South Florida Artists Form Voltron

As I stated in a past post, the largest force that kicked my ass off a 9-month World of Warcraft binge was being surrounded by other artists and musicians during my friend's (Noel Heberling's) wedding. Returning from Korea I decided that it was time to find some other inspirational types closer to home. Now I must state that I don't know a soul in Florida. There are a few parents I know from different parenting events, but I know nothing about the local artists or the local art scene.

I tried Meetup.com. For those who don't know, Meetup.com is a great way to find people with similar interests near you. Basically one person creates a sort of "webpage" on Meetup and invites local people to join. The meetup page is perfect for scheduling events in real life. To create a Meetup page costs about $20 a month.

There were a few South Florida meetups already formed, two were outdated and getting ready to expire (the owner didn't want to pay anymore). The third one had very few events and was more geared to professional artists to be that lived about 50 miles away from me. So none were ideal.

My response was to just create my own group and pay twenty bucks. So far, the response has been very good. I have several members and I seem to get a new one every day. Our first Meetup is this Friday at a cool bar I found here in Delray.

In NY, Szalla used to get gatherings of artists to go the Cedar Bar or Kettle of Fish and we would talk till 3am until we were all drunk and full of inspiration. I hope to find that here.

The link to my meetup is http://art.meetup.com/329/

The link to the coolass bar that I plan to bring my group and frequent often myself is http://www.kevroart.com/

And finally the link the MOBA, a funny website I found is http://www.museumofbadart.org/. I plan to try to make a piece worthy of this museum.