May, Peliom, Barbara, Sasha, Mang, Greta, Furry, Lisa, Mr. Foo, Dodger, Herve, Jess, and I went to opening party for The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama at YBCA. Paba Phree and Catweasel worked on this 32-channel sound/video installation:

The installation was wonderful, but it was too loud to fully hear the soundscape. We’ll have to go back when it’s less crowded. The other pieces were great as well!

Here are a few more pics I took before a security guard came and told me there was absolutely no photography allowed at YBCA.

Filed under: photos, san francisco, tronix | 1 Comment
Tagged: Catweasel , DalaiLama , PabaPhree , soundart , TheMissingPeace , videoart , YBCA

Check out this awesome art piece being created right now right next to my sister’s room at her new residence in Rome, an artist/loft studio. It’s like the Ranch except cleaner.

Rome is a interesting mix of provincial, urban, snobby, boring, emotional … and of course, the Roman Ruins. More later.

ok, the embedded video isn’t working, hopefully rajbot can fix it :-) … here is a link

(click play to start) (link to other sizes)

Update: I added the video!

Unfortunately, archive.org doesn’t provide a cut-and-paste blob that works with wordpress. You have to manually remove newlines, add autoPlay:false and maybe autoBuffering:false, and add urls to the playlist yourself. ugh.

I’ll work on making a webapp to automate this process..

I tried to add this as a comment, but WP throws an error that says ‘Can not open socket’. I wonder if that is a captcha plugin issue. I’ll look into it later! -rajbot

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Tagged: rome , soundart