It’s an art show absent of vanity. The art is created out of the pure joy and excitement of making art. The goal is not to sell or fill a gallery request. The artists create art like children play and the opinions of others are as important as as the 11 o’clock news.
This is my favorite art show of the year!
Bryan Snyder helped judge the show for the 3rd consecutive year.
Stripped of their cowboy hats, matching wardrobes, poofy hair, vintage dresses and customized mic stands, Hello Trouble entered the Sacred Cat Recording Studio ran by Nathan James to record their first professionally mastered self titled album.
The recording studio is a place of pure artistry. The bling and showmanship of the love performance is removed. The audience is a microphone and an applause in the sighs and cheers amongst band mates during a recorded playback.
Carlsbadcrawl and Snyder Art was lucky to have been there for the recordings. The trials and tribulations of the process is an art form in itself and the result is truly a masterpiece of local talent that will go far beyond these local streets.
CDs will be available tonight (Thurs. Nov. 10th) from 6-10pm during Hello Trouble’s CD release party and performance at Coyote Bar in the Carlsbad Village!
Kevin Williams, Jeffrey P. Ross, Susanna Kurner, Troy Sandow, Nathan James
Produced by Jeffrey P. Ross and mastered by Nathan James
See Hello Trouble LIVE tonight at Coyote Bar in the Cbad Village!
photography by Bryan Snyder
Behind the vintage attire, hand crafted mic stands and music influenced by the likes of Hank Williams and Patsy Cline is the North County vintage country band Hello Trouble fronted by a musician with a wide range of vocal talents.
Susanna Kurner, a lead singer and songwriter, was first exposed to vintage country through her grandmother’s love of the genre. “She used to listen to this old radio station that played Patsy and Hank tunes a lot and I loved it!”
Kurner loves playing vintage country and truly feels at home when doing it, but her path has led her through a variety of musical experiments.
When listening to Kurner sing, her strong and talented vocals are obvious, but to the surprise of most, Kurner’s first vocal aspirations were opera. She attended the
Manhattan School of Music in New York City where she earned a degree in classical vocal performance.
The very strict perfectionism of opera didn’t suit her desire to experiment and she began seeking other genres of music. “I knew the classical training was more rigorous, but I figured I could do anything if I could sing opera”, Kurner says.
Kurner decided that jazz better suited her creativity and began experimenting with it before moving back to the West Coast where she began gigging. Though she loved the freedom of jazz, Kurner rediscovered her love for vintage country one day while jamming with friends in Carlsbad. Hello Trouble became her next project and provided the stage to release the creative energy she had been accumulating over her entire professional career.
“I love performing, but nothing beats sitting down and writing a really cool song,” Kurner excitedly says. “The guys in the band are amazing musicians and they really support my writing.”
Backing Kurner, and always an entertaining bunch, Jeffrey P. Ross shocks with unmatched guitar technique, Troy Sandow slaps his stand up acoustic bass and Kevin Williams holds it down on rhythm guitar and vocals.
Hello Trouble will be releasing their first self-titled album Nov. 10th at Coyote Bar and Grill from 6pm-10. Along with 4 hours of vintage country, Kurner has promised to bring back her classical training with a special operatic treat!
Check tomorrow for behind the scene photos in the recording studio!
Click HERE for a sneak preview of the CD!
Click HERE for directions to Coyote Bar and Grill
… I don’t think of free parking!
I think of some of the most beautiful beaches in the nation. I describe the best coast boardwalk to jog along during early morning, mid afternoon or during one of the numerous breathtaking sunsets. I muse about the explosion of pink each early fall within the branches of the Silk Floss Trees that call the corner of Grand and State home. I invite an early walk through the shady leaf scattered streets of an the awakening village. I showcase numerous restaurants and smiling staff and point out a mellow pub for a pint and a thought or one of the many stops during a weekend night bar crawl. I talk about the wide variety of mellow sit downs over over a warm cup of coffee. I rant about live music on the patio of Coyote, on the personal and intimate stage of O’Sullivan’s, periodically at the New Village Arts Theatre and many other local venues. I boast about the emergence of a local art scene in the past 3 years and point out Village locations which have hosted local art shows. I mark my calendar each month for the local Thursdays on the Coast Art Walk. I highly recommend visiting the New Village Arts Theatre for one of their plays and to meet their talented ensemble and to visit the adjoining Foundry, a honeycomb of art studios. I brag about Pizza Port and the many beer brewing medals they take home each year. I boast about the Carlsbad Street Faire which is the largest single day outside fair in the nation, along with the highly popular Art in the Village and other street events. I think about the marathon and triathlon that bring world class athletes to our streets each year. I marvel at the waves that crash upon or white sand beaches and point out the fish and crustaceans that are brought ashore. I remind of the natural spectacle of the Red tide Bioluminescents at night and invite a tidepool wander during low tide.
The Carlsbad Village has many natural, cultural and social characteristics to highlight, but someone chose to represent our amazing community with banners high above the streets highlighting FREE PARKING.
Is that the best way promote our Village by the Sea? What better way would you have chosen?
The night air had a crisp chill and the streets crawled with costume and shenanigans as Carlsbad again came to life, and death, during another Halloween weekend in the Village.
Local pubs remained packed with libation and horror. Ghostly growls were accompanied by hiccups and headaches. Monster tunes echoed into the streets and candy wrappers tumbled amongst Autumn leaves.
Boar Cross’n is always a favorite Halloween visit due to a recently revamped live music schedule and the annual costume contest. Like anxious salmon fighting the current of a gushing river, zombies and half naked school teachers worked their way through the outside line, against the fog cloud within and towards the main stage.
The stage dripped with sweat and blood as the Oceanside Sound System scared the eyes and soothed the ears of the crowd with a high energy and crowd engaging performance early into the first hours of November.
Through-out the night little red tickets were given out as best costume nominations and invitations to climb up onto the stage to be pelted with applause and hoots from the crowd, ultimately securing one costume as the year’s best and recipient of the $1000 1st place prize. With a very narrow lead, Sub Zero pulled away as the winner, with Forrest and Jenny in 2nd and some Sesame Streetesque monsters in 3rd.
The stories of another Halloween weekend in the Carlsbad Village are still fresh enough to share and the many photos still prompt laughter, but the costumes have been packed up, pumpkins have been tossed and ideas for next year’s costumes are abrewin’.
What were your favorite costumes?
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A Halloween 2011 Doodle by Bryan Snyder
• Water color and pencil illustration
• Limited of only 50 pieces of art
• 9in. x12in. on 140 lb. water color paper
• Signed and numbered by the artist
• Accompanied by Certificate of Authenticity
Price: $90
(you DO NOT need a paypal account. Click BUY NOW and scroll down to purchase without having to sign up for an account)
There was no printer or giclee reproduction in the creation of these limited edition hand painted and illustrated pieces of art. Each piece is created entirely by the hand of Bryan Snyder.
Click HERE for additional available art online!
During the creative process of a collaboration, the initial participating artists build up a design as spectators watch, critique and document. Each step is captured through the eyes of each onlooker in multiple videos, a wide variety of photos and later analysis within blogs.
At the point when the onlookers become engaged in the creative process through their chosen medium, the number of participating artists in the collaboration increases. The collaboration expands from a painting on the wall to a multimedia presentation on, and within, the community environment.
The act of creating in a public environment provides the opportunity for community involvement. This project became a multifaceted explosion of creativity directed by a pair of artists, but collaborated by a community through photo, video and discussion.
Thanks to all the artists who lent their skills!
Susan Vasconcelos: (PHOTO)
Jennifer Strauss: (PHOTO)
Phortin: (PHOTO)
Samantha Geballe: (PHOTO)
Colors in Los Angeles [CILA]: (PHOTO and BLOG)
Melrose&Fairfax: (PHOTO and BLOG)
Listak Photos: (PHOTO)
2wenty: (PHOTO)
Matty Fontana: (PHOTO)
Carl Paoli: (VIDEO)
Click HERE to win a Snyder x AMK painting!
Video music by HELLO TROUBLE
Culture is announced within the local streets. Marquess lure with flashing lights and flyers announce upcoming events. Banners invite the neighborhood and mounted wood signs foreshadow a congested village. The streets are scattered with memes looking to connect minds.
In the same manner, though more discrete, local minds also use the streets as a way to announce their ideas. Unsigned and without a dominating message, the subversive mind invites your time and your analysis…
These messages are unknown, but show similarities to past finds posted here on carlsbadcrawl.com.
Have you seen these pastes in the Carlsbad Village?
Through forest and along brick lined streets, our eyes attentively observed the colors, sounds and culture of Charlottesville, Virginia.
Click HERE for all the observations and photos!
Carlsbadcrawl will be on a hiatus for a handful of days.
See you in a few…
A message, whether an advertisement, announcement or slogan, usually has the intent to ultimately sell something. It attempts to catch your 
attention and encourages you to give in with a monetary investment. Each time you are stopped by a public message, you are being targeted to buy, but the form of payment is not always the same.
Outside of the standard payment of currency, messages in the streets ask for payment of personal time. These products don’t have a dollar sign price tag, but ask for a few seconds to observe and possibly interact. You don’t take anything tangible home, but are rewarded with a possible intriguing analysis, a future conversation piece or a simple effort to help keep your neighborhood clean.
The currency of time, what have you bought lately?
THOM PAIN: Based on Nothing by Will Eno begins with the definition of FEAR and continues with a rambling, yet fairly coherent, rant about experiences and observations from the life of the main, and only character, THOM PAIN.
PROJECT OBJECTIVE:
To bring community together through art and creativity by creating a communal collage based on the main character and theme of the play, as well as to allow a stage for participants to overcome fears by disclosing them in public.
HOW IT WORKS:
50 bees were scattered within the Carlsbad Village streets with instructions that encouraged “bee” finders to write a personal fear on the bee, bring it to the New Village Arts Theatre and hang it on the wall of the lobby.
Along with hanging their fear on the wall, participants were encouraged to help create a community collage portrait of THOM PAIN hiding behind his fears represented by a beehive.
The act of overcoming a personal fear is observed through the act of disclosing a fear and hanging it in public. Overtime the collage became swarmed by fears, a communal venting and release of mental inhibitions.
OBSERVATIONS:
The collage built up gradually entirely from magazine tear outs, but the greatest amount of public interaction and interest was in the hanging of fears. Some fears remained on the surface layer with examples of the fear of being late, missing a phone call and the rain while others dug deep exposing the fear of not being wanted, being alone and dying unfaithfully.
CONCLUSION:
Unlike other plays, THOM PAIN interacts with its audience, acknowledging their presence and observing their reactions. The community collage and project did just that where it interacted with the local public and formed a relationship. It provoked reactions and its success, like THOM PAIN: Based on Nothing by Will Eno played by NVA ensemble member Adam Brick, depended much on the interaction of its audience, both which resulted in a very enjoyable experience.
James Chute from the North County Times asked if the Carlsbad Music Festival is too cool for Carlsbad. He referenced the legendary artistic debacle of “The Bars” and suggested that the hangover once felt from the public outcry and eventual dismantling of the urban art piece might still be lingering, potentially preventing the coastal 
community from becoming a hotbed of “artistic tolerance and forward thinking.”
The development of an art scene begins with a seed. If the seed fits the community, its colors will not only shine bright, but will be appreciated and supported by those who view it.
Progressive art events have been creating excitement in the Carlsbad Village in the past few years including the always entertaining and occasionally controversial plays at the New Village Arts Theatre, the honeycomb of art studios of the NVA Foundry, the annual Carlsbad Art Splash, a wide variety of art and community based projects by Snyder Art, the ‘Thursdays on the Coast’ and the most recent Carlsbad Music Festival directed by Carlsbad native and current NY resident Matt McBane.
In the festival’s 8th year, McBane decided to run the event in its entirety in the Carlsbad Village over a three day period, where in past years the festival has taken place in locations both in and outside the village.
The event kicked off with its highly anticipated 2nd annual music walk where art, culture and music enthusiasts were invited to wander the village on a self guided tour of live music hosted at various village locations including Spin Records, the NVA Foundry, O’Ireland and Giacoletti.
For those who host, organize and frequent the blossoming art scene in the Carlsbad Village, being cool has never really been a priority, but if artistic tolerance and forward thinking is the new cool, then the Carlsbad Village is becoming one hip place!
WHAT: Vintage Country Band HELLO TROUBLE
WHERE: Hensley’s Flying Elephant (map)
WHEN: Saturday Oct. 1st 8:30PM
See you there!
While painting the mural, an elderly lady approached me and told me how she and her husband just returned from Europe where they noticed large amounts of murals all over the countries they visited. She continued to tell me how beautiful they were and how much they added to the urban landscape. She thanked me for adding color to the predominantly blank and conservative walls of Carlsbad. She even asked me who she needs to contact to request more murals in Carlsbad. I gave her a long list of city elected council and board members! My ultimate goal for the past 4 years has been to develop more of an artistic culture in Carlsbad through color and community… and things are really beginning to shift!
“A Welcoming Fall” painted by bryan snyder on the first day of Fall 2011
Cessy’s, Carlsbad Village (map)
Hope you enjoy!
-Snyder
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A Welcoming Fall by Bryan Snyder
• Water color and pencil illustration
• Limited of only 50 pieces of art
• 9in. x12in. on 140 lb. water color paper
• Signed and numbered by the artist
• Accompanied by Certificate of Authenticity
Price: $75
(you DO NOT need a paypal account. Click BUY NOW and scroll down to purchase without having to sign up for an account)
There was no printer or giclee reproduction in the creation of these limited edition hand painted and illustrated pieces of art. Each piece is created entirely by the hand of Bryan Snyder.
Click HERE for additional available art online!
The block of Armada Drive above the Carlsbad Flower Fields and overlooking the Pacific Ocean was swept and prepped. The long asphalt awaited color chalk, music, food stands and hundreds of spectators as the 2 day Carlsbad Art Splash kicked off and ran through Sept. 24-25.
Morning drizzle dampened the Saturday morning air as early chalk artists, equipped with specialty shading tools, professional chalks and unique rolling chairs, found their designated sections.
As the day grew, artists raced the clock and endured the creeping pain of hours on the ground forcing chalk within the textured cracks and holes of the street. Spectators walked along the edges of each growing masterpiece stopping at their favorites to praise and encourage.
Art was not only found on the street. A long row of temporary tented galleries ran along Armada inviting guests to browse, purchase are discuss future 
commissions including local stand out Lynn Forbes who worked on a live head bust. Other stand outs included Greg Visintainer, creator of the highly detailed visual pen and ink illustrations of Viz Art and San Diego gallery Alexandar Salazar Fine Art.
Near the entrance and towards the silent auction of hand painted records transformed into clocks where funds raised helped finance the event as well as to help fund art and music in North County schools, was the highly talented team of Ron Juncal and Phyllis Swanson of Studio 2. Ron and Phyllis shock guests each year with their amazing projects and creativity. This year they created a giant 3D chalk mural accompanied by an elevated platform designed to give spectators the optimum 3D viewing experience. The entire
creation of the piece was documented through photos and will be presented through a time lapse video.
Kids of all ages were introduced to the creative process through out the entire event. Whether they were creating small chalk street murals of their own, crafting at the numerous craft stations or dancing and singing to live music, they were constantly inspired, which also gave parents time to enjoy the numerous food vendors.
Visitors spent the entire 2 days walking up and down Armada, partaking in craft booths, art demonstrations and live music. Families spent the day together laughing and creating and children smiled wide with crafts in hand and painted faces.
The Carlsbad Art Splash is an integral part of the local community and showcases the ability to connect people and build culture through the arts.
WHAT: Carlsbad Music Festival
WHERE: Various location in the Carlsbad Village
WHEN: September 23-25
The 8th annual Carlsbad Music Festival will take place in the charming seaside Village of Carlsbad from Friday-Sunday, September 23-25, 2011. This year’s Festival will feature the Calder Quartet, My Brightest Diamond, Build, several composers-in-residence, and many more exciting artists.
All festival events will take place in the Village of Carlsbad, within short walking distance of each other, the train, beach, restaurants and hotels. The Festival will kick-off with the fun, free “Village Music Walk” on Friday evening continuing with indoor and outdoor concerts at a variety of venues on Saturday and Sunday.
Click HERE for additional info!
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