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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Rebecca Ebeling at Maniac Gallery (Los Angeles) Nov. 6
Our old studio mate Becky's having a show on the 6th of November in LA. If you have the chance you should make your way down there.
MANIAC presents *Bloodsugarsexmagik: To Infinity *new work by San Francisco based artist Rebecca Ebeling conjoining the spectacular and bizarre with the processed and manufactured to construct a binary alternative hosting visual segments of space, empty regions and atmospheres, (images and ideologies traditionally agreed upon) as an alternative to a consumerist adherence to ideas of the unfathomable.
I have seen Rebecca work on this show for some months now and it was exciting to see the process. She will not only have paintings but sculptures as well that are filled with shiny, beautiful pieces juxtaposed with grotesque shapes and colors. This show should prove to be a mystical space to encounter.
The show opens Friday, November 6th at 8pm.
For more information go to, Maniac Gallery
To see more of Rebecca's work go to, http://rebeccaebeling.com
Friday, October 30, 2009
LA, my Food Journal, more stuff.
(Ryan Being Me).
I had to go down to LA for a group show I'm in at the Japanese American National Museum that Giant Robot put me in. My friend Adam drove me down in his pick up and we stayed over at our friend Ryan's house in Hollywood. It was really short trip, and this was pretty much it:
Saturday: Drive Down the 5, JANM, a Japanese Restaurant with an hour wait, and karaoke in a very nice dive bar. The drinks were weak at the dive bar, and two makers and coke weren't enough. I know, I know, makers and coke is pretty shitty, I just like it sometimes.
Sunday: We went and got Dim Sum & Ranch 99 in Monterey Park, then played cards at Conor House. I then went to a haunted house in someone's back yard in Burbank.
Monday: I dicked around watching TV till Adam came back from San Diego and then we drove up.
Nothing really too exciting in terms of what I ate. I had dim sum for the first time. It was alright. There was a bunch of stuff I didn't touch, like the blood cubes, chicken feet, and some other stuff. That stuff kind of slows me down.
I googled "blood orange bourbon cocktail" and found a nice recipe involving mints. I don't think it's blood orange season so I substituted navel oranges. We had company and served them that and they liked it some. It's nice having a shaker cause making drinks is like a few minutes snap.
*Uh, I don't know if my grammar is so awesome. I'm actually typing like I talk and I talk really fast and sometimes when I'm talking I do skip over certain words.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Passport 2009
Marci's participating in the San Francisco Arts Commission's Passport event. She's hanging out at a donut shop. You can get all the information here.
On October 23 & 24, 2009, the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery (SFAC Gallery) inaugurates Passport, an annual event that invites the public to stroll through one of San Francisco’s neighborhoods to create their own limited edition art book by collecting “passport stamps” made by local artists.
How to Buy a Passport
Passports are $25. Available NOW at locations including the SFAC Gallery, Electric Works Gallery, Silverman Gallery, Rare Device and at the Passport 2009 kick-off party or you can buy Passports online by clicking here or here! Passports may also be purchased the day of the event, at Passport 2009 home base, located at the Mission Playground, (enter on Valencia between 19th & 20th).
Participating Artists: Libby Black, Michelle Blade, Lisa Congdon, Maria Forde, Colter Jacobsen, Veronice De Jesus, Sean McFarland, Barry McGee, Tucker Nichols, Maria Proges, Clare Rojas, Andrew Schoultz, Marci Washington
Passport 2009 Kick-Off Party
Friday, October 23, 7–10 p.m.
The Polish Club, 3040 22nd Street, San Francisco
$5 suggested donation at the door; free for passport holders.
Live music by The Old Fashioned Way
Tunes by DJ Sharbaugh
At the Passport 2009 kick-off party, guests can pre-purchase passport books, enjoy drinks, get down to live music and enter to win raffle prizes from community partners. Valet bike parking provided by the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition.
Enjoy wine from Bear Flag Winery, and exclusive cocktail menu by Dana Younkin, IZZE sodas and more!
Passport 2009
Saturday, October 24, noon–4 p.m.
Passport 2009 home base: Mission Playground, Valencia between 19th & 20th.
Stamps located at various locations in the Mission District, San Francisco
Pick up a map, purchase a passport, or bring family and friends to relax on the lawn and enjoy a hot dog and soda. Nice.
Participating Locations: Aquarius Records, Bombay Ice Cream Company, Paxton Gate, 826 Valencia, Mission Pie, Box Dog Bikes, Needles & Pens, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Casa Sanchez Restaurant, Dynamo Donuts & Coffee, Curiosity Shop, Schmidt’s. Click here for a map of the locations.
How to Buy a Passport
Passports are $25. Available NOW at locations including the SFAC Gallery, Electric Works Gallery, Silverman Gallery, Rare Device and at the Passport 2009 kick-off party or you can buy Passports online by clicking here or here! Passports may also be purchased the day of the event, at Passport 2009 home base, located at the Mission Playground, (enter on Valencia between 19th & 20th).
Visit favorite spots in the Mission District or discover new ones while collecting original stamps created by Bay Area artists for Passport 2009. Stop by Passport 2009 home base at Mission Playground to purchase a passport, pick up a map of locations, learn more about the SFAC Gallery, or relax and enjoy $1 hot dogs in the park with the whole family.
Participants purchase a passport booklet, (featuring a cover-design created by artist Tucker Nichols specifically for this project,) and then follow a map to various neighborhood locations where they can collect artist-made stamps. Passport 2009 will take place in San Francisco’s Mission District, celebrating its longstanding status as the hub of the city’s art community. After a day spent discovering some of the brightest spots of this lively neighborhood, each passport holder will have a limited-edition book with original artwork from some of San Francisco’s finest artists, both established and emerging.
Passport 2009 is organized by the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. Proceeds from the event go toward the SFAC Gallery’s Programming Fund, which supports artist honoraria and exhibition costs.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Food Journal
Wednesday the 7th to Thursday the 15th.
Pretty much our oven got busted, so we have to either eat out or eat stuff on the stove top and remember to turn off the gas. We get a new oven in about two more weeks. Kind of sucks but it's the way it is.
This particular week in my journal is kind of boring cause I have to get back into the studio and go full on work mode and I don't really have time to go out and eat. My current sleeping pattern runs from 6 or 7 in the morning to 2 or 3 in the afternoon. Marci works late on Friday and Saturday and doesn't get home till 3:30 or 4, so I stay up till then to make sure she gets home safe. And that schedule sort of just went that way for all the other days of the week. So working between 4pm till 7 am is kind of weird and pretty much means I have to make something for myself for lunch around 2 in the morning, which this week meant either sandwich, cake or orange.
So yeah. A lot of breaded things. On the 15th I ate a burrito for the first time since the 21st of September, which really doesn't count cause that was from Rubio's. Berkeley strangely has no Mexican food, but a lot of Thai places. Like a lot.
I've been maintaining a compost box, so each morning I put stuff in from making coffee, to eating my morning banana, to my afternoon orange and then the bad ends of cut up vegetables from when Marci's cooking. Pretty much all we put in is orange & banana peels, greens that went bad, old bread, egg shells, and coffee grounds. We don't have enough dry yard waste around. Our backyard just has a giant fucking sequoia, and it's leaves are acidic and are not good for compost, so I have to pick up a few leaves here and there on the way home. It's good to have a pretty good balance of wet and dry items. But I found out you can put paper in, so I threw in the unbleached coffee filters instead of just throwing them away. I worried that there were to many of the sames things in the compost, but it's compost, and it's kind of fun seeing stuff disappear over a few weeks. I took a shovel and shifted out all the rocks. It's kind of weird, cause I thought we'd have all this soil, but there isn't much after I got rid of all the rocks. Hopefully the compost will be ready in a few months when spring rolls around.
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