2 art car events coming up that i am part of "Goddess KRING"
my art car "Opal Moonstone" will be parked on display at The 18th annual Wedgwood Art Festival, July 8th 10am-6pm (i will be there 1pm to 6pm) & all day the 9th 10am-5pm Wedgwood Art Festival 3520 NE 89th St, Seattle, WA 98115
my art car will be at the fresh paint art festival in Everett Washington in August 19th and 20th Hoyt Ave. and Wall St. in Downtown Everett
i am open to find more events to be part of! (there are more art car parades- i forgot the names- will let you know as i find out) if you know of art events i can be part of let me know! thanks. i might park my car near "seattle art fair" in july and alki art fair and bellevue art fair! photos of my art car: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmVSY9d
here is video i filmed of the circus people last summer! they are coming back for 2023! they are very talented and fun for all ages. here are their new show dates coming up: 2023 | CRANE TRUCK TOUR DATES
Thu, 6/29, Bow/Edison, WA
Sat, 7/1, Corvallis, OR Sun, 7/2, Newburg, OR Tue, 7/4, Portland, OR Thu, 7/6, Poulsbo, OR
Sat, 7/8, Quilcene, WA Sun, 7/9, Chimacum, WA
Tue, 7/11, Skokomish, WA
Wed, 7/12, Olympia, WA Thu, 7/13, Sequim, WA
Fri, 7/14, San Juan Islands, WA Sat, 7/15, Orcas Island, WA Sun, 7/16 , Guemes, Island, WA Thu, 7/20, Whidbey Island, WA Fri, 7/21, Seattle, WA Sat, 7/22 Vashon Island, WA Sun, 7/23 Bellingham, WA https://www.upupupinc.com/
#goddesskring events coming up body pride ride downtown Seattle this Sunday June 25th on my bicycle and then my art car Opal Moonstone here 18th annual Wedgwood Art Festival, July 8th 10am-6pm & 9th 10am-5pm
Wedgwood Art Festival 3520 NE 89th St, Seattle, WA 98115
Next Goddess KRING Appearance is Sunday June 25th 11am "body pride ride" join us on your bike and body paint or fun costume if you want! This photo is me in 2019 photographer Damon Kenner #goddesskringhttps://seattlepride.org/events/seattle-pride-parade-2023
June 17th and 18th "seattle art car blowout" part of the "fremont fair" around 50 art cars including mine i call "opal moonstone" will be parked all day on display saturday 10am-8pm and sunday 11am-6pm here: 400 N 34th St, Seattle, WA 98103 #goddesskring#seattleartcar
I
got the Part when they announced Opal Moonstone by Goddess KRING and
mentioned my real name Shannon Kringen artist half Norwegian! that
made me happy!
Heads up Seattle friends! My art car "opal moonstone" will be in the may 17th parade in Ballard 6-8pm this Wednesday! They gave me a list and I'm the last thing in the parade #89! Come say hello and take photos or videos if you please! #goddesskringhttps://www.17thofmay.org/2023-parade/
thanks actor Jeff Goldblum for mentioning this as your favorite idea to live by= what a great inspirational quote- a great idea to try to hit the mark of:
“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
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Any of my Seattle friends live near Burien? Mod Men Band is playing there tomorrow night. Me and a few of my friends are going to go and dance! come meet us there if you want! 7pm show starts! some of the photos on their site by me http://www.modmenband.com/index.html Saturday, April 22nd, 7-11
Later today my art car will be on public display in Tacoma: "ReIgnition
2023 – Rights of Spring" Saturday in Tacoma my art car "opal moonstone"
is part of this event that's a burning man related artistic expression
thingy.... Saturday April 15th from 2:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m the location
is LeMay - America's Car Museum! I'll be there part of that time with my
art car on display with some other art cars and all kinds of music and
artistic expression...
https://regionals.burningman.org/event/seattle-precompression-tentative/
Friday, April 07, 2023
Opal Moonstone my art car and me will be here April 15th 2023 as part of
the "event" Reignition 2023: Rites of Spring, is an electrifying
festival and fundraiser that celebrates the start of the Burning Man
event season here in the Pacific Northwest. Join us for an unforgettable
afternoon and evening filled with music, art, costumes and culture.
Join us on April 15th 2pm to 2am the at LeMay-America’s Auto Museum in
Tacoma 2702 E D St, Tacoma, WA 98421 (right beside the Tacoma Dome,)
where we will once again transform a 3.5 acre space into a hub of
activity and entertainment; including theme camps, art pieces, art cars,
live music, local DJ's, fire performances, themed bars & food
trucks. This full day outdoor event is perfect for seasoned and new
burners alike. https://ignitionnw.org/reignition-2023/
just
for kicks. me age 10! went to 3 different schools for 5th grade. lots
of moving. pros and cons to this. south whidbey elementary,
coupeville (north whidbey) and taumanhaus (alternative school- my
favorite one with creative learn at your own pace and express your gifts
and have them nurtured- we were treated as individual unqiue
intelligent kids with talent and very highly respected by our teachers
and the kids did not make fun of each other) my t shirt says "my gramma and grampa when to san francisco and all i got was this t shirt" more kid pics of me: http://www.shannonkringen.com/kidshannon.htm
Got these taupe suede boots for myself that I'm going to paint similar to the designs I did on the other shoes in this photograph. If you want me to paint your shoes let me know... you can commission me to do so! Hand painted KringWEAR shoes! I also paint on the hats and backpacks and really anything made of fabric I can paint onto! http://shannonkringen.com/kringwear.htm#goddesskring#handpainted
Here's my art car encased in ice! I have never experienced what they call an ice storm before but I think that's kind of what this is. You can hear the crackling in the trees of the branches of the ice and it's kind of like freezing rain that falls down and everything is super shiny and slick. Even the rocks on the ground which you can normally grip on are just like as slippery as butter basically! #goddesskring
My art car "opal moonstone" was filmed for a cut video!!!! It will be on
their YouTube channel sometime soon! they have 11 million
subscribers....very excited! Fun to be part of this!!!! i put a short
clip of my point of view on my youtube channel while they filmed me for
their channel for a "match the car with the person" that i
participated in recently with 5 other that had "normal" cars.
I'm going through a lot of diagnostics and assessments. happy that my health insurance covers this. seeing if I'm on the autism spectrum in a gifted artistic kind of way. fascinated by all the quizzes and tests I've taken over the last several weeks. they say in 2 weeks I will have a printed out assessment of what they think of my brain... pros and cons. when I was a kid my parents never wanted to have me tested for anything cuz I think they didn't want me labeled as anything... so at the age of 54 I decided to have this assessment done and it's been fascinating. I've been taking lots of quizzes answering 585 true and false questions solving puzzles drawing pictures responding to pictures and words telling stories,. reading stories...I also brought my artwork in to show the lady assessing me... she's training to be a clinical psychologist and her interviewing me several times have given has given her lots of data... so I find this whole process fascinating. My goal with this is to learn and grow from all of it and use the perspective that this person has on me as a way to move forward in my life as I step into the future. Seems to me I'm kind of an unusual 54-year-old... I mean everybody is unique but I like exploring my identity and figuring out who I am and what I want and the choices I've made make more and more sense the older I get I always wanted to make my art and share it with people more than I wanted to do traditional things like get married and have kids etc. And I've always wondered is it just because of the way my brain is or is it partly because of the challenges of the way that I was raised and my parents getting a divorce and various pros and cons of how I was raised challenges that I went through etc I'm just learning and growing as I go.... And most of my closest friends are rather eccentric creative trail blazing people that have their own way of doing things... The person assessing me- she's interviewed me a lot and I've shared my artwork and my video with her and then she's quizzing me and scoring me based on certain modules of assessments that give me a score but she's also basing it on her and her supervisors assessment of the answers I've given to lots of different questions and sharing about my entire life... my childhood, my personal life, my relationships, my family, my friends, my social way of interacting with people etc it's all been really fascinating. the lady assessing me says she's impressed with how self aware and sensitive and articulate i am- all good traits to have. so i cope very well overall with my challenges. my career as an art and medical model, artist and animal lover suits me very well. i enjoy lots of time solo doing my own thing and need rest and recharge time then love collaborating with like minded creative humans....people who "get me" are so precious to me. thanks everyone who "gets me" cheers! onward "kringonian pizzazz"!
what an amazing birthday present it is to me to work on music with Dave Flowers !!! I'm so excited to share that we finished our "story of Goddess KRING" song. For those who don't know my birthday is today October 25th and I'm very happy!!!! I'm not really a materialistic person in terms of gifts my dream would be that people who like my art and music please just spread it everywhere and share it with everyone that you think might like it!!!! Wishing everyone well. Like that movie says "Life is beautiful" even when theres screwed up things happening in the world life is still beautiful in many ways!!!!
Happy
Tom Petty day! (He was born October 20th 1950) In 1979 I was 11 years
old and I was in a pizza parlor with my mom and my female friend who is
my age and I heard this whaling guitar and organ and beautiful voice
and I ran over to the jukebox saying out loud "oh my God What is this
song???" and I found out it was Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
"Refugee". My female friend said my brother has this record. Haven't you
heard it? You can probably borrow it!? I ended up borrowing
the record and for a while I just listened to refugee over and over and
over and over and over and over and over to the point where my mom said
stop playing that song and listen to the whole record!!! So I did. I
listened to the whole record and I liked every single song on the
record... And quite honestly, his music helped me deal with all of my
childhood challenges, missing California and feeling like a refugee when
my mom took me away from my dad and grandparents in San Diego and we
moved to whidbey island... Little did I know that band would continue to
make amazing music for decades And that to this day I find comfort in
so many of his songs or their songs I should say.... Music is so
powerful and I love it so much and I'm happy that I'm starting to make
some of my own music again! Even though I'm mostly a visual artist,
I've always wanted to create music and I've always been really sensitive
to sound... And I love rhyming words and listen to lyrics so carefully
and I love the poetic sound of words. I'm always wanting to write and
create with words. It's really fun and to turn that into melody and
music and rhythm is fascinating and I see all kinds of shapes and colors
with sound! And my new music friend that I'm working with has similar
mind. It's fascinating to create with someone that I feel a kinship with
on so many levels! So thank you to Tom Petty for following his dream
and inspiring so many other people! The artists that I admire.... it's
not because they're rich and famous. It's because of the passion for
their actual music or art. That's the real power... is the actual art
and music and love for what they're doing! #tompetty#tompettyandtheheartbreakers#tompettyforever#goddesskring
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Here's
the poem that I wrote today- underground lit up tunnel velvet
corduroy-minded lined in divine purple rated rhinestone bloom-improve
the mood dude- interlude solituded- rooted inside wider than before- in
store adoring more. Uproar for sparked creation- Batcave all the rave-
Brave minds think alike- seized by synesthesia not amnesia- seed ya-
seed ya- sea ya,. Opal essence scented Moon- lines tied unwind refined-
beyond Oompa Loompa boopity do- grand piano synthesizer-
at her wit's end- tending souls light- invite ignite entice- new lines-
flower Style flow- braided kring glow- knowing. Synchronistically
synergy- biggest cactus bloom you've ever seen- indeed deeds spiral
staircase spins wind- towards vortex Frontier- no longer deer in
headlights- spotlight gems take flight- spreading dazzle- no time zone-
everyone has their own throne- we are prone to delight kissing our
bliss- fizz fizz fizz- drizzled in lizard skin feeling a kinship as
tasty as banana split- don't give me no lip- enjoy your trip zip zip
zip.
