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JOSÉ PARLA - Stages Portraits by La MJC

JOSÉ PARLA - STAGES PORTRAITS BY LA MJC from La MJC on Vimeo.

La MJC interviewed our friend, painter José Parla for Stages, a global art exhibition to raise funds and awareness for the fight against cancer.

LA - Catch Me If You Can: A Mystery Bike Ride (08.02.09)

KAWS - Stages Portraits by La MJC

KAWS - STAGES PORTRAITS BY LA MJC from La MJC on Vimeo.

La MJC interviewed Brian Donnelly aka KAWS at the Stages art show in Paris.

links for 2009-07-29

• Zooey Deschanel, From Actress To Indie Rocker
  Of all the young wannabe-singer starlets out there, I've totally fallen head over heels for Zooey Deschanel. I think her singing's better than her acting, which is pretty, pretty good!
  (tags: Music Actor NPR)
• Eat Cheap 2009
  New York Magazine's list of cheap eats
  (tags: Food NewYorkMagazine NYC Restaurants Lists 2009)
• Has Wikipedia Created a Rorschach Cheat Sheet?
  "...the 10 original Rorschach plates are reproduced online, along with common responses for each..."
  (tags: Psychology NYTimes Health Wikipedia)

Antwerp - "Art Trek 6" (08.01.09 - 09.12.09)

Mo' Slo Mo

My friend Mileece composed the music ('Nightfall' from the album Formations) used in this video. It is as beautiful as she is. The filming and editing was done by Leo. Skateboarding's never been so chill.

NYC - "Dollars & Sense" (07.31.09 - 09.16.09)

LA - Hammer Presents: JazzPop (07.30.09, 08.06.09, 08.13.09)

SF - "Ours" (07.30.09 - 09.19.09)

Alex Schweder
Ours

July 30 - September 19, 2009

Opening reception:  Thursday, July 30th, 6-9pm

The Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco is pleased to announce an exhibit of work by Alex Schweder, titled Ours.  The show will include the large-scale pieces Plumbing Us, Our Weight Around Us, and an installation of scratch-and-sniff wallpaper.

10 Inappropriate iPhone Apps - "Squash the $treet"

My husband, Silvio has the great distinction of having worked on one of the top ten best video games in history (ranked by many different news outlets, game polls, etc.), Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.  He also has worked on a game voted one of the top ten worst in history, Fight For Life (I believe it was IGN that gave them this distinction). Can't say he does anything mediocre. Now another game he's worked on has made a top ten list! Huffington Post has named Squash the $treet #5 on their list of "10 Inappropriate iPhone Apps"!

Game Description:

Financial Crisis? Let your rage rain down on the crooks and swindlers who caused it.

Watch the shady bankers, creepy fraudsters and corrupt CEOs flee their gilded offices, sprinting for the nearest escape vehicle. Squash and flick the snarky scoundrels up and down the streets and sidewalks in the festering heart of the city where all the thievery and greed began.

LA - Ball-Nogues Studio Event (07.26.09)

BALL-NOGUES STUDIO ART TALK

SUNDAY, JULY 26, 3pm
MOCA Pacific Design Center
8687 Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood, CA 90069

On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Feathered Edge: A New Installation by Ball-Nogues Studio, Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues discuss their installation and the process behind its conception and execution.

INFO 213/621-1745 or education@moca.org

LIC - The PIG Presents Summer Sunday School (07.26.09, 08.02.09, 08.09.09)

	July 26th: Dan Graham Dan Graham speaks about Jewish humor in his his work, Q & A session to follow 5 pm August 2nd: Takeshi Murata A discussion with Takeshi Murata on tweeked animation from the '70s and '80's 8 pm

Brooklyn - LiveFastDie & Golden Triangle Event (07.25.09)

LA - "We're Not The Jet Set" (07.25.09 - 09.05.09)

We're Not The Jet Set: EXENE CERVENKA | WAYNE WHITE

July 25 – September 5, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 25, 5:00 – 8:00 pm

Western Project is proud to present Exene Cervenka and Wayne White in We’re Not the Jet Set. Each a long time resident of Los Angeles, they address contemporary America with an urban sensibility and found objects. Wayne White paints language on vintage framed lithographs, recalling the intelligence and incisive bite of Mark Twain. Exene Cervenka, lead singer of the seminal punk band X, collages remnants from her travels across the US: photographs, children’s books, bullet boxes and other familiar pieces of Americana. Both artists point to a shared history – a Pop culture and cosmology illuminating the light and darker aspects of our society. Cervenka unabashedly explores desire and consequence; White’s paintings are colloquial tidbits, humorous tales of knowledge. Both are after a kind of wisdom within the shadows of human nature. While clearly in the lineage of Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell, these artists cut to the chase about who we are and what we are up to.

LA - "Heavy Petting", "Riddles in the Dark", "Keep it Down" (07.25.09 - 08.11.09)

NYC - Fanatic 8 (07.25.09)

LA - "The 2009 Vice Magazine Photography Exhibition" (07.25.09 - 08.08.09)

links for 2009-07-21

• The Best New Digital Cameras
  "Amateurs are learning the secret that great photographers always knew: If you want great pictures, take lots of them."
  (tags: Forbes Technology Gadgets Lists BestOf 2009)
• Realism May Not Make It on Bravo’s New Reality Show
  "The Bravo network held a casting call in New York City for a show in which 13 artists will compete to win a gallery show and other related prizes."
  (tags: NYTimes Art Television RealityTV PopularCulture)
• On 40th Anniversary, Moon Landing Examined
  "Forty years ago today, astronaut Neil Armstrong took that fateful first step onto the moon, effectively putting an end to the space race and expanding the boundaries of science and engineering."
  (tags: Science NPR Aerospace History)
• Au Naturel: Gavin McInnes
  An interview with Vice Magazine co-founder, Gavin McInnes.
  (tags: InterviewMagazine Interview Vice Culture)
• Driven to Distraction - Dismissing the Risks of a Deadly Habit
  "Studies say that drivers using phones are four times as likely to cause a crash as other drivers, and the likelihood that they will crash is equal to that of someone with a .08 percent blood alcohol level, the point at which drivers are generally considered intoxicated. Research also shows that hands-free devices do not eliminate the risks, and may worsen them by suggesting that the behavior is safe."
  (tags: NYTimes Mobile Automobiles Safety)

LA - Computer Interface: A Video History (07.24.09)

Computer Interface: A Video History

Friday, July 24th, 2009
8pm

A talk by Jamie Zigelbaum

The interface is the bridge and bottleneck between humans and computers. Over the past 50 years researchers have invented and imagined many and various interfaces to join synapse and transistor. In this talk Jamie will give a brief history of human-computer interaction research and we’ll watch videos of seminal interfaces from Sutherland’s Sketchpad in ‘63 up through the latest nerdtastic work at MIT and elsewhere.

Jamie Zigelbaum is a Ph.D. student in Prof. Hiroshi Ishii’s Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab. This talk is a version of a lecture that he’s given with Dr. Jean-Baptiste Labrune in Ishii’s Tangible Interfaces class and with Labrune and Seth Hunter in Prof. Pattie Maes’ and Ishii’s New Paradigms for Human-Computer Interaction class. Jamie is in LA for the summer working downtown at Oblong Industries.