Hand Crafted by Paul Burn (of many tree sculpture fames), this tree served us well in our loft dwelling, child rearing years in williamsburg brooklyn. But alas, we have long since tucked this baby into storage, and are now seeking to not ship it out west. I think It belongs in NYC.
I will be out there from 9/11-9/18 and would like to take this opportunity to get it installed somewhere (your home? your institution? your daycare? your store?)
** Call for applications **
HIAP (www.hiap.fi) will invite 2-4 artists from Nordic region to
stay at HIAP residency in 2009. The duration of residencies will
be 2-4 months.
Pixelache can propose artists for this programme, the final selections
will be made by HIAP board during September 2008. The deadline
for applications is ** 5 September 2008 **.
We are looking for artist(s) from Nordic countries who would be
interested in presenting their work in the next edition of Pixelache
festival, scheduled for 2-5 April 2009.
The residency includes
- Apartment/studio at HIAP in Ruoholahti, southern part of Helsinki
- A monthly grant of 1000 euros
- Travel costs covered
To apply, send an informal application (1-2 pages of text) to
address ** nordicresidency08 ((at)) pixelache.ac **.
In the application you should include
- Your full contact information
- An initial plan for work you would be doing during the residency.
This work would be presented in the context of Pixelache festival,
either as work-in-progress or as a finished piece. Instead of a piece
of work, you can also propose something else – organising a
workshop or some other events.
- Links to website / portfolio / cv (do not include your portfolio
files in the application email)
The application deadline is ** Friday 5 September **, but we would
prefer to receive the applications already earlier. The selections will
be made by HIAP board during September 2008.
If you have questions, please send an email to office ((at)) pixelache.ac.
Please spread the word!
Just got this from my pal Sam
Dear Friends,
Red76 and Psych(A)P are about to launch the first in a series of events under the moniker of No War U.S.O.; a continuing effort to create convivial get-togethers which are explicitly anti-war, and serve to create an atmosphere welcoming to returning vets and those who just don’t quite know how to publicly display their individual dissent for the current war in Iraq.
No War U.S.O., through its jovial public manifestation of dissent, as well as through its ability to raise funds for veterans groups and anti-war causes, aims to take the spirit of friendship, fun, and conviviality that the U.S.O. traditionally elicits, and flip it on its head as a overtly anti-war statement.
Below please find info concerning No War U.S.O.’s first event. We’d love for you to join us. It should be bunches of fun, and an easy way to voice your opposition to the war, and voice your support for soldiers and returning vets.
100% of the nights proceeds go to support the anti-war organization Iraq Veterans Against the War (www.ivaw.org), along with that organizations collaboration, with Red76, on the counter-recruitment strategy, Befriend a Recruiter (www.befriendarecruiter.org).
We’d love for you to join us, but as well, PLEASE DISPERSE THIS E.MAIL FAR AND WIDE. The more people that attend this event the more wonderful actions the IVAW can engage in, such as their stunningly successful Winter Soldier campaign which occurred earlier this year in Washington, D.C. (www.ivaw.org/wintersoldier).
Hope to see you there, and again, please help spread the word!!! (If you have any questions please feel free to write me and I will answer as best I can).
Thanks,
Sam
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btw, the event is at Rotture
Today, the Supreme Court will hear administration lawyers defend the indefensible: that the President can ignore the writ of habeas corpus and hold people indefinitely, without charge and without question.
The hearing challenges the administration’s attacks on our system of justice and the assertion that fear, not freedom, guides our country. The outcome could mark a significant shift back to our founding values of truth, justice and liberty.
As four Supreme Court Justices put it,
“[I]if this Nation is to remain true to the ideals symbolized by its flag, it must not wield the tools of tyrants even to resist an assault by the forces of tyranny.”
Last night in SF my kids, wife and I witnessed a hit & run (a first for all of us). It was pretty intense, as it was a crowded area, involved lots of squeeling tires, and we had to literally rush out of the street to avoid being hit by the fleeing man in his white Ford pickup. I was searching around online to see if i could find any news about it, (couldn’t) but came to a terrible realization, hit and runs are way too common! On a simple google news search for the exact phrase “hit and run” i get 6,432 results for articles published in the last 24 hours. That means about 268 articles PER HOUR are published throughout this country about hit and runs. (i’m assuming there hasn’t just been a sudden upswing today).
The details of our experience barely even warrant a retelling, but what the hell. We were crossing the street near castro and 25th around 7pm, it was dark, there were lots of people out, several cars double parked on castro while people dashed in and out of shops doing errands. All of a sudden a mid sized white pickup comes ripping around the corner a block up the hill from us, revving the engine in a way that can only be described as reckless, the truck headed directly for one of the double parked cars, then suddenly (as if realizing he was about to rear end something) the driver slams on the brakes, goes into a sideways skid and crunches heartily into the back of this parked car. The engine dies. Everyone turns their heads, people come out onto their fire escapes and balconies, people come out the shops. Then we hear the truck start his engine back up again, it takes him 2 tries to get his truck unhooked from the rear bumper of this poor vehicles (going forward then back again) and he floors it again, this time right towards us (we are still slowly dragging the 2 kids along), we quickly get up onto the sidewalk and i whip out my camera to snap the trucks plates as it passes, but it doesn’t have one (on the rear). We turn back towards the scene to see a woman getting out of the car, and her companion coming out of the video store to meet her. A crowd gathers, police are called, many pitch in their version of the description of the truck and driver, we do as well. Then we spend the drive back to Caterina’s answereing questions about driving, crashes, jail, laws, licenses, mean people, irresponsible actions, and related ephemera.
The truck was a mid sized white FORD pickup (red logo on the back) driven by a shaved headed or bald man at least in his 30’s or 40’s wearing dark eyeglasses. The truck had no rear plate, and as i recall, no rear bumper either. The damage of a side impact would be found on the passenger side of the truck right about mid-vehicle. If you live in SF, keep your eyes peeled :)
In terms of my previous post about a car free portland, this stunning numerical realization just emphasizes the multifaceted inherent dangers of an auto-centric environment that we all just take for granted, accept, as if we didn’t have a choice, as if there were no other options.
(this is not a picture of the actual vehicle)
My good friends are putting on the 10th annual La Superette this year in NYC. It’s a little hard to describe, but basically it’s a huge art challenge, but the challenge is to make multiple edition, retail ready art that will be shown in a gallery, but set up like a store. It happens in December, they usually have bands and lectures and classes throughout the event. This time around it looks like it’ll be going on for 3 weeks!
I’d like to encourage you all to put something together for the show, it’s a fun challenge (we usually make games), the gallery is at Times Square, and it’s a great way to make a few extra bucks. We’ll be testing out a new game this month here in Portland to see if it has what it takes for a La Superette submission. If you are around the 27th of October, come on by for a game: 8pm till late: zing me for a location.
A great time was had by the small knot of homies that craned their necks between sips of draft Ranier to treat their eyeballs to a mix of nostalgic (bones brigade stuff, chocolate classics including ‘mouse’), historic (skateboard kings, a bbc documentary from 1978) and current (éSpecial) skateboard videos projected with DJ Pat Smith’s selection of skate rock. By the way, Pat’s not afraid to mix out johnny rad’s cliche monologue about not looking too hard for animal chin.
So, the event is a weekly one at Dunes, 1909 NE MLK, and you can keep up to date on here on this blog, or directly on the myspace page
oh yeah, we also highly encourage people to bring videos they own, or have made, or have remixed, etc.
(portland, or)
CITY HALL ART SHOW AND SKATE JAM :: 5PM – 8PM
GLEAMING THE CUBE – OUTDOOR CINEMA NIGHT
