub on the Buddha's belly to his journey to the conquest.
Oh and then there was the shoot that got away. Trial two to get Moving Atlas the band from Dallas in a last minute stoke of luck shot for their music video I am filming. The last time I scheduled this shoot, it ended up to be one of The Biggest Flops of Unfortunate Events. (behind the scenes video coming soon) I am filming and co- starring in this video with the guys which creates a challenge to get an entire band and myself at the same place at the same time with the opportunity to get production in before I head out of Texas. Awesome, we get them in at their weekly band practice and we nail the shots needed to make this diverse, 4 day production, in multiple locations a possible successful shoot!
Off we go into an already some possible hang ups with the trailer's weight that my little Kia Rio has to endure as we set off into the mountains. Our worry of hauling around glass for Joaquin to paint on, loads of spray paint, canvas, and everything else tends to lead into future depletion of supplies for drag & haul equalization reasons. See that there might not be a possibility to drive into the mountains... do we make it... how slow will we go and how badly will we back up a single lane of traffic up into an elevation of 7,000 pulling a 4 ft x 8 ft trailer?
The Traveling Souls,
Aly & Joaquin
I, Alyssa am filming this whole crazy gypsy adventure with my buddy Joaquin and it's been from the first minute we got into the car a week ago, an instant in pour of change to both our worlds. A destiny that not many people get to experience and wow I get to be in the passenger seat to the "Driver" Joaquin who gets geared into seeing it all starting with his past in Ojo Sarco, NM. As I transition my mind into spinning me around once more; Joaquin takes on the long stretches of the desolate roads out Austin and beyond Dallas all the way out to the flat lands, through wastelands, and mountainous freeze outs. Everything here from out is forward.
Joaquin hit a rush of passing on once we stepped foot into that cemetery to say goodbye to his good ol Marine buddy from his early manhood years. We walked around that cemetery searching over grave over grave over grave that then came to notice the fresh grass that lined out the graves of newly passed on bodies. All I could see was bodies everywhere near us in a different parallel. These new patches of earth made death seem more so visual to me by the earth caskets that lay underneath. My mortality became an ice bath to my senses that my life, Joaquin's life are moving forward into a new movement. Here I have to presume the untold story. Here it better be a moveable notion.
I walked by rows after rows of flowers and found a bundle of Yellow Roses that had the Virgin Mary painted on them that appeared so peaceful for whomever's grave they were for placed for. The statues of angels seemed more so giving off their sincere stares to all that came close to their footing and we never found his buddies grave.
It's an underling truth that I fear death and it's unsure ending of my life's chapters too soon. My waking days are a combination to strive to stretch out every minute to get me further into my future, which causes continuation of fulfillment. Perhaps to fool a mind into believing that it's living multiple changes of life in order to make our deaths more so worth it's burial it a foundation of most Artists. For Joaquin it was a symbol of good luck to his journey. He took each memory to his friends death at an important growth into his next journey. A journey as big as this one, as important as this one, it was a necessary parting or rub on the Buddha's belly to his journey to the conquest.
Oh and then there was the shoot that got away. Trial two to get Moving Atlas the band from Dallas in a last minute stoke of luck shot for their music video I am filming. The last time I scheduled this shoot, it ended up to be one of The Biggest Flops of Unfortunate Events. (behind the scenes video coming soon) I am filming and co- starring in this video with the guys which creates a challenge to get an entire band and myself at the same place at the same time with the opportunity to get production in before I head out of Texas. Awesome, we get them in at their weekly band practice and we nail the shots needed to make this diverse, 4 day production, in multiple locations a possible successful shoot!
Off we go into an already some possible hang ups with the trailer's weight that my little Kia Rio has to endure as we set off into the mountains. Our worry of hauling around glass for Joaquin to paint on, loads of spray paint, canvas, and everything else tends to lead into future depletion of supplies for drag & haul equalization reasons. See that there might not be a possibility to drive into the mountains... do we make it... how slow will we go and how badly will we back up a single lane of traffic up into an elevation of 7,000 pulling a 4 ft x 8 ft trailer?
The Traveling Souls,
Aly & Joaquin
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
So much ART, so little time!
Four great events you should attend this weekend! Pick your faves and join our myriad offering of artists around town!
EAST (East Austin Studio Tour)
http://www.eastaustinstudiotour.com/
Oxblood Art and Music Fest
http://do512.com/event/2010/11/13/oxblood-music-and-art-fest
Guadalupe Get Down
http://www.spiderhousecafe.com/upcoming-events/nov-13th-2010-guadalupe-get-down.html
AND LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST!
Join our Resident Artist, Aly Flores and Featured Artist, Joaquin Allen for their FINAL ART SHOW before hitting the road on the South Austin Soul Documentary Tour at The Crow Bar this Sunday, 7p-2a. Help fill the gas tank by purchasing some beautiful art or dropping off a donation.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=109203545813834
EAST (East Austin Studio Tour)
http://www.eastaustinstudiotour.com/
Oxblood Art and Music Fest
http://do512.com/event/2010/11/13/oxblood-music-and-art-fest
Guadalupe Get Down
http://www.spiderhousecafe.com/upcoming-events/nov-13th-2010-guadalupe-get-down.html
AND LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST!
Join our Resident Artist, Aly Flores and Featured Artist, Joaquin Allen for their FINAL ART SHOW before hitting the road on the South Austin Soul Documentary Tour at The Crow Bar this Sunday, 7p-2a. Help fill the gas tank by purchasing some beautiful art or dropping off a donation.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=109203545813834
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Crap you might need Yard Sale!
Welcome to our NEW ART HOUSE located in SOUTH AUSTIN!
We are cleaning out and moving into our new location to bring in our fellow Artists and Collaboration of Art, Yoga, Music, Food, Backyard Fire Pit, and Workshop Space.
There will be a MaSSiVE Yard Sale this Sunday, October 17th starting at 8am lasting all day with food, art, and you!
Looking to donate your love to the new SOUL?
We are wanting your crap to put in with our crap to sell for our fundraiser to get us what we need to successfully build this Art House and get the traveling Art Gypsies on the road for the Art & Film Tour.
Come by and drop off your items anytime this week or the day of and join us for a gathering to welcome in our new home! Also, you might find yourself getting lost into some really cool finds in our BiG OPEN FiELD of a yard sale!
Keep a look out when your here because you might be the next Artist we feature in this art space… so please come get a feel of our inside display areas, back yard space, & free floating walls that stand 7ft tall as well as our front yard jungle that makes this place seem like a space away from spaces.
Items
Entertainment Center
Computer Desk
Speakers
Lamps
Coffee & End Tables
Stools & Office Chairs
Armoire
Piano
1920's Radio Desk
Peavy Amp
Guitar Petal & Cords
Mach 5 Guitar (need of repair)
Mixers (2)
Action Figures in case (40)
Model Cars
Fish Tanks (2)
Futon
Clothes
VHS
CDs
plus more!
Please send us an email or message post if you are going to drop off any items to the Art House for donations!
We love and appreciate anything you could do to help us!
We are cleaning out and moving into our new location to bring in our fellow Artists and Collaboration of Art, Yoga, Music, Food, Backyard Fire Pit, and Workshop Space.
There will be a MaSSiVE Yard Sale this Sunday, October 17th starting at 8am lasting all day with food, art, and you!
Looking to donate your love to the new SOUL?
We are wanting your crap to put in with our crap to sell for our fundraiser to get us what we need to successfully build this Art House and get the traveling Art Gypsies on the road for the Art & Film Tour.
Come by and drop off your items anytime this week or the day of and join us for a gathering to welcome in our new home! Also, you might find yourself getting lost into some really cool finds in our BiG OPEN FiELD of a yard sale!
Keep a look out when your here because you might be the next Artist we feature in this art space… so please come get a feel of our inside display areas, back yard space, & free floating walls that stand 7ft tall as well as our front yard jungle that makes this place seem like a space away from spaces.
Items
Entertainment Center
Computer Desk
Speakers
Lamps
Coffee & End Tables
Stools & Office Chairs
Armoire
Piano
1920's Radio Desk
Peavy Amp
Guitar Petal & Cords
Mach 5 Guitar (need of repair)
Mixers (2)
Action Figures in case (40)
Model Cars
Fish Tanks (2)
Futon
Clothes
VHS
CDs
plus more!
Please send us an email or message post if you are going to drop off any items to the Art House for donations!
We love and appreciate anything you could do to help us!
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Essential Support
As a student at UT, I am thrust onto the emotional roller coaster of what the events on campus today mean. In the coming hours we will hear more about the personal life of the man who killed himself and created a scare all too familiar to college students across the globe. I sit here safely in my own home and feel deeply saddened for this man, his life and his family and friends. And I cannot help but think of the missing support in his life while I am constantly overwhelmed with it. Since it's infancy, South Austin Soul has been a place of refuge for me, a source of encouragement and a feeling of comfort. Many of our members are completely unaware of the circumstances that were created in my life in our first few weeks. Events that left me feeling unsafe in my own home yet completely safe in our gallery as friendships were being built and creativity unleashed. You were my pillars of strength and continue to be to this day. We are blessed to have each other and I am thankful everyday to have you all in my life. It is not always easy to stick by each other, emotions sometimes become flared and we are all open books. But our openness is our savior. To know you have by your side the hearts of South Austin Soul makes it easier to fall asleep and wake each morning. Thank you, you are all my angels.
-@mBeRgUeSa
-@mBeRgUeSa
Friday, September 17, 2010
Admin & Researcher Position ($50 + Commission)
South Austin Soul is posting up an Admin & Researcher Position. This position is a $50 a month plus commission. This is a very "important" and "powerful" position. We are looking to expand our talents to a person that will be able to follow with us to our future of success. With you... as we grow, this position too will grow!
What we are looking for:
I, Alyssa am looking for a teammate in my abilities to do "All" administration duties and preparing proposals. This upcoming Film Tour will be taking a lot of my attention away from hours I spend on the research and writing side of the home base of SAS. I will enjoy working with a person that has great writing talents and a diligent passion to a fast pace work ethic. I move quickly and I will be working with you on in a close week to week basis... so to say... we will be growing very close!
The responsibilities are:
*Research Websites, Grants, & Sponsors
*Find and Compose Grant Proposals
*Light Website Updates
*Admin: Emails & Phone Calls
All this can be done from home via internet & phone. Must have reliable access to internet!
Expectations:
All I require from you is your devotion!!! I am extremely organized and hard working, I would like for this position to have some of that responsibility of your expectations to make things move forward. The quicker and the more efficient we get things to happen together for SAS... the quicker we get to our success... and the better we can return that right back to you!
Please send your resume to Alyssa Flores~ inkflores@yahoo.com
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Call for Artists!
South Austin Soul is proud to be gathering artists for a special event, The Paige Haas Benefit at Screaming Goat (home of the Austin's best drowning flautas) on Sunday, September 26th. We are seeking artists filled with a connection to their local community, able to sell their art and donate a portion of their sales to this cause. If you want to help out, please email us at southaustinsoul@yahoo.com.
Paige Haas, a close friend of The Screaming Goat, was diagnosed with
Leukemia in April 2008. She was 18 years old when she was diagnosed.
Since then, she has withstood numerous rounds of chemotherapy and a
stem cell transplant she received from her brother Drew in February of
ʻ09. Fortunately, as a result of her unbelievable strength and resolve
enduring these treatments, she is currently in remission for the third time.
Our goal with this benefit is to ease the financial burden placed upon
Paige and her family throughout her treatment, allowing them to
celebrate Paigeʼs health.
So please join us for a day of music, food & friends Sunday September
26th from 12-8pm at The Screaming Goat, All proceeds will go directly to
the Paige Haas Benefit Fund.
Paige Haas, a close friend of The Screaming Goat, was diagnosed with
Leukemia in April 2008. She was 18 years old when she was diagnosed.
Since then, she has withstood numerous rounds of chemotherapy and a
stem cell transplant she received from her brother Drew in February of
ʻ09. Fortunately, as a result of her unbelievable strength and resolve
enduring these treatments, she is currently in remission for the third time.
Our goal with this benefit is to ease the financial burden placed upon
Paige and her family throughout her treatment, allowing them to
celebrate Paigeʼs health.
So please join us for a day of music, food & friends Sunday September
26th from 12-8pm at The Screaming Goat, All proceeds will go directly to
the Paige Haas Benefit Fund.
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