Thursday, March 8, 2007

Events from 2/23 to 3/1/2007

My resolution for March: I will go out more! My favorite is PDL on Thu. According to Greg Lundgren (V5, Hideout) PDL is not a vacuum cleaner. It stands for Jason Puccinelli, Jed Dunkerley and Greg Lundgren, which will publicly launch the beginning of a year long collaboration in the streets of Pioneer Square on Artwalk Thursday.

The rest of the week doesn’t look too shabby either: Drunk Puppet Nite, Suicidal Individuals, Oscar parties. I am also recommending the Decopaw Design Art Show. Jamie takes the best animal pictures in town.

I will also throw in two Cold Lava reports and - after a long break - another Computer Corner about a site that makes fun of Second Life.


Friday, 2/23
5:00 PM Decopaw Design Art Show @ Great Dog Daycare
7:00 PM Drunk Puppet Nite #7 @ Re-Bar
8:00 PM 45 Shootout @ Alibi Room
8:00 PM The Singing Garden of Toshio Hosokawa @ Benaroya Hall

Saturday, 2/24
3:00 PM Eze Anamelechi @ Rainier Valley Cultural Center
9:00 PM SPY AUDIO/VISUAL SPECTACULAR II @ The New Little Red Studio
11:00 PM We Tube @ NWFF

Sunday, 2/25
4:00 PM "SEATTLE'S BEST OSCAR PARTY" @ Chop Suey

Monday, 2/26
6:00 PM Mamafest Ride for the Cure @ Neumos

Wednesday, 2/28
7:00 PM Suicidal Individuals @ Kane Hall Room

Thursday, 3/1
5:00 PM PDL = Jason Puccinelli + Jed Dunkerley + Greg Lundgren @ Pioneer Square
5:00 PM 12 Photos from 2006
5:00 PM Under Fragile Skies @ Punch gallery
6:00 PM 'Family Matters' @ Charleston Heights Art Center Gallery


Friday, 2/23

Decopaw Design Art Show @ Great Dog Daycare

If you are free on Friday and looking for something fun to do, stop on by the art show I am holding at Great Dog Daycare at Northgate. I have all new fun, colorful and cute canvas Decopaw art pieces hanging in the Annex- the comfy, homey area where their offices are.

We will have food and wine and great art and best of all- great pet owners!
The show will be from 5-7:30 pm, so come early, come late, just come on down!
if you have any questions feel free to call me at 206.335.8096 or send me an e-mail at info@cowbelly.com.

Looking forward to seeing those that will be able to make it!

Jamie Pflughoeft
Owner/Operator
Cowbelly Pet Photography/Decopaw Design

Great Dog Daycare
11333 Roosevelt Way NE
http://www.cowbelly.com
http://www.decopaw.com
http://www.gogreatdog.com



Drunk Puppet Nite #7 @ Re-Bar

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY night (February 23 & 24):
Monkey Wrench Puppet Lab presents Drunk Puppet Nite #7!

Ladies and gentlemen, it's the 7th Drunk Puppet Nite! And the talented freaks at Monkey Wrench Puppet Lab are inviting our favorite puppeteers to expose themselves in public!

Monkey Wrench Puppet Lab is once again hosting the outrageous mix of puke, politics, porn, poetry and puppets that we call Drunk Puppet Nite! This is an evening of puppetry from beyond the pale; a chance for Seattle's best, and most notorious, puppeteers to expose their ids in public. We dare to enter the nether realms of puppetry. Drunk Puppet Nite is subversive; it's ugly, it's ridiculous, it's sublime, it's controversial, it's lovely, it's righteously political, it's literary.

This year, by popular demand, we are moving back to the Re-Bar at the base of Capitol Hill. No one knows what to expect from Drunk Puppet Nite. Over these three weekends, our puppeteers have no boundaries. Performers include Queen Shmooquan; Johnny Jetpack; members of Circus Contraption, Cry of the Rooster, Islewilde, Naked Puppets, Tears of Joy, and all of your Monkey Wrench favorites! Musical guests include Miles & Karina and The Fremont Philharmonic! No two evenings are the same.

Monkey Wrench is a cluster of Seattle area puppeteers who are working to expand the public's definition of puppetry by bringing their blend of the surprising, the bizarre and the artistically excellent to audiences around the Puget Sound. Monkey Wrench is the group responsible for Frankenocchio, The Mermaid who Broke my F*cking Heart, Halfpenny Opera and the upcoming Dracula.


FRIDAY AND SATURDAY night (February 23 & 24):
Monkey Wrench Puppet Lab presents Drunk Puppet Nite #7! At Re-Bar 1114 Howell Street at Boren, Seattle
Show at 8:00 SHARP; Door open at 7:00 21 and over only w/ID
Tickets $15 at the door; NO reservations! For info call Monkey Wrench Puppet Lab (206) 528-7799 http://www.monkeywrenchpuppetlab.org


45 Shootout @ Alibi Room

Rob writes:

Hello Alibuddies,

Tomorrow is the last Friday of the month, which means Critical Mass bike ride convening Westlake 5:30 pm. After leisurely ride around Seattle, I'm heading down to Alibi Room to join forces with DJ SAME DNA and whoever else shows up with their 45s for a little round robin 7-inch action. If you want to join in the melee, just show up with some 45s.

Participants will be assigned a number, then we'll rotate around. When your number is up, you can either play a single single or pass. If you pass, you wait out the round until your number comes up again. Simple! And hopefully weirdly fun and diverse. Hope you can come on down. No commitment necessary--just show up and stay as long or little as you like.

robZ
Alibooker


Alibi Room


The Singing Garden of Toshio Hosokawa @ Benaroya Hall

IN DEPTH: Three Continents, Three Composers
The Seattle Chamber Players presents its first ever series of Composer Portraits featuring the music of three extraordinary composers from three continents. Hosokawa and Raskatov are leading composers of their countries (Japan and Russia) and 93-year old maverick Henry Brant is a one-of-a-kind American elder statesman. The global variety of musical styles will be crystallized by the Seattle Chamber Players and guests in the three consecutive evening programs.

The Singing Garden of Toshio Hosokawa

Friday, February 23, 2007 at 8pm

Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya Hall
Alexander Raskatov:
Voices of the Frozen Land

Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 8pm

NOTE VENUE CHANGE: PONCHO Concert Hall,
Cornish College of the Arts, 710 E. Roy St.
Henry Brant: Antiphony and Authenticity
Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 7pm
Town Hall, Seattle

Featured guests include Ivan Sokolov (piano), Stuart Dempster (trombone), Michael Partington (guitar), Matthew Kocmieroski (percussion) and the Northwest Boychoir and Vocalpoint! led by Joseph Crnko.

Each program will be followed by a post-concert talk with the musicians.
Laura Deluca - clarinet David Sabee - cello
Elena Dubinets - artistic advisor
Mikhail Shmidt - violin Paul Taub - flute
Individual concerts: $20 regular • $18 seniors • $12 students
Tickets and further information are available online at
www.seattlechamberplayers.org
or by calling (206) 286-5052.

Benaroya Hall


Saturday 2/24

Eze Anamelechi @ Rainier Valley Cultural Center

My lovely girlfriend predicted that I would get in trouble for my remarks about Los TexManiacs @ Rainier Valley Cultural Center on Thursday, 2/8 when I wrote: If you want to get in touch with one of Seattle's oldest emerging neighborhoods and the colorful music some individuals might or might not play while driving "borrowed" cars that had been started with a Rainier Valley key you don't want to miss Los TexManiacs!

But apparently nobody was offended. No hate mail and I still have my car. Well, I guess it would be okay then if I wrote that Eze Anamelechi is performing in one of Seattle's oldest emerging neighborhoods during daylight - in other words, it's safe to go!

Eze Anamelechi
Nigerian artist, Eze Anamelechi, performs and discusses traditional masquerades that exemplify Nigerian myths and stories. Followed by a reception with the artist at Columbia City Gallery, where Anamelechi's mixed media paintings and prints are on exhibit.

Saturday, February 24
3pm @ Rainier Valley Cultural Center
All tickets are $6 at the door
http://www.columbiacitygallery.com/


SPY AUDIO/VISUAL SPECTACULAR II @ The New Little Red Studio

SPY AUDIO/VISUAL is back with more DJs, ART and MAYHEM til 5am. This
Month SPY has created ROBOTICA a world within this world at Dexter and
Harrison. The event features two rooms with an impressive selection of
DJs: BEN SHELTON, DJ KRASS, JISAAN, TM ANDERSON, LOVE VIRUS, DANGER,
SLINKY, and DJ SLOTH with a reunion afterhours featuring URBAN LEGEND
(JOHNNY FEVER/MIGUEL ALVARADO) and Mb. Visuals by Sven Peterson and
Teatro Zinzanni Productionist Josh Mowzco. Burning Hearts Burlesque
will be providing their own unique style of sexy performance art atop
the 8 platform stage. Local dancer and artist Kendra Schmidt, from
Hands of Kali, will also perform. The UFO bar will be open and pouring
a full selection of tasty cocktails. Enjoy.


Saturday February 24th 9pm to 5am
The New Little Red Studio
750 Harrison, Seattle WA (Dexter and Harrison)


We Tube @ NWFF

Northwest Film Forum celebrates the explosion of the internet video sharing phenomenon with an outrageous, one-of-a-kind live YouTube experience this Saturday!

The team of monkeys at the Northwest Film Forum have devised this special event in which our cinema is transformed into a big, comfy computer, and you, WE are the keys! We’re liberating YouTube from its normally tiny screen, and liberating you from your offices and bedrooms for a fun evening of internet video writ large on the big screen and experienced collectively. We bring you faux-academic musings on the phenomenon, a selection of outrageous YouTube clips, and live interactive games in which the audience will pick key words for live video searches. Get ready for laughs, drinks, head scratching, and VERY big pixels! Whether you’re a YouTube junkie or just want to see what all the fuss is about, this outrageous media experiment is not to be missed! And did we mention that its FREE FOR MEMBERS?!!!


Saturday, Feb. 24 at 11pm
Northwest Film Forum – 1515 12th Ave. at Pike
$8.50 / FREE for NWFF Members


Sunday, 2/25

"SEATTLE'S BEST OSCAR PARTY" @ Chop Suey

Chop Suey Presents

"SEATTLE'S BEST OSCAR PARTY"

feat. People's Republic of Komedy (Scott Moran, Kevin Hyder, Andy Haines, Geoff Lott, Geoff Brousseau)
with a Red Carpet Lambast, TV Interactive Live Phone Calls, Short Films, & Stand Up Comedy!

*$2 Rolling Rock, $3 Vashon, $3 Champagne Drink Specials All night long!!
* Scarecrow Video DVD giveaways!! Advanced Screening Passes for "Zodiac" & "Premonition"!! Free Movie Shwagg!!

Chop Suey
FREE!!
4pm doors
21 & over


Monday, 2/26

Mamafest Ride for the Cure @ Neumos

SEATTLE EVENT - THIS MONDAY

This Monday February 26th at Neumos in Seattle. Be there. Seriously. It's monday, what else is happening? There's a ton going on for the event. Here's the rundown:

Silent auction from 7 to 9 (thousands of dollars of goods being auctioned), drink specials, DJ N8.

After 9, The Senate Arcade , The Cops , and Common Market hit the stage, plus fabulous burlesque dancers, Lucky Penny and Fuchsia Foxx , and Vienna Lerouge AND there will be a "Risky" fashion show featuring Roxy's 2008 clothing lineup.

Doors are at 6 and it's FREE before 8:30. (21+). For a listing of all the auction items, visit here.

MAMAFEST PLEDGE DRIVE

We're raising money for breast cancer and we need your help too! Every year, we have a pledge drive where you can raise money for the cause and also get personally rewarded for it. It's super easy and you don't have to be a skier or snowboarder to take part. To participate, collect donations from your friends, family, coworkers, classmates (you get the point) and on the day of Mamafest (March 11th), hand in what you've collected. The top fundraisers get a brand new Ride Snowboard! AND everyone who raises $100 or more gets a Mamafest sweatshirt. PLUS the prizes will be presented by a real live PRO snowboarder!

If you can't make it to the event, just mail in your donations by March 11th. We'll announce the winners that day, and a professional snowboarder from Ride will present the prizes!


http://www.neumos.com/022607.html
http://www.mamafest.org/forms/pledge.pdf


Wednesday, 2/28

Suicidal Individuals: Evaluation, Therapies, and Ethics @ Kane Hall Room

John writes: "Hey, it's winter, a good time to talk about this right?"

Here are more details:

Suicidal Individuals: Evaluation, Therapies, and Ethics
Location: Kane Hall Room 120, UW Seattle
Time: 7 - 9 p.m.
There is no area of research that brings a complex array of ethical issues into sharp focus more than conducting treatment trials when the focus is on decreasing suicidal behavior and preventing suicide. Historically, suicidal individuals have been excluded from treatment studies because their inclusion was thought to be unethical, unsafe or too difficult to manage clinically. However, this approach led to an unfortunate circumstance in which psychology and psychiatry developed almost no treatments targeted at diminishing suicidal behavior. Furthermore, almost all depression treatment trials have excluded suicidal individuals. The grounds for such an exclusion will be questioned and explored in this talk. Do suicidal individuals have the right to demand that treatments be developed and tested for their condition? The imperative for developing treatments for the suicidal will be balanced against the risks. Ways to mitigate, manage and accept risk will be discussed.
In this lecture, Dr. Linehan will discuss the development and evaluation of therapies used to treat individuals with suicidal behaviors. Dr. Stanley will explore the history of excluding suicidal individuals from clinical treatment trials because including them was considered to be unethical, unsafe or too difficult to manage clinically. Do suicidal individuals have the right to demand that treatments be developed and tested for their condition?



Suicidal Individuals: Evaluation, Therapies, and Ethics
Location: Kane Hall Room 120, UW Seattle
Time: 7 - 9 p.m.
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Thursday, 3/1

PDL = Jason Puccinelli + Jed Dunkerley + Greg Lundgren @ Pioneer Square

Maintenance Instructions For Your Brand New PDL

On Thursday, March 1st, Jason Puccinelli, Jed Dunkerley and Greg Lundgren publicly launch the beginning of a year long collaboration. This new artist trio, known as PDL, will spend the next twelve months aggressively creating new works, challenging perceptions of contemporary art, and causing general mayhem in the great Pacific Northwest. This collaboration will culminate with a retrospective in the spring of 2008, showcasing the images, video and artifacts of their performances and installations.

This public launch will kick-off with a performance piece on the streets of Pioneer Square during first Thursday’s art walk from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm, with a party to follow at the Hideout. Select footage of the trio’s recent projects will be presented, as well as a few special surprises.

Extraordinary circumstances have brought together these three talented artists. Their collective skills allow them to perform a complexity of projects no single person could reasonably execute, and together they will work with a single voice and objective.

Please join us March 1st and watch PDL tip the first domino in an explosive year of collaborative work. Some future performances and events dates will be announced, others, well, you’ll just have to be there.

Pioneer Square


12 Photos from 2006

Flight to Mars presents:

12 Photos from 2006
Thursday March 1
5pm to 10ish
314 2nd Avenue South
(kitty corner from Zeitgeist in Pioneer Square)

Photographers (listed below) are showing their favorite shots from 2006. They are limited to 12. From there, who knows?

Bring cash, we're selling them, and you might want one or two. Also, donations will be gladly accepted for the wine and cheese. Proceeds go toward making more art, either through the artists themselves, or funding the future efforts of the Flight to Mars, a collaborative arts group specializing in large scale installations.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Showing work by:
Bevin Keely
Carey Christie
Dave Martinez
Jason Cundey
Kelly Davis
Kelly O
Lara Eve Feltin
Leo Spizzirri
Matthew Freedman
Mercedes Yaeger
Monica Hammer
Prentis Hale
Rachel Dory
and possibly more!


12 Photos from 2006
Thursday March 1
5pm to 10ish
314 2nd Avenue South
(kitty corner from Zeitgeist in Pioneer Square)


Under Fragile Skies @ Punch gallery

Under Fragile Skies - new works by Renee Adams

Under Fragile Skies is a collection of new botanically inspired, mixed media sculptures by Renee Adams. These delicate and alluring works depict hybrid plant and animal organisms appropriated from the eccentric drawings of 19th century biologist Ernst Haeckel. Displayed beneath glass domes, the sculptures become hermetic specimens, quarantined and of unknown origin.

Much of Adams’ recent works question ideals of beauty using botanical motifs. Furthering this exploration, Under Fragile Skies considers our manipulation of nature and our selves for our own pleasure and gain. Through their meticulous detail, these works mirror the way we preen, fluff and fuss over ourselves. In this sense the works become vacuous reflections of our own vanity, at once enticing and offensive.

Renee Adams lives in Thorp, Washington and works as an arts programmer at Gallery One Visual Arts Center. She has taught art both in her local community and at Central Washington University, where she obtained her MFA in sculpture. Recently, Adams has been flirting with the dangerous world of public art.


Opening Reception:
Thursday, March 1, 2007, 5-8 pm
March 1-April 1, 2007
Hours: Noon-5 pm, Fri-Sun,
Or by appointment: art@punchgallery.org
PUNCH, 119 Prefontaine Place S.
Seattle, WA 98104
www.punchgallery.org, (206) 621-1945


'Family Matters' @ Charleston Heights Art Center Gallery

'Family Matters'

Reception and Lecture Scheduled For March 1

Lecture Is In Conjunction With Art Exhibit

On Thursday, March 1, the public is invited to attend a reception and a free lecture by photographer Tim Roda. His exhibit, "Family Matters," is showcasing in the Charleston Heights Art Center Gallery, located at 800 South Brush Street. The reception begins at 6 p.m., with the lecture beginning at 7p.m.

Using disposable or re-usable media - props or devices made of paper, wood, tape, and clay - Roda involves his family as the central role in the photographs. "Every scene that has been created was first envisioned in my mind and then played out by my family…the work is filled with metaphorical reverberations of my family history and my memories of childhood," Roda said. Roda received his bachelor's degree at Pennsylvania State University in 2002 and his Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Washington in 2004. Roda says, "Photography…is the only medium I can use to best depict my vision of life, art, and time." Whether it's the splattering of chemicals on the paper and altering his negatives or the captured moments of ambiguity, Roda creates a sensation that makes people both familiar and uneasy about the incongruence of life's experiences.

His work is part of permanent collections of the Essl collection, Klosterneuburg, Austria; The Gaia Collection, Busca, Italy; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas; The Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington; The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, Montana; and The Henry Art Museum, Seattle, Washington. He also has had several solo exhibits around the country including at the Louise Jones Brown Gallery at Duke University.

"Family Matters" exhibits February 16 through May 6. The exhibit is presented by the Office of Cultural Affairs Division of the city of Las Vegas Government and Community Affairs Department. The artwork is courtesy of Gasser and Grunert Gallery of New York, Greg Kucera Gallery of Seattle, and Art Agents Gallery of Hamburg, Germany . Roda is currently has a studio in Harlem, New York with the Chashama Visual Arts Program.


To see more available photographs please click on websites.
Greg Kucera Gallery - www.gregkucera.com/roda.htm
Art Agents Gallery - http://www.artagents.de/ger/pages/default.htm

The Charleston Heights Arts Center is open Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Call (702) 229-1012 for more information.


Cold Lava

The Filty Whores @ The Hideout (Sun 2/18/2007)

Dammit, I missed this one. I got Greg Lundgren's email last minute. The reason why I am sending his invitation is because it is good to hear from him again and I admire his work. I wish I had heard earlier of this event.

Hello Friends,

I've finished my homework, cleaned my room and paid my bills. It is Saturday morning and it is gorgeous outside. I'm getting out of town. Getting some fresh air. Going to walk down the streets of another city. It's a good day to roam and wander.

If you find the need to roam, you should walk down to the Olympic Sculpture Park. It is beautiful and even nicer when the skies are blue. There are the cutest little eaglets nesting next to the Calder sculpture.

If by chance the weather turns south and it's raining cats and dogs by lunchtime, I suggest the Frye Art Museum. It's free and there is a great exhibit of paintings from East Berlin, that are worthy of your time and attention. Say hi to the big pink one in the back. It's my favorite and I already miss it.

When the night falls, remember it's saturday night. Saturday night used to be someone. It used to be the night that everyone put on their fancy clothes and danced and drank and cruised the strip. Now I think Thursday is the new Saturday, or Saturday is the new Sunday, or Sunday is the new Tuesday. I can't keep up. But if you are single, it's a good night to go out looking for love, and if you have love, it's a good night to do sexy things.

With Valentines Day behind us, some people are sick of hearing about hearts and candy and balloons and flowers. Some people are sick of love. I can understand that. Love can be tricky business. But give it a shot tonight. Troll the bars, lights some candles, get your sexy eyes adjusted. I don't know what that means. But try. If it all fails miserably, and you wake up depressed and really, really sick of love, then we have the perfect remedy.

The Filthy Whores are back. I don't know what they've been doing- probably sluting around in fisherman bars in Alaska, or in jail for turning tricks, or maybe just trolling the internet corrupting young minds and sending bus tickets to young boys and girls. Whatever they've been doing is downright no good. That's for sure. But still, there is a time and a place for a filthy whore, and after an unsuccessful weekend of mating, Sunday night is a good time to clean up and bet on a sure thing.

It's free and the lights are low. Don't be shy. Come on down and listen to April moan like a half crazy sex-starved, depends wearing, kidnapping astronaut (and I know she's involved in that one, somehow). They perform around 9:00 and don't stop until the sheets are drenched in sweat and the whole joint is smoking. That's Sunday. Tomorrow. Let The Filthy Whores show you how good it can feel to sit and let someone else seduce you for a change. Cause being easy ain't a crime. Sometimes it's just what the doctor ordered.

The Hideout is located at 1005 Boren, on the NW corner of Madison and Boren on First Hill. Seating is on a first come first serve basis and you must be 21 or older with proper id.

Have a great weekend.

http://www.thefilthywhores.com/


Guerrilla Masquerade Party #28 - ANIMAL FARM (2/3/2007)

Guerrilla Masquerade Party Press: Party Crasher in The Stranger

Hey Guerrillas!

There was a Stranger in our midst at the last GMP event... or rather,
a Stranger writer.

Paul Constant, the lucky writer who crashes parties and writes about
them for Seattle's weekly newspaper 'The Stranger', sounds like he had
a great time mingling with all the livestock at Animal Farm down at
the Eastlake Zoo Tavern. Check out his recap (and the cute photo) here:
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=157964

And stay tuned for the invite for our next event, coming soon... We
promise it'll be OUT OF THIS WORLD (hint, hint).

dirty bunny
Guerrilla Masquerade Party
http://www.gmpseattle.com/


Don Volcano's Computer Corner

In case you have never heard of Second Life (SL), it is an Internet-based virtual world with all bells and whistles. Wikipedia explains:

A downloadable client program enables its users, called "Residents", to interact with each other through motional avatars, providing an advanced level of a social network service combined with general aspects of a metaverse.

Wanna see it? Here it is:

Second Life
http://www.secondlife.com/


I have never understood what the deal is with virtual worlds like SL. Why would I want to be a "resident" of Second Life? My life may suck but never so much that I would want to turn my back on reality and become a Henry Darger or cruise in artificial worlds. And who said life in SL will be better? It could be worse. In order to have some fun in SL you need - surprise, surpise - Linden Dollars. How do you get Linden Dollars? You buy them with US Dollars! That's how Ailin Graef got her first million US Dollar:

Second Life's First Millionaire
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2006/11/second_lifes_fi.html


This week I learned about a site run by Vancouver-based blogger Darren Barefoot. His site looks like Second Life but promotes living a real "First Life". I think it is brilliant:

Get A First Life
http://getafirstlife.com/


First Life is a "3D analog world where server lag does not exist". It offers help for the disoriented and gives guidance by answering questions like: Are five senses enough? Why can't I build a dirigible with my mind?

The advantages of First Life over Second Life are pretty convincing if you consider that in FL you can "fornicate using your actual genitals".
What's not to like about that!

Don Volcano.

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