This Friday at the Opulent Temple (200 California Ave, Treasure Island, SF), the Flaming Lotus Girls are holding a fundraiser. ($20 pre-sale) Lasers, music, and the Serpent Mother.
Year: 2009
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The Language of Birds
Brian Goggin with Dorka Keehn created “The Language of Birds“, a series of self-illuminated books on permanent display at Columbus Avenue and Broadway in SF.
The Chronicle covered the unveiling
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Nightlife: Thursdays at the California Academy of Sciences
Categories: event
Each Thursday until October 29, San Francisco’s California of Academy of Science (55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park) stays open late for Nightlife, a 21 and up evening of booze, music, and science. ($10, 6pm to 10pm)
This is definitely something that I’m going to have to check out.
A similar event occurs, the first Friday of every month at LA’s Natural History Museum (900 Exposition Boulevard, LA), aptly named First Fridays. (notcot.com great photos of the LA event.)
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Mamá Quilla: El Zumo de los Muertos
Categories: packaging / stationary
After the Tropicana clusterfuck (My god can PepsiCo hire a decent design firm? Apparently not. They’re in good company though.), we have these very cool Día de los Muertos juice cartons by Camille Forget.
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Jeff Wall’s Invisible Man
Categories: photo
BOOOOOOOM! highlights the work of Jeff Wall. The above photo is of course an interpretation of the narrator’s room from Ralph Ellison’s “The Invisible Man”.
When I was in junior high or early high school, my mom gave that book to read. I put it down after that scene (which if I remember correctly occurs on page six). “The man’s crazy,” I said. The idea that someone could, or even would, steal that much electricity just because he could, was beyond me. Now that I’m older, it’s one of those books that I need to revisit.
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Koralie in Portland
France’s own Koralie‘s “HAÏKU” show is running all this month at Fifty24PDX (23 NW 5th Avenue, Portland OR). If you’re in or near the city with the world’s first vegan strip club, go and check it out.
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Giles Walker at Kinetica
Kinetica is running this weekend at London at P3 (35 Marylebone Road) and the aptly named Kinetica Museum (274 Richmond Road)[*]. One of the highlights of the show is Giles Walker‘s “Peep Show” seen above. No word on if Captured By Robots is performing.
artmachines has the low down on some of the exhibitions.
See below for a CNN interview with Giles and some other highlights of the show.
[*]: The Kinetica Museum is sponsored by Steorn. You remember them right? They’re the guys with the perpetual motion machine. Let’s just hope that Homer Simpson doesn’t show up
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Blinds + Light = Blight
For Core77‘s 2009 Greener Gadgets competition, Vincent Gerkens of Belgium applied photovoltaics (similar to the ones seen before) to one side of venetian blinds and a electroluminescent foil to the other side to create Blight. During the day, it blocks light, but at night it releases it (so to speak).
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Solar Batteries
Knut Karlsen designed the above trickle charge some NiMH batteries with a wraparound flexible photovoltaics.
Completely impractical, but the idea of simply laying some depleted batteries out on a table to recharge does appeal to me.
Since the relaunch, almost every post references solar panels. Solar is often billed as a cure-all for our climate and energy needs, but as Knut links to photovoltaics themselves are nonrenewable due to rare elements required for their manufacture.
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We’re All Going to Die
Categories: photo
Simon Høgsberg‘s We’re All Going to Die is a 100 meter composite photo of 178 people walking on the same railway platform in Berlin in the summer of 2007.I have no idea where this is installed, but it’s available online for your enjoyment. It really appeals to the voyeur in me, seeing all these people just go about their day, most of whom don’t notice the photographer. I especially like the featureless background. The composition, along with it’s provocative title, made me contemplative, and a little depressed.