{"id":1223,"date":"2011-08-05T21:44:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T04:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2011-08-05T21:44:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T04:44:09","slug":"funky-fresh-the-street-mrkt-faire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/05\/funky-fresh-the-street-mrkt-faire\/","title":{"rendered":"Funky Fresh: the Street Mrkt Faire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1233\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1233\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/street-mrkt-2011-a.jpg\" alt=\"sandi at street mrkt 2011\" title=\"street-mrkt-2011-a\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/street-mrkt-2011-a.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/street-mrkt-2011-a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/street-mrkt-2011-a-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southfirstfridays.com\/street-mrkt\/\">Street Mrkt<\/a> fair is an independent art festival held at First Fridays in downtown San Jose. There are dozens of small booths each with an indie artist&#8217;s unique artworks, including my wife, Sandi Billingsley&#8217;s work under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studiosandi.com\/\">Studio Sandi banner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1232\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1232\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/street-mrkt-2011-b.jpg\" alt=\"sandi's booth from the outside\" title=\"street-mrkt-2011-b\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/street-mrkt-2011-b.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/street-mrkt-2011-b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/street-mrkt-2011-b-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artcarfest.com\/schedule.html\">ArtCar festival<\/a> in a nearby parking lot, a spoken word artist as MC, and a sequence of live bands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1234\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1234\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/street-mrkt-2011-c.jpg\" alt=\"the live music rocks\" title=\"street-mrkt-2011-c\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/street-mrkt-2011-c.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/street-mrkt-2011-c-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/street-mrkt-2011-c-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I really love the funky, eclectic flavor of the San Jose art community. It reminds me a lot of the Atlanta art scene, which was just exploding when I left. It&#8217;s real, earnest, and odd, but not pretentious, and people have a lot of fun here creating and soaking up creation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1239\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1239\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/street-mrkt-2011-d.jpg\" alt=\"the funky flavor of the friday festival\" title=\"street-mrkt-2011-d\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/street-mrkt-2011-d.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/street-mrkt-2011-d-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/street-mrkt-2011-d-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Street Mrkt fair is going on right now, August 5th, until 11pm. I&#8217;ve heard rumors it will also be at the next First Friday, September 2nd. Check it out!<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Street Mrkt fair is an independent art festival held at First Fridays in downtown San Jose. There are dozens of small booths each with an indie artist&#8217;s unique artworks,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[82,83,5],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-studio-sandi","tag-the-art-scene","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}