ON THIS DAY IN 1955
Dr. Emmett Brown was standing on his toilet seat on the evening of Nov. 5, 1955, attempting to hang a clock in his bathroom, when he slipped and slammed his head on the side of the sink. Never forget.
Huey Lewis & the News - The Power of Love
If you don’t dance around to this today, you are a terrible American.
Machine Project Benefit - Coco's Variety Store - Los Angeles
Do me a favor and go to this on Saturday night. It’s not actually $100. Copy stolen from L.A. weekly:
Death-sportos, motorheads, geeks, ethical sluts, half-blood princes, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads — they all adore Machine Project, the blissfully multisubjectival arts organization that holds classes on how to make Paleolithic knives. They’ve also taken over LACMA to further their nefarious agenda — and they teach sauerkraut-making workshops. So expect fans to show up in force for the Machine Project Benefit at Coco’s Variety Store. Coco’s is the bicycle-refurbishment store with aims that dovetail with Machine Project and other progressive organizations in Echo Park: community, self-reliance and joyous creativity. While you’re whiling away your time, you can bet on head-to-head speed-soldering contests and microscopic slime mold races, make s’mores at the fire pit and eat absolutely top-notch wood-fired pizza.
I don’t really wear jewelery, but if you wanted to get me this, and pick me up from the airport on Sunday, that would be fine.
Architectural Tetris! Copy below from Flavorwire:
“Designer-in-training Sergej Hein animated this entertaining parody of Soviet Bloc architecture, filtered through the early ’90s pop culture touchstone Tetris. Hein, who grew up in Riga and later East Berlin, explains, ‘They used to build cheap housing for workers…. These “blocks” were so similar that in Soviet times, you could easily wake up at a friend’s place in another city and still feel like you are in your flat. Even the furniture was the same.’”
We can thank Corbusier for this.
Snuff Box - Boyfriend Scenes
I’m doing a fun email interview with the dudes from Animal Collective and they reminded me of this awesome clip from the British sketch show Snuff Box. So good.
15 Dots Enough: Alaskan Military School’s low-res game demake videos - Boing Boing
This kind of reduction/abstraction makes me think of Rauschenberg’s Erased DeKooning, and Malevich’s Black Square. Blah blah blah, exploring the limits of the medium, blah blah.
Come Out and Play Festival
I’m writing a final on this.
I think this project is great:
Painting and Pizza Delivery - Nov 4, 2009
1. Call (9 5 1) 215 6006 between 6:30 and 8:30.
2. Specify toppings. You will be told to preheat your oven to 450 degrees for 20 minutes. past toppings have included anchovies, spinach, eggplant, yellow pepper, squash, tomato, goat cheese, olives, etc.
3. Pizza will arrive in pizza box with original artwork. pop pizza in oven for 6-8 minutes. eat and enjoy. keep the artwork.
Artists for “Painting and Pizza Delivery” Wednesday evening Nov. 4th: Photography by Brianna Bakke; Drawing/Painting by Dan Duy Nguyen, Mamiko Inoue; Painting by David Leapman; Collage by Jeff Ribaudo; Prints by Cosme Cordova. Pizzas by Lee Tusman.
Ryan Gosling’s band is actually pretty good. Their set at the Echo featured the kids’ choir from the Silverlake Conservatory of Music!
