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February 28, 2008
Is This You?
If you're still not sure, click here for a full description.
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February 26, 2008
David Choe Murderous Heart UK Solo Exhibit
David Choe (AD 2002, 2003, 2006) will be at Lazarides Gallery in both of their locations - London and Newcastle- with new original works and limited prints. The exhibit runs February 28 thru March 28th.
Lazarides represents Banksy, Antony Micallef, Invader and Conor Harrington, all artists we really admire and David is well deserved to be in the same company.
We wish we could be there David....give 'em hell!
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February 19, 2008
Glory Boy Days at Cinquest
While in a SJSU screenwriting class, Paul Encinas conceived and wrote Glory Boy Days and it's showing at the Cinequest Film Festival on March 7th & 8th.
It looks amazing and there's alot of favorable reviews for it's story, cinematography and writing....from the Cinequest site: The pain and ecstasy of being young glow like ember in Glory Boy Days, one of the most extraordinary debuts at Cinequest.
On the day he turns twenty-one, Lando takes stock of his life so far and looks ahead at what the future holds for him. He may be worried about going to college and standing up to his stepfather, but to his friends finding a good party is the concern of the day...
Local friends and former classmates make up the cast and crew, and local hangouts make cameo appearances as well. Glory Boy Days debuted at Slamdance Film Festival, one of only 29 films selected out of 1200!
Congratulations Paul and to everyone involved!
View trailer here, and buy tickets here.
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February 18, 2008
SCOOT! Magazine's SWAP MEET on Sunday, FEB 24th!
UPDATE: Due to the predicted stormy weather, Sunday's VCLG swap meet has been postponed. New date TBA.
Scoot! Magazine & Vespa Club Los Gatos present
SCOOT! MAGAZINE SWAP MEET
When: Sunday Feb. 24th, 2008
Time: 9:00am to 3:00pm
Where: Scoot! Magazine Headquarters
190 Martha Street, San Jose CA
(888) 337-2668
* The cost for entry is free!
* All scooter types and riders are welcomed!
* Food and drink will be available for lunch!
* Bring the schwag you don't need!
* Arrive early to get the schwag you DO need!
For more details, visit www.vespaclublosgatos.com
Questions? vespaclublosgatos@yahoo.com
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February 17, 2008
SHARE San Jose at Anno Domini this Thursday
The next SHARE San Jose meeting will be Thursday, February 21, 2008, starting at 7:30 p.m., here at Anno Domini gallery. This will be a jam-oriented session, like the first meeting organized back in December. Amplication, mixers, and projectors will be provided. Just bring your sound-making or video-making equipment, plug in, and see what happens. This time there will be an attempt to distribute MIDI clock to whoever can be driven by MIDI clock, so that the sounds are more synchronized.
More info: SHARE is a global organization dedicated to supporting collaboration and knowledge exchange in new media communities. Local SHARE groups hold free, open jams and workshops in their communities. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others' signal and perform live audio and video. SHARE furnishes the amplification and projection. SHARE happens weekly to monthly in cities around the world, where interesting things happen.
SHARE San Jose has a wiki and a mailing list to keep you connected.
Posted by Brian at 07:51 PM | Comments (0)
IPhone Photography Awards
Taken with miPhone, Santa Cruz
The IPPA Competition-Every once in a while someone breaks the convention and changes the way we do things. That's what iPhone did. It changed the way we use the mobile phone. The "IPP Awards" (IPPA) celebrates the simplicity in design and promotes the appreciation of photography. The IPPA strives to discover emerging talent, and to introduce creativity of iPhone users to the design community.
Prize-All photographers compete for the top award, the IPPA Photographer of the Year and an iMac 20-inch, 2.0GHz computer. The work of the top winner and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd Place Winners on each category will be publicized on IPPA online gallery and published in the IPPA Annual Book.
There is a small fee to enter and deadline is March 31st. Visit the IPPAwards.com website for complete details.
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How To Impress Girls Vol. 3: Dancing (according to Andy)
In addition to being a great painter, our good friend Andy Gouevia is a great dancer as this video that's spreading across the net captures in How to Impress Girls Vol. 3: Dancing. You can watch the video here.
Posted by Cherri at 07:13 PM | Comments (0)
February 12, 2008
The Mumlers' acoustic set at Streetlight tonight!
The Mumlers' "Thickets & Stitches" comes out today (released on Galaxia). Drop by Streetlight Records at 980 S Bascom Ave. in San Jose tonight at 7:30 for an acoustic set and pick up your own copy. See you there!
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February 10, 2008
Bruno 9Li on the cover of WAVE 02.11.08
Hitting the streets tomorrow, Feb. 11th, is a new issue of WAVE Magazine with Bruno 9Li's work on the cover, and a nice shot inside of Barron's current exhibit, to illustrate their feature story about how to start an art collection. If you need any help in that department, you know where we are.
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Tessar Lo in LA
Tessar Lo, Speak the Truth in Light 2007
If you didn't get a chance to pick up one of Tessar Lo's works at A.D.'s Fresh Produce over the holidays, he has a dual show on right now at Project Gallery in Culver City with Chris Devera. Tessar has some beautiful, large works with mixed media and gold leaf on wood available here. Chris has some wonderful works as well.
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February 09, 2008
Graphic Storytelling as Activism
Keith Knight
Graphic Storytelling as Activism
Euphrat Museum at Deanza College
Artists include: Seyed Alavi, Oliver Chin, Charisse Domingo and De-Bug, Sharon Hing, Keith Knight (2004 A.D.), Lingshan, America Meredith, Favianna Rodriguez, Shorty Fatz (2007 A.D.)
Graphic Storytelling as Activism presents a variety of art forms, including cartoons, political posters, digital art, book art, and more to explore a range of imagery with an activist bent. It began with graphic storyteller Keith Knight, who sees comics and cartooning as a powerful tool for social change. They have been "communicating information, concepts, and ideas since the days of hieroglyphics. They can transcend language, class, and race. Knowing the tools and concepts of cartooning allows anyone to be a mass communicator… You don’t need a million dollars. Just a pen and a piece of paper."
In this exhibition we took Knight's ideas a bit farther, adding other tools to enable one to build communities through community-based arts, to address issues of the day, locally and globally, and to tell the personal story with the larger context, historically and culturally.
Exhibit dates February 11 - April 17, 2008
Thurs., Feb. 21st, 2:30pm Multi-media presentation in Classroom S-32 with an artists' reception to follow at 4pm at the Euphrat Museum.
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Prix Ars Electronica - Call for Entries
2007 Computer Animation / Film/ VFX winner Codehunters by Ben Hibon / BlinkInk Productions
For the 22nd time, Prix Ars Electronica, the foremost international prize for computer-based art, calls for entries in the categories Computer Animation / Film / VFX, Interactive Art, Hybrid Art, Digital Communities, Digital Musics, the Media.Art.Research Award and u19 freestyle computing, Austrian's largest youth computer competition.
More than 3,300 submissions in 2007 have further enhanced the Prix Ars Electronica's reputation as an internationally representative competition honoring outstanding works in the cyberarts. This year, six Golden Nicas, twelve Awards of Distinction and approximately 70 Honorary Mentions as well as the Media.Art.Research Award are presented to participants. The 2008 winners will receive a total of 115,000 euros in prize money.
For a detailed description of the competition, please consult our website Prix Ars Electronica
The deadline for submissions is March 7, 2008.
Are you listening M Dot?
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February 08, 2008
Mumlers Record Release Party Feb. 15th
So far a crazy ride for local band The Mumlers. They won the Bleeding Edge Festival in '06, their reward was a two week session at a multi-million dollar studio in Montana in 2007, got signed to Galaxia Records, scored the cover of the Metro a couple of weeks ago, and now, finally, their record release party!
Friday, Feb. 15th, 9:00 PM - The Blank Club - San Jose, California - record release show! with The Dodos & Two Sheds!!-with super djs cutso & nate nothing. $8, 21+
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February 05, 2008
World's First Urban Art Auction
About five years ago we went down to L.A. to see an exhibit by BANKSY -in a little house gallery in Silverlake (L.A.). We loved his street art and thought it'd be great to meet him and go to the after party that was in a little warehouse in an industrial area downtown. The exhibit had about 20 pieces....his stencils transposed to canvases, prices starting at about $150-$200. We weren't that into them, we thought they were better on the streets...still do feel that way.
Well Bonham UK just held the "world's first urban art auction" tonight and there's one of those canvas pieces from the L.A. show (pictured above)...it went for $121,000. Banksy dominated the sales although Blek LeRat, Faile, D*Face and Nick Walker did well, Keith Haring seemed to pale in comparison. Bonham says: Exciting, fresh, edgy and challenging, interest for works was fever-pitch throughout the sale with 99% of the work selling - a truly extraordinary phenomenon that the market has never seen before. In other words, we had no idea what a cash cow this was going to be!
Any one that's thinking street art is not a viable genre of art for the history books...think again. This is just getting started. (In Banksy's hometown of Bristol, the city is trainining cleaning crews to recognize Banksy work so they won't buff it....he's important to the promotion of the city.) The good news is there are so many amazing artists with incredible talent that are still affordable that if you're an emerging collector, there's definitely room on the ground floor.
You can see the Bonham auction results here. (btw, we never did get to meet Banksy...that would've been nice.)
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