Iconic type foundry House Industries is presenting an installation featuring new wood serigraphs, products, and their signature cool gear at Reserve tonight. Info below:
Ground Kontrol in Portland rules! Classic video games, good drinks, and dope DJs will keep you dropping quarter after quarter into the machines all night long. Definitely worth a visit or three if you find yourself in the neighborhood.
From their website: "Over 90 of the best arcade games from the 70s, 80s, and 90s in an authentic gameroom environment. Original cabinets, original gameplay and original quarter slots, just like you remember! Pull on some Pumas and terrycloth wristbands, get in your stance, and prepare to immerse yourself in the electric glow of years gone by. "
Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade
511 NW Couch St.
Portland, OR 97209 groundkontrol.com
On a sad note, two of the students in the video, Tam Tran and Cynthia Felix, recently passed away in a car accident. Their activism and work on this issue has been instrumental in spreading the word about the injustices suffered by undocumented students. Their legacy continues.
Website for the Tam and Cynthia Memorial Fundhere.
From the Curator's Statement: "Comic strips offer a unique form of social criticism and commentary. The best cartoons expose some truths and, to quote the Bible, 'the truth will set you free.' Cartoonists must often be provocateurs."
Coloring Outside The Lines
April 11 through June 17, 2010
San Francisco Public Library
Main Library | African American Center
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102 sfpl.org
Featuring work by Darrin Bell, Stephen Bentley, Cory Thomas, Jerry Craft, Keith Knight, Morrie Turner, Nate Creekmore, Brumsic Brandon, Jr., Barbara Brandon-Croft, and Makeda Rashidi.
The Stoked Session 2010 website is live. I'll be posting more details closer to the opening of this rad event, but for now, you can cruise over there for more info.
"Whoa!" was all I could say when I walked intoThe Fantastical Worlds of Ray Harryhausen exhibit at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. One of my earliest recollections of his work is watching a Jason and the Argonauts and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad double feature with my Dad at the pre-revival Vista Theatre. I have been fascinated with his work ever since. Harryhausen's incredible stop-motion animation and special effects set the bar so high, I don't think his work has been bested. Sure, we now have massive computer rendering farms and texture mapping so detailed you can see pores on blue skin. However, there is something special about watching real objects in motion that pixels on a screen have yet to capture.
From the exhibition website: "Harryhausen classics take viewers to magical worlds of fantasy and adventure, with dynamic action sequences (which he executed largely by himself) populated by pre-historic beasts, aliens, giant sea creatures and mythological monsters.
With unprecedented cooperation from, and access to, the Ray Harryhausen collection, an incredible array of original models, drawings, storyboards and behind-the-scenes photographs are on view in the Academy’s Fourth Floor Gallery, demonstrating the ingenious filmmaking process of Harryhausen."
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
Fourth Floor Gallery
8949 Wilshire Boulevard
Beverly Hills, California 90211
Open to the public
Tuesday – Friday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday – Sunday: Noon to 6 p.m.
Through August 22, 2010
