September 2009 Archives

Early this morning, nearly a million New Yorkers were stunned by the appearance of a "special edition" New York Post blaring headlines that their city could face deadly heat waves, extreme flooding, and other lethal effects of global warming within the next few decades. The most alarming thing about it: the news came from an official City report.

Distributed by over 2000 volunteers throughout New York City, the paper has been created by The Yes Men and a coalition of activists as a wake-up call to action on climate change. It appears one day before a UN summit where Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will push 100 world leaders to make serious commitments to reduce carbon emissions in the lead-up to the Copenhagen climate conference in December. Ban has said that the world has "less than 10 years to halt (the) global rise in greenhouse gas emissions if we are to avoid catastrophic consequences for people and the planet," adding that Copenhagen is a "once-in-a-generation opportunity."

The video above is the result of a new collaboration between Radiohead's Thom Yorke and the infamous street artist Banksy on a video for this new solo song "The Hallow Earth." It was created by American filmmaker Raymond Salvatore Harmon and features images of Banksy's work transposed over the entrance of a bustling London Tube station.

Yorke's new single was made available today as a free download from the members' area of waste.uk.com, along with its double A-side FeelingPulledApartByHorses.

(via @Nuart09)

Just came across these amazing time-lapses shot by Ben Wiggins, aka Delrious, during Burning Man 2009. Double click for full screen. Music "Halcyon 2k" by Roy Two Thousand.

We first mentioned this a few days ago on twitter, but thought you’d like to see the latest video that shows the painted Thalys leaving the Brussels station on the 15th of September.

SEAK (Cologne), Jonone (Paris), Sozyone (Brussels), and Zedz (Amsterdam) painted four cars of the European king train today at “Gare du Nord” in Paris. They had 3 hours and 15 minutes to finish the painting, that’s the new time the new Thalys needs from Paris to Cologne.

Original post on FatCap:
http://www.fatcap.com/graffiti-on-the-thalys/

A great photo set by Urbanartcore on flickr:
Graffiti meets Thalys in Paris

Pjota arrived in California a little over a month ago to prepare for his first solo exhibition outside of Brasil. We first encountered his art in 2007 when we travelled to Sao Paulo to hang out with our good friends Bruno 9li and Stephan Doitschinoff. Pjota (19 at the time) was part of a group show exhibiting at Choque Cultural. We were really impressed by the depth of his work and surprised to find out he was so young. In 2008 we made arrangements for his debut solo exhibition at Anno Domini. The following interview took place during his stay here in California.

Join us at Anno Domini this Saturday as Benjamin Henderson unleashes his latest album Get Me Wrong featuring Anthony Olyaee. Guest performances by Gavin Castleton of Portland and Gardening, Not Architecture from L.A.

Doors 7:30pm, Show at 8pm
The show is all ages and only $5 at the door.

366 South First Street
Downtown San Jose

Exsitu Insitu is the latest animation by artist SAM3 (Granada, Spain) featuring music scored by Endika Currier (San Jose, CA). This work was created on location at Anno Domini during the last 2 weeks of August, 2009 in preparation for the opening of Sam's debut solo exhibition at the gallery. Exsitu Insitu (also the title of the exhibit) is currently on view through October 19th.

EXSITU INSITU from sam3.

We encourage you to watch the video full screen and to listen with headphones for the best experience.


Exsitu Insitu by SAM3 (Granada, Spain), debut solo exhibition
On View: September 4 - October 17, 2009
View available works online.

KINDRED TIMES AND FUTURE GOODBYES
Saturday, September 12th, 2009

An exhibition in an abandoned house in the form of a collaborative effort between: Foma <3, Klone, Know Hope, Zero Cents. This exhibition came to life as a natural extension of the constant collaborative creation of the group. The location is secret on account of legality issues and therefore will be announced at noon time, on the day of the opening.

Follow the updates here: www.kindredtimes.blogspot.com