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Well, December is here, and I wanted to say thank you to everyone who has been visiting this silly blog and following my art. I haven’t been able to post as often this year as I would have liked to, but I have been working like crazy on a museum show in Dec. 2010 and come this January, I will start showing you all in-progress shots of what I have been up to, and the new website will be up and contests will happen too, and the like. Until then I hope you all have outstanding holidays and find much love and joy and hugs too this season.

Happy Happy Holiday Holiday!
-Joe

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Oh, and all the prints available now at joesorren.com are 30% off this holiday season. Click here to see what is available at the online store.

Here are a few photos from my first Imogene pass Run. It was so amazing up there!

(The Imogene Pass Run is a 17.1 mile point-to-point mountain race within the western San Juan mountains of Colorado, run along a route which connects the towns of Ouray (7810 ft.) and Telluride (8820 ft.) by way of 13,120 foot Imogene Pass).

Here is a pic I took while being in last place, lol, really!
This seems to happen to me in every race. I just prefer to start  s.. l.. o.. w..

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about 1/3 way up…

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at the summit, looking down the other side

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my pal, Matt Koons. He ran it in flip-flops.

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about 1/2 way down the other side…

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That night was so beautiful. It snowed and I slept…

One of the best things about living in northern Arizona is the surrounding forest and trail system. Here are some photos I shot yesterday running around on the mountain. The summers here are just .. . wow.

Next week I am off to New York to further develop a collaborative show with Jud Bergeron at Josh Liner’s Gallery (scheduled for March 2010, more on that soon). I will try to post pics along the way.

There are also newly completed paintings and sculptures now drying and going through the final glazing stages, etc. I will post more about them later this month.

I hope you all are getting out there and getting dirty, wooo summer!…

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(this tree was totally showing off)

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Whenever I spent time with, “Where the Wild Things Are,” as a kid in the early seventies. I remember staring at the pictures, those textures, and the characters, and the transition of room to outsideness, and the feelings that evoked; that imagination is real, and other worlds are happening, and to believe in that is to sidestep a lifetime of staring into the box (as Lyle would say). Thats alot for a book to teach a 4 yr. old. Needless to say, I am so stoked to see this movie. The trailer has the feel already. Spike is so good. I am happy he finally got to make this movie the right way. And “Wake Up” by Arcade Fire never sounded so right. Damn…

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Here is a photo I shot while hiking around Telluride this past weekend. It was a spectacular weekend with David Byrne as the weekend’s standout performer (surprise surprise). The standout song, however, was a Conor Oberst song titled:
I don’t wanna die (in the hospital):

Last weekend I went out to Madison, Wisconsin to run a 1/2 Marathon with my sister, Amy. It was such a blast! Here is a forum link about it at runners world:

http://www.runnersworld.com/community/forums

Painting in Progress : One

(I moved this link to it’s own tab, click the “painting in progess” tab
up at the top of this page to view)