I found out that local artists and business owners (Bella Arte Studio) Monica Spain and Marco Bell (a Ringling College alumn) are going to have their mural work showing up in the background on tonight’s airing of HBO’s big new hit, Treme. 
I’ve written about Treme before — it’s an HBO television series about life in the Big Easy after Hurricane Kat took a swipe out of the city. I’m not sure but I think Spain and Bell have ties to N’awlins. At the very least, they’ve done artwork there — since their mural will be in the background of a key scene in tonight’s program.
Anyway, I’m a big fan of the show so far and am interested to see the work of local artists showing up on HBO signature shows, for crying out loud! Very cool. I didn’t know anything about Bella Arte until I just searched for them online and look at this incredible tiger mural!!!
I am hoping to build a new home for myself sometime in the not too distant future (whenever that big book deal comes through, right?!) and would love to have something like this. Maybe not a tiger … um, but how ’bout a giant Boomer?