senectitude
At SFMOMA - 2006 SECA Art Award: Sarah Cain, Kota Ezawa, Amy Franceschini, Mitzi Pederson, Leslie Shows. Every two years SMFOMA's Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art chooses five artists that represent for them the best and brightest of the local art scene, and then all the selected artists get a group show at the museum. The only artist who is already very familiar to me is Ezawa, whose rendering of the O.J. Simpson verdict first caught my attention at Yerba Buena almost five years ago and whose work I have been following with interest ever since. Definitely go check out his animation of Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson's infamous honeymoon video. I also loved Leslie Shows' oversize Anselm-Kiefer-esque geological painting-collages, but it was Amy Franceschini's part of the show that had me bouncing up and down in the gallery. She is attempting to revive Victory Gardens in San Francisco, and alongside her archival materials of local WWII gardens she has her current schemes and implements, including seed packets, posters advertising garden-building parties, and bike-barrows to transport seedlings and mulch. Nothing electrifies me like activism coupled with truly awesome design.
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"What's the catch?"
"The catch is it's dangerous. Please do it."
"That ain't the catch. It's the fun."
Science Friday:
Skin home to bacterial zoo | Discovery News | LiveScience |
Mandatory STD vaccine stirs debate | NPR | KWTX |
I'm DJing this weekend:
Matokie
Sunday morning
9am-noon PST, Sunday February 11
KALX Berkeley 90.7fm
Also on Saturday the PLUG Music Cartel will be holding its 2007 Independent Music Awards, for which KALX has been nominated in the Best Non-commercial Radio Station category for the third year in a row (along with some other great stations like WFMU and KUSF). Go to the PLUG website to see if we win. I guess I could have announced this while voting was still going on, huh.
Silencing Democracy:
Stephen Colbert on the lack of debate on the Iraq War: It looks like the only way we can bring democracy there is to silence it here.
