Thursday, March 13, 2008

Events from 3/14 to 3/20/2008

Thanks for the many kind emails wishing me well.
I am feeling better now. The good news was that I lost weight.
Indian food remains banned from my diet...

Friday, 3/14
6:00 PM
Robert Burden at Roq la Rue
6:00 PM BLVD Gallery: "Wilderness and Wastelands"
8:00 PM Ghost Gallery: 2nd Annual Miniature Art Extravaganza!
8:00 PM The Exile Project
9:00 PM Boys Noize Friday : Broken Disco XII

Saturday 3/15
7:00 PM
BRIDES OF MARCH 2008: PURITY PARTY
9:00 PM SunTzu Sound 5 Year Anniversary

Tuesday, 3/18
8:00 PM
Indie Music: Beach House

Wednesday, 3/19
7:30 PM
Science: Fred Krupp: 'Earth the Sequel'

Thursday, 3/20
6:30 PM
Girl Power Hour @ the W


Friday, 3/14

Robert Burden at Roq la Rue

Roq la Rue
Presents
Robert Burden
“Toybox”
Opening THIS Friday March 14th 6-9pm
runs through April 5th
Contact us to be on the preview list! kirsten@roqlarue.com


Roq La Rue is pleased to present an amazing solo exhibition by emerging San Francisco artist Robert Burden. Burden paints the action figures taken from his youth, in large scale formats and epic atmospheres.. These large canvases are covered in baroque-like patterning and gilt framing, and a small box containing the actual toy accompanies each piece.

Thinking back on the toys he played with when young, Burden remembered them as being wonderful, almost magical things, magnificent, powerful, and beautiful. As an adult Burden found a box of these old toys and found them to be nothing more than cheap, mass produced plastic. The nebulousness of what can take a cheap yet coveted piece of plastic and turn it into an almost talismanic object for a kid inspired Burden as well as the amorphous line that is drawn between imagination and reality, childhood wonder and adult practicality. He created a series of paintings based on these toys, acting almost as a funerary commemoration to the powerful force of imagination and how things are perceived before boundaries can be placed on them. While trying to express the now faded feelings of awe he had as a child, he is careful to keep the truth of what the toy is in his work, rather than imbuing its physicality with anything extra. He says:

“The "toyness" is important to me. I want the painted depiction of the toy to be better than the real object, but I still definitely want the painting to maintain the sense that this is a toy, that this is a commodity. Because this is about the glorification of the commodity. It's a commodity-driven culture, and a consumer-based culture. Anyone could make the argument that consumerism is North America's predominant religion, or predominant opiate of the masses. If it's not consumerism, then it's film and television that are the cultural staples or opiates of choice. This is also why it's important for me to display the toy with the painting; it's like some kind of Saint's reliquary. It's an ironic devotional device. I'm glorifying the pop-culture, I loved the pop-culture, but I want to also depict the consumerist disposability of that same culture. I see, and love, the irony of spending hundreds of hours, and a great deal of my money (too much of my money!), in order to make a single object in honor of something that was cheaply mass-produced for millions of people. It's kind of Warholian, I guess, but I have a much greater affinity for GI Joe than I do for Campbell's Soup.”

The patterns that swirl around each piece are often taken from wallpaper patterns or decorated fabrics from his childhood home. Offsetting the masculinity of the toys, which are mostly “battle” themed, the feminine patterning is meant to be testaments to the domestic realm in which battles and wars were perceived as something fun and easily put away, rather than the horrible reality they actually are. The juxtaposition of these two themes adds an intended irony to the subject matter.

Roq La Rue Gallery
"Purveyors Of Fine Pop Surrealism
and Contemporary Art Since '98"
2312 2nd Ave Seattle WA 98121
(206)374-8977
Wens-Sat 1-6pm

www.roqlarue.com


BLVD Gallery: "Wilderness and Wastelands"

“Wastelands and Wilderness” explores the worlds and
characters created by Parskid and Chip7. Two rising stars in the urban
contemporary art scene.
Parskid's work focuses on his interests in dark rituals, mythology,
sacrifice and spirituality in a world of lush forests and natural
surroundings. This is greatly influenced by the forests of the Pacific
Northwest where he works and lives. Parskid's painting style utilizes a
unique detailed way of painting only with spray paint by using various
techniques of masking, stencils and brushwork. His work has been
exhibited in many cities in the United States including LA and NYC and
abroad in Australia, Taiwan, Spain and the UK. His work has been
published in the following magazines: Hi-Frustose, King Brown,
Overspray, Art Prostitute, Cool'eh, Novum, Beautiful/Decay, Day in the
Lyfe, and Dirty Soup as well as published books, Dot Dot Dash, Canceled
Flight, War of Monstars, Pictoplasma 2 and Monstaah!. Parskid
characters are no strangers to the streets of Seattle and freight train
lines of the United States.
Chip7, also with a background in freight train art and graffiti
hails from the opposite side of the US. His work explores brightly
colored confessions of a clutter brain through science fiction
psychedelic fantasy. Chip7 was trying to paint pretty much everything
he could shake a stick at around industrial New Jersey,and where ever
the wind took him.Years of painting got him some wonderful memories and
adventures, people who hate him, like him, and his work in a few books.
Fun and some legal problems go hand and hand. His studio work deals
with a range of sources including memories and dreams. Subjects range
from both personal and historical using a range of materials including
found printed matter collage, animation cel paint, oils, and spray
paint. While his nickname remains there are no silver block letters
being painted on canvas, and he can no longer be found in the layup all
weekend. The ensemble cast that are scattered across the many
layers,and shapes of his work range from his own creations of eyeball
droids, and neon monsters to a few cameos by Asian heroes inspired by
his time living in South East Asia. The semi obsessive ''paranoid''
nature of his current work also deals with theories of global
commotion,and catastrophe of the past, present, and possible near
future in a somewhat playful manner.
The interactive nature of this joint effort with Parskid will include
the use of chromadepth glasses technology to increase the visual
experience of the viewer. Their two worlds collide, a technological
future and a natural primitive land that become a unified place never
before seen. With similar themes in their work but a different view of
each of their worlds these artists have come together to create a
unique experience for the viewer.

BLVD Gallery is proud to present for March
"Wastelands and Wilderness"
New works and Installation by
Parskid and Chip7
March 14 - April 5, 2008
Artist Reception Friday March 14, 6p - 10p
BLVD Gallery
2316 2nd ave
In the Belltown Neighborhood
Seatttle Wa, 98121
www.blvdart.com
206.448.8767

For more info:
http://www.computerchip7.com/
http://www.parskid.com

http://blvdart.com


Ghost Gallery: 2nd Annual Miniature Art Extravaganza!

8:00pm
Solo Bar (www.solo-bar.com)
200 Roy St, Seattle WA

12 artists come together and display miniature art 6" square and smaller- With DJ Scotty Lashes!!!

www.solo-bar.com


The Exile Project

Conceived by Holly Eckert in Seattle , and created in collaboration with writer L.A. Heberlein & myself.

On any day in America , over 2,000,000 of its citizens sit exiled in jails and prisons.

The Exile Project explores the alienation and desperation imposed on all of us who live with this system. This musical theater performance goes straight to the heart of Americans' failure to forgive - and the price of fear and separation we all pay. I've been collaborating on this project as composer for several years, and am happy with the sound track.


Fri March 14 & Sat March 15 @ 8pm
Sun March 16 @ 2pm

Reservations: (206) 763.3662

West Seattle HS Auditorium in West Seattle – state of the art! Beautiful! Lucky kids!
3000 California Avenue SW
(W Sea Bridge to Admiral Way - go up hill, then L on California ; it’s across from the coop)

Tickets: $12/$15 – but with a pay what you can policy. Everyone welcome.

My photos of Ireland here: http://www.flickr.com/deniaural - I edited them into sets, it’s more or less chronological, so you can see winter turning to spring. Very difficult to leave such a beautiful place!

Check out my adventure slide shows of Tiptons Tours (2), Taiwan (6), and Ballintubber Abbey, County Mayo here: http://www.youtube.com/deniaural

http://exileproject.net/


Boys Noize Friday : Broken Disco XII

Friday March 14 @ Chop Suey: BROKEN DISCO XII

Featuring the Seattle debut of....

+ BOYS NOIZE : [Boys Noize, Turbo, Int. Gigolo - Berlin]
http://www.myspace.com/boysnoize

[main room special guests]
+ INCITE! aka Nordic Soul [Decibel / Broken Disco]
+ Recess [Shameless / Broken Disco]
+ Introcut [Fourthcity / Broken Disco]

[in the lounge]
+ Squid Leader [Numerik Lab / Tekgnosis]
+ Saigon [Lab-77]
+ Brian S [From 0-1]

Doors open @ 9pm / 18+

$15 adv. tickets available @
http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=247474

@ Chop Suey,
1325 E. Madison St, Seattle


Saturday 3/15

BRIDES OF MARCH 2008: PURITY PARTY

BRIDES OF MARCH 2008: PURITY PARTY
Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 7pm
12th Ave Laundry, 1807 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Girls, let's talk. I don't know about you, but after seven years of shotgun weddings and wrenching separations from betrotheds including the Hammering Man, the Space Needle, the monorail, (and let us not forget Satan), and on and on, we're feeling a little... how shall I say this delicately.. . unfresh. Let's be honest. The blush is off the rose, isn't it? We're just a spoiled peach. What once seemed so, so GLAmorous now just seems... taaawdry. Doesn't it darlings? We're old. Used. Diiirty. Why, we've shredded two dresses to filthy rags just dragging them along the grimy streets of the big city.

That's why it's time to refresh! Rejuvenate! And wash away those sinful stains, at the Brides of March 2008: Purity Party, which will conveniently kick off at Capitol Hill's 12th Avenue Laundry. Never content with a mere metaPHOoric washup, we're going to LITrally WASH. THOSE. STAINS.

All you need do is bring One Soiled Unmentionable. We'll toss them all together in one big washload and watch 'em spin while we sssip champagne. (And we do need a couple of dandy gents to pour for us, so boys, please check your closet for that tux!) While we're waiting, we'll discuss "the importance of saving ones virginity and practicing abstinence until marriage."

Once our drawers and souls are sparkly clean, we'll go marry that big butt plug in Cal Anderson Park, make a few stops at The Crypt and the Castle Superstore, and then find a nice gay bar to dance the night away!

Saturday, March 15, 7pm
12th Ave Laundry, 1807 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122
Be prompt: the wash-load goes in at 7:30
(But shhh... it's a secret from the laundromat!)

Want to catch up later in the evening? Keep tabs by text message! Just befriend Ivan C. at dodgeball.com!

Brides web page? http://www.cockrumville.com/brides/

Purity Parties? http://www.thewakeupcall.org/purityparty.htm

Bride Ivan

http://www.cockrumville.com/brides/


SunTzu Sound 5 Year Anniversary

Hope to see you on Saturaday at Chop Suey. In the meantime, check out this great article about SunTzu and our party in the Seattle Weekly: http://seattleweekly.com/2008-03-12/music/local-collective-suntzu-sound-celebrate-five-years-of-funk.php


*** SUNTZU SOUND 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY - FREE!! ***
with very special guests

BENJI B
[BBC Radio 1xtra - UK]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/benjib/
http://www.deviationmusic.net/

FLYING LOTUS - Live Set
[Warp Records - LA]
(1st Seattle Appearance!)
http://www.myspace.com/flyinglotus

along with
SUNTZU SOUND
[City Soul - KBCS 91.3FM]
http:/www.suntzusound.com

live video mixing by
PIXELFLIP
http://www.pixelflip.com/

THIS EVENT WILL BE RECORDED FOR RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY RADIO!
http://www.rbmaradio.com/

FIRST 50 PEOPLE THROUGH THE DOOR WILL RECEIVE A FREE SUNTZU SOUND VINYL SINGLE!

SATURDAY MARCH 15
CHOP SUEY
http://www.chopsuey.com
1325 E. Madison Seattle 206.324.8000
9pm / 21+ / FREE

http://www.chopsuey.com


Tuesday, 3/18

Indie Music: Beach House

Chop Suey
$10
8pm

http://www.chopsuey.com


Wednesday, 3/19

Science: Fred Krupp: 'Earth the Sequel'

Downstairs at Town Hall, enter on Seneca Street
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
7:30 PM
The longtime president of the Environmental Defense Fund, Fred Krupp, sounds a stirring and hopeful call to arms in Earth the Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming. Krupp profiles the innovators and investors who are reinventing energy and the ways we use it. He argues that we can solve global warming, and in so doing, build new industries, jobs, and fortunes in the twenty-first century. Presented as part of the Seattle Science Lectures with University Book Store.

Tickets are $5 at the door only. Town Hall members receive priority seating.

Town Hall


Thursday, 3/20

Girl Power Hour @ the W

Girl Power Hour - Where Social Circles Collide
Please join us for our next Girl Power Hour event on Thursday, March 20th, 2008 at the W Hotel in downtown Seattle from 6:30pm-8:30pm.

Connect with entrepreneurial and like-minded women in varying industries and social circles throughout the city. Network, have a cocktail, or just socialize and hang out with new friends! Get Spring fashion tips from Closetfly, advice about how to get in shape for Spring from Sassy Fit, learn how to declutter your life/home from A Logical Mess and donate to our clothing drive for Dress for Success, swag bags for the first 50 girls, the chance to win hot door prizes, complimentary tray-passed appetizers, cocktail & food specials until 7pm and lots of socializing. Cover at the door, $10 cash only.

RSVP required at www.girlpowerhour.com

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