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Local Color
Arts! Arcata is … Well, it just always is. Arcata has talented artists, supportive businesses and even a fine symbiosis of both in the Arcata Artisans cooperative. HSU’s art major is historically popular, and live music offers cheer in several stores. Despite all this, the event remains Jan Brady to Eureka’s Marsha. Which is all […]
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Humboldt Outside
With December comes the freeze. Moisture settles as fluff on the high peaks and passes, slicks roads and parking lots, frosts rooftops and windshields and, on occasion, bounces pellet-like onto the coastal landscape. Night-dark comes early; headlights barely pick out that elk herd clustered on the highway shoulder, or the thick-furred bear racing across a […]
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Antique Light
He’s been obsessing over it for half an hour. Standing motionlessly under a lightproof shroud, Vaughn Hutchins peers through his wooden, 100-year-old Empire State No. 1 view camera, tinkering with tiny changes and contemplating every compositional detail. The accordion folds protruding from his cloak keep the lens at just the right distance from the antique […]
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Between the Black and White
Emotions and identity are tricky. They’re even trickier when attempting to put them into words. It’s one reason why art exists — it allows people to describe the human experience in ways that words don’t, giving voice to the often conflicted, contradictory and complicated nature of living and being. For artists Thaddeus Zoellner and Michael […]
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One Bright Saturday
Saturday was a great day for art in Humboldt, starting in the morning with dozens of artists circling the Arcata Plaza with vibrant colors for Northcoast Children’s Services’ 25th Annual Pastels on the Plaza. Sponsors make a donation to the nonprofit and either find an artist to represent them or one is assigned. The ephemeral […]
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Your Weekend Humboldt Homework: Take Pictures
Before the bell rings, can we have your attention, HumCo? Just want to make quadruply sure the NCJ’s impending little photo contest/exercise is adequately hyped before the weekend when your eyes wander away from your beloved/retina-mangling computer screens. So! Remember tomorrow on 7/7 at 7:07 — a.m. or p.m., your choice — snap us a little […]
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Papervision3D | Panorama
thought.Papervision3D | Panorama: Take a break and pay a pano visit to a golden library somewhere, not sure where. Thanks to Rebecca for the