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October 25, 2006
Against the stream...
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe." ~ Nietzsche
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October 24, 2006
Full Coverage Book & Film
Full Coverage Book & Film
10.5 x 15 inches, 8 lbs.
SOLD OUT
Book 1 is a limited 2 volume edition of 1000 numbered copies in a unifying case. 240+ pages which extensively documents all 33 back pieces from start to finish, with photos by Max Dolberg and NSK, an exclusive essay by the Master Horiyoshi III and introductory text by adrian Lee.
Book 2 is a 78 page collection of recent tattoos by members of the Kolectiv and various insider photos of their general happenings. Book 2 also houses the film on DVD.
The film, shot and produced by N'Dalo Silveria is intended to draw the viewer further into the process with extensive interviews of the tattooers, tattooees and the process.
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SJ Art shows this weekend
This weekend is looking good for art happenings.
The first is on Friday night, Oct. 27th at 12&Taylor gallery. It's a dual dual show with Francis Marin & Michael Oechsli (in the garage gallery) and Christina Martinez & Shelby Smith (in the gazebo gallery). Located at 723 No. 12th Street, 8pm til midnight.
The second is at Black & Brown Clothing on Saturday, Oct. 28th. Deejae, Orly, Erik & Ratha will be exhibiting their worx and Cutso, Ennui, Souniq & Vibration Army will be on hand with the tunes. Located at 1225 West San Carlos, 7pm.
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October 21, 2006
Y2K6 Live Looping Festival (streamed!)
Over 50 artists from around the globe have converged on the San Francisco Bay Area for the Fifth Annual Y2K6 Live Looping Festival. Perfomers from across the United States and as many as 10 other countries appear in Santa Cruz, CA., October 21-22 for the main two days of the festival. If you're in the area, drop in for the live performance (admission is $10), otherwise tune in to the webcast: Y2K6 webcast
October 21st -22nd, noon – midnight:
Alchemy
120 Pearl Alley
Santa Cruz
Visit www.Y2K6loopfest.com
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October 20, 2006
A Convention of the Tattoo Arts
State of Grace Productions presents
A Convention of the Tattoo Arts
October 20-21-22, 2006 at Parkside Hall
180 Park Ave. San Jose, CA. 95113
Convention admission is $15 per day, three-day pass available for $30 on Friday State of Grace Productions is proud to present "A Convention of the Tattoo Arts," the 2006 San Jose tattoo convention. Our convention is an annual event taking place on the third weekend of October. This is an event featuring live tattooing, tattoo contests, and art fusion performances. We are proud of the select group of participating artists representing a variety of styles as well as a broad geographical spectrum. Because of the high profile nature of our artists, we suggest you contact them beforehand to make appointments. Website links (when available) are provided on the "artists" page of this site.
"A Convention of the Tattoo Arts" is a 75 booth show. We are not in any way attempting to throw the biggest show out there, we'll leave that to the non-tattoo industry people. A smaller show allows us to maintain a high quality standard as well as insure that our artists stay busy. You won't find sunglass vendors or piercers at this event. We do apologize for the many tattoo studios who we weren't able to find space for but we feel that people within the industry will understand.
Finally we would like to let you know that Roman and Horitaka of State of Grace Productions both get tattooed, live, work and spend our money in San Jose. We think this is important and want you to know this. One of our motivations for throwing this show was to stop outside, non-tattoo industry people from invading our town, taking money and leaving without giving anything back. State of Grace Productions is a San Jose based company and works in conjunction with many local tattoo shops. We are here to promote the local tattoo scene, please know what you are supporting when you attend a tattoo event.
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October 16, 2006
Y2K6 International Live Looping Festival
Y2K6 International Live Looping Festival
"BEST OF FESTIVAL" Performance
Date: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 8 p.m.
Admission: $10, All ages welcome.
Venue: Anno Domini, 366 So. 1st Street, San Jose - 408.271.5155
Featured Artists: *PER BOYSEN (Sweden), MIR-0 (Finland), BILL WALKER (USA), LOOP.POOL (USA), *RAINER STRASCHILL (Germany)
*Per Boysen's performance is sponsored by Universal Audio;
*Rainer Straschill is sponsored by Goethe Institut and the Federal Foreign Office of Germany
Live Looping artists use digital technology to be able to 'clone' themselves, allowing for very sohpisticated and frequently, multi-instrumental performances. There are no prerecorded samples, loops or sequences in these performances. What the audience hears is created in real time by the artist.
Visit www.galleryAD.com for more information or call 408.271.5155.
FESTIVAL INFORMATION:
Y2K6 Live Looping Festival Celebrates Fifth Year with expansive program and internet jam!
Over 50 artists from around the globe will converge on the San Francisco Bay Area this fall for the Fifth Annual Y2K6 Live Looping Festival. Perfomers from across the United States and as many as 10 other countries will appear in Santa Cruz, Calif., on October 21 and 22, for the main two days of the festival. Additional festival-related events will be held in San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland during the week preceding the main festival.
The brainchild of live looping artist and promoter Rick Walker, Y26K and other looping festivals he has created have inspired similar festivals in 15 countries around the world, including the Zurich Live Looping Festival last summer, which drew 40 artists from nine countries over its three days.
In a demonstration of the technological edge defined by the live looping genre, the Y26K festival will be streamed in real time to the web, and will feature a real-time Internet jam, using NINJam technology, between musicians at the festival and live loopers from Europe, the UK, South America, the Near East and Japan.
This year’s event coincides with the 10th anniversary of loopersdelight.com, the website that serves as the central gathering point and information exchange for the international live looping movement. Looper’s Delight currently receives over a million hits a year now.
About Live Looping and the Loopers Community
Looping is a broad class of music based on the idea of performances and recordings built using long delay lines. Looping artists use a variety of sources to generate layered textures which are manipulated in real-time in various ways (including reversal, time or pitch shifting, etc.), resulting in complex interactive compositions. The breadth of the looping genre will be well demonstrated at the Y26K festival, which will guitarists, cellists, trumpet players, solo singers, fusion bands, avant-garde musicians, circuit benders, abstract electronica artists, even comedians and spoken word artists.
What is fascinating about the loopers community is that it is a tightly knit group of musicians and sound artists not tied by style of music. With the use of delay lines as a medium being the only commonality, the range of musical styles created by loopers is diverse and may be, by turns, hypnotic, propulsive, ethereal, or simply bizarre.
In another sign of the dedication of looping devotees, neither the festival’s organizers nor the musicians performing at the festival receive any compensation, and all travel at their own expense.
The high level of activity in the fast-growing live looping field has had a huge impact on the rapid development of its technology in the past three years. Some looping artists and other members of the community run small companies designing live looping tools. Some examples include Matthias Grob of Brazil, inventor of the Gibson Digital Echoplex; Bob Amstadt , creater of the Looperlative, currently the most sophisticated live looping hardware device; Andrew Ostler, with his Augustus Loop; and Jeffrey Larson’s Mobius. As a result, in addition to its musical role, the Y26K festival has also consistently served as the site for world premieres of this cutting-edge technology.
Full Y2K6 Schedule:
October 18th, 8pm – 12pm:
Anno Domini Gallery
366 South 1st Street
San Jose
October 19th, 8pm – 10pm:
The Luggage Store
1007 Market Street
San Francisco
October 20th , 8pm – 1am:
Sunshine Biscuit Factory
851 81st Avenue - Unit 219
Oakland
October 21st and 22nd, noon – midnight:
Alchemy
120 Pearl Alley
Santa Cruz
October 22nd, noon – 7pm:
Meta Music
121 Maple Street
Santa Cruz
The Y2K6 International Live Looping Festival performances take place throughout the Bay Area from October 18-22. Visit www.y2k6loopfest.com for the full Y2K6 schedule.
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October 05, 2006
Metro's "Full Coverage"
Very cool article by METRO's Gary Singh about the upcoming Full Coverage exhibit by NSK. clik here.
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SJ Arts & Education Mayoral Forum
To take a quote from the recent film "All the Kings Men":
"If you don't vote, then you don't matter!"
We hope you will all attend the mayoral debate posted below, artists should be there in force or they won't think it matters!!
The San Jose Mayoral Candidates Forum on THE ARTS & EDUCATION
Candidates: Cindy Chavez & Chuck Reed
Monday, October 9, 2006
Mexican Heritage Plaza
1700 Alum Rock Ave, San Jose
7:30pm sharp
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October 04, 2006
Biters Beware!
It is an ongoing debate as to whether or not unsanctioned art on the street (paste/stick ups, graff, street art, etc) is copyrightable or not. There's also a line between "inspired by," "tribute to" or "nod" and the blatant rip off of an artist or designer. It is someone's creation and skill then, permission or not, it belongs to them. Corporatations trying to attain street cred should partner with, not steal from, artists. My favorite line these companies are quoted as saying, when caught, is "oh the designer did it....we didn't know." So this is a heads up to designers and ad agencies as well.
"Make the shame more shameful by making it public" is just what YouThought We Wouldn't Notice.com does. So if you see injustices, let them know and they'll post it. And if there's a company on there that is biting artists, boycott them. The best form of activism is where, and with whom, you spend your money!
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Phantom Galleries mural Oct 7 & 8
Phantom Galleries mural
We're meeting up again this weekend, Sat & Sun (Oct 7 & 8th, 12noon til 5pm) to (hopefully) finish up the mural. Feel free to come out to the parking lot adjacent to the San Jose Repertory Theater to finish off this 8' x 200' long construction wall mural and have a great time!
The only thing you really need to bring is detail brushes and maybe a small step stool....we'll have everything else!
South Second St. between San Fernando & San Carlos
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Common knowledge...
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from any body.
~Thomas Jefferson, letter to Isaac McPherson, 1813
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October 03, 2006
Indie writers book tour at Anno Domini, Tuesday, OCT 3rd!
SUPPORT INDIE WRITERS!
This Tuesday, OCT 3RD, Anno Domini proudly hosts 4 authors out on tour with their latest books in hand. Joe Meno, author of The Boy Detective Fails; Todd Dills, author of Sons Of Rapture; Todd Taylor, author of Shirley Wins; and Mickey Hess, author of Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory, will read from their newest works.
Anno Domini
366 South First Street, San Jose, CA 95113
Doors: 7:30 pm; Readings: 8 pm
Admission: free and open to the public
2006 Tour Dates:
-Mon., Oct. 2, 7pm--CAMARILLO, CA--CSU Channel Islands Science Auditorium, One University Drive.
*Also reading: Todd Dills, Todd Taylor, and Mickey Hess
-Tues., Oct. 3, Time TBA--SAN JOSE, CA, Gallery AD, 366 s 1st St.
*Also reading: Todd Dills, Todd Taylor, and Mickey Hess
-Weds., Oct. 4,10pm-Midnight--DAVIS, CA--Delta of Venus,122 B. Street
*Also reading: Todd Dills, Todd Taylor, and Mickey Hess
-Thurs., Oct 5, 6-8pm--SEATTLE, WA--Seattle Public Library-Capital Hill Branch, 425 Harvard Ave.
*Also reading: Todd Dills, Todd Taylor, and Mickey Hess
-Fri., Oct. 6, Time TBA--PORTLAND, OR, Reading Frenzy, 921 Southwest Oak St.
*Also reading: Todd Dills, Todd Taylor, and Mickey Hess
-Sat., Oct. 7, Time TBA--San Francisco, CA, Books, Inc., 2275 Market St.
*Also reading: Todd Dills, Todd Taylor, and Mickey Hess
-Sun, Oct. 8, 4pm--PASADENA, CA--Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd
*Also reading: Todd Dills, Todd Taylor, and Mickey Hess
-Sun., Oct. 8, Time TBA--Los Angeles, CA, Mountain Bar, 475 Gin Ling Way
*Also reading: Todd Dills, Todd Taylor
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Cut&Paste-Design Competition
If you're one of those designers that likes to create under the adreneline rush of a live screaming audience and panel of industry peers, then this competition is for you! If you're a willing applicant (victim?!) and want to participate in one of their upcoming events in NY, Chicago, LA and San Francisco, you can apply here.
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October 02, 2006
Clarion Alley 2006
The annual Clarion Alley block party, in the heart of the Mission District, is one of our favorites to attend each year, and this is your early heads up to make a plan to go check it out. Murals, music and performances throughout the day.
Sunday, Oct. 22nd, 1-8pm
Clarion Alley btwn 17th & 18th
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