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N&P: Life Is A Rehearsal
Written by Andrew Scott   
Monday, 02 February 2009 06:14
A trip to LA, photo shows, letter press, and Bill Daniel.

Hello friends of the digital super-highway. I'm here to update you with the latest happenings and occurrences that are of the greatest importance to you and yours. I'd like to start by saying, December sucked. Retail frenzy is no funat all, so let's not talk about it anymore. Come to think of it, 2008 can be happily swept under the rug of time. ...Well, I'll mention this one last tiny snippet of December and we'll be done with it.

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This is the December moon in Willits, California. The cultivation of marijuana is the primary industry of the surrounding area.

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Besides the hyper-shopkeeping of the holiday season, I spent some time with the accountant in this remote off-the-grid cabin outside of Willits. My accountant is Hunter S. Thompson. I'm serious. The last "meeting" we had with him was done at Mooses (or whatever the place is called now) in North Beach on Obama-rama election night. The place was a zoo. ...We did taxes. This is his cabin in Willits, it has no electricity, book keeping is done by candle light. So, that's what we do. ...Ask me about the night he walked through hot coals. His name is Tom. He's my Gonzo accountant. Who's your accountant?

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I finally got myself a new point & shoot camera. Lugging around the SLR all the time is a pain. The P&S better compliments my primary leisure activity - riding around aimlessly on a bicycle and photographing inanimate objects.

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Actually, the first day my new camera and I were out roaming, there was one destination. I wanted to ride out to the beach and check out a new funky coffee shop I'd heard about - Trouble Coffee on 46th & Judah.

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It was a pretty cool spot. Small funky businesses make SF the unique place that it is. On a related note, I'd like to use this soap box to say fuck American Apparel's plan to open shop on Valencia Street. There's plenty of other neighborhoods in SF to buy chain store goods at, let's keep it that way. Let's keep Valencia Street a sanctuary from the culture-killing homogeneity that plagues 95% of the American landscape. (ok, I'm done ranting now).

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Rambling around the Sunset District.

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Beautiful decaying rusty surf mobile.

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Judah Clean Center.

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Log-Jamming in Golden Gate Park

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Quality is my Recipe. I love signage.

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I love rich primary colors.

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San Francisco Tenements.

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Royal Gardens Lunch BBQ. Dog Patch SF.

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SF Gravel has a cool sign and picturesque truck parked out front.

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Variety is the spice of life (as they say).

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StarGlo. 3rd Street.

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After a-ramblin' round our fair city, one develops a mighty thirst for frothy oat soda. Say hello to Jay Howell & Co., quench the thirst, and listen as they play the disco hits at Casanova on Tuesdays.

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A week ago, I took a Letter Press how-to at SF Center for the Book. It was boss.

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Letter Press is rad, the look and feel of the individual pieces of type is amazing. I want a table-top press and 200 drawers filled with assorted wooden-type for myself. I want it all.

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Well actually, the plan is to take 3 of these how-to courses and then be able to come down to SFCB and use their presses.

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We made this goofy zine in the class. It was neat looking, despite it's non-descript content.

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(I'll spare you the close-up).

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Teacher & Students of the SFCB

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Along with the rest of the artistically inclined population of San Francisco, I went to see Raymond Pettibon lecture at CCA.
It was one of the most ridiculous things I've sat through in a while. Pettibon, champion of the 1980's punk aesthetic, blathered on incoherently for over an hour about ...I'm not sure what? I don't think he finished a single sentence without starting off into another one. Either he's the worst public speaker of his generation or the greatest avant-garde performance artist of the last 30 years. Seriously, it was unreal. If you have a chance to see him lecture, I'd recommend going. I guarantee you'll have something to say about it.

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Back at the ranch, we hosted the opening reception for our latest art happening - Bill Daniel & Santiago Mostyn's SOME WORD PICTURES.

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(left) photo by Santiago Mostyn, (top right) photo by Bill Daniel

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Colossus of Roads in S.F. by Bill Daniel. O.G. freight train graffiti.

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Mural photo by Santiago Mostyn.

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Don't work yourself to death in the full-time working trap, scrawlings by Santiago Mostyn

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Photo by Santiago Mostyn.

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Photo of 1990's SF graffiti by Bill Daniel.

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Photo by Santiago Mostyn. Santiago has a photo book that just came out on Tim Barber's TV Books that you should check out, it's called All Most Heaven.

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Opening night jamboree.

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Santiago's dad is jazz musician. Him and about five other musicians marched up 16th Street from the BART station banging out amazing New Orleans style/Afro-Cuban parade beats for the opening. It was awesome.

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Bang on the drum! I've never seen it, but look for Santiago's dad on his own hosted SF public-access television show. Radness.

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Paparazzi time: Dan Wolf and Mat OBrien

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Monica Canilao and Tara Lisa Foley

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Ivy and Erick

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Amy Browne Towne

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Sausalito Hppy House Boat by Bill Daniel

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Boxcar graffiti by Bill Daniel

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Mural-sized photo by Santiago Mostyn

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Photos by Santiago Mostyn

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...And Mr. Santiago Mostyn, himself. Come checkout the show, it'll be up at N+P through February.

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Also, went down to LA last weekend to visit the family and check out New Image Art's 15 year anniversary show.

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The Breeze Machine and I drank $8 beers out of plastic pint-glasses at the Roosevelt Hotel and did what you do in LA ...gawked at girls with big silicone boobies. We also had a meeting with some TV execs about Breezy's new reality show Cougar Hunt. Here's the premise of the show: Breezy basically coaches 20-30 year old dudes on how to score an older Cougar sugar mama. It airs on the Discovery Channel this fall.

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LA car in front of LA wall.

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And my one (awesome) photo from the New Image Art show - No Age playing to the mob. Best photo ever. Yes sir. And with that, my friends, I leave you.
Until next blog time.
-Andrew

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Wowzas, there's a lot of art happenings this weekend, and while you're making the rounds, be sure to stop at SFAI's MFA show Currency opening Friday, May 17th at the beautiful old SF Mint Building (88 5th Street).

SFAI's 2013 MFA graduates—working in painting, photography, printmaking, film, sculpture, installation, digital media, performance, and across media—will present work that embraces the Institute's signature spirit of experimentation and conceptual risk-taking.

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Check the details, mark it in the calendar, and we'll be seeing you there!

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Alex Lukas & Richard Colman @Guerrero Gallery

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ARYZ at Fifty24SF

ARYZ (Spain) opened his newest gallery show at Fifty24SF last Friday and, if you live in the Bay Area, you need to go. This dude can obviously paint, and he doesn't need an entire building to show his impecable skill. The show has lots of small works on paper which contrast his highly-defined line work to his hard-edged painted objects. The contrast between the hard and soft was the most striking thing to me about his work, since I had never seen it in person before, and the washes blend with the thick paint seamlessly. The show also contains a larger work on canvas, a huge head suspended in the back of the room, and a big wood sculpture of a wolf figure. This diversity in such a small space was impressive, and those of us that went to the opening even got to meet the man in person. If you didn't make it out this weekend, check it out before May 31st when it closes and these works will be off to some very happy new homes.


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Alex Ziv & Mario Ayala at FFDG +Opening Pics

Photos from the opening of Going Nowhere featuring works by San Francisco based artists Alex Ziv & Mario Ayala which runs through May 4th at FFDG.


Recent Works by David Lyle

Working from found photographs, Lyle's paintings are created through a reductive painting process where each piece is rendered using only black paint and turpentine. Lyle begins this process by priming a panel with white gesso. He then paints a thin, rich, oily black veneer over the primed panel, slowly and systematically developing his images by removing some of the black paint with a cloth. In doing so, Lyle renders layer upon layer of various values of black paint resulting in his signature-style of luminescent works.


+London - David Shillinglaw Mural

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Just The Two of Us at Adobe Books

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Skewville & Mark Warren Jacques @White Walls (SF)

Two twin brothers from Brooklyn, Skewville brought the fun to their opening at White Walls last Saturday night with their new show, Amusement. After all, you can't take a show that starts with a sign reading "Sucks either Way" too seriously. Besides the simplistic yet detailed paintings, visitors got to ride on a bike-powered merry-go-round and throw bean bags at bottles like a carnival game. Even the works made of found materials, like the Battleship boombox and the suitcase made of tin lunch pails, brought a sense of humor to the night. After seeing the work in the back of the gallery, which was much more crowded, Skewville provided a light-hearted atmosphere in which viewers could drink beer, play games, and see some really great artworks.


The Yok & Sheryo

Brooklyn based artists Sheryo and The Yok recentely completed the mural "Pipe Dreams" in Long Island City at 5 pointz. The Yok also emailed over some photos fom a recent trip to Mexico for the Festival Anonymous held near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico from this past January... Awesome, we're heading to Mexico in a couple weeks.


Skewville & Mark Warren Jacques @White Walls Saturday

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Darth Across America

I live in SF. I drove across the US last summer in a 30 ft. RV from SF to Brooklyn and did portrait series called Darth Across America, every day people in every day situations, wearing a Darth Vader mask. I raised $2600 through Kickstarter along the way, that paid for gas and beer. I was travelling with 2 other photographers who also did a series of portraits. Mine drew the most attention. It was an experiment in a way, to see if I could use a pop culture icon to unite people that had nothing in common. I was right. I created a community of people across the United States that continue to follow my project, which is soon to be a book. -Julie Schuchard


In The Streets of Copenhagen

Our buddy Henrik Haven, who brings us some goodies from his native Copenhagen, has been shooting some of his city's graffiti and street art. Much to offer, we've broken the posts into 3 and will be posting more in the coming days.


Nicolas "Odö" Le Borgne @Spacejunk (Lyon, France)

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