101 posts tagged “art”

Bread and Tulips

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"Is it true that you're on drugs?"
"Who told you that?"
"Aunt Ketty."
"Mom, that's not true. Weed is not a drug."
"No? Then what is it?"
"Weed." 

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"I said, is this your bitch? Cause if it is your bitch, you better shut your bitch up."
"Bitch, are you mouthing off again? I'm sorry man, it's just so hard to keep them in line now'a'days."

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Science Friday:
Hong Kong on high flu alert | TIME | International Herald Tribune |
Ground control to Major Dextre? | Scientific American | Houston Chronicle |

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Tomorrow:

• Jordan Eagles at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
• Landscape, Nature, and Space at Bucheon Gallery
• Sholay at SFMOMA

I'm DJing this weekend:
Matokie
Sunday morning
9am - noon PST, Sunday, March 23
KALX Berkeley 90.7fm
I'm going to see if I can't get Sunday morning as a regular slot again, but in the meantime this is an Easter Sunday one-off.  I hope you can listen!

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At Haines Gallery - Mike Henderson and William Powhida.  I missed the opening last night in favor of quality time with my girls (Noodle Theory + Project Runway premiere = love), but I might try to get over there today if I have time to run out at lunch.  Maybe hit SFMOMA while I'm at it.  Though now I think I'm just being greedy.

Science Thursday:
Chocolaty goodness is nothing new | National Geographic | Los Angeles Times |
Lady condoms tighten up | New York Times |

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At Root Division -  The Gun Show.  I do seem to be attracted toward the darker side of things right now, which is why this show appeals to me.  I'm going to hit the opening Saturday night after I hear Lydia Lunch and Arthur Nersesian in Berkeley.  Let me know if you'd like to join me!

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Eastern Promises: Speaking of dark and moody.  This movie is so astonishingly good, it gives me yet more respect for David Cronenberg as a director and Viggo Mortenson as an actor.  The story is extremely gripping, and the pieces fall into place like an elegant puzzle.  I'm so interested that Cronenberg is moving away from science-fiction-type stories into this gritty realism, as if metaphor just isn't going to cut it for him anymore.  I had to close my eyes during the violence though, because damn it is brutal and Cronenberg refuses to move his camera or cut away.  Too bad for me because in one of the scenes Viggo is completely starkers.  I'm sure you've already heard about that though.

Science Thursday:
Don't touch that nano dial | WIRED | National Geographic |
Meet your cousin; he can fly | Telegraph, UK | Science Mode |

The Ruling Class - Criterion Collection

"He can't forget being rejected by his mother and father at the age of 11. They sent him away, alone, into a primitive community of licensed bullies and pederasts."
"You mean he went to public school."
"Exactly."

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"Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over."

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At San Jose State University - The X-Ray Project: Inside Terrorism.  I'd like to get down to SJSU next weekend to see this show, which displays X-rays and CT-scans from hospitals in Jerusalem to examine ideas about terrorism and specifically its effects on civilians.  Intense for sure.

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A perfect end to the day: 'Hotel' from Twelve Houses of Today by Gerd Arntz, Germany, 1927

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At Ratio 3 - Takeshi Murata: Escape Spirit VideoSlime.  Ratio 3 has a new space, and expanded hours!  About the show: "Takeshi Murata's new video furthers his exploration into digital abstraction. For this piece, Murata employs existing film footage of nature and chimpanzees, giving the viewer a connection to recognizable images that continuously pulsate and liquefy. The powerful combination of shifting colors and moving fluid shapes offer an intense experience in which the viewer witnesses the possible devolution of a species. This is the U.S. debut of Escape Spirit VideoSlime."

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At 20 GOTO 10 - Joe Grand: When Electronics Become Art.  20 GOTO 10: A fairly new gallery in the Tenderloin with one of the genuinely best names ever.  Joe Grand: "Involved in electronics since the age of 7, Joe works on secret projects for his company, Grand Idea Studio, and is a well-known electrical engineer and hardware hacker. He now lives in San Francisco, is the author of two books, contributor to four others, on the technical advisory board of MAKE Magazine, and is a co-host of an upcoming engineering build show for Discovery Channel."  Match made in heaven!

I woke up yesterday morning with very little desire to leave my house, so I missed out on the Día de los Muertos festival in Fruitvale Village and the Cardboard Tube Fighting League tournament that took place late yesterday afternoon in Justin Herman Plaza, though undoubtedly I would have found said events both healing and cathartic.  Carnacki and I raised over $600 for KALX last night, and after being on the air with him I feel sufficiently warmed up to DJ my own fundraiser show this Friday.  9pm to midnight.  Have I mentioned it?

In the meantime I am awfully sleep-deprived and down in the dumps today (and eyeing the upcoming time change with pure dread), so if you have any extra good energy lying around that you can spare please send it my way.  I feel nothing like a conquering heroine these days and more like some dull creature who barely manages to muddle through.

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Simon Patterson: The Great Bear, UK, 1992

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At Hosfelt Gallery - Driss Ouadahi: Another Place, Another Me and Susan Marie Dopp: Ether.  Oudahi's large-scale paintings like the one pictured above at first looked to me like geometric grids had been laid over blurred landscapes, until I realized what he was depicting was the reflections in banks of shiny high-rise windows.  Whether they are offices or apartments, they reveal nothing of their interiors, only structure and a vague mirror of their surroundings.  Dopp's paintings in an adjoining room also use geometry in a more purely abstract way, and her soft colors and simple designs invite the viewer to stop and stay awhile.

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At Haines Gallery - Nam June Paik, Alan Rath, Kota Ezawa: The Temporal Moving Image.  This show is downright fun, with Paik's cobbled-together technology whirring away and Rath's giant eyeballs winking and blinking at you.  Ezawa continues to be one of my favorite local artists, and the short piece on display here combines redrawn footage of three of my heroes (John Lennon, Susan Sontag, Joseph Beuys) expounding on the nature of art.  I could have sat there and watch it loop for a while.

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At Electric Works - Nathan Redwood: Recent Works.  I'm feeling simultaneously lazy and stressed out this morning so all of my art pointers are just going to steal direct quotes.  To wit: "Common objects throughout much of this work include the kind of rubble or debris found at urban construction sites, ie. processed wood, masonry, wire, rope and drywall. These objects work together in a mix of abstraction and representational organization revealing a complex narrative."

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At Queen's Nails Annex - Tony Labat: Bulk.  Just another reason QNA has already become one of my favorite galleries in the city: "For six weeks, the gallery 'facility' will be transformed into a large-scale site-specific social structure where community involvement, dialogue and discourse will be exchanged. The monumentality of this project is through the architectural manifestations and the emergence of structural logistics within the facility walls. These walls will transform into a social club where Labat and members will have the opportunity to exchange passages and social dialogues with each other. As time progresses during BULK, dichotomies such as historic lineage and importance will form."

I feel bad about blowing off the Tour de Castro II tricycle race Saturday afternoon, especially since I wanted to show my support for the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, but I was doing more prep for the KALX fundraiser.  I'll be on the air begging for your spare change from 9pm to midnight on Friday, November 2nd, and I'll be sure to be plugging that a few more times before next weekend.  Also our t-shirt, sticker, temporary tattoo, and sweatshirt designs have been revealed!

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At Jack Hanley Gallery - Will Rogan: A Memory of Shadows and Stone.  Jack Hanley is always a little short on the exposition, so you're just going to have to click the gallery link and let the images speak for themselves.

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At Double Punch Toy Store - Sweet Sunny Temper.  "Think about stockings, graffiti chicks, origami, crumpled stationeries, scented tissues, lip gloss and sweet scented girl rooms full of whimsy, kink and charm. Featuring works by Tink (Jessica Whiteside), Leah Brawley, Nathalie Roland, Kelly Tunstall and Fawn Gehweiler."