TheArtDontStop is hitting the road. Lauren and I are embarking on our travels. We're going east until we're back in San Francisco. That means there's a closetful of art that will look better on your wall than in a storage unit for a year.

Now is a good time to get a great deal on an original painting.0

Look at this "Buying Art" section for ways to buy art or just contact me about which painting you'd like.

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A painting of some who-knows-where.

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Nature

I learned that Aaron Tam is a draftsman for a small architecture firm in the bay area as I waited my turn to talk about my job to Mr. Elizarde's class.

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Galileo High School
Figures

Ramon Martinez talks to Mr. Elizarde's College and Career Education Class about being a security guard for the school and a graphic designer. I was waiting for my turn to talk about being an artist while also being a substitute teacher for the school.

This is the drawing of the week for May 25-31, 2008.

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Galileo High School
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Sherman Chan discusses being a real estate agent with Mr. Elizarde's class.

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Galileo High School

Students in the Academy of Hospitality and Tourism at Galileo Academy give a presentation of their ideas to promote tourism in the Mission. This was a practice session before the real thing later that night.

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Galileo High School
Classrooms

Ron gives a final practice presentation about his groups marketing plan for Nob Hill as part for AOHT.

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Galileo High School

Students in the Galileo Academy of Information Technology held a screening of the short documentaries they made as part of the Adobe Youth Voices program. The films, which dealt with such topics as a high school wrestler coming out of the closet, growing up in 'pill hill' in the Tenderloin, betrayals of friendship, immigrating to the United States, and others were all interesting, honest, and well-crafted.

This is the drawing of the week for May 18-24, 2008.

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Galileo High School
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Movies

Full Circle Fund members and guests gathered at Dogpatch Studios for "Imagining the Unimaginable" with top social entrepreneurs. Before hearing from three particularly innovative speakers, the crowd ate very well thanks to M Woodward Catering as Christopher Kilday strummed his guitar.

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Premal Shah, president of Kiva, talks at the Full Circle Fund "Imagining the Unimaginable" event to lead off a panel that also included Deb Levine of I.S.I.S., Inc. and Jim Fruchterman of Benetech - all of whom have found impressive ways of making technology work for the social good.

Kiva's method of allowing anyone to be a micro-lender to entreprenours across the world is a model that will bring prosperity to millions. This is the good globalization.

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