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Fifty24SF Opens “Over Normal”

Emily Goligoski — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:07:29 +0000

Radiohead’s interactions with San Francisco have been overwhelmingly positive (if you discount sound interruptions at the first Outside Lands fest, of course). I’m excited to see that their artist collaborator Stanley Donwood is having his first stateside show, “Over Normal,” at Fifty24SF on Fillmore starting tonight. Following a reception tonight, the work that plays on text-focused ads in primary colors will be viewable through the end of October: “The catalyst for the large works featured in the show is Los Angeles, where Stanley began to notice (with equal parts amazement and distress) that the advertisements bombarding him on the multilane highways were made of seven basic colors, immediately grabbing viewers’ attention in a primal way…Stanley noticed a parallel between the use of those colors and an influx of spam emails that promised everything from more fruitful sex lives, to cheap foreclosed properties at the expense of someone else’s misery. ”

Welcome September + Architecture & The City Festival

Emily Goligoski — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:03:16 +0000

Hearing about “Investigating Urban Metabolisms” so soon after lunch may have you reeling, but program details for the seventh Architecture and the City Festival may get you ready to digest (tours, films and lectures, that is). For the month of September, the American Institute of Architects’ local chapter has planned events that consider how information, building and transportation systems act almost like a human body in their intricacy. Maybe that’s why a Food Foraging Tour post-SF Design Awards sounds so good.

Building by the Block

Emily Goligoski — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:36:01 +0000

My first question upon seeing creator Patrick Chirico’s “Build Your Block” pillow set based on Brooklyn brownstones was when SF renditions might be made. The answer? When you’re ready. For $75, your favorite corner store/Victorian/vertical park image can grace your couch. Why not go for a full set of Painted Ladies?

SFMADE on Branding Local Products

Emily Goligoski — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:12:18 +0000

You may hear “California public benefit corporation,” but what local group SFMADE actually advocates for is local manufacturing that makes good economic sense. Enter an event series that includes manufacturing best practices and marketing tips for companies with local roots. This Thursday, Rickshaw Bags founder and former Timbuk2 head Mark Dwight will speak in the Dogpatch about branding locally made products. You may not yet know anything about “geographic ingredient branding,” but pride of place is certainly familiar to this site’s kind readers.

Digital Goings On for End of August

Emily Goligoski — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:40:04 +0000

Lest you think the return of summer weather has people flocking only to Zeitgeist, there are two meetups worth mentioning on the social web front this week that may make being inside (temporarily, of course) worthwhile. Tonight’s Chomp Tastemaker Party at Sloane on Mission sold on quickly, for which you can thank a Rose/Scoble duo. And tomorrow Ubergizmo will be hosting Digital Summer, their annual combination of photography, tech and fashion at Temple (think gadget demos and eco-fashion by Edun). Hot stuff.

Starting the Week the Haberdash Way

Emily Goligoski — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:59:41 +0000

I just returned to SF from an East Coast/Midwest holiday to find that temperatures in the City by the Bay have risen to near-summer levels, and I’m hopeful that they’ll have us turning to new closet items over the parkas we’ve become accustomed to. Enter The Haberdash, a local fashion show and party taking place this Wednesday at the new Burritt Room that promises to combine men’s clothing and “good old fashioned revelry.” Previews early in the week include alcohol ‘n threads soirees at Revolver, On the Fly and other shops, but should you not make them, dropping the name of event producer The Bold Italic at the likes of Self Edge and AB Fits will get you deals all week. But what will you wear to get them?

ArtHaus Hosts Schiavo’s “Backyard”

Emily Goligoski — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:32:41 +0000

After making SF Gate’s Best of the Bay List for local galleries, SOMA shop ArtHaus isn’t resting on its laurels. Co-founders and gallerists James Bacchi and Annette Schutz are currently hosting a fantastic (if head-scratching) set of images with “The Backyard,” chromeogenic prints by Chris Schiavo. I was most excited for works compiled for the recent “Red White and Blue-tiful,” but this exhibit may have it beat in the “art you’d want to hang at home” category. If your humor allows, that is.

To North Carolina with Love

Emily Goligoski — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:38:36 +0000

Graphic designer extraordinaire Jamie Panzarella passed along Raleigh Denim: Handcrafted in North Carolina from David Huppert, and I loved it after a) researching small batch denim crafting in SF for The Bold Italic, and b) taking a trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains last weekend. And not to fear: you’ll see more from the Ladywood founder when her new design for this here site is unveiled in early September.

Urban Flow on Video and In Person

Emily Goligoski — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:07:34 +0000

After practicing at its beautiful space in the Mission, I wanted to share the first part of a video series introducing Rusty Wells’ Urban Flow Yoga studio. In this short clip about one of the city’s first donation-based yoga communities, Rusty describes the studio’s intention to serve all by removing cost prohibitions that deter people from practicing yoga. I find the work that local production company document document put together most powerful, and not just because they captured this: “If you really believe in what you’re doing and then notice that something may be missing, then there’s your duty right there–to provide whatever it is that’s lacking.”

Should you want to get in on the action in person, musician MC Yogi and Urban Flow instructor Andrea Maltzer are hosting the elephant-power themed workshop “Ganesh is Fresh” on August 21. Think art, music, mantra, and flow.

MacNaughton Gets Sneakerific

Emily Goligoski — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:23:35 +0000

When Women 2.0 co-founder Shaherose Charania told me that she received a pair of Asics as a thank you gift for speaking at a conference recently, it made me want to get back on the speaker circuit. In the meantime, I loved local illustrator Wendy MacNaughton’s poster below promoting a party Thursday at Shoebiz on Haight (where I’ll be working to be more frugal there when I was when I lived down the block). Think Oitsuka Tiger, food carts and pre-Outside Lands revelry to provide school lunches in Uganda.