new podcast! by maurice! this one all bill cosby, i bet you didnt know he killed it in the studio back in the days, get this one now please..
Month: April 2009
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SF INTL FILM FEST
one of my favorite photographers, mary ellen mark will be in town this sunday speaking on the “state of cinema” for the sfiff, she shot the stills for apocaplyse now, nuff said, more info click here..
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PUNKS + POETS
well for those of us who missed it, guess what we blew it bigtime, slideshow by michael jang at pirate cat radio was reportedly one of the best happenings in a long time, check out photos on his flickr set, used the space awesomely..
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FIGHTING
new movie FIGHTING, edited by jake pushinsky! opened last night, gotten pretty good reviews so far..
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HAMBURGER EYES MIAMI 2009
i been out a town a bunch but finally got a chance to mess with this miami footage, thanks again to everyone involved, it was the nutsest.. if you havent checked it yet, check dave’s recap of the whole weekend..
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AMERICANSUBURB X
Do like I did and waste your day away digging through the intense archives over at AMERICANSUBURB X. From Bill Owens to Tony Stamolis and beyond. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
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THE SECRET OF THE NINTH PLANET
The Secret of the Ninth Planet
April 24-May 24, 2009Featured concurrently at:
Queen’s Nails Projects
3191 Mission Street, San FranciscoPhoto Epicenter
26 Lilac Street, San Franciscohttp://www.thesecretoftheninthplanet.com
The Secret of the Ninth Planet is the 2009 final thesis exhibition presented by students in the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
The show takes its title from a 1959 Donald A. Wollheim novel of the same name. In the book, evil colonialist curators display in vitrines captured members of various intergalactic cultures. Operating counter to this model of the curator as authoritarian cultural anthropologist, CCA’s nine graduate student curators focus instead on works that deal in one way or another with ideas of time, space, and travel. The featured artworks are in a variety of media, from video and sound installations to (in the artist Suzanne Treister’s words) “delusional, time-traveling watercolors.” The galleries are illuminated not by overhead lighting, but by light emitted from the works themselves.
The metaphor of liberation extends as well to the show’s organizational premise. As opposed to the traditional concept of an exhibition as a zone of stable definition and order, The Secret of the Ninth Planet is united, somewhat paradoxically, by a disavowal of order. The dual-venue installation is also a deliberate attempt to offer expanded possibilities for interpretation of the works’ layered content.
Artists in the exhibition: Raymond Boisjoly, Chu Yun, Jasmina Cibic, Maryam Jafri, Yael Kanarek, Kitty Kraus, Gabriel Lester, Euan Macdonald, Gianni Motti, Kamau Patton, Dario Robleto, Sham Saenz, Tokihiro Sato, Suzanne Treister, Matt Volla, and Hillary Wiedemann.
The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalog with artist works and essays, including a commissioned text by the renowned theorist and curator Lars Bang Larsen.
Exhibition opening:
Friday, April 24, 7-11 p.m.: Queen’s Nails Projects (3191 Mission Street, San Francisco) and Photo Epicenter (26 Lilac Street, San Francisco). A shuttle between the venues will be provided.
Additional programming at GalerÃa de la Raza, 2857 24th Street, San Francisco:
April 26, 11 a.m.: “How Pluto Lost Its Status as a Planet (And Why It Had It Coming),” a lecture by popular astronomy educator Andrew Fraknoi
May 13, 8 p.m.: Screening of short animations and films
May 22, 8 p.m.: A live performance by Lucky Dragons and Avocet
Organized by the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at
California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street
San Francisco CA 94107-2247
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PUNKS & POETS
THIS FRIDAY! Pirate Cat Radio Cafe is hosting a one night only event, a slideshow of work from our man Michael Jang. This is a must see, be there.