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UPDATED: Puppets and Carnies… mmm

Yoo hoo…. I’ve been working hard this past month, doing sound tech (5 mics and about 25 sound cues) for the Big Tadoo’s “Walk and Roll to School” puppet show for TRANSFORM in Alameda County elementary schools. Just finished week two of the Fall Tour, leaving the kids with the urge to either bike and walk to school (or maybe put on a puppet and sing a great song).

Come visit me and a few events I’ll be participating in for your fall carny/puppet goodness:

The Sustainable Living Roadshow will have two games at Treasure Island Music Fest this weekend. If you stop by during Flaming Lips, you won’t see me there!!!

Big Tadoo will have a public performance of the show on Halloween with for the 3rd Annual Scraper Bike Day in Oakland. Never heard of scraper bikes? Check out this site for more info on a cool, inner-city urban bike movement.

CANCELLED due to permit problems (fingers crossed that we’ll perform for them soon!)

October 31st
Fremont Highschool parking lot
4610 Foothill Blvd. tween 46th and 45th
Oakland, CA 94601

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Dia del Toro Mural at CELLspace

I am proud to announce a new mural on the Bryant St. facade of CELLspace. Dia del Toro graces the entrance to the ACT prop shop at 2060 Bryant St. and was painted by Dia and Toro.

For years, fading graffiti filled this panel as a a ficus tree grew huge and blocked the street view of this part of the facade. While I facilitated the half panel piece that Dia did for CELLspace earlier this year, I shot the idea to him about taking that panel too. He initially had the idea of painting a sailing ship getting pulled down into a stormy sea, but he used that concept for a gallery piece. Once Dia found time to work with CELL’s miniscule budget and paint the panel for free, he had met Toro and decided to paint a defeated bull as it took its last breaths.

In the first phase of making the panel, Dia and Toro worked on the overall layout. Toro then painted “DIA TORO” in graff letters for placement. Dia then sprayed a white outline of the bull and then painted the details with brushes and black paint. He sprayed a few other details. Finally, Toro came back and did the final graff lettering and details. Blood on the sword punctures and in the mouth of the bull were the final details added to the animal image.

Dia del Toro was the final panel on the Bryant St. facade, following Stencilada and the halved panel by 2048 Bryant. Now that this is done, energy will be focused on the Florida St. Mural project. Currently with no funds to budget the artwork, things move slowly back there. I’m currently working on the RIDE TOO! benefit for next Friday, of which some profits will go towards the Florida St. murals. The Bike Kitchen is still moving forward with their panel back there and will be at the benefit.

Enjoy the photos of the Dia del Toro mural that I took over the course of its completion.

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RIDE TOO! Flyer Design

PSPrint has a 50% off deal, so I am going to print a pile of these to pass around….

…feel free to post this jpg up where ever you wanna….

RIDE TOO flyer

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RIDE TOO! CELLspace Benefit

If you didn’t notice the link to the page “RIDE TOO!” up on the top masthead of this site, then here’s the info in the RSS feed. All the bands just confirmed and locked down for what looks like a great night of bikes, bands, and beer! Well, there’s a bit more than that, but that’s how I keep pitching it to folks.

Two January’s ago, CELLspace needed a huge help from the community. I’d been away from CELL for a few years, doing my thang, and bikes and bands were a part of that. So I concocted RIDE! and got a nice list of bands to hop on board for the night. Turns out my captive audience, Critical Mass, was totally rained out that night. But my planted promoters got most of the ride to come to CELL, soaking wet. Then Mike Hoffman and David Sartore’s band “Bring Your Own Laser” brought a smoke machine that set the fire alarm off! Quiet a crazy night for a low-attended event. But the thing is, which still amazes me, is that the event still made $$ for CELLspace. Not a bunch, but between the beer and the lemon squares, we pulled in $150 for CELL! Amazing, so I still call it a success of mythic proportions.

If you were there, you remember and smile with nostalgia…..

So I invite you all to RIDE TOO! More of the same, but a whole lot better! (flyer jpg coming soon!)

HappyFt presents
RIDE TOO!
a benefit for CELLspace and the Florida St. Mural Project

Friday, Sept. 25, 2009
8pm to 2am

CELLspace
2050 Bryant St. (b/t 19th and 20th Sts.), SF, CA

$10 to $20 sliding scale
21+ (beer and wine for sale)
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Angel Island Campout Pics

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Mission Muralismo in SF Chronicle

Street art and artists in the Mission

go here for complete article

Clarion is an alley connecting Valencia to Mission, between a cop shop and a crack market, with murals of devils and angels and a moving stairway to heaven.

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Close by is the Women’s Building, a colorful paean to female heroes and goddesses, from Guatemalan peace activist Rigoberto Menchu to scientist Marie Curie.

A couple of blocks up is an intricate mural on the facade of a writer’s school and colony, depicting the human race’s attempts at communication.

In between and all around San Francisco’s Mission District are posters and poetry and political calls to action. There are tribal graffiti and Gothic lettering, traditional murals and lattices of tags. Now, a new book, “Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo,” has captured and honored the varied artists and activists of the street.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/21/DD1M195294.DTL&type=art#ixzz0OqmbW4QE

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Final Pics fm Stencil Nation Tour

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Middle America Tour Pics pt 1

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Cali Wilderness

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St. Stupids Day 2009: Meta Pics

Every April 1, the freaks show up to downtown San Francsico and have a mad parade for St. Stupid’s Day. This year was the same as ever, but after 31 years, Bishop Joey and the First Church of the Last Laugh’s message is now a majority across the USA: banks are stupid. The “Stations of Stupid” criss cross banking institutions. It all begins at the Federal Reserve where revelers throw lottery tickets to the winds of chance… just like banks do with our money. The procession ends at the Banker’s Heart sculpture at the Bank America building, barricaded off since 9-11, but still reachable from pennies. The St. Stupid message rang true last year when Bish Joey got us all to “foreclose” the Fed. This year, we “forgot” the parade route and ended up at a few extra banks before heading to the Pacific Jock Exchange. We lost the cops then. I know that all the fun costumes and signs are worth taking photos of. But I got meta, taking photos of other things that seemed interesting as well. Check them out:

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A large SFPD contingent snaked along with the parade this year. They kept the scene well surrounded. The cloth pile in the foreground is a homeless person’s full cart.

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The big local TV media was on hand to film the fun. This NBC cameraman was enjoying the sexy dance here.

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Some Final Visions of EU

A few more non-stencil pics to share before hopping the pond. Have been experiencing external and internal dialogs about the ease of sharing information on the Netz here in the Euro-Zone so haven’t been feeling like blogging about my experiences here per se. Still trying to think of a way to work out the complex ironies that’ve arisen as a result of being sucked into FaceBook land and whatnot. As Podinski says over on XLt…. more data streams on this TBD…..

bratislava

911! An alien has landed in the outskirts of Bratislava, Slovakia and is sucking the forest into its energy-converter box. No, wait. That’s just a Soviet-era radio tower, like the ones found allover the East.

Wien Bunker

Many WWII-era Nazi bunkers still exist across Austria and Germany. Saw a few in Hamburg, but then saw a huge one in Vienna. A local told Pod and I where some others were, so we visited this one (empty and impossible to destroy) next to its sister bunker, which is an arts facility.

Wien Invaders

911! Invaders have landed in Vienna behind the MuseumsQuartier and are preparing to destroy the planet. No, wait. That’s just some killer tile work by the artist Invader. When is the REAL invastion gonna start?

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