Balazo Gallery
2183 Mission St. @ 18th
Friday November 30 @ 6 pm
My friend Amy Woloszyn is a local bicyclist, political activist & artist who was the victim of a hit & run accident 2 months ago on Capp Street @ 23rd Street.
She suffered a fractured skull, lacerated liver, numerous cuts & bruises and almost died. Now she has to wear a neck brace for the next three months and use a cane to get around. Because she will be out of work for an undetermined amount of time, she & her friends are trying to raise money to pay her bills and rent while she heals.
This benefit will be an art & services auction— paintings, massages, bake sale, that sort of thing with music performances throughout the night. She also has some chef friends who are going to prepare delicious foods. Come if you can!
Mill Valley is hosting the Love Makers Sustainable Craft Fair this Tuesday from 2PM-8PM. Handcrafted goodness from Molly of 8MM Ideas, Ashley Rose Helvey, Green Dog Designs and Christina from Borrowed, Bought, Stolen make this more than worth the trip across the Golden Gate. In addition, there will be two screen printers on hand from Remade in America, so bring down your own t-shirt and let them do their magic. It all goes down during the Mill Valley Art Walk at 1 El Paseo.
At a Burger King in Chico, CA–maybe at all Burger Kings, I don’t really know–they had these prints by Greg Brown which featured personified fruits and vegetables in various situations, such as the two rescues seen below. I’m sure these are right up there with “Dogs Playing Poker” for those of you with taste, I thought they were pretty cool. And while I don’t think that Maria Forde drew on these for inspiration, she has created a series of Fetching Veggie Etchings, which can be seen at Little Tree Gallery (3412 - 22nd Street @ Guerrero) beginning this Saturday, December 1st. In the multimedia pieces she “gives life to a variety of under-appreciated vegetables, from kale to squash, green beans to corn.”
Found this video of Bay Area rapper Turf Talk on Judge Joe Brown via Max Sidman. Below is an interview with Turf Talk that we ran last summer.
Hyphy or Not, Here He Comes Turf Talk on success and the exploding hyphy movement By Corey Bloom. Photo by Amanda Lopez.
The day before the following interview took place, Turf Talk appeared where few rappers have been before, the cover of the USA Today. Joined by his cousins E-40 and Droop-E, the statement was clear: This is the future, these individuals will take the spotlight and bring attention back to Bay Area rap after nearly a decade of nation-wide neglect.
After stepping on the field two years ago with his debut, The Street Novelist, Turf is preparing to release his sophomore effort, The West Coast Vaccine, on June 28th. With the majority of the production taken on by the “King of the Hyphy Sound,” Rick Rock (Federation, Jay-Z), as well as joints from the King of Crunk Lil’ Jon, The West Coast Vaccine is shaping up to be bigger than Balco’s Silverback. Timing couldn’t be better; as labels continue to lurk and watch the Bay’s “hyphy” movement, and attention from media outlets continues to soar, it’s Turf’s chance to establish himself as one of the most versatile, charismatic and potent spitters in the Bay. So talented, so gangsta, deserving and hard working—that’s Turf Talk.
With your debut TheStreet Novelist there were a lot of songs that people wouldn’t really expect from a Bay Area rapper coming up under this Hyphy movement. Are you gonna stay with that for the West Coast Vaccine? Yeah, this next one is gonna really shock people. I really opened up on this one, some songs don’t even sound like me. I got some more stories, more songs for the ladies. I got a lot of songs on this one people wouldn’t expect. Read the rest of this entry »
Creativity Explored kicks off its annual holiday art sale next week, from Friday, December 7th to Sunday, December 9th (and the sale continues through December 28th). They are selling thousands of pieces of art created by the men and women who work in the studio. Creativity Explored is a great organization gives people with developmental disabilities a venue to create, display and sell their art.
This year, you can get temporary tattoos by one of my favorite artists, John Patrick Mckenzie, and James Montgomery. Also, Imaginationally, the second book by Michael Bernard Loggins will be on sale. The book is a dictionary of made-up words, from ‘hectical’ (very busy at work for 48 hours) to ‘troublemakerhood’ (a neighborhood where troublemakers hang out).
Creativity Explored is located at 3245-16th Street @ Guerrero Street. 415.863.2108
This exhibit at Giant Robot features the work of artist-illustrator-crafter Susie Ghahremani. A graduate of RISD, she’s worked for Nickelodeon, Chronicle Books, and The New York Times. The artwork in this exhibit conists of animals & musical instruments. Check out pictures from the opening earlier this month.
A week and a half ago, Radiohead broadcast a live Webcast in which they played some of their own songs, along with covers of The Smiths, Joy Division/New Order and Bjork. The videos are on YouTube now; below are a couple of the covers.
Radiohead covering Joy Division/New Order’s “Ceremony”.
Radiohead covering The Smiths’ “The Headmaster Ritual”.
Fecal Face just introduced me to the work of Oakland artist Marci Washington via this interview. Seems like every new artist I get into is a graduate of California College of the Arts and Crafts. I love the way she describes her most recent work:
“It’s like I’m illustrating a novel that doesn’t exist. If it did, it would probably be a lot like Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, or Bleak House- novels which function as social commentary as well as beautiful romantic epics.”
Spooky and beautiful and tragic … all her images express so much pain and loneliness whether it’s a gold chandelier shining brightly in an otherwise empty & pitch black room, a body floating down some misty river or a woman frozen in place, transfixed by her reflection.
Spooky and beautiful and tragic … all her images express so much pain and loneliness whether it’s a gold chandelier shining brightly in an otherwise empty & pitch black room, a body floating down some misty river or a woman frozen in place, transfixed by her reflection.
