Goddess KRING doing spoken word at Fantagraphics "Waltzing Carpet Juliette"

 

Goddess KRING doing spoken word at Fantagraphics "Waltzing Carpet Juliette" Release Party 11-25-23 

 

 https://youtu.be/tryW1B947Aw?feature=shared

 photo of Goddess KRING by Dan Nash

2008 Goddess KRING video archive "Amplified Chameleon" art not terminal Gallery Seattle

 

GoddessKRING 2008 DVD amplifiedchameleon0029

https://youtu.be/v4ZRvxfKiH4?feature=shared

GoddessKRING 2008 DVD amplifiedchameleon0029 Goddess KRING archive project. one of my shows from 2008 when i was featured artist at "art not terminal" gallery seattle and some poetry and music by me with clips from norway etc Here's a video that I just uploaded to my YouTube channel from 2008. I converted the DVD .vob file to an MPEG file so that I could edit it and splice it up but also upload it to my YouTube! This is when I was the featured artist at the "art not terminal Gallery" which used to be on Westlake and Lenora and now it's moved to near the Seattle center fountain. I showed there for many years! "Self Portal Amplified Chameleon" was the name of my show and I got to fill up the whole front room of the gallery! that was so fun to have my art all over the walls! I don't think I sold very many pieces!? but that was not my motivation... Basically the way I financed my art career is to be an art model because art models always get paid but artists may or may not actually get paid for their work that's kind of the reality that I've noticed! Although some of the artists that I model for they do make their full-time living from selling their art most of them actually have to teach to finance their art career and some of them fully make a living with their art- which is great to witness- Katy Stone is an example of an artist I admire a lot who used to teach and I used to model for her art drawing classes and now she makes her full-time living just doing her art which is very inspiring to see and I love her work very much... I was happy to share it in public! And this video contains voice over by me and then piano music and poetry that I recorded and created. #goddesskring i still have my post office box but it's now:

Shannon Kringen P O BOX 20355 Seattle, WA 98102

 

Goddess KRING news Nov. 2023

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November 2023 Goddess KRING news!

On the Goddess KRING archive project my tech friends are teaching me to use "handbrake" a free open source software for taking DVDs and turning them into digital files that I can upload and edit on any website and then we use another free open source software program called OBS studio to run the VHS tapes from the VCR into the computer and turn them into digital files to then also upload and or edit. With the DVDs that I made I can't just extract the video file because there's some kind of weird vob file or something on the DVDs and they need to be turned into mpegs to match the vhs's that I'm also turning into digital files so this is a really big project!

For those who don't know I had a weekly public access TV show on in Seattle from about 1995 or 96 till about 2010... So I have about 700 or more videos literally that I made that are 28 minute episodes each and they involve monologues and body paint and me waxing philosophical in an improvisational way dancing around in body paint sharing into the camera whatever I felt like sharing. I shared music I created I sure it's poetry that I wrote and improv monologues about my life some of the shows are happy some of the shows are sad some of the shows are angry. I have all different kinds of emotions I have all kinds of different interesting face paints and I used props and I did a few shows at the TV studio with green screen and special effects with a friend I knew that worked at the studio called fertilizer that I made at the studio and then all the episodes that I made at home in my own little home studio with just a VCR a camera a light and a black backdrop called Goddess KRING.... I would now like to revisit my old TV show episodes and re-splice them and edit them together and make some new projects and also work on a documentary about what it was like to do public access and how it affected the audience and how it affected me and where I am now in my life in my 50s with my art car and continuing to do multimedia artwork as an art model who paints shoes and paints canvases and writes poetry and experiments with musical keyboard improvisational and spoken word and also photography some people tell me that my photography is my most powerful artwork that's the most high quality and maybe that's true from a design perspective but I love to do multimedia I know that when I was 10 years old as a little kid I knew that I would always want to probably do multimedia and not just pick one thing to focus on although maybe it would be good if I would focus on one medium but I seem to love to dance around with all the different kinds of artwork and I also see art modeling as an extension of my own personal art to collaborate with the people who paint me and draw me and I dress up in costumes and or I wear nothing and I'm a natural human but I see it as a way of acting or performing on the model stand as an art model it seems like a very theatrical thing that I'm doing and it makes me feel like I'm sort of an actor playing the role of an art model I guess that's the way I see everything in my life even when I'm a pet sitter I am a pet sitter I love animals but I am playing the role of whatever it is I'm doing at the time that's kind of how I see everything like we're all role playing together on this Earth!

 

 

Goddess KRING spoken word live Nov. 25th at Fantagraphics

 

Shannon Kringen (who has the art car honda fit with rhinestones called "Opal Moonstone") will be doing 10-15 minutes of spoken word she wrote at this event-(KringSpeak) and a drawing she did is featured in the comic book!

Saturday November 25th Georgetown Seattle 5-7pm.

Comic Book Release Party!! Issue #4 of Waltzing Carpet Juliette. Featuring spoken word by Larry Reid, Goddess Kring and Mark Ostler. Spinning vinyl: Brian Foss, DJ Bobcat, KNUCK.

Get the new issue signed by some of the contributing artists.

Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery

1201 S Vale St, Seattle, WA 98108-2750

Larry Reid says "Multimedia artist Shannon Nicole Kringen (aka Goddess Kring) became a prominent figure in Seattle’s lively 90’s counterculture through her provocative public access program. She’ll return for a rare spoken word performance at Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery on Saturday, November 25 to celebrate the new issue of Mark Ostler’s Waltzing Carpet Juliette art zine. (Kringen is a contributor). I’ll open the festivities with a reading of two short works from the second printing of Jesse Bernstein’s posthumous poetry collection, Come Out Tonight, available for the first time in a year at this event. Hope you will join us. Should be great fun." http://www.shannonkringen.com/ https://www.fantagraphics.com/

current ideas shannon kringen

 

Wow I just acted out with counseling students twice in a row and I love improvisational acting! I said totally different things even with same general script...each student generates different ideas in me. Fascinating work! I'm grateful

Note to self make a video about the dream you had where your dad that I got up on stage and saying his folk song that he wrote and what a beautiful pleasant dream that was mixed in with all of the stressful dreams that I've had lately

When people tell me that I'm off topic when I mention something that reminds me of something else that they're saying I wish that they would ask me hey that sounds off topic to me what do you mean by that and then let me explain that would be cool to learn something new! That's the way my brain works but I don't expect everyone's brain to work this way but it's good for me to assert this and just keep doing what I love and let people take it or leave it! My dad just sent me some cool inspiring quotes from Albert Einstein and it reminds me of to me I connect the dots and I think everything is connected so sometimes when people say hey what you're saying is off topic in my mind it's on topic and when I listen to Albert Einstein it validates something in me about how everything is connected and I have sort of a philosophical everything is relative way of looking at things and I see everything as a symbol and a metaphor and I see the microcosm and the macrocosm and the sort of mirror repetitive effect and so I'm going to write a new poem that has something to do with that although some of my poems already do have something to do with this topic and my own kind of abstract metaphorical way like ocean beam come clean come clean manifesting dreams blackfire feather rain inner energy life force come forth etc some of the lines that just pop into my head and I write them down and to me everything is connected and when you use your imagination you can build bridges instead of walls if you want to that's the way I see things all relative

Yes when I listen to Einstein quotes it it inspires me because I seem to connect the dots in a similar way not that I'm as amazing as Einstein but I think that his wavelength I resonate with a little bit the free association and the daydreameness of it all in the everything is relative and everything is microcosmicrocosm I totally understand that like on an intuitive level

And by the way sometimes the emperor still has no clothes! Smoke and mirrors

When people tell me that I'm off topic when I mention something that reminds me of something else that they're saying I wish that they would ask me hey that sounds off topic to me what do you mean by that and then let me explain that would be cool to learn something new! That's the way my brain works but I don't expect everyone's brain to work this way but it's good for me to assert this and just keep doing what I love and let people take it or leave it! My dad just sent me some cool inspiring quotes from Albert Einstein and it reminds me of to me I connect the dots and I think everything is connected so sometimes when people say hey what you're saying is off topic in my mind it's on topic and when I listen to Albert Einstein it validates something in me about how everything is connected and I have sort of a philosophical everything is relative way of looking at things and I see everything as a symbol and a metaphor and I see the microcosm and the macrocosm and the sort of mirror repetitive effect and so I'm going to write a new poem that has something to do with that although some of my poems already do have something to do with this topic and my own kind of abstract metaphorical way like ocean beam come clean come clean manifesting dreams blackfire feather rain inner energy life force come forth etc some of the lines that just pop into my head and I write them down and to me everything is connected and when you use your imagination you can build bridges instead of walls if you want to that's the way I see things all relative

Is this why I obsess sometimes when I read a bunch of snarky comments that people leave cuz they don't like me or my "public persona" or artwork etc. I kind of feel like I want to prove to them that I'm a good person I want to prove something but those are the kind of people that no matter what you say or do they're just going to be snarky! They want to play an ego game like Ping pong and smack the ball around! I don't understand why I don't just learn that that's how some people are!? It's like part of me is still a 6-year-old naive kid that thinks I can make friends with anybody like I'm in kindergarten maybe that is the part of me that's autistic that's like still like a 6-year-old little kid that's kind of not full of their own ego and just wants to be cooperative with other little kids blah blah blah even though we're all adults now right hahaha!?

Of course my favorite people are the ones who appreciate what I do and are inspired and see me as somebody who's cheering them on as they cheer me on instead of some weird creepy competition or some pigeonhole put each other down and criticize blah blah blah but then I can see why some people are freaked out by me because sometimes I do lose my temper and I get defensive and I've gotten into weird arguments with people and unfriended people- or had them unfriend me it's gone both directions- here on this website and there are some people that I know longer communicate with but the truth is if both me and them forgave each other and agreed to agree to disagree and we can move on we can maybe still connect but if they're not willing to apologize to me in the same way that I'm willing to apologize to them then we really can't really be friends anymore here online just some of my thoughts about the way people gossip about each other! My job is to do my art and share it and basically not worry about the people who like it or don't like it or feel neutral about it because I just read a thread of some people who don't like what I do or we're bitching about whatever they don't like about me blah blah blah which is totally fine because everyone is entitled to have whatever opinion about me that they want and I'm entitled to have whatever opinion I have but man people can be nasty and I have to just keep on doing what I love and when people pigeonhole you or stereotype you or label you it really is kind of a bad creepy feeling but I'm also trying to not do that to other people and be a hypocrite so... "think of me what you will/ I got a little space to fill" is a Tom Petty lyric that comes in handy right now for me!

Open to help with VCR VHS Goddess KRING archiving:

 

Open to help with VCR VHS Goddess KRING archiving:

 

I'll say that I'm really really grateful that we archived about 47 episodes of Goddess Kring so far but now we have to figure out why the VCR plays audio and DVD perfectly but it will not do visual video (it's BLANK blue smooth screen as if signal is not happening) I'm pretty sure that one of my old 1990 something VCR tape gunked up the VCR and we had to I put the cleaner through it the dry cleaner but that didn't work and the only VCRs we can get are used ones either online or at the repc store here in Seattle that sells tons of used VCRs I think they have 28 last time I looked but my concern is that we might go through several VCRs just trying to archive all of my 700 goddess kring videotape so I'm just going to take it one step at a time I celebrate that we have 47 episodes and that I can open those on my computer and look through them and edit and splice together new versions of my show and I guess I will ask for help from anybody who can help me but I do have about two or three Tech friends that give me advice and one main Tech friend that's willing to help me but he's kind of hard to get a hold of and lives like 30 miles away so this might be a really slow process but I'm just going to keep working on it and not give up! And yes I still want to work on making a documentary film and just take bits and pieces of whatever old footage I can archive and save but it's more important for me to make new material than it is to save every single old video tape that I made but I want to try to save all of the really good ones if possible but it's more important to make new art than it is to save all of the old art in my opinion but I would like to do both save the best old art and reconfigure it and make new art from it whether it be painting poetry video music photography etc all the different kinds of art that I do. My friend says he can take screwdrivers and open up my VCR and try to clean it with cotton swabs or q-tips and alcohol and we can see what that does other people say don't do that and other people say yes do that if anybody reading this knows how to properly clean a VCR let me know I might even call the RE-PC store and see if anybody does that kind of thing these days. http://www.shannonkringen.com/

 

 

Art Show that Shannon Kringen is part of Nov. 18th 2023

 

My eight paintings are mostly done! I painted clear coat on them and letting them dry... it's hard to get a photo cuz they're kind of shiny but here's what they look like just sitting on my floor drying! Seattle friends come to this art show coming up Saturday night! See our paintings! (And see my art car parked nearby) November 18th! Burien Arts Association Vision 2023 Gala. There will be appetizers, a range of drinks, and live music

When: November 18, 2023, from 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Where: SeaTac Community Center, 13735 24th Avenue South, SeaTac, WA (by the Highline SeaTac Botanical Garden). Ample free parking.

Cost to attend: Free https://www.burienarts.org/vision-2020/

Goddess KRING art car in a Cut video

spoken word as "Goddess KRING" at this event at Fantagraphics Bookstore

 

I will be doing live spoken word as "Goddess KRING" at this event at Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery 1201 S Vale St, Seattle, WA, United States, Washington Saturday November 25th 5-7pm. Comic Book Release Party for "Waltzing Carpet Juliette" and a painting i did is published in this issue! for more info ask Mark Ostler ! thanks for including me in this event and publication!

 

 

1996 Goddess KRING barbie short

Goddess KRING archive 21 videos done~

 

My tech friend "Nibby" (he's not on social media) helped me digitize 21 Goddess KRING episodes! Over 600 to go! Ha ha we made a dent in archiving my show! Will upload the best ones to a website for members and start working on a Goddess Kring documentary! I want to Interview people who watched my show who want to be on camera and have someone interview me! Dave Flowers and I will also work on music for this movie! #goddesskring

Goddess KRING turns 55 today! happy birthday to me

55 aint no jive

 Happy Birthday to me!!! today October 25th I turn 55 years old tonight at 6:20 something p.m. I was born in San Diego California at Sharp Hospital on a very foggy night they say! The numerologist said that the number 55 is a magical number just like when you turn 11/22/33 44 55 66 77 88 and 99!!!! But the number five actually symbolizes freedom in the numerology philosophy which I like and I think that my life path number is 5 which is freedom and they say 55 is big Time freedom!!!!

quintessential classic goddess kring footage 1990s

would love to have more patrons! i have 12 now. thanks everyone. https://www.patreon.com/goddesskring

 

would love to have more patrons! i have 12 now. thanks everyone.

https://www.patreon.com/goddesskring

Tom Petty: Somewhere You Feel Free - The Making of Wildflowers

Ripple Effect Goddess KRING Supaflower

Artist Shannon Kringen, known as “Goddess Kring,” decorated her car to express her colorful style

 

A gem on wheels: This rhinestone car dazzles from Seattle to Bellingham. Artist Shannon Kringen, known as “Goddess Kring,” decorated her car to express her colorful style photos by Annie Barker, interview by Andrea Brown (Everett Herald) https://www.heraldnet.com/news/a-gem-on-wheels-this-rhinestone-car-dazzles-from-seattle-to-bellingham/

 

nitty gritty Goddess KRING

Goddess KRING classic 2005 or 2006?