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Cowgirl tames a new website

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cowgirl-no-backLost a week recently. It was all daughter Kate’s fault.

My decade-old website was just sitting there, designed in a program no longer even recognized by servers, so barely functioning.

She suggested it was time for the cowgirl to whip a new, interactive home page into shape.

Of course, that meant this technologically-challenged 60-year-old had to learn a few new tricks. So I downloaded Adobe Muse, which, if you are used to InDesign, is relatively easy to teach yourself through Muse’s video tutorials.

When I finally finished the web design, though, like my old website, my host provider proved non-responsive.

I wanted immediate gratification in uploading my new site. By the third day, my patience evaporated.

So much so that I abandoned my original domain name and jumped ship to ipage.com. Ipage not only responds but is extremely inexpensive.

Anyway, the cowgirl is now encamped at a new home – postcardssanantonio – with much better links back to this blog.

Thanks, Kate. The girl truly was in need of new duds.

Oh, and “Postcards” even tweets now @postcardsfromsa.

C4 Showcases Collages and Paper Sculpture

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Fifteen of this storyteller‘s digital collages are on exhibit through most of April (depending upon the arrival of the next artist who currently is running behind schedule; so call 222-2405 first) at C4 Workspace, 108 King William Street, along with the highly sculptural “foldings” of Deanne Cuellar.

In addtion to prints from my Postcards from San Antonio series, the exhibit includes the Blue Book series based on the city’s 1911-1912 guide to the redlight district.  Almost no one’s image and artworks have been reproduced and refried more Frida Kahlo’s; yet the story of her life is so compelling.  The four prints from the Frida y Diego series are hanging at C4 as well.

Holy Cards No. 2, “Santa Cecilia at the Crossroads?,” digital collage by Gayle Brennan Spencer, http://www.postcardssanantonio.com/holy-cards.html
Frida and Diego No. 3, “The Original Fridas,” digital collage by Gayle Brennan Spencer
Blue Book No. 1, “See Sallie After the Alamo,” digital collage by Gayle Brennan Spencer
Paper Art by Deanne Cuellar
Paper Art by Deanne Cuellar
An exhibit of digital collages by Gayle Brennan Spencer and paper “foldings” created by Deanne Cuellar will be on exhibit through most of April at C4 Workspace at 108 King William Street.

To view more Postcards from San Antonio prints, visit C4Workspace, an older posting or my website.