diamond diaries - farewell to miami.

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on the last day in miami, we packed it all up - and went to the beach to say farewell in stlye. this will be the last entry from miami, at least for 2006. let's all meet again here in 2007...

diamond diaries, day 8 - rainbow valley.

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more miami adventures with friendswithyou: sam and tury opened this unbelievable, awesome, crazy playground at aventura mall, and we went to see it with them and their manager chris boon ... needs no words, just make sure you check back in the future at heliumcowboy.com, the guys from the gallery took some video footage and are going to show all this more thoroughly soon ...

and for those who didn't get to see the friendswithyou-skywalker parade while in miami: amanda from tate comics send us this link with great photos from the helium-filled beach parade: click here!!!!!

diamond diaries, day 7 - sam borkson vs. david choe.

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from now on it is only vacation. hanging out with sam & tury from friendswithyou, and the friends of friendswithyou, and of course the cutest baby in miami: lola rosa sandoval. going out to dinner, eating florida lobsters with tons of people, then chilling at sam's place, where he drew two great colaborational paintings together with david chow in some kind of a drawing jam session - as much as i heard, these extremely rare works will be taken to germany by the heliumcowboys and sold to only the highest and most worthy bidder ... :) (click to continue and see sam ad david at work)

yeah, it's a hairdryer they are holding. apparently, since miami's scope galore, the heliumcowboy artspace takes only the freshest stuff from their artists, like in this case the drawings were still wet ...

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diamond diaries, day 6 - wrapping up.

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these are the last impressions from the scope fair. meeting sam & tury from friendswithyou, wrapping up the booth, saying goodbye to all the great people we met here...

just to show that the weather is still nice :)

packing the remains ...

... until the booth is cleared out. (other galleries in the pictures include white trash contemporary (hamburg), rare (new york), untrieb (kiel) and artMbassy from berlin ... to name just a few )

and this is maybe my favourite: police protection for the alex diamond mural painting ...

next update: hanging out with friendswithyou and friends of friendswithyou in miami, baby ...

diamond diaries, day 5 - diamonds for moki.

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we love miami. miami is good to us. the ocean in the mornings, a fantastic crowd visiting during the day at the fair, and good sales on top of it all. oh, and not to forget the evening entertainment :)
this entry basically shows the constant movement at our booth - this morning, it has changed its face for the third time, as sold works go out with the shipper to make room for new ones. alex diamond works were seperated after the large painting by ki yoon ko was sold and shipped. however, only 10 minutes after one of the large "rider" paintings was moved from the outside to the inside wall, it was gone to atlanta ... so now moki got the spot on the outside wall of the booth - i guess she doesn't mind being within the tentacles of the large black and white alex diamond-mural ...

crazy.

diamond diaries, day 4 - miami, baby.

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it was a busy day at the fairs, amazing how many people scope manages to attract despite the huge competition in miami these days with around 12 fairs all over town at the same time. seems that scope is the one to go to ... just some more images from miami, with stickers by kingdrips and me popping up around town, peaches at the beach, a snapshot from the rubell family collection and more pics from the fair...

diamond diaries, day 4 - early morning edition.

this entry is just to make you jealous. this is how our mornings look like: a swim in the ocean with the gallery team. needs no words, i guess ...

diamond diaries, day 3 - impressions from scope.

day 3. opening of the fair, not so much going on as the art basel miami beach had its professional preview today as well, so most of the action was there. still, it was a good day, and it ended really well with a peaches concert right on the beach ... some more impressions from the scope and our booth here in this post, more and different imagery later once i get some images from the peaches show ...

and let's not froget: today was the friendswithyou-skywalker parade down at the beach. (link & photos from amanda from tate comics, ft. lauderdale):

diamond diaries, day 2 - painting the wall.

okay, here we go again ... internet connection at the fair is lousy, i am not sure what they are doing with it here, i guess they don't know either ... well. day 2 started with breakfast and a vistit to the beach ... don't mind the clouds, it is really really warm and nice, and today we have sun and .. well, summer, really. (continue reading below)

setting up the booth yesterday was tough, but great fun also. spent approximately 5 hours on the mural at the outside wall of our booth, while lutz was unpacking stuff and hanging the hoppek and and and. we've ben at the fair ground from early in the morning till late, but as a reward we went for some beers in the breezy miami night close to the beach. it's really good to be here. fantastic athmosphere, and the quality of the exhibitors is pretty high.

today, december 6, the fair started - but only after we went for our first swim in the sea and another huge breakfast with a view of the ocean ...

so, here are some images from setting up the booth and making the mural on december 5 ...

... and this is where our day ended. outside, at a bar, under wild miami skies ...

diamond diaries, day 1 - arrival.

yeah i know, this is not what you expect from miami beach. grey sky and parking lots. but hey, it's just the view from my hotel room, it's early in the morning, we arrived late last night and as tired as we are - so is the sun. stil, it's t-shirt weather outside, dry and really really warm for december. and can you spot the palm trees?

after a delayed and pretty long flight we checked out the scope fairgrounds first thing last night. still pretty chaotic and hectic around there, so we decided to go for the hotel and a few beers instead of starting to set up the booth. today is the big day, when we will try and prove what we can do with 12 square meters exhibition space...

the beach? postponed till this evening. or tomorrow morning. but i know it's there, just at the back of the hotel building i am sitting in right now...

Alex does Miami.

from monday on i will go to miami. to the art fairs. to scope miami. i will write about it here, about the miami beach experience with the galerie heliumcowboy artspace. and all the other art freaks. so stay tuned and check back daily for the miami diaries. from december 4 to december 14 only...