my 100th blog entry!

why not celebrate with cool stuff!?

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2. SFMOMA exhibit of Ann Hamiton’s indigo blue, an interesting commentary on class and economy. go to the link and click, “start program” and watch the three videos of installation inception and intention.

3. strange creatures found in antarctic waters.

4.  fm3 buddha machine.  asmall plastic machine producing ambient noises by toggle switching.  mine is orange!

5.  the journal of popular noise.  this is a journal of sound, of noise. each issue is a 45rpm record. and it looks like this:

i haven’t had a chance to listen to mine yet, because my 45 insert is too small (weird?) and i have to get new ones. but i am sure it will rock my noise loving world!

6.  installations at cca, specifically MINE! i did/am doing a nature simulation installation in the studio. right now it’s just a 3d sketch of something i hope to expand later…some how. pictures forth coming.  idea is cooler than product right now.

7.  my pals catherine, dene, joanna, and robert for taking me out in SF last night and for filling me with jack n gingers and intelligent, funny company! xo! pictures forthcoming?

we, as a world, are really fucking up.

so, i am in a climate in literature class as CCA. we read about climate in politics, in media, and in literature. we freak out about what will happen to the earth, question science, republicans, and michael crichton. we send each other articles, videos, and book recommendations. recently, one of my classmates sent me this video called the story of stuff. it shows us how we are fucking up the earth by manufacturing obscene amounts of stuff, which we just pile under ground anyways. here is a sample of the video, but go to the site www.storyofstuff.com to see it in its entirety.

more art that i like and that you should too.

1. emilie clark. i found this artist rather unconventionally. i was scanning book covers during my Thursday internship at small press distribution and came across a plain white book of poetry with red globs of pomegranate-like forms on the lower corner of the cover. i, of course, forget which book this was, but emilie’s work, mimicking sea life and floral fluidity, looks like this:

and my favorite:

click here to see more.

2. noah k. you may recognize this guy as the youtube superstar who took pictures of himself everyday for six years. here is the video as a refresher:

well, he has a flickr account too, where we can see 584 of his photographs. i have seen a couple dozen of them, and they are pretty interesting. maybe a little too contrived,

but none the less pleasing to the eye…at times.

see his pictures here.

3. patricia gillespie. i saw her work at first fridays art walk in oakland. her work was featured in the esteban sabar gallery. she hand stitches a fabric backgrounds and places painted wood figures over it. like this:

and this:

and my fav:

i just love her work. there is a lot of communication and story in her pieces. snapshots on quilts. she does larger scale pieces as well, like on brick walls! see more of her stuff at her website sharpstickstudio.com

i can’t function normally anymore

last night, february 13th, tay and i drove over the bay bridge to san francisco, down geary street, stopped in at panda express for a bite, and then walked two blocks to the fillmore where we saw siouxsie motherfucking sioux’s mantaray tour.

i don’t even think i can do anything normal after seeing such an amazing show.

siouxsie and the banshees formed in 1976-quickly becoming a vital part of the british punk scene. they put out album after brilliant album (all of which i own!) and 20 years later they split. since (and during) then, siouxsie (frontwoman) and her now ex husband (budgie- drummer) released music as the creatures.

2007 saw siouxsie’s first solo album, mantaray. i bought it as soon as it hit the U.S. (september?) and have been listening to it everyday since. i can say she is the most influential musician to me, so seeing her perform last night left me entranced and speechless.

the crowd was a great mix of old and new goths, punk kids, and cardigan wearers.  (i realized being there, i have become too normal looking- tho i do have a rocking haircut right now!)  she played the entire mantaray album and then some classic banshees which made me freeeak out and sing at the top of my lungs! when she busted out spellbound, she came over to my side of the stage (i was right up there) and sang to me! i swear- it lasted like 7 seconds!

ha. clad in a silver and black lycra suit and leather utility belt, she commanded the stage and fucking rocked out. i can’t even believe she’s 51. she is super hot and energetic! my life is now complete and i can die happily.  although, i do feel the need to actually meet her. how will i finagle that? read a great article about her album here.

year in pictures 2007

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