Hustler of Culture

Girls in Flux.

May 31, 2007 - 11:00 p.m. - Culver City, CA

All the fine ladies were out to support Flux's launch party, to wish Jonathan a happy birthday, and to party all night!

links for 2007-05-31

• Mahalo
  Mahalo is the world's first human-powered search engine.
  (tags: Internet Web2.0 Service Technology SearchEngine Tool Community)
• The Serious Eats Doughnut Glossary
  Time to eat the donuts... after we learn what they are of course!
  (tags: Food Dessert Reference SeriousEats Health Blogs Bakery)
• Taste3 on YouTube
  The first batch of videos released from TASTE3, a unique, interdisciplinary conference exploring the realms of food, wine, and art.
  (tags: Food Art Conferences Culture Business YouTube)
• Disposable Temporary E-Mail Address
  This website provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 Minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame.
  (tags: Tool Web2.0 Internet Privacy Email Accounts)
• Heartfelt Emotion in an Orchestral Arrangement
  Oh man Barzin, you make me so sleepy. Reminiscent of the old Slowdive days in pace and sound (not vocals).
  (tags: Music NPR Friends KathrynYu)

Microsoft's Surface.

I mean really. Close your mouth. Pick up your jaw. It's not like you hadn't seen the earlier iterations of this technology before! Remember Jun Rekimoto and Jeff Han's work? Props to all the technologists for giving us the good stuff. Hey... I know I can't be the only one thinking Microsoft's Surface plus the new and improved 3D film technology, will finally have us playing games the way we envisioned it in 1977! Woohoo!

image property of Lucasfilm

LA - HAMMER Readings: Charles Baxter (06/03/07)

HAMMER Readings: Charles Baxter

June 3, 2006 - 6:00 p.m

Charles Baxter’s novel The South Thief will be published by Pantheon in early 2008. He has received the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Prix St. Valentine in France, and the Catalan Booksellers’ Association Award for book of the year in Spain. Baxter’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harper’s, and his fiction has been widely anthologized and translated into ten languages.

The Hammer Museum presents ongoing reading series featuring today's most talented and provocative authors. All readings are free of charge, and are followed by book signings at the Hammer Bookstore. Admission is free and on a first come, first served basis. Priority seating for Hammer Members.

links for 2007-05-30

• China's New Cultural Revolution
  Corporations should stay away from World Heritage Sites.
  (tags: Business China Marketing Trends Culture Travel Asian)
• Trulia Hindsight » Maps of Properties Through Time
  Trulia Hindsight is an animated map of homes in the United States from Trulia. The animations use the year the properties were built to show the growth of streets, neighborhoods and cities over time.
  (tags: RealEstate Stamen Design History Tools Web2.0)
• Fest21.com: Films, Festivals & Digital Community
  The producers of U2 3D discuss cinematic paradigm shifts at Cannes.
  (tags: Films Entertainment Technology Trends Cannes Festivals EMV)
• Last.fm Acquired By CBS
  Congrats to Last.fm. Well done!
  (tags: Web2.0 Business Technology Music Internet SocialNetworking Community)
• Japan Pushes for Wider Whale Hunt
  Please leave the whales alone, or at the very least, the endangered ones.
  (tags: Animals Ocean Japan Science Nature NPR)
• High Art
  According to the NY Times, the high art capital of South America is La Paz.
  (tags: Artists Art Travel SouthAmerica Photography NYTimes)

Bread Bar Lunch with Ben.

May 30, 2007 - 1:43 p.m. - Beverly Hills, CA

Fresh from San Francisco, I catch Ben for a chill lunch at the Bread Bar. He catches me up. Then he zooms off to New York City.

Brooklyn - Bow-Wow Book Signing (06/02/07)

BOOK SIGNING- BOW-WOW BUGS A BUG

Cartoonist Mark Newgarden and Megan Montague Cash will be signing their new wordless picture story at ROCKETSHIP in Brooklyn 8 pm, Saturday June 2!

208 Smith Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, 1-718-797-1348.

SM - "Then and Now" (06/02/07 - 06/30/07)

LA - "Rapture" (06/02/07 - 06/23/07)

Jimmy Baker

Rapture

June 2 - June 23, 2007

Opening reception, Saturday, June 2nd, 6 – 8pm

Jimmy Baker's upcoming exhibition is a collection of fragmented narratives and artifacts that regard the present as if it were unearthed in a time capsule from our near future. The chaos of digital culture is reflected in Baker's variety of working mediums. Classical portraiture, iPods, photography, sculpture and hacked cell phones describe a variety of global concerns that accumulate into a grim dystopian future. The sum of this global turmoil is more the subject rather than its parts. Baker contemplates the structure of information, and how we perceive events in hopes that we will step outside our moment in history.

LA - "Home Is Where The Wormhole Is: Toward A Home Of A Higher Reality, Physical Speculations On A Future State" (06/02/07 - 06/30/07)

KAL SPELLETICH

Home Is Where The Wormhole Is: Toward A Home Of A Higher Reality, Physical Speculations On A Future State

JOHN COLLE ROGERS Oakland Underground

Exhibition Dates: June 2 – June30, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 2, from 6 – 9 PM
Gallery Hours: Thursday – Saturday, 12 – 6 PM and by appointment

Fringe Exhibitions is extremely pleased to present new work by Bay Area artists Kal Spelletich and John Colle Rogers. BB-Qing at the opening!

In the Main Gallery, Kal Spelletich investigates the use of audio and light frequencies to generate altered states of consciousness. Experimenting with binaural-beat stimulation and frequency following response theories the interactive installation is a recreation of an unsolved mystery at a home in the Mission district of San Francisco. Included in the show a diorama of the actual house, video, drawings, and photographs exploring these phenomena. Special thank you to Rebecca Sanford-Smith for diorama collaboration, Rich Stone for audio, also help from Jonathan Foote and Don Gray.

LA - "Everything is Under Control" (06/02/07 - 06/30/07)

WARNING: THIS PIECE MAY BE CONSIDERED GRAPHICALLY DISTURBING TO SOME VIEWERS. PLEASE SPEAK WITH A RAID PROJECTS TEAM MEMBER REGARDING QUESTIONS/CONCERNS.

LA - Edwin Ushiro New Works (06/02/07 - 06/23/07)

NYC - "Fuck for Peace: A History of the Fugs" (06/02/07 - 09/08/07)

FUCK FOR PEACE

A History of The Fugs

Exhibition on View from June 2 - September 8, 2007

Opening Reception, June 2, 2007, 5-7 PM

Printed Matter is pleased to announce an exhibition on the legendary sixties folk rock group The Fugs. On view throughout the summer, FUCK FOR PEACE: A History of The Fugs will showcase the band's records and ephemera as well as the dozens of publications published by The Fugs' founding members Tuli Kupferberg and Ed Sanders. Please join us for the opening reception on June 2, 2007. Printed Matter is located at 195 Tenth Avenue (at 22nd Street) in New York City.

Don't Buy Stuff.

SNL "Don't Buy Stuff"
Uploaded by shosterman

This SNL short should be shown to every graduating high school student. And then it should be passed out in every college welcome package for incoming freshmen. And then when you graduate from college, a copy should be stapled to the back of your diploma.

We've all gotten into financial trouble at some point or another. Had we seen this funny video three times before entering the "grown up" world, would it have stopped and made us think twice about buying stuff we couldn't afford? All financial advice should be this funny. Then maybe it would stick.

Thanks Eric, for the video!

LA - "Brodeo" (06/01/07 - 06/30/07)

New Image Art Gallery Presents:
Brodeo – A Group Exhibition

Taking their cues from the worlds of street, skateboard culture, design and fine art Brodeo is a survey of contemporary male artists running the gamut of abstraction, design, figuration, and street art as they spin the world around us into an object of perception. As some of the finest of their fields this show exhibits a wide range of sensibilities and approaches to current trends in the Contemporary art and design worlds.

Artists: Bast, Kelsey Brookes, The Date Farmers, David Ellis, Evan Hecox, Cody Hudson, Eddie Martinez, Eric White, Cleon Peterson

SD - "Cloud Cloud, San Diego" (06/01/07 - 06/02/07)

Cloud Cloud, San Diego
Friday, June 1 and Saturday, June 2

To signal the opening of his exhibition Vik Muniz: Reflex at MCASD, Vik Muniz will move his art out of the Museum and up into the sky to perform his photographic action Cloud Cloud, San Diego, on Friday, June 1 above Balboa Park, and on Saturday, June 2 above MCASD La Jolla.

The artist will use a pilot and a skywriting plane to sketch his illusion of a cloud in the sky above San Diego, high over the city and ocean. All will be able to view this highly visual, fleeting artwork by simply looking up at the sky from visibility points in San Diego and La Jolla.

On Friday, June 1, Cloud Cloud will take place between 1 pm and 5 pm in the sky above Balboa Park. On Saturday, June 2, at 6 pm, Cloud Cloud will take place in the sky above MCASD La Jolla as part of the Museum's Contributor-level and new Members' reception, but the work will be visible to all walking along Prospect Street and Coast Boulevard.

Helsinki - "Vice Guide to Helsinki" Launch Party (06/01/07)

Philly - "Coming of Rage" (06/01/07 - 07/27/07)

NYC - "Creative Time: The Book" Author Event (06/01/07)

League Fridays

Author Talk: Anne Pasternak, Hjalti Karlsson and Jan Wilker

Creative Time: The Book

Friday, June 1, 6:30 p.m.

The Urban Center
457 Madison Avenue
New York City

Creative Time president and artistic director Anne Pasternak will discuss the design process of Creative Time: The Book, a richly photographed celebration and record of the art and artists from the public art organization’s first thirty-three years. Joining the discussion will be the book’s designers Hjalti Karlsson and Jan Wilker of karlssonwilker inc. Pasternak, Karlsson, and Wilker will discuss the challenges of spotlighting thirty-three years of experimental art in only a few hundred pages and will provide a behind the scenes look at the creative process between writers, editors, and book designers as idea becomes page. In particular, the three will consider the “Urban Visual Recording Machine,” a Creative Time organized event and design tool, which generates a unique cover for every book created in the print run.

LA - "Happy Squirter" (06/01/07 - 06/23/07)