The 3D list Week 28 By Daniel R. Gould

As 3D pens this the day is bright, but chilly. People are sitting on cafe terraces, in the sun, oblivious to the cold. That's good. It is preparing you to take to the streets and visit Amsterdam's galleries, museums and art spaces. They are waiting and expecting you. So get your track shoes on, squirt oil on the bike's wheels and take off to enjoy the wonders of a great city. Your city, my city an every international travelers' home away from home...

Bits & Pieces;

Reviews: Italian Institute for Culture

What You Missed Last Week:

What Is Happening This Week:

BITS & PIECES:

This weekend, 4th and 5th April, is for Museums. Anyway, it is Open Museum Weekend, but you have to pay. There are a few specials like buying a ticket allowing you to visit several venues, but bewarned, at some, expect long and unmoving lines. In other words, 3D suggests avoiding the great show at "foam" since EVERYONE will be going there.

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Hey, this year is the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's settlement of New Amsterdam, now better known as the Big Apple, which cost the Dutch 60 guilders at the time (a manual laborer then made 300 guilders/year). 3D often says that if the USofA would return NYC to them, they would civilize it and make it the Big Cheese of the World.

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Whatever happened to..."Amsterdam Art City?" Remember that? "In 2009 Amsteram will be an Art City. The city will be brimming over with a tremendous range of remarkable exhibitions, festivals and cultural events..." Well, 3D had forgotten all about this event until he attended a press conference dealing with an elephant stampede expected this coming September. Anyway, there was a booklet outlining this special year of cultural happenings. However, 3D has not noticed ANY noticable increase in artistic activities. The city is as alive and no more so than any previous year. That's the good news. The bad news is, maybe 3D missed something. Say it ain't so, Joe!

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...And speaking of elephants...it is the "Elephant Parade" that will be coming our way from the 6th of September until the 6th of November. Break out the shovels and buckets for the 100+ trunked work horses of Asia; and the spotlight is indeed on the Asiatic elephant. This is the third manifestation of a project that began in Rotterdam back in 2007; and advanced to Antwerp in 2008. Actually, the "parade" won't result in any pollution of the city's streets since all the elephants are made from fiberglass. Nor are they THAT big; measuruing a little over a meter long and one and one half meter high and about 50 cms., wide. Each "elephant" is painted by an artist making it a unique artistic piece. Each will be auctioned off and 15% of the final hammer price will go to the artist and the rest to a foundation that is endevouring to create a continuous habitat for the REAL ones. The organizer receive NO compensation.

The money is used to buy land along the traditional paths that the Asian elephant has traveled for thousands of years. People have settled along this route and the idea is to relocate them---at NO cost---and preserve the passage way from elephant reserve to elephant reserve. The first great corridor is 3/4 completed and will be the life-line for 6,500 of the vegeterian mammals. There is a yearly requirement of $18,000,000 to keep the program on its righteous path. The result of this an other corridors will be to insure the survival of the remaining 35,000 Asiatic elephants. There has been an 80% decline in their population during the last 100 years. Stay tuned....

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Maybe the economy isn't as bad as we have feared...TEFAF, which closed a week ago, in Maastrict, reported that attendance was down ONLY 5% from a year earlier; AND 75 private jets invaded the city ONLY three less than in 2008. 3D has talked with a couple of galleries that attended and they have all reported that they paid cost with a little left over. "Not like former years, but not too bad!"

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...And speaking of predicting the economy here's what the leading economist of the 20th century, John Kenneth Galbraith, had to say on the subject: "The only function of economic forcasting is to make astrology look respectable." And the sun is in the seventh house with the moon rising over Wall Street...

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...And more...Jeffery E. Garten, a professor at Yale School of Management, has this astute observation: "Here's the central paradox, everyone has lost confidence in the US system because the more that is revealed the more it feels as if we pursued capitalism in a very irresponsible way. But everyone is now waiting for the US to bail them out...The irony is that most of our partners, after berating us for being irresponsible and greedy, want to return to the era when American consumers supported the world, when we spent too much and saved too little." From: "In Europe, Obama Faces Big Challenges to Agenda," by David E. Sanger (www.nytimes.com; 31st March).

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The "World Minimal Music Festival" will be held at the Muziekgebouw from 1st until the 5th of April. Compositions by Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Terry Riley will be performed by ASKO/Schönberg. Matangi Kwartet and the Ives Ensemble plus the Beganda Music Ensemble from "Organda." More info: www.muziekgebouw.nl/blog

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Seminar: Saturday, 4th April, 11-18:00 at Lood 6 with Michéle Faguet, Patrick D. Flores, Vit Havránek, Hiroshu Yoshioka, Ahmad bin Mashadi and David Riff. In coordination with SM Bureau Amsterdam. Unfortunately, the SMBA "Newsletter no. 109" only listed this event but provides no additional info. Let's get it together guys and gals! 3Ds no mind reader. www.smba.nl

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"Tripping back to the world of Psychedelic," by Alice Rawsthorn (16th March, Int Herald Tribune, www.iht.com). "The Haight poster designers defined a madcap style of fantastical symbolism, vivid colors, swirling shapes and convoluted lettering that recalls the playful, experimental spirit of the early hippie era." The article is both a review and a history. The review part is for an exhibition at Denver Art Museum titled, "The Psychedelic Experience." It comprises a selection from 875 psychedelic posters dating from 1965-1971 that the museum acquired from a local collector, David Tippitt.

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Are you still hooked on nicotine and freezing your butts off as you stand outside your work place, a cafe or restaurant feeding the habit? There is help available. Check this out: "New Ways to Quit Smoking." "In any given year, only approximately 3% of smokers trying to quit will succeed." That's scarry. "Google: "Quit Smoking" or go to www.msn.com and "search" "How Much Is Smoking Costing You?" "Smoking Cessations 4 Ways to Quit,"and "What Those Funny Old Smoking Ads Really Show," 11 sample advertisements that cigarette companies devised to make you WANT to smoke. One not shown, that 3D remember seeing years ago, was a slender and very attractive lady stretched out seductively on a chaise lounge saying, "Instead of a sweat, I reach for a Camel." And where did 3D put that pack?...oh, forgot, he quit years and years and years ago...

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cbk amsterdam as of 12:00, 2nd April, will be at a new address: Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71. For more info: www.cbkamsterdam.nl

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So, you say you KNOW how to drive a car...or not to..."In a survey by GMAC Insurance of more than 5,000 drivers, 8% admitted to changing clothes while their cars were in gear and 62% copped to eating. Other studies have shown that people routinely apply makeup, shave, read magazines and books and even insert their contact lenses while in the drivers seat." Then you probably read about the woman who, about two weeks ago, was arrested for not only breast feeding her baby while driving but talking on her cell phone at the same time. She said, "I wasn't about to let my baby go hungry!" Yes, well, then again, well...yes, but....

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Hmmm...no donations* this week! Must mean the mail service is getting worse: PB 15541, 1001NA Amsterdam. (*An unpaid advertisement.)

REVIEWS:

Last Friday there was an open house at the Italian Cultural Institute. Sample language leasons were offered as well as a wine tasting and the wine was, of course, Italian, both red and white. Also on the program was a performance by eight people. We were later told that they are participants in the Institutes' Italian language program. The performance was conceptual and consisted of modern dance, mime and two clowns. Called the "Theater La Bottega Fanstica," it featured routines that included a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like.

The Institute has become very active since the arrival of its new director about two years ago. There have been a series of open houses with an Italian buffett and prizes to those attending. The Institute has also sponsored art exhibits with emphasis on photography; and a film series---one is coming up this week at the Film Museum. The festival is organized by the New Italian Cinema Events which is in its 15 years of screening notable Italian films. From 2nd to the 9th of April there will be a full program on recent Italian movies; and after that date, Italian classics. (See: www.nicefestival.org for titles.) But the music program has been perhaps the most exciting. Young musicians, from Italy, have performed at the Keizersgrachtkerk which is located next door to the Institute. And it is all FREE.

...And one thing leads to another. As 3D was leaving the Institute, last Friday, he was handed a card announcing a musical and video performance to be held on Sunday at De Iijsbreaker (Weesperzijde 23) by IL PONTE OLANDA-SICILIA and FREE. The program, "aqua/aria & water/lucht" opened with a "guitarist" alone on stage. Today, many guitarist come with additional equipment and this one was no exception. He had an electronic peddle arragement which he operated with his feet which allowed him to lay down a rhythm track that was looped and became the background sounds for his compositon.

The next item on the program was introduced in an unusual way. On the film screen, behind the quartet's instruments, we saw a pigeon happily cooing away. Suddenly, there was a bright yellow canary warbling his tune. Then a man and a woman walked onto the stage with bird call whistles in mouth. They were doing the sounds. More birds appeared on the screen and there was a warble here and a warble there...and everywhere, warbling...and the band played to it. Almost seemlessly we moved on to Chick Corea's composition "Desert Air." On the screen we were viewing the landscape from the back window of a moving car. Over the course of the piece, the camera would change its view going first to looking out the front window and finally from the side where we saw what looked like a chemical plant.

The next piece featured a woman playing a "violophone." It consisted of a violin's bridge with strings and a large horn like piece similar to the hearing aid used by people during the 19th century. On the screen we saw the antics of marine life below the surface of the sea. The final piece was introduced by guides on an Amsterdam sightseeing boat introducing the cruise in various languages as the boat begins it tour through the city's canals. The violin player provided a melodic introduction and background music to the spoken word; and she was followed by the bass player who provided a rather quick beat and a fast rhythm track. The percussionist and guitar player followed. But the climax was an unexpected musical lesson. On the screen we saw an animation which consisted of sea gulls, sea waves and fish under water. The seascape moved from right to left across the screen and at the far right there was a vertical black line down the screen. As the line passed over a gull the violinist played notes to fit the duration of the passage; the bass responded to the fish passing through the line; and the other instruments responded to the waves. It was a delightful cruise. www.myspace.com/ilponteolandasicilia; www.ilponte.olandasicilia@gmail.com

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WHAT YOU MISSED LAST WEEK:

Thursday:

At Projectruimte Retort (Aalsmeerweg 103) was a show titled "Raum" by Sebastiaan Majoor. The exhibition seems to have perhaps three themes: Beds/Bedrooms; Homeless People Sleeping "Accomodations;" and Anonymous People. The latter is defined by a man sticking his head into a hole in the ceiling of a room or the wall of a room; a man holding a sheet of paper before his face; and a man in a parka with a hood, but no face. The "homeless" we never see except when they are covered with their sleeping quilt or buried in their sleeping bag. The photos of the bedrooms are all about linear abstraction and perspectives. The word "Raum" is German for "space." The artist said that this was indeed the overall theme. Until 31st March. So, you're tooooo late...and that's tooooo bad! www.retortproject.nl

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Friday:

Chellerie (Raamgracht 58) had the work of an English artist, Lynda White. 3D has previously commented on this artist who was last seen at the Arti. The same piece in that exhibition for, I think, "New Members," was also in this show, to wit: Red theater chairs arranged in an haphazard way. In this show, there were three small paintings which could have been studies for the large piece even though each is completely different. Other pieces were geometric abstractions and one was enhanced by calligraphy. The artist had written line after line of text and some was written over the top of previous writing. Another noticable factor to her work is the subdued colors or sometime lack of any color. Nice work, but if you didn't GO...well, it's all over baby blue and ended Thursday, 2nd April. No price list, no web-site address and no artist was present...3D was told she was coming later. I guess she had better things to do...

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SM Bureau Amsterdam (Rosenstraat 58) has a group show, presented by the Electric Palm Tree, titled "The Demons of Comparisions," consisting mainly of video work, photography, typography, hip-hop...hip-hop?...and other things. Such "other things" include, at the space's entrance and on the floor, "one million black business cards." (No, 3D didn't count them). You can even "Burn Your Idol" which is a "1,000 CD-R Collection Project." So, "Please Come Join and Burn Your Idol at: www.burnyouridol.yesnowave.com" whatever that is all about. The site is in English as well as another language that 3D could not identify which is a mystery to his astute linguistic para-normal extraordinary psychic talents...but, I digress.

There was a slide show lasting 26 minutes with captions. The slides were stills from videos which projected images of South Korea from the country side to the city to the interior of modern buildings. The captions formed a text which told a simple story. This was immediately followed with a performance by Jeuno Kim titled "Finders Keepers" in which she delivered a fictitious lecture and represented the University of Barbaria. It was entertaining if only for the fact that it was completely meaningless in content as well as being an intellectual cliche which ended with this statement: "'I see,' said the blind man to his deaf wife!" Until 17th May. www.smba.nl www.coscoprojects.org www.electricpalmtree.org

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Saturday:

At De Witte Voet (Kerkstraat 135) is a duo act consisting of husband and wife. Woman first: Anne Ausloos works in toilet paper. Toilet paper? Well, art is sometimes the butt of jokes....whoops; 3D means in the end it all comes out...no, no, he doesnt mean that...anyway, she takes a roll of the white stuff that's only good for...damn, there he goes again...and soaks it in water and reconfigures its shape or rearranges it in some way and then hangs it all out to dry. Perfect art for the bathroom and, 3D might add, utilitarian. (Small @ 250 euro; medium @ 500 euro and large @ 750 euro.)

Her partner, Paul Ausloos, is a photographer and his theme is to do still lifes with the basic imagery repeated over and over. We see bowls, vases and glass jars on the same table in each of the six examples hanging. And in each there is a vagueness; the objects seem to merge into one piece to form a unified composition. The closest to any real color is a pale blue. (600 euro and that includes the frame.) Until 29th April. www.galeriedewittevoet.nl

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Two artists are also showing at AdK Actuele Kunst (Prinsengracht 534), Dick Spyer and Rijnder Kamerbeek. The latter's style crosses frontiers of concepts. In one composition he goes from representational to expressionistic and sometimes even does it all, minimally. In nearly all his oils he relies only on black and shades of gray. From time-to-time there is a flash of color but it appears to be no more than an after thought. One series is figurative representational done in the style of motion photography. That is he paints the figures and in one sweeping brush stroke motion he smeers them. Nice effect. The latter piece is in six canvases but priced as one: 40x50 cms., @ 1,700 euro. (Also 180x130 cms., @ 1,900 euro.)

Dick Spyer work is always a challenge to assign to any one category. He is a geometric abstractionist with heavy concentration on the linear. The color arragements and accents are more expressionistic and finally you have an element of the figurative present: All these elements are present in one piece and constitute a compositon that can appear erratic in their chaos. Of course, the results is that it is hard to take your eyes off them. (28x40 cms., acrylic, graphite on linen @ 1,400 euro; 100x140 cms., same material @ 4,000 euro.) Until 3rd May. www.adkactuelekunst.nl

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Galerie Witteveen (Keizersgracht 538) hosted three artist whose names are household words to the Dutch art community. Hugo Kaagman retains his iconic style but does it all sort of differently. A few pieces still reflect the Dutch Delft Blue elements and design, but for the most part we see comic strip like characters, MM in parallelism and even Jeff Koons. (90x70 cms., acyrlic, air brush, stencils on canvas @ 3,000 euros.)

Rob Scholte is doing something different with his simple and childlike drawings or are they meant to be cartoons on glass. The nine pieces hanging are done with felt pen markers and bear such balloon captions as "Blasphemy," "White Smoke," "black cloud,""Think" and "Stonehedge" all written in the one piece. Each work has a look of a color test pattern. That is, at the top is a nearly transparent red/orange color followed by yellow disolving into green. Also he has five ceramic columns (220 cms., high) which are multicolored and held together by silicon and a steel rod. (@ 12,000 euro.) (Cartoons, about A3 @ 1,600 euro.)

Finally, there is the work of Tim Benjamin who paints sort of sci-fi like imagery with subdued shades of blue and purples. One piece is described as an object about one-by-one meter. It is a collage of newspaper' front pages; an old fashion alarm clock; a shovel and a magnet. All are in red. (@4,00 euro.) (100x120 cms., acrylic on canvas @ 4,000 euro.)

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It is another group show at Serieuze Zaken Studioos (Lauriergracht 96). More than eight artists are represented in about all forms and techniques and styles imaginable. There is painting, photography, watercolor work (Armen Eloyan, @ 5,000-6,000 euro); ceramic; stylish lighting fixtures; and a nice surprise. The latter is the work of Max Natkiel and is his b/w photo work from the 80s featuring the punk movement that hung out at the Paradiso and Melkweg (@ 1,000 euro). Other artists include Dong Wook Lee to Lou Reed. Prices range from 100 euro (Vases by Norman Trapman) to 15,000 euro (Yang Fudong). Until 30th April www.serieuzezaken.info

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Patrick McGrath is at "witzenhausen GALLERY" (Hazenstraat 60). His presentation is the Seven Deadly Sins: Revisited and Updated, and shows under the title, "sins and syncretisms." His style reflects the Renaissance painters in compostion and symbolism, but the style is more Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), an American painter. He adds another element to this simple theme and that is a comparison with the deadly sins to their practioners of today, "corporate Greed" being a primary example. Until 25th April. www.ooops, no web-site address on invite.

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There is a new gallery in town. Galerie Duivelseiland is located on Pieter Baststraat 6, at the edge of De Pijp. This was their third exhibition and the first that 3D has seen. He is looking forward to the future. Maartje van den Noort's "Zoiets als thuis" is good work, in two words. What is hanging is predominately drawings and etches. The drawings tend to have a conceptual edge to them in their style while, at the same time, they are both representational and figurative, but with that added something. The etches are more conventional in both their imagery and style. One canvas is a representational linear abstraction of a street scene with the added nuances of red thread which represents overhead electric wiring. A large canvas, of about two-by-two meters, is a minimal portrait work. The artist also does fabric. Damn, forgot to check the price list. Until 9th May. The artist' web-site: www.restored.nl www.duivelseiland.nl

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Sunday:

At De Iijsbreaker (Weesperzijde 23) are the photographs of Bart Koetsier. He mixes many currently popular techniques into one. We see motion photography which becomes more dramamtic because of Koetsier's reliance of ambient light. As a result, these b/w photos of Amsterdam' scenes take on a whole different illusion from what we see around us. www.bartkoetsier.nl

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WHAT IS HAPPENING THIS WEEK:

Reminder: Any time you see (?) it is meant to indicate that the source info may not be correct; and the "*" signifies that the time could be wrong. Check the web-site or phone ahead and don't put the blame on 3D...heavens to Betsy, especially not 3D...got enough problems of his own...

WEDNESDAY: 1st April, 2009

___?___ Bijenkorf (Dam). Henk Veen will paint over a period of eleven days (until 13th April), at this department store, at various times, from as early as 09:30 until 21:00; and with various people, plus music. This is his "BN-er project in de Bijenkorf Amsterdam." Sponsored by the Cruyff-Foundation. www.henkveen.nl; www.cruyff-foundation.org

(?)17-19:00 Melkweg Galerie (Marnixstraat 234, enter Jo's Cafe). "Puur. Trotse Tienermoeders, MeRy," Melanie Rijkers. www.mery.nl

THURSDAY: 2nd April

20:30 De Brakke Grond (VCC, Nes 45). "Sonic Connections, Pop & Rock der Lage Landen." A full program that continues through the 4th April. There is also a workshop for aspiring "rock journalist." The cost is 25 euros and includes FREE entry into the program's presentations. For workshop, RSVP to: nine.vincx@brakkegrond.nl Every night there is a DJ and "surprise acts." Also: www.myspace.com/sonicconnections; and www.brakkegrond.nl

FRIDAY: 3rd April

17-19:00 MLB (Witte de Withstraat 32). "Opening Rendezvous with Nature Milly van Praag." Hmmm, not sure what this is all about. No web-site on invite.

17:00 Chellerie (Raamgracht 58). Fardou Keuning, "Crisis," sculpture. www.fardoukeuning.blogspot.nl

18:00 Arti et Amicitiae (Rokin 112). Annabelle Howland, "Liminal Cuts," photos; + "Concept Film II," four film makers show conceptual work + an audiovisual installation...and there is something about a library... www.arti.nl

20:00 Keizersgrachtkerk (Keizersgracht 566). 3D reviewed another happening sponsored by the Italian Institure of Culrure above. This is their FREE offering for this week: "In Concert: Arie d'opera/Opera Aria." a total of 14 will be performed. RSVP: iicamsterdam@esteri.it; More info: www.iicamsterdam.esteri.nl

SATRUDAY: 4th April

SATURDAY: 4th April

14:00 Maison Descartes (Vijzelsgracht 2). Lecture by Raphaël Zarka, "Coninuum Mechanics: Skateboarding Practices & Reconstruction of Spaces." A real mouthful! Sponsored by Motive Gallery. RSVP: enter@motivegallery.nl

16-19:00 Motive Gallery (Elandsgracht 10). This is the preview of the exhibition mentioned above. Plus, daily, during the run of the exhibition, there is a screening, at 17:00, of "Species of Spaces in Skateboarding," (40 min). www.motivegallery.nl

16-19:00 GALLERY LL (Koninginneweg 83). "Amsterdamse Stadsgezichten II," Gerar Huysman. oil paintings. www.galleryll.com

16-18:00 Galerie Mokum (Oudezijds Voorburgwal 334). Ellen de Groot and Koos van Keulen, both do portraits. www.galeriemokum.com

16-18:00 ART A CASA (Kerkstraat 411). Astrid Trügg, paintings and mixed technique on wood. www.artacasa.nl

16-18:00 Galerie Clement (Prinsengracht 843). Jan Baas, paintings; and Gijs van Noort, paintings and drawings. www.galerie-clement.nl

16-18:00 Gallery nine (Keizersgracht 552). Cecilia Vissers. www.gallerynine.nl

16-18:00 GALERIE bart (Bloemgracht 2). Raoul Kramer, "Together/Apart." "The artist presents a picture of contemporary life in China's cities and countryside." www.galeriebart.nl

(?)17-19:00 Aschenbach & Hofland Galleries (Bilderdijkstraat 165). "Baker Street," Morgan Betz, paintings and sculpture. www.xs2art.com

17-19:00 SLEWE (Kerkstraat 105). Joris Geurts. www.slewe.nl

(?)17-19:00 Galerie D. Stigter (Elandstraat 90). Rezi van Lankveld and Tim Stoner. www.dianstigter.nl

(?) g_i_s_t AMSTERDAM (Veemkade 358). Seet van Hout, "Red Greenhousë." www.gistgalerie.nl

17-20:00 Salon Artistique Sexpot Gallery [sic]. (Herengracht 275). "Baby...like that." "In today's world the word baby has become a double entendre...A group show of international artists in various media. Whether your changing diapers or shouting from your bedroom, we promise you'll be rattled." ...And 3D assumes that they will supply the rattles. Hey, what about strawberry flavored pacifiers? No web-site address on invite. Bring you own diapers...they'll provide the s***. Shame on you 3D. Such language and THIS is a family newsletter....

17-20:00 Soledad Senlle Gallery (Sloterkade 171). Nan Hoover, "Early video works and late works on paper." Her work is generally ALL b/w and conceptual. She died last summer. www.soledad.nl

SUNDAY: 5th April

13:00 XPO/WGKUNST (M.v.B. Bastiaansestraat 28). "Oud-West te Gek," nine artists. www.amsterdam.oudwest.nl

14:00 SmartProjectSpace (Arie Biemondstraat 105). Lecture: "When Can an Exhibition be a Work of Art?" by Alex Farquhnrson + "F for Fake: Notes on the Signature, Authorship and Authority," by Simon Sheikh. FREE. www.smartprojectspace.net

14-17:00 Tassenmuseum (Herengracht ____). "Beastie Bags." The bag maker Hermine van Ziel will talk about and demonstrate various leather types including exotic skins." Also, both on Sat and Sun there are workshops for kids between 8 and 12 from 13:30-14:30 and 15-16:00. "Children will be given the challenge of making an animal inspired bag." RSVP: info@tassenmuseum.nl give your name and number of participants....These activities are FREE....": but, FREE for children up to 18 and those above pay 50% discount.

16-18:00 ABC TREEHOUSE (Voetboogstraat 11). "Bron (Source)," Harald Seiwert, Tia Ryan, Repromasters and "Laser 3.14," Amsterdam's own street poet.

16-18:00 Galerie 'Eewal' Amsterdam (Czaar Peterstraat 153). Valentijn van der Heide, "Der Tod hält mich wach," "Abberkerkse aarde, electrolitisch, verguld koper, ebbenhout." Also, Thea Tolsma, "de 7 werken van barmhartigheid," rubber necklaces.

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Another busy week...but get use to it, the days and weeks are always busy in Amsterdam. If you keep up with everything you don't need a health/spa club membership nor a personal trainer, just a bike and the 3D List and it is away we go off and unto the streets of Amsterdam and let me take you there and 3D will show you something you will like...and, hopefully, BUY. Hey, folks, that's what it is ALL about: Spending down-to-earth cash on lighter-than-air art. "Lighter than air?" Sure, you'll get high on it! No crashing, no hangovers and non regret.

...And there goes 3D rising to a new level in an hot air balloon with this message on its side, "Art for Sail"...no, "FOR SALE," dummy...oh where are those notes....