After years of doing Burning Man I’ve decided it’s the Christmas holiday for bay area artists. We all stress out the weeks before making the perfect artistic gifts, getting the right swag, buying new outfits, deciding who your going to spend it with, prepping the food and drinks, inviting your friends, then loading your car with way more crap then you need and driving way too far to sit, talk, eat and get drunk. You don’t even have to like the holiday, but yet out of tradition and despite your grumpy anti BM ramblings, you participate and go. Then there’s the people who say they are going and then get too busy or something comes up. I look at them and think this is Christmas, why would you work on a holiday? You see I am a burner and here is my art update and just some of the people I will be sharing my holidays with.
Electrobite Horn and eyes
Updated photos here
Tansy forming the eyes for casting
Jon hammering out the panels for the head
Lauren rewiring the Snail
New dash with lots of switches and dials to make Jon happy
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This post was written by Form & Reform on August 21, 2009
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I happened into the parking lot at my shop to see what I thought was a guy tagging. I was happy to discover an artist covering the junk on the streets with art. By the time I left the shop most of the art was gone. I did get one pc from a broken shelf to hang in my office. Thanks for the art!
Come celebrate NIMBY’s 5 Year Anniversary in their new 64,000 square foot location.
Who can believe they have been doing it wrong for 5 years running?
March 28th
9 pm
$10 ‘donation’ to enter
The line-up
Life Size Mouse Trap
Esmerelda Strange
Rose Harden
Wink and Yoni
Fatwater
Live art by Jordan Fillers
Art by the Museum of Unnatural Selection
Brian Kenny Fresno
The Therm robots
Glen Meadmore Disgusting Spectacle
Art by Orion Fredricks
DJ Big Daddy
DJ Zeljko
Matt Wirth’s Popcorn Booth
Art by Janine Miller …….and more
8410 Amelia Sreet, E. Oakland
info and directions can be found:
www.nimbyspace.org
We have been asked to bring out our Snail Art car the Golden Mean to the Factory Party this Friday. Remember to dress up, Zolie will only be letting the cool kids into the snail!
Amoeba Music and East Bay Express present…
Factory Party
Music * Art * Film
March 6, 6—11pm
1343 Powell Street
Emeryville, CA
On March 6, step into the world of Andy Warhol and his original 1960s New York City Factory. The East Bay Express has teamed up with Amoeba Music and OFFSpace to turn an Emeryville warehouse upside down for a night of live art, film making, musical performances, and theatrical art forms.
A portion of this event features a re-creation of Andy Warhol’s Factory, including a screening of 13 Most Beautiful People… Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests (Plexifilm DVD, out 3/24) and live production of art in the style and process performed by Andy Warhol, including silk screening, filming, and painting. Other rooms will be curated by Amoeba Music and curatorial collective OFFSpace.
Velvet Underground Cover Bands will perform — Dress in your 1960s best!
Visitors are encouraged to bring a can of Campbell’s soup for the Alameda County Food Bank. Each can of soup donated will enter donors to win prizes.
Admission: Free
Food and Beverage Sampling: $10 or $5 with valid student ID. Proceeds benefit Pro Arts.
For more information, email: promotions@eastbayexpress.com
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This post was written by Form & Reform on March 2, 2009
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Well we are finally here. The Snail is a BIG hit and everyone loves it. Our DMV shifts helping people register their cars went so smooth and visiting with people there is one of the highlights of my trip. The dust is bad, but one of the best nights was riding around with Kyrsten and Merrilee on bikes and running into wonderful snapshots of playa life that faded away with the next brown out and rain. Everyone out seems happy and ghost like alive in their dusty best.
Photos
The Girls loved the snail. Merrilee has story time in it each afternoon.
Our camps round up of Art Cars.
Kyrsten and I dusty and happy burn night
Moths caught in our 500 watt spotlight. We’re having so much fun lighting up everything with it!
Fire!
Morning on the playa
See you at home, back in West Oakland!
Opening Night Party at Camino’s Restaurant. The food was great, conversation, warm fire, warm night, and great cocktails. Here is a recipe, more or less, I picked up from the bartenders.
shot of pear Brandy
shot of port
half a shot of triple sec
5 shakes of bitters
twist of Meyer lemon
over Ice
Metal work I did for them
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