Friday, December 4, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Monday, June 8, 2009
"Swimming Citys" by Swoon
Swoon’s Swimming Cities of Serenissima, her latest fleet of handbuilt raft sculptures, launched into the Adriatic Sea in Slovenia and floated into Venice in time for the Biennale.
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Friday, May 29, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Barry Obama
Lisa Jack a student of photography at Occidental College, sought a striking subject for a portrait project and was tipped off about a charismatic freshman named “Barry” Obama who would make an ideal subject. After the shoot, these images would remain locked away for the next 28 years, until a dare from a friend triggered Lisa Jack to seek them out.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
voxel
Not To Scale - Ubik ~ Voxel from ventilate.ca on Vimeo.
London-based directing duo Ubik made this video based on 3 reference words “refresh, renewal, rejeuvenation". I like the grid based pixel style, its a good mash up of computer graphic styles.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Quimby The Mouse
Quimby The Mouse from This American Life on Vimeo.
A video put together by Chris Ware for our spring 2009 event "This American Life -- Live!" -- in which Ira Glass hosts an actual episode of the radio program, performed onstage by some of our favorite contributors. Dan Savage, Starlee Kine, and Mike Birbiglia told stories; David Rakoff and Dave Hill conducted a ‘special investigation. Plus, additional visuals by Arthur Jones, and a very special appearance by Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer!
Monday, May 11, 2009
We shall go to this as well:
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
- Nick Cave, Photo: James Prinz
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In an exhibit that the New York Times labeled "must be seen to be believed," dancer and visual artist Nick Cave (not to be confused with the musician of the same name) debuts his hand-sewn collection of Soundsuits. The outfits are wearable art that draws on elements as diverse as African ceremonial garb and runway haute couture, and their aesthetics alone are worth a gander; but it's once the suits start to move that the real magic happens. Cave's design expertise, combined with his penchant for found materials, results in suits that, when worn, produce sounds both ethereal and spooky. Visit on a day that features free Soundsuit demonstrations, and you will literally see (and hear) art in motion.
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Opens Friday Mar 27 (8–11pm)
Mar 28 – July 5
Thursdays (noon–8pm)
Fridays–Sundays (noon–5pm)
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission St)
415.978.2787
I want to go to there
Art Inside/Outside: Artist Environments
From Kurt Schwitter's Merzbau to Donald Judd's Marfa, Texas ranch, artists have long made their homes extensions of their studios, and vice versa. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given its reputation as a refuge for creative outsiders, California is home to some of the most spectacular contemporary examples of buildings that are themselves mediums for artistic expression. Inside/Outside offers a tour of some of the Golden State's most fascinating artistic environs, from Sam Rodia's monumental Watts Towers in LA to a full-scale recreation of skate and surf artist Mike Shine's Bolinas shack, putting a whole new gloss on "home decor."
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Mar 6 – May 24
Mondays–Tuesdays (11am–6pm)
Thursdays–Fridays (11am–6pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (11am–5pm)
- Where
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Museum of Craft and Folk Art (51 Yerba Buena Ln)
415.227.4888
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
oh and go see this too!
Paul McCarthy: Low Life Slow Life: Part 2
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- Rachel Khedoori, Butter Cave (2007), Photo: A. Burger, Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
Paul McCarthy's career can be described as a movement from liquids to solids. The artist's early performance-based work — which found him smearing all manner of foodstuffs and paint over his naked body — has since given way to large-scale installations and sculptures that are no less disturbing in their uncanny blend of kitsch and abjection. Low Life Slow Life: Part 2 continues in the same vein as McCarthy's earlier exhibit at CCA's Wattis Institute: a catalog of some of the artist's "favorite things" (made by the likes of Walt Disney, Dennis Oppenheim, Lil Picard, and others) that have impacted his work since the 1970s.
go see this on friday!
Music: Classical Hauschka w/ Magik*Magik Orchestra
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- Hauschka
Like John Cage and his treated pianos Dusseldorf-based pianist Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) likes to play dress up with his instrument. The rule-breaking minimalist clamps wedges of leather, felt, and rubber between the strings; prepares the hammers with aluminum paper; weaves guitar strings around the piano's guts; and holds everything down with gaffer's tape. His arrangements sound orchestral, with singing strings and delicate layering, but he takes as much from electronica as from the classical canon.
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- Price
- $15
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Friday May 8 (7:30pm)
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Cafe du Nord (2170 Market St)
415.861.5016
