artomatic

During opening night someone told me about automatic. It is a giant regular art show in the area. Organizers find a building that is about to be renovated and rent it. Artists rent rooms or walls and pay a little money and volunteer three shifts. 

In this picture people can sit in the chairs and look at the picture and pretend they are at the ocean. 

In the extra is a woman in fascinating jeans. 

It was neat to see metal prints and what people charge for them. 

I'm thrilled that I printed the pictures for the show on metal. They all popped. The folks I met at artomatic agree that printing on metal was a great decision. I think that people are so used to seeing images on their screens that seeing them on metal resonated. 

Drones attacked a southwestern Russian city, a strategic bomber base. The airbase has repeatedly launched missiles at Ukraine. It might not have damaged anything, but they were able to send four drones. there. 

Ukraine said it hit two Russian naval vessels, a communications center, and other facilities. A video on Telegram shows a series of large explosions. Those posting the video suggested an oil depot was attacked. More than 20 Russian naval vessels, or a third of its entire fleet, have been disabled or destroyed. 

The Moldovan energy minister Victor Parlicov said Moldova was in a difficult situation with energy before Russia's new invasion of Ukraine but weeks afterwards they synchronized their electricity and energy systems with the European system. This normally takes years but it was a political decision. Now Russia cannot blackmail them. They still buy energy from Russia, but they are no longer dependent on Russia. 

France and Germany will produce ammunition in Ukraine through a new subsidiary of a Franco-German battle tank maker, KNDS.