{"id":604,"date":"2008-05-04T22:47:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T05:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=604"},"modified":"2008-05-04T23:09:57","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T06:09:57","slug":"lutefisk-sushi-opening-wrap-maki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"Lutefisk Sushi Opening Wrap (Maki?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/cartoonistconspiracy.com\/sushi\"><em>Lutefisk Sushi Volume C <\/em><\/a>opening was pretty amazing&#8230; the art was fantastic, the gallery was packed like a tin of sardines for hours, and I suspect a fun time was had by all who attended.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed the opening (and <em>The Onion<\/em> had the date wrong, so I&#8217;m guessing many did)&#8230; don&#8217;t fret! There are still boxes left at this point (although they are going fast&#8230; the box is limited to 150 copies). The show will be up all month, with some special events during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nemaa.org\/\">Art-A-Whirl<\/a> (May 16-18). Regular gallery hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays 1-7, Saturdays 1-5. Art-A Whirl hours are 5-10PM Friday May 16th, 12-8PM Saturday May 17th, and 12-5PM Saturday May 18th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alteredesthetics.phanfare.com\/album\/576963\/847865\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cartoonistconspiracy.com\/sushi\/sushic_crowd.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A huge collection of photos from the reception is available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/alteredesthetics.phanfare.com\/album\/576963\/847865\" target=\"_blank\">alteredesthetics.phanfare.com<\/a>.  Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.braindeadaesthetic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Terwilliger<\/a> for generously sharing his work! If any of you have links to other photos you&#8217;d like to share, we&#8217;d love to share them.<\/p>\n<p>KARE 11 and MetroMix interviewed some of us earlier this week, and you can now see that on the <a href=\"http:\/\/twincities.metromix.com\/events\/world_now_video\/lutefisk-sushi\/401521\/content\">MetroMix website here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twincities.metromix.com\/events\/world_now_video\/lutefisk-sushi\/401521\/content\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cartoonistconspiracy.com\/sushi\/sushi_interview.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friday was apparently the most profitable evening <a href=\"http:\/\/alteredesthetics.org\">Altered Esthetics<\/a> has ever had, so congratulations to all participants on the good work. We don&#8217;t really emphasize where the money goes from the bento boxes, but this time around it is going to support Altered Esthetics, which is a fantastic non-profit, community gallery.<\/p>\n<p>And now, some thank yous:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thanks to the Jamie Schumacher and the crew at Altered Esthetics for having us, and for co-curating with us. Jamie has done a phenomenal job with organizing, contacting press, and just about every other possible aspect of the show.<\/li>\n<li>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/kevincannon.org\">Kevin Cannon<\/a> for accepting the honor of being the featured artist, along with the immense workload he took on to do it right&#8230; and for handling a lot of other aspects of the show as well, including so much of the really tedious managerial stuff.<\/li>\n<li>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/staplegenius.com\">Danno<\/a> for doing a fantastic job of organizing and hanging the artwork, and doing so much to help with the planning and organizing.<\/li>\n<li>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/punyentertainment.com\">Shad Petosky at Puny Entertainment<\/a> for taking the time to once again silk screen the boxes, in spite of the fact that he has less time to spare than anyone I know. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/kevincannon.org\">Kevin Cannon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bigtimeattic.com\">Zander Cannon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicspace.com\/curtis_square\/\">Curtis Square-Briggs<\/a> for helping him!<\/li>\n<li>Thanks to the brothers Cannon at <a href=\"http:\/\/bigtimeattic.com\">Big Time Attic<\/a> for organizing and storing artwork and boxed, and giving us a welcome space to get this thing together.<\/li>\n<li>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bewilderedkid.com\/\">Dan Olson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cartoonistconspiracy.com\/brainfood\">Mike Toft<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/budburgy.com\">Bud Burgy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/matthewkriske.blogspot.com\/\">Matt Kriske<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wrenchintheworks.com\">Adam Wirtzfeld<\/a> for help with the hanging and\/or box collating.<\/li>\n<li>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/roefamilysingers.com\/\">The Roe Family Singers<\/a> for taking the time to play their beautiful music this Friday, as well as offering to play during Art-A-Whirl.<\/li>\n<li>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/avidorstudios.com\">Ken Avidor<\/a> for building the Zoetrope.<\/li>\n<li>Thanks to all who helped with promotion&#8230; particularly to <a href=\"http:\/\/mncba.com\">Nick Postiglione and the MNCBA<\/a> for passing out 500 postcards at MicroCon the other weekend!<\/li>\n<li>Thanks most of all to all the artists who made the box and the event possible!<\/li>\n<li>Also, thanks to whoever I am forgetting to thank that I should be thanking&#8230; please remember to kick me in the balls.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unsold art and filthy lucre will need to be picked up from Altered Esthetics at some point after May 31. We&#8217;ll keep you posted when we have more info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lutefisk Sushi Volume C opening was pretty amazing&#8230; the art was fantastic, the gallery was packed like a tin of sardines for hours, and I suspect a fun time was had by all who attended. If you missed the opening (and The Onion had the date wrong, so I&#8217;m guessing many did)&#8230; don&#8217;t fret! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=604\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lutefisk Sushi Opening Wrap (Maki?)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40,5,14,8,33,43,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","category-events","category-lutefisk-sushi","category-minneapolis","category-mn","category-photos","category-press"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd8gD-9K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}