Georges & Cérika will be launching their brand new CD “Summer Solstice - Live in Florence” Friday July 3rd at SideStreet Bistro.
The French Bohemians will be available to autograph CDs from 5 to 9 PM .
They will also perform Live a few songs from their repertoire & from their newly released CD.

The Album is a mastered version of their Live performance captured on the evening of June 20th 2009 at SideStreet Bistro.

Very special thanks to our friends Anthony & Emilia of SideStreet Bistro for their warm support & their trust as hosts that allowed us to create that magical evening on the front patio of their great Bistro place.

This is an open invitation to everyone & a farewell as this is going to be one of the last musical appearances of Georges & Cérika in Florence.

After their 4th of July week-end at Florence Old Town Market, they will be preparing for a trip up in Canada.

Florence & all the beauty they encountered through the great people they met here will remain forever in their Bohemian hearts .

Thank you Florence!

G & C

French Bohemian artists Georges & Cerika are currently performing Live on Saturdays at Side Steet Bistro.

Side Steet Bistro
Saturdays 8 PM to 11 PM
165 Maple street, just across from the Siuslaw News office, one block from Bay Street in Old Town Florence. Reservations are recommended (541-997-1195).

They also appear Sundays in the afternoon on the outdoor stage at Florence Old Town Week-End Market.

Cerika is currently exhibiting her Bohemian Jewelry & Artwork Saturdays & Sundays at the Florence Old Town Week-End Market.

Cerika’s 2009 Sculptural piece called “The Peace Maker” is an ode to the Native American Culture & its Sacred Ceremonials. A piece of outstanding beauty respectfully representing the Sacred Elements & Symbolism of the First Nations Medecine Man’s Purification Ceremonial Tools.

Did you know that your camera enabled computer can spy on you? Did you know that by watching that video or playing that cute game you may be allowing a site to watch you? Did you know that YouTube seems to be one such site?

Lean how to stop this here:

The Problem
We’ll spare you the nitty-gritty details of how technically they do it.
Lets only say that the Macromedia (now Adobe) Flash player (installed on most browsers) allows by default an access to your camera & microphone. Its truly amazing that a so-called multimedia “Player” of the caliber of Macromedia Flash which you will find fully activated in most if not all current browsers (FireFox, Microsoft Internet Explorer,etc) has by default this function enabled. By default means: the way it is set when installed the first time around. You will need to manually modify this installation in order to protect yourself from being spied by your own Adobe Flash Player.
But here’s the catch: the Adobe Flash Player does NOT come with a console or anything that allows you to modify its configuration other than by one case/website at the time. Great!
We’ll need Dr Web’s help on this one…

Dr Web’s preferred solution

Point your browser at Macromedia’s (now Adobe) settings manager by
Clicking Here

This will bring you to a web page that will allow you to change the global settings of your individual Flash Player. Ouf! Thank God!

The relevant portion of the page is shown below:

As you can see, we have two options:
1) Always deny
2) Always ask

Note how our new setting will now apply to all cases.
That’s good news because otherwise we would have to set a preference for each new occurence of a Flash animation on every new website we’ would be visiting.That’s going to save us a lot of aggravation and certainly add a lot more time to our life lenght expectancy

Which option is best for you?

Dr Web recommends “Always ask” because this option still allows you to use video conference when you need it.

If you don’t need that, then simply Click on “Always deny…”.

You will see a confirmation dialog, as shown below:

Click on “Confirm”.

That’s it. We should now be OK… well from the Flash Player anyway.

In the meantime, please feel free to come & visit my website . I’m always there if you need help with anything that caries a chip

Dr Web

This week-end, Georges & Cerika will be exhibiting at Florence Old Town Market. Saturday from 10 to 6 & Sunday from 11 to 6.

The French Bohemians will be performing at Florence Old Town Market Sunday afternoon & also Saturday from 8 PM to closing at Side Street Bistro 165 Maple street, just across from the Siuslaw News office, one block from Bay Street in Old Town Florence. Reservations are recommended (541-997-1195).

Check them out while you can. They wont be in Florence forever you know!

Bohemian wisdom thought of the week:
“The only difference between Hell & Heaven is that in Heaven everybody cares for each other .”

Bohemian Nano-Fusion Portable Paintings by Cerika

Come & join Georges and Cerika this coming Saturday at Side Street Bistro for an evening of fine dining & Live French Bohemian music.
Show starts at 8 PM.

About Side Street Bistro
SideStreet Bistro is located in Florence, Oregon at 165 Maple street, just across from the Siuslaw News office, one block from Bay Street in Old Town. Reservations are recommended (541-997-1195) as they are small and fill up quickly.

Beside being one of the finest & most creative dining in town, they are also one of the very few to have a wood fired oven.

Chef & owner Antony Reichenbach has to say the least a very impressive cuisine background that you may be interested in browsing here.

There is so much to love about Side Street Bistro. We are looking forward to meet you there for an outstanding evening of fine food, great ambiance & Live French Bohemian music by the fire place.

You certainly owe it to yourself not to miss this one if you happen to be in Florence this week-end

View from the boardwalk at FOT Market

It’s a go!
The opening of Florence Old Town Week-End Market.
Every Saturday & Sunday from now on through the end of October
Very promissing season as the market now offers Live Stage Music.
Music stage is angeled by talented singer/songwriter/sound engineer Kaulean O’Shaughnessy of Eugene.
Georges & Cerika got on stage to play a few French Bohemian songs and later on also joined Kaulean and its band for a couple of theirs.
The market is growing in quality & originality by the minute thanks to the loving care of market manager Rich Wiget and his awesome team.
If interested in participating in the 2009 edition you can get all the information here.
Long & prosperous life to one of the very best week-end market on the Oregon Coast !!

Spiral Of Life
Copper Ensemble (Necklace & Earings) by Cerika
from her 2009 Copper Collection

We’re exhibiting at the Rhododendron Festival here in Florence, Oregon.
May 15th-16th & 17th.

Wednesday: The Carnival’s already in town!

This is where we’re going to be…
On the boardwalk by the Marina in Old Town Florence
Thursday: Empty for now…but…

Friday: it’s starting…

Da Booth…

Ride the bike to create your Ice Cone!

One of Cerika’s New Nano Paintings

Today, we are going to Portland for a street exhibition. It’s called the “Last Thursday of the month on Alberta Street”. We’re going with our friend James Lais of Florence who’s also a Glasswork artist (check his website at JLais.com ).

All of us will be exhibiting on Alberta Street from about 3 to 10PM. May also go & see if we can meet some musicians over there and play a few notes. This is going to be our very first visit to Portland. We’re excited.

Next Saturday, we will be at the Florence Event Center for the “Mother’s Day Show”.

If next Sunday happens to be sunny, we’ll exhibit in front of 1285 Bay Street at Resto Bar in Old Town Florence.

In the coming weeks…We also will be exhibiting our Bohemian Arts & Crafts at the 102th edition of the “Rhody Days Festival” here in Florence on the 15-16-17th of May at the marina by the boardwalk in Old Town Florence.

Hope to see you there also!

Cheers!

This one is our Live French Bohemian version of Leonard Cohen’s song “Dance Me”. It was recorder December 23rd 2008 on one of our “Live” performances at Twelve 85 RestoBar on Bay Street, Old Town Florence. In spite of the very poor lighting situation there, it came out reasonnably good.

Wanted to do that for a while now. So here it is: the new Face of our maGik Silver Bus Blog. More colors, more “homy” we think. Just in time for spring and the new summer season.
Tell us what you think!