Hustler of Culture

Brooklyn - Fireworks & Rockets (07/04/07)

"So Wrong, I'm Right" Recap.

June 30, 2007 - 7:40 p.m. - Culver City, CA

In 2001 or thereabouts, I was introduced to Eddie Martinez and his work. I was employed at Tokion and I had the great pleasure of meeting a lot of up and coming creative talents. Eddie was one of them. I believe he did a few things with us and along the way, I was gifted a custom painted canvas bag, inscribed with my name. I rocked that bag hard. A lot of people complimented me on it. But I had to finally retired the sack when the canvas strap finally snapped. I still have the bag and am wondering, how I should preserve it. I don't want to ruin the art!

Over the last five or so years, I've been following Eddie's trajectory online. From one opening to another. And for the first time in awhile, I was able to view his work in person again. It was super rad to see Eddie's new work in the group show, "So Wrong, I'm Right" at Blum and Poe. Like the rest of us, his art has matured. Everything's richer. I'm not even going to fake the art speak. But I know he took what he had and made it even better. I only wish I had run into Eddie so I could congratulate him in person. Way to go man!

LA - A Psychedelic Lightshow (07/04/07)

Brooklyn - The Floating Pool at Brooklyn Bridge Park Beach (07/04/07 - ?)

The Floating Pool at Brooklyn Bridge Park Beach
Opens July 4!

Grab your towel and shades for swimming, sunning, lounging, picnicing and playing in Brooklyn Bridge Park this summer.

FREE!

Pool - 11am - 7pm
Beach - 9am - 9pm
7 days a week

Dance of the Golden Saw.

Hah. Gordon from Surface2Air is just too much. Friends like this are true gems!

Creative Cabal.

June 29, 2007 - 2:58 p.m. - Venice, CA

Old, new, and special. Meet some of the boys that make up my creative cabal. My family's getting mad diverse and I wouldn't want it any other way!

links for 2007-06-28

• Cocaine-addled Driver Destroys Entire Cornfield on Run From Police
  Honestly it's not funny. It's hilarious.
  (tags: Drugs Humor News Crime England DailyMail)
• TwitterFaces.com
  Do not open TwitterFaces if you've actually got to get any work done.
  (tags: Tools Twitter Web2.0 Technology Entertainment)

Call For Entries: Cut&Paste

Cut&Paste is back this Fall 2007, bringing its Digital Design Tournament to eleven cities worldwide

In keeping with demand, we've partnered with Adobe to bring our Digital Design Tournament to the following global cities:

* United States - New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, along with new cities Portland and Boston
* Europe - London and Berlin
* Asia / Pacific - Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Sydney

We've had some additional help in making this happen. Including Adobe, Cut&Paste is also working with Wacom Technology, IdN, and Wired Magazine to bring our tournament event to a global audience.

Impromptu Family Dinner.

June 27, 2007 - 11:31 p.m. - Santa Monica, CA

This is what happens when a few plans fall through for a few different people. You get a motley crew dinner.

NYC - SummerStage: Rodrigo y Gabriela, Vietnam & JDH and Dave P (07/01/07)

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Vietnam

JDH and DAVE P

Sunday, July 01, 2007
From 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Central Park SummerStage

Two acoustic guitarists kick up a noise and a rock foursome lay down the feedback frenzy as SummerStage welcomes July.

Something's Cooking at SummerStage, featuring Guest Chef Sue Torres of Los Dados.

LA - THE BICYCLE FILM FESTIVAL "BLOCK PARTY" (07/01/07)

Berlin - "Mail Order Monsters" (07/01/07 - 08/04/07)

Mail Order Monsters, Curated by Kathy Grayson
July 1 – August 4, 2007
Opening: Sunday, July 1, 5-7PM
Barbecue to follow in the park!

FRAN SPIEGEL | DENNIS TYFUS | BEN JONES | TOMOO GOKITA | EDDIE MARTINEZ | WES LANG | RY FYAN | TAYLOR MCKIMENS | JOE GRILLO

Big Blimpin'.

June 26, 2007 - 7:40 p.m. - Santa Monica, CA

Chicago - OHM Multimedia Series: The Video Game Soundtrack of Our Lives (06/30/07)

OHM Multimedia Series: The Video Game Soundtrack of Our Lives

Saturday, June 30, 1:30pm
Chicago Cultural Center, Cassidy Theater
78 E. Washington Street

SF - "Mapping the City" (06/30/07)

a day long symposium exploring Southern Exposure's yearlong Off-Site Program

Saturday, June 30, 2007, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Location: De Young, Koret Auditorium, Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive

Mapping the City is a day long symposium that will reflect on the last year of Southern Exposure's Off-Site programming, which has investigated artists' strategies for exploring and mapping public space by bringing the SoEx Off-Site artists together in dialog around the artistic legacy of the Situationists, contemporary mapping strategies, and tactics for urban intervention. Invited speakers include Simon Sadler, author of "The Situationist City". In addition, the day will be punctuated by site-specific projects by several of the artists whose work has been a part of SoEx Off-Site since September 2006.

LA - "So Wrong, I'm Right" (06/30/07 - 08/25/07)

So Wrong, I'm Right

Eddie Martinez
William J. O’Brien
Roman Wolgin
Jonas Wood

June 30 - August 25, 2007

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 30, 2007 6-8 pm

Blum & Poe
2754 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
T (310) 836-2062
F (310) 836-2104
info@blumandpoe.com

LA - "Collective Bargain: A Catalog of Good Art" (06/30/07)

COLLECTIVE BARGAIN: A CATALOG OF GOOD ART

OPENING RECEPTION: June 30th, 7pm - 11pm

Music start at 8pm

Featuring:
Nasty Millionaire
Foot Village
The Rolltop Loys

THETREEHOUSEGALLERY
2345 E.Olympic Blvd. LA CA 90021

LA - Blubber Bot Workshops and Open House (06/30/07)

Dear Friends,

We've had a lot of interest in Jed Berk's robotic blimp workshop this Saturday (and not enough spots for students), so we're going to have an open house afterwards for blimp viewing, casual blimp chat and ice cream eating. There will be not be a formal presentation, but Jed will be here to answer questions. Free.

Blubber Bot Open House and Demo
4-6 pm Saturday June 30th

love,
Machine
1200 D North Alvarado Street
Los Angeles, CA 90026
213-483-8761

Nicole Kidman for Nintendo DS.

We all love Brain Age (Brain Training in Oz)! And so does Nicole Kidman?! This is the cleanest home I've ever seen a DS played in. And I believe this is the oddest actor choice in Nintendo commercial casting. As far as talent in game commercials go, nothing tops before-he-was-famous Jack Black's 1982 Pitfall gig.

LA - "Falha" (06/29/07 - 08/26/07)

Renata Lucas: Falha
June 30 -- August 26, 2007

Opening reception: Fri Jun 29, 6–9 pm. Artist’s talk: 6:30 pm

Renata Lucas’s practice is a critical interpretation of how our built environment determines actions, behavior and social relationships, and by extension, society’s dependency on the preservation of prescribed definitions of space, property and order. By offering an alternative spatial imagination—one that brings into consideration malleability, manipulation and play—Lucas provokes the possibility of new subjective and collective engagement within our built environment.