October 22, 2009 • 5:53 pm 0
Ambessa Contave, one half of Oakland hip hop duo Fiyawata, organizer and green movement mobilizer giving a shout in favor of climate change regulations. This Saturday is the International Day of Climate Change Action and eco activists around the world are hosting over 1500 actions in over 125 countries, calling for climate justice at the Copenhagen climate talks from Dec. 7-18. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Activism, Art, Media, Music, San Francisco
April 23, 2009 • 7:56 pm 4
Two Artists+Two Bottles of Cabernet+Silver Paint+Fish+Fan=
A few years ago, after more than a few glasses of red, me and a close friend-uber talented italian photog/artist/model Marlene Demonte- were talking art work and collabs and ways we could work together. I’d been really into the multimedia collaborations between Bill T. Jones, Tseng Kwong Chi and Keith Harring and wanted to do something similar. (See the bottom of the post for some of the inspiring shots).
So after more planning, more drinking, and a hilarious trip through Chinatown and North Beach (who knew it would be so hard to find a live squid in San Francisco?) these are some of the results. I’m digging the shoot but I think I need to work on my brooding artist face. Check em out.
Filed under: Art, Media, Photos, San Francisco
November 4, 2007 • 11:31 pm 2
Heavy Hitterz Street Art & Graffiti Show
So these Speaker Fruits cats throw a pretty damned good party. This past Friday at Age Song gallery in San Francisco, SF along with Daniel Fleres, fabric8, and Phoneticontrol brought in around 80 artists from around the world for Heavy Hitterz, one of the best graffiti/street/comic art shows I’ve been to in a minute.
Local heads like Romanowski and Mildred mixed it up with emerging artists from around the continental US, Honolulu, Hong Kong, Japan, France, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK.
Brown bag 40’s were flowing, David Choong Lee blessed the spot with a live painting session and Celskiii, Deanndroid, and shredO dropped the ill soul and old school jams. Not a bad night in the city. See the pictures for more.
-kwan
Filed under: Art, Graffiti, Photos, Reviews, San Francisco, Street Art , , Art, Daniel Fleres, David Choong Lee, fabric8, Graffiti, Heavy Hitterz, Mildred, Phoneticontrol, Romanowski, San Francisco, Speaker Fruits, Street Art
October 26, 2007 • 10:11 pm 0
San Francisco’s Clarion Alley holds a legendary space among muralists. The block long alley between Mission and Valencia has been provided a home to the cities painters since the 60’s. Every year the Clarion Alley Mural Project hosts a two day mural celebration with selected artists updating the alley on Saturday and an all out party Sunday. These were taken at this years party a few weeks ago. Dig it.
-kwan
Filed under: Art, Music, Photos, San Francisco , , Art, Clarion Alley, Graffiti, Mural, San Francisco, Street Art
October 1, 2007 • 8:32 pm 0
Eulipia Performance Salon 1st Anniversary Finale Gala
October 2nd, 8PM (sharp)
Walter Kitundu
Please join us for this night of celebration and reflection.
Since October 2006, Eulipa/Knot Frum Hear has featured some of the Bay’s innovators in the worlds of word and music and continues to explore alternative spaces through performance, sound, and vision. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Art, Books, Media, Promotions, San Francisco , Art, Jazz, Music, Performance, Poetry, Puppets
• 7:04 pm 1
Aaah Folsom Street. The annual celebration of all things freaky and sexy. The air was full of bass and the wacks of countless paddles on countless asses as leathermen, twinks, doms, subs and all manner of kinky kinksters came out to celebrate and strut their naked stuff. -kwan
Filed under: Art, Kink, Music, Novoscene, Photos, San Francisco , BDSM, Festivals, Folsom Street Fair, Kink, Photos
A left coast, black futurist take on art, life, culture, and randomness.
Heavy on the randomness.
My name is Kwan and I write things.
Features, news and essays, fiction, poems and collateral, marketing strategies and bits of conversations, genius words of inspiration and dada nonsense couplets.
It's a bit of an addiction.
But it helps to put things in perspective
And so far it pays the bills.
But you're not here to pay the bills are you? If you were, you'd be over here. Where I write for the big bucks.
You're here to get some of those not so random words aren't you?
I can see it in your eyes-the deep longing, the searching, the need.
It's okay, really. That's why I'm here too:
-to toss sentences into the air and see what soars
-to chase ideas with butterfly nets
-to figure out the what's and why's
-to find out the who's and when's
-to grab all the little slices
-and wrap arms around the big questions.
I think you'll dig it
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